

Instead, he told her he should have killed all of them. Earlier this season, when Maggie and Negan were talking about him killing Glenn and Abraham. I can’t imagine this is the last we see of Negan, however. Will he return? Will he have some part to play in the coming conflict between Maggie’s people and the Commonwealth? We shall see. Negan, it appears, has left the group for good, bringing an end to the tedious rivalry between the two (alas, just when things between them had actually gotten interesting). “I’m gonna go on my own way,” he says and turns around and walks away. “I’m not gonna let you do that,” he says, ominously. He tells her that he saw what she did to those Reapers and that he knows it’s only a matter of time before she does the same to him, no matter the truce they’ve arrived at. He’s carrying a club which he seems very close to using. The second encounter is at his burial site. Zombie Alden crawls across the dirty floor and Maggie let’s him get absurdly close to her before sticking a knife into his brain. First, she goes back to where they left a wounded Alden (Callan McAuliffe). The surviving good guys load up a cart with food (all kinds of veggies, including artichokes!) and head back to Alexandria.Īlong the way, Maggie has two more encounters. Leah gets away thanks to Daryl’s mercy, so it’s possible we’ll get a surprise visit from her in the future, but the Reapers-lousy villains for the most part-are no more. I have never liked Maggie more than I did in that scene. When Maggie gets back to Carver she’s out of bullets, so she picks up the ice axe (or whatever that thing is) and hacks his chest open.Ībsolutely ruthless. Daryl runs past, clearly distressed, while Negan looks on with a thoughtful expression on his face. She puts one down but not out and after shooting Leah and the other guy, turns around and puts another bullet in the first guy’s head. Maggie coming up behind the unsuspecting Reapers. This was one of the best scenes in the history of The Walking Dead, both in terms of its composition and the narrative implications.

I laughed out loud and when the scene was over I rewound it and watched it all over again. “Are they really going there?” A part of me thought, no surely not, Daryl will stop her-but then she starts firing at them, shooting them in the back as they walk off to safety. She reaches for the revolver tucked into the back of her pants. She steps over the downed Carver and starts walking toward the other Reapers. The music, at this point, is quite dramatic. We see her resolve form before she makes a move.
