She played the pious possum to a tee while being held prisoner. No one was at any real risk except maybe Maggie’s unborn baby, whom I thought the Saviors might zero in on as a focal point for torture, but even this show apparently finds that idea too squeamish. Maggie, on the other hand, will not be shaken by the Savior’s interrogation.
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“Sweetie, we are all Negan”, says Molly, one of their captors.
Maggie not only wanted to escape, she wanted to kill all of the Saviors. Carol wants to book it out of there, but Maggie declares that they can’t leave the women alive.
It was women who were gathered in the bunker deciding what steps to take next.
It was something that was also brought up between Paula and Carol. “Not unless I say so”, Paula is heard saying in the trailer. Carol’s insistence that Rick is a man of his word falls on deaf ears and she and Maggie manage to untie themselves before setting up traps to kill Paula’s chain-smoking sidekick and the other female accomplice.
‘He sounded like a maniac, we were scared, we had to stop him, ‘ said Carol.
If a character will die because of Negan (which is looking more and more likely now that the group has successfully massacred several of his people during both the raid on the compound and the attempt to rescue Carol and Maggie-Lauren Cohan-from their captors), and the script is as dark as McBride hints, it could mean that a big fan favorite may be about to bite the dust in a big way. Their paths diverged in a very important way though, where Paula stopped feeling anything, Carol is feeling everything. It really makes you wonder: has she gone soft?
Paula is the last to go, but the kill comes at the cost of Carol’s sanity. “I lost everything, but it made me stronger”, she tells Carol. In that way she’s a type of Carol, but not (as some have surmised) an evil version – just an individual who found herself alone at the onset of the apocalypse and allied her destiny to a group promising safety and security. But the fight came first as Rick and the others went off to ambush Negan’s satellite watchtower.
Paula was stunned to come back to the cell and find the women gone, as they struggled to get out of the zombie-filled building.
Paula has Maggie and Carol taken to a safe house and keeps Rick hanging on the walkie, never agreeing to trade Maggie and Carol for the Savior he has hostage until she has the advantage. Carol jumps in to help Maggie, but is repeatedly kicked in return until Paula hits him over the head with the butt of her gun, knocking him out.
She let her guard down long enough to get a boyfriend. Carol shoots a man who approaches them, but just in the arm.
In our previous recap, Carol has been romancing her new neighbor, Tobin, even sharing a kiss with him.
“I was afraid of this”, Carol answers. We all know she’s done some horrific stuff in the name of survival, but recently it’s seemed like her choices (which I probably don’t need to remind you include a whole lotta murder) were finally catching up with her conscious.
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Once inside, Carol really starts to hyperventilate, as Maggie tries to break free. At the end of Not Tomorrow Yet he was seen focussing on a photo of Negan’s victims, all with their skulls caved in.
