We know Rick and Carol aren’t bad people, they just do bad things. Episode 13 forces both Carol and Maggie to look in a different perspective and face the terrifying truth of what they have become.
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After telling Rick, via walkie talkie, that they’ll be back in touch, they take Maggie and Carol to a “safe house” filled with walkers… which they lovingly refer to as “Growlers”.
In conclusion, it’s time to start worrying about Maggie. While the mission went well overall, Maggie and Carol are did get captured in the process.
Maggie and Carol are being forcefully moved to another location. The discussion then continues about where Maggie is from.
Yeah, Maggie is having a rough time this season, but it’s the apocalypse. It’s in a tourniquet, but as Maggie points out, he’s about to either lose an arm or his life. She and her small group were the ones to survive Rick and his gang’s onslaught. What was it like for you to have a little bit of that softer, more emotional side of her to play with instead of all the violence and intensity that she’s had to deal with before then?
Afterwards, Paula has one of the Saviors take Maggie away for questioning. The older woman starts smoking a cigarette, which leads to one of the group members telling her to put it out on behalf of Maggie’s baby.
IGN: Has she ever done anything that you didn’t agree with or didn’t find OK for her to have done? Neither survivor falls into the other’s trap, with Maggie remaining tight-lipped about the location of Alexandria. We learned of at least two more groups of Negan’s followers (both were killed by the end of the episode), but we also learned that they run by the sort-of mantra “We are all Negan”.
The softening up of Carol has been happening for a few weeks now, pretty much since the midseason break, and it still doesn’t feel genuine. But the symbolism, the blood, the palm, the crucifix – there’s so much going on. But anyway, she’s at a distance from this and just sees Rick just point blank [do what he did].
If Carol was feeling self-doubt about her killing before, this episode looks to give her a full-on complex.
That leaves us with Maggie trying to bond with her interrogator (who is not very good at her job), and Carol faking a breakdown to catch her captors off guard. If they go too far down that road for too long, well, maybe they can not bring them back. She then frees Maggie and they make a plan to kill the rest of the group. Or will the producers expand on Negan, the man, in the same way they did The Governor?
When they find Donny already dead and turning, they tie him to a pole and let Molls find him. Carol simply nods her head and says, “No”.
In the other room, one of the Saviors wants to know where Maggie is holed up at.
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Notice that all the attention on Glenn has taken a back seat. An abused wife turned badass survivor, Carol began showing signs of moral fatigue last night while in the Saviors captivity. At the same time, Carol’s guilty conscience over her many previous kills are catching up to her. She is truly pained by what’s going on as well. At the moment, Rick, Carl (Chandler Riggs), and Judith are still alive, but some of the names that are forecasted to die include Glenn (Steven Yeun), Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), Carol, or Daryl (Norman Reedus) may die. Paula finally agrees to make the trade; she radios Rick and tells him where to meet them in ten minutes, however she still doesn’t trust Rick.
