Well, hello. Hey!
Fuck off!
How are you? How's it going?
I've got good news. Negan's willing to meet.
We'll get the kids together for a playdate
and us moms are gonna talk strategy.
I better get the fucking keys to the city when this is all done.
-Call me Mayor. -Any sign of the girl yet?
It's so strange to think that centuries ago,
so long ago,
these same weapons were used for the same purpose.
That's how long we've been at this killing thing, right?
Not that it isn't for a good cause,
because we gotta kill people to get the old world back
so we can keep killing people--
-I asked you about the girl. -What?
The girl.
Oh, the girl. Oh, I'm sure she's fine.
Yeah, she was catching up to that woman and her kid.
That's what I'd be doing,
because those two are just a barrel of laughs.
Relax. Don't worry about it.
You're already making new friends.
Where is she?
It's not what you think.
She came to me.
She said that she'd kill Negan.
But she couldn't get to the church because she was, I don't know,
sick or hurt, so we just gave her a lift.
You don't know what you've done.
Well, clearly, she didn't pull it off, right?
Because she doesn't want to kill him. She's confused. It's not...
-That's not what it's about. -Well, what's it about?
Is she, like, his kid or something?
See the look on your face.
Come on. This is good.
I knew Negan mattered to her.
And now, thanks to you, I know she matters to him.
So if things go sideways for us, she's our insurance.
Touch her, I swear, that will be the last thing you do.
I'm not saying it needs to go down that way.
I hope it doesn't, truly.
See? This is fun.
It's what I'm talking about.
The fun of the game. You know what else?
On top of everything, I learned something new about you.
Behind all this gruff cowboy act, you're a softie.
I learned something about you, too.
Yeah.
They're asking for you upstairs.
The show is about to start.
You don't have to stick around if you don't have the stomach for it.
Like I said, I have nowhere to go.
I'm with you all the way.
Although,
I guess I could be here more in spirit, per se.
Open, or...?
I'll just...
I was hoping we'd get to meet.
You're everything I was expecting,
and more, I'm sure.
Where's my son?
Oh, he's here. Of his own volition.
You must be famished.
Aren't you supposed to be dead?
There was a body.
So you've been to my humble pied-à-terre?
Yes, that was one of the already-dead.
I let her burn until she got nice and crispy.
There's that more I was waiting for.
Give it.
I don't want to have to punish you.
Or anyone else.
Up, up, up, up. Careful.
Careful. Careful.
Down. Down. Easy.
Nicely. Fingers!
Watch your fingers. Gentle!
Good. Well done.
I figured you could use a new piece,
you know, to help pull the room together,
seeing as how that old one's been there for 150 years.
Call it a housewarming gift.
It looks used.
It was. By the Spanish. 13th century.
Where's your buddy, by the way?
Oh, the Croat? He is taking a leave of absence.
Some shit like that.
I got something for you, too. A little welcome gift.
See, I know we have a little talking to do.
We've got to plot our next moves, right?
We both know that New Babylon isn't done with us yet.
So, please, step up, help yourselves.
Something's off.
Don't want to strategize on an empty stomach.
You know, actually,
we ate before we came.
I don't think we should waste any more time.
You got somewhere to be?
No. No, no. It's just what you said.
New Babylon is just starting.
Who's to say they're not here, right now, on this island?
Rather than food, let's just dive into our thoughts.
I've got so many.
Oh, I have no doubt.
But, see, the thing is, so much work was put into this big,
beautiful feast that I'd hate to have it go to waste.
I'd feel like such a bad host.
Go ahead. You eat. We'll wait.
You think I put something in the food.
Course not.
Your loss.
We good?
We're good.
No, no, no! Get back!
Everyone back!
I know you think I'm using your son.
You're right. I am.
The old world was rigged,
designed to break us and rip us apart.
But Hershel never knew that world,
which is why he can dream up something that you and I never could.
We'll of course need someone to protect that new world.
I'd hoped that person could be Negan.
But thoughts can be deceiving.
Hershel told me what you were capable of.
But the fact that you're here now, you still haven't given up...
I'm only sorry it took me so long to see it.
So that is what all of this is about.
You want me to come at Negan.
I would have thought that we would have this in common,
wanting Negan dead.
But I understand.
When Negan is up, you feel the need to knock him down.
And when he's down, you have to prop him back up.
You're stuck in a loop.
You can't let it go. You can't let him go.
And how could you?
He murdered your husband.
Violently. Gleefully.
After losing so many people who meant so much to you -
your mother,
your father...
your sister...
and now your son.
He needed you.
But how could you be there for him
when you couldn't be there for yourself?
It's okay, Maggie.
You can still get him back.
Negan is still out there,
widowing wives and orphaning children.
Only you can stop him.
Only you can kill him.
Don't do it for me. Do it for you.
Do it for Hershel.
Set yourselves free.
No!
Statue!
Go!
Mom?
I didn't... I didn't know she'd hit your head like that.
I'm sorry.
She said that you talked.
You were right.
I'm not over it.
I've never been over it.
I think about him all the time.
I think about what he did.
And I know that I have to let it go. I know that it's the only way.
But no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to do it.
I'm sorry.
I know, Mom.
I know you try.
But it's like you said.
It's not working.
I want us to be a family.
I want to move on...
and be free.
But there's only one way.
And then we can just be done with it.
We can start over.
Okay.
I'll finish it.
Then I'll come back for you.
So, this is what you used to encrust the bodies.
The bombs.
You really came up here just to look at those cannons?
Definitely.
It's because of them that you defeated New Babylon on the water.
If history were a conflagration,
then these cannons would be the embers--
Or is it 'cause you're a huge fucking pussy
who doesn't want to be at the church while shit goes down?
Was that boat there before?
Shit.
Who are you?
Who are you with?
New Babylon.
Little girl, don't be scared.
It's me, your old pal.
What?!
Okay, okay. Okay, okay.
It was him. This guy.
He got me to do this.
The rest of his people, they're hiding in the park.
Oh, there's dozens of them. Like, 50 at least.
They ambushed us. They took hostages.
Now, you know how I care about my people.
I couldn't just, like...
Negan, I know things about New Babylon.
I do.
I know how they operate.
And with the methane, we can beat them.
And then we can bring back the old world, the way it used to be.
Not just a couple of blocks, but the whole city,
the whole fucking planet!
And then, you and me, we'll be back on top.
The winners with all the spoils, just like it used to be.
On your knees.
You too, Marshal.
Eenie,
meenie,
miney,
mo.
Catch a tiger by his toe.
If he hollers,
let him go.
Eenie,
meenie...
miney,
mo!
Hey, hey.
You know what? Fuck it.
See, you're the one that I really want to kill first.
Negan, no. Come on. Please. Please!
There's nothing we can't do, you and me. The methane!
The methane. The goddamn methane.
That is all you talk about.
You really want the methane that bad?
Take it.
I got this.
Shouldn't have come here.
Glad you did.
See, I know what you are thinking.
See, you're thinking you should have shot me when you had the chance.
And you'd be right.
You sure as shit should have.
The thing is, now...
Well, now it's too late.
Whatever you think you saw, it's not like that.
I was protecting her.
Maybe.
But see, I am so fucking sick of maybes.
No. No.
Ginny!
Ginny.
Ginny, no!
No!
No.
No!
No.
Ginny.
I'm doing this.
You got no choice.
I was...
I was so busy...
looking out for her...
thinking I was looking out for her...
I missed it.
I just...
I just missed it.
And now...
now she died...
she died alone.
There's something I gotta do.
I have to go.
You promised.
You promised me.
You said you understood. You said we could start over.
But you didn't mean it.
You just...
It's the same as it always is.
We were wrong.
It's not like how we said.
And killing Negan would only make it worse.
And that's not how we're gonna...
Don't!
Whatever. It doesn't matter.
She and I will get there together.
I know what you're going through.
You think that you want to run off and be somebody different.
You want to hurt me.
You want to hurt me back.
-Just know-- -Because you got it all figured out.
Because you did so fucking perfectly yourself.
Just know I will always be here for you.
I won't leave the city.
New Babylon.
Second wave.
That's it, then.
They'll get the methane and...
So, where do we go from here?
Walking through the woods, a man comes to a fork in his path.
To go left is to go home,
his past.
To go right is to go out into the unknown, his future.
He knows his past.
It's comforting.
But will it be like he remembers?
And his future is full of possibilities, but...
what if he gets lost?
Which way does he go?
He goes left.
Back home, to the way things were.
But all that's waiting for him
is an old story that hurts too much to remember.
So he goes right.
But there's nothing there for him either.
Because what's the future without the past?
What's an ending without that old story?
The truth is, there is only one way forward.
One way to move on.
We gotta work through what was...
...to get to what will be.
It's a path that's hard
and rough,
all uphill.
We keep thinking we'll never make it.
Sometimes we see where we're headed.
We catch a glimpse of the mountaintop.
It's so beautiful,
it takes our breath away.
But then we lose our footing.
We tumble backwards.
Right back to the bottom.
So that it feels like we'll never get up again.
But we do. We help each other up.
And the path becomes much clearer now.
We move on...
...together.
And we get there.