Everyone in Alexandria wants Negan dead. No surprise there.


Last time we saw Carl, he was riding in the back of the sweet truck of half-baked plans and on his way to kill Negan. Luckily for him, he had Jesus for company. Jesus guessed that the truck was nearing the Saviors camp so he suggested that they jump out and find their way on foot. Carl after pretending to be scared of the idea of jumping from a moving truck agrees but says Jesus has to jump first. Jesus does and Carl waves him goodbye.

When the truck finally slows to a stop, Carl picks a gun from the supplies and hides behind the boxes. One of the saviors spots him and Carl starts shooting. He steps to the edge of the truck and says "I only want Negan… no one else needs to die”. Quite confident for a young man who is facing a handful of armed people. Lucky for him, Negan thinks he’s “badass” and amused by him so he chooses to keep Carl alive for his entertainment.

He takes Carl on a tour of the place and we see that Darryl is still on fence duty. Negan takes Carl to meet his wives and there are at least a dozen women in the room – all wearing LBDs. He gives Carl permission to ogle his wives breasts and goes to talk to Sheryl – who is apparently the queen of wives as she looks to be the only one who can speak her mind to him. She even calls Negan an “asshole” right before they share a passionate kiss. Negan wants to know about Amber (one of his wives) and Mark who apparently have been sneaking around together. After a tiny amount of pressure from Negan, Sheryl acknowledges the tryst by saying “go easy on her, she made a mistake”. Negan has a talk with his crying wife Amber and says she can leave if she wants to but he will not abide cheating by any of his wives. He tells Dwight to heat the iron and takes Carl to his master bedroom.

At this point, Carl is a little worried about why Negan is keeping him alive. Negan tells Carl that he killed two of his men and should sing him a song. Carl sings “You’re My Sunshine” by Johnny Cash while Negan swings Lucille frightfully close to Carl’s head. After the song, he tells Carl that he feels like he’s talking to a “birthday present” and Carl should unwrap his gift (eye). Carl’s confidence suddenly comes back and he says no but Negan insists. Carl unwrapped his eye and what is beneath is not a pretty sight – all that’s there is a few strands of tissue. Negan laughs at his appearance, calls it “disgusting” and says he can see his eye socket. When Carl starts to cry, Negan apologizes and says its easy to forget that Carl is just a kid. Looks like there’s a softer side to Negan.

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But that thought is short-lived as minutes later, we see him burning the side of Mark’s face until the man soils himself and passes out. Negan calls him a “pussy” and tells all watching the punishment to follow rules as he would not like to repeat the procedure again.

Meanwhile, at Alexandria, Father Gabriel and Spencer are going for a supply run at the same time Rosita and Eugene are leaving Alexandria. Spencer offers that they go together  but Rosita declines saying she’s not getting supplies for  Negan. In the car, Spencer is still whining about how much he hates Rick, how everything is Negan’s fault and he can do a much better job of leading. He also tells the priest that he wishes Rick “never makes it back”. Father Gabriel calls Spencer an asshole for saying that; says a few nice words about Rick and exits the car.

Speaking of Rick, he is still on a supply run with Aaron and it looks like their side of the world is running out of food because they haven’t found anything. Kind of like Heath and Tara. They later come upon a place with possible supplies and ammunitions – but that place is in the middle of a river and there are walkers circling around like undead shark.

Turns out Rosita and Eugene are not looking for supplies, just bullets. She wants Eugene to make her bullets but the latter is reluctant and says the words everyone at Alexandria needs to hear – “Abraham was right, they have the numbers”. He goes on to tell her that even if she succeeds in killing or injuring Negan, someone will “pay the price”. Rosita foolishly says she’s willing to pay the price but we know she won’t be the one to pay if she fails. Remember Glenn anyone? She calls Eugene a bunch of hurtful words and says he owes her and Abraham so he should make the bullets. Eugene gives in to her and makes her bullets. You recall Rosita found an empty gun on a walker. Now that she has bullets, what exactly does she plan to do? Hopefully she comes up with a better plan than Carl.
Some of Negan's wives. Image credit: Gene Page/AMC


It’s starting to look like Carl has dual personalities – one minute he’s a badass one-eyed cowboy wielding a rifle, the next minute he’s crying and unsure if Negan wants to kill him. At the moment, Carl is back to his confident self and he tells Negan to “jump out of the window” to save him the trouble of killing him. He goes on to tell Negan that he wouldn’t kill him or his father or Darryl. It looks like Negan has gone so soft; everyone at Alexandria is forgetting he’s a psychopath. During this conversation, Negan revealed that he plans to make a soldier out of Darryl and Rick is a good errand boy who gets him supplies.

After their little chat, Negan decides to go on a drive with Carl. He tells Darryl that he’s taking Carl home. On getting to Alexandria, he meets Olivia and makes fat jokes. Olivia is hurt by his words and Negan apologizes. He actually apologized! Right before telling her it would be “pretty enjoyable” to “screw” her brains out. Olivia slaps Negan across the face but Negan is in a pretty good mood this day so he lets that slides and asks her to make him lemonade.

Negan tells Carl to give him a tour of the place and he stumbles on Judith who he calls an “angel” and immediately takes a liking to. He tells Carl that maybe he will kill him and Rick and bury them in the flower bed and stay back at Alexandria. Whichever way it is, it looks like he might end up taking Judith.

Spencer is the real hero of the day as he manages to find a walker with a note in Latin detailing where to get supplies. He found food and fire flares. But most importantly, he found food. And he plans to hand it all over to the Saviors because that’s “what Rick wants”

Michonne has used dead walkers to form a ridge on the road – but she has a plan. Her plan is to take one of the Saviors hostage and force them to take her to Negan. Her plan works. But what would have happened if a group of saviors rather than just one had driven by? Meanwhile at the Saviors camp, Darryl gets a note and key slid under his cell door. The note says “go now”. Who wants Darryl to escape? Jesus? Or is it another trap?