In the event of my untimely demise,
I put a little file among my possessions,
telling them everything they need to know about you.
I imagine that a CRM reclamation team
would have everybody that you love
dead within hours of that file's receipt.
Despite all the odds, I found you, Rick.
I came here to take you home.
And we figure out how to protect it together.
*
Our Father, who art in heaven--
*
♪ Oh, the good life
♪ Full of fun, seems to be the ideal ♪
♪ Mm, the good life lets you hide ♪
Tasteful Noods?
♪ All the sadness you feel
♪ You won't really fall in love ♪
♪ For you can't take the chance ♪
♪ So please be honest with yourself ♪
♪ Don't try to fake romance
♪ It's the good life
♪ To be free and explore the unknown ♪
♪ Please remember I still want you ♪
♪ And in case you wonder why
♪ Well, just wake up
♪ Kiss the good life
♪ Goodbye
Never did like those.
No 'Michonne's", huh?
Not even once.
Hmm.
Is this a terrible gift to bring to R.J.?
No one has ever once called him "Junior".
Ah. Okay.
You're bringing yourself back.
That's more than enough.
"The Brave Man", huh?
You are.
More than ever.
He might be ready for this.
Is that who he is?
Judith has a sword.
They're us.
Mm.
I got you something.
I think it was baking soda and spearmint.
As requested.
Man of his word.
It only took a couple lifetimes.
I was in love with my son's best friend.
I didn't know what to do.
Then you asked for that toothpaste.
I was damned if I wasn't gonna find something.
You found your moment.
Is this one?
You tell me.
"Three Pines Cabin".
You see that sign on the road?
Looks like we found a place to stay for the night.
Luck's holding up.
*
Thorne was so uptight.
She was trying so hard for this army.
Too hard.
She was trying to get home, to South Africa,
to someone she loves.
Okafor found her, and she stopped trying.
You know, I never let go.
I denied it,
and I pushed you away, but I never let go.
I didn't know.
What is it?
"The people from the people."
Look out!
Their skin's like stone.
It cracks. I break, you stab.
Hm.
We should-- We should thank these folks.
They get crusty like that, uh, 'cause of the seam vents.
Calcified or something.
And there's the wet ones.
You got your baked and your boiled.
Kind of like pierogies.
I lived in, uh, Pittsburgh for a bit.
They look pretty hungry.
Okay.
Oh!
Are-- Are you kidding?
Stay safe.
Appreciate the help, but we're gonna need more.
All of it, in fact.
Red, no. They helped us.
It's nothing personal, and we are grateful.
It's just the way things are. You know what I mean?
Shit gets worse by the hour these days.
You want to just take it back?
Yeah, we can just roll this back to you
just saying thanks, if you want.
Hell no.
What do we say?
New shit presents itself, always take the new--
I'd like-- I'd like to roll-- do the roll back now.
Nope.
We wouldn't be alive without him.
How do we know you won't do this to someone else?
You don't, but if you let me and my family live,
I'd consider that an instructive experience.
Promise us to let people be.
Hmm. You serious?
Why would you care about saving anybody's skin
other than your own?
You look after you.
Anything else in this world is a fairytale.
You think?
It's very hard to think right now.
Well, how about you just listen?
I-I'm peeing.
We saved you, and the only people in danger
of being killed-- well, it isn't the helpers here.
Why don't you just promise, and we'll believe you?
Red. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I'll leave people be.
Promise.
Yeah. Yeah, that's-- that's fair.
Really?
Yes. Okay.
I was really looking forward to that.
Okay. Hmm.
Wait 'til we're gone.
Keep your promise, asshole.
Red's red gun.
You think it was okay to leave them the other one?
I don't think they'll come after us, if that's what you mean.
And maybe he'll keep that promise.
What were you saying about "the people from the people"?
I don't know.
It's just something that's stuck in my head.
Protect the people from the people.
You think they would've made it?
What, if we hadn't come along?
I don't know.
Broken axe, low on bullets, three walkers.
They'd made it this far, and just like that,
the sister steps in an old snare.
Lucky for them, someone was nearby.
Lucky for them, it was us.
Yeah.
We didn't even think about it.
Nope.
Might be strange to admit it, but that felt good.
Us against the world.
Or savin' it.
I am surprised you took back the noodles, though.
They pulled a gun on us.
You don't get noodles for that.
Toothpaste, booze.
What are you up to, Grimes?
I'm just working with what I got.
*
Come, Holy Spirit.
Bless this water that it may become your Holy Water.
Gabriel.
It's okay. I'm alone.
Is it okay?
Even if you are alone?
Yeah.
Is this coming back?
No.
I just wanted to see you.
But you can't say to anyone that I was here, okay?
I was using Eugene's ham radio with--
with Rosita's help, trying to somehow find you.
You-- You found me.
You left because you were being judged for things
you did in your past
instead of who you were trying to be.
But I was up to something, and you trusted me,
and it was a mistake.
Rick brought you in because he believed
that people could change.
He called you "one of us."
He died trying to bring people together.
He died?
The bridge.
He had to destroy it to stop an incoming herd.
He was caught in the explosion.
My mistake wasn't trusting you.
It was losing my faith in you.
Can you forgive me for that?
What about all the people who can't forgive you?
What about the ones you made gone?
How do you live with that?
Prayer.
Amends.
Talk.
I can't talk about the things I've been a part of,
things I will be a part of.
Not even to your people?
No.
Not without telling them about all of you.
You can talk to me.
Clergy confidentiality.
You weren't even here, Anne.
I forgive you.
Morning, lovebirds.
Tie him to the bed, then yourself.
Sit down.
You think she's alone?
She's alone, and I bet nobody know's she's here.
That's just rude.
How do you think she found us?
Just gonna jump in.
The circumstances of your disappearance
together were suspicious,
so I'm back with the reclamation team.
Then I saw the wreck.
It felt like a profound moment.
Strange, the things your brain remembers in a moment like that.
The smell of ozone, a spider on the floor of a helicopter,
and a yellow truck sitting there.
I had this nagging feeling.
I insisted on going back,
but I wouldn't pull anyone away from the Summit.
It's too important.
Flew myself to the nearest jump point, supplied up,
borrowed the emergency vehicle there.
Your crash site was rubble when I returned.
Then I saw you left bread crumbs.
Dead delts. Ramen wrappers?
All the way down Highway 90.
The most direct route to Virginia.
Nobody knows she's here. Mm.
She missed her chance.
Should've killed us while we were sleeping.
See, I've been thinking about someone else I killed.
A confidante.
Someone monumental in my development as me,
as a person who will help turn the world.
I left things unsaid between us.
I didn't want to do that before I killed both of you.
You just play games, Anne.
You don't give a shit about that army or that city.
I do.
You think I'm still her. I'm not.
I'm not that woman from the heaps either.
We take. We don't bother. Didn't work.
I am decorated Warrant Officer Jadis Stokes
of the Civic Republic Military, defender of the Republic.
You're doing this for you, Anne.
No. For the Republic.
If I were to let you go home and somehow,
some other enterprising warrant officer
were to find you, my connection
with Alexandria would be discovered,
and that important work would end.
I saved your life.
You took it.
You took it from him, you took it from me,
you took it from our children.
All those years they grew up without their father.
All those years I didn't know if he was alive or dead.
You stole our family, Anne.
I didn't kill you in your sleep because I wanted--
I needed to thank you.
By dying here today, Alexandria will remain safe
and your children will have a better world.
You could have made other choices,
but you didn't lose here.
You won a different way.
It's the end of your story.
Let that be your peace.
Ah! No!
Rick! We got to go!
How's Rick's wife doing?
Michonne?
She's away, helping people.
Why did you call her his wife?
I mean, wasn't she?
Well, not officially, but--
If that matters anymore.
It's funny.
One day, Rick said that I should marry them.
Maybe we should do it right there on the bridge
that we were building.
But I couldn't see the future he described,
so I sat on a log in the forest,
and there at my feet, in the dirt,
right in front of me, was a ring.
It seemed like it'd make a pretty nice wedding ring,
so I kept it, and I thought to put it someplace
where Rick would find it
because I could suddenly see that "someday".
But what happened happened.
Well, I have spent the last year
looking forward to our next visit.
Just sitting here and talking.
Almost makes me feel like how it was, like who I was.
The other 364 days back there,
it's less about personal connection
and more about responsibility
to something greater than myself.
Even if that means I have to do
things that are difficult.
Even cruel.
If you're here expressing doubts,
then isn't that a sign that that isn't who you are?
Knowing you're doing wrong, it means that--
It's about survival.
It's about what comes after.
Survival of others.
And that part of me
that I've harnessed, it has kept me alive,
and maybe it can keep the rest of the world alive, too.
The group we were in conflict with--
they compromised our walls.
Food is scarce.
Children are hungry.
Maybe you and your people could help?
It wouldn't have to be much.
We'd repay you as soon as we got--
Gabriel, you know that I can't.
I'm not even here.
Please know that my remorse is real.
As you do cruel and difficult things.
Yeah. I should go.
Wait. I'm sorry.
Please.
Take this with you.
You've been questioning things.
This is a symbol of faith.
Of love.
Maybe it'll give you something you need.
Giving it to you is giving me something that I need.
Next year?
Same day, same place?
If I'm alive.
Go, go, go.
We can't kill her. Oh, we can.
I told you, she left a file about home for the CRM to find.
To destroy Alexandria,
because that's what she does, Rick!
She destroys!
She robbed us of you being there
to see your son being born, taking his first step.
Okay, what do we do after she's dead?
Whatever we have to do.
Hold on.
Shit!
Ah!
Do you see that drop-off?
Yep.
Fuck!
We got company.
On three. One, two, three!
Which way to that jump point?
You think that I give an antelope's ass
about some ramen?!
That's just pasta.
The hell I care about pasta?
Hel-- Hello.
Good goddamn.
You look like a pile of hippo shit, sister.
I'm not here to hurt anyone.
I just need a little help.
Please.
I'm being pursued by some very dangerous people,
and I just need a little help.
My community is safe. And it has walls and food,
and I can offer you a place that is you just--
if you just get me somewhere, you know?
It's not far.
Yeah, well, how far is "not far"?
It's just a few miles.
What?
You're tall.
The bases are across the country from each other.
We need to know which one she hid it in.
If we can take her alive, talk to her--
You heard her hate being called Anne.
I think she's still in there somewhere.
And if there's something she can give us first,
something to help keep Alexandria safe--
We'll keep it safe.
But she's gonna die.
We need to keep it safe without risking anything.
I couldn't see some things.
I couldn't. You helped me.
Maybe we can help her, and if we can't...
Then I can kill her?
Be my guest.
Maybe just maim first.
You see this?
Yeah.
It's you. I'm sorry.
She promised she's take us with her.
All we do was lure you in here.
We're not like you. We wouldn't have made it on our own.
That's four on two.
People are a resource.
Whatever she said, it's not what you think it is.
So long as I got a meal and a new pair of pants, I'm good.
There's still time to roll this back.
No, there's ain't.
Goodbye, Rick.
Red!
I half thought you wouldn't show up this time.
After what I denied you, I wouldn't have blamed you.
I was...
sharp.
And I don't pretend to understand
your community or your commitment to them.
But I do know something about that part of yourself
that you're scared of losing.
What if it's already gone?
Every year, I come back here, I've done worse things.
I know why they're done.
I believe in what we're trying to do.
But there's the Plan and the "why".
And then there's the blood.
I know you feel you can't tell me.
But you can.
I'm here.
I can't.
And if I can't, I'm not here.
No.
You are.
Can I confide in you?
Of course.
I look forward to these days,
to have this, to have you to myself.
This secret.
These days.
I have you,
and that proves that you're still here, Anne.
It just does.
Why don't you come with me back to Alexandria?
Gabriel.
Nobody needs to know about your community,
about anything. I can't.
For all the reasons that I've already told you.
That's just it.
You haven't told me anything about your group,
other than that they're people who horde supplies
while others starve.
You think that the purpose of what we do
is to make people suffer?
That I'd be part of a group like that?
Is that what you think of me?
No. I know you're not them.
I see it when I look in your eyes.
I did this.
This was me.
What?
I'm sorry I came here.
I'm sorry I made myself vulnerable.
I'm sorry for turning you into a loose end.
What?
I'm sorry.
How about you show yourself?
We talk?
You mean "get me to talk", right?
Ambush me, break all my bones one by one
'til I spill where I hid my file on Alexandria?
Not gonna happen, Rick.
I live for the cause, and I will die for the cause.
I'm not a traitor.
Not like you.
You okay? Yeah.
That was close.
You two together-- you are unstoppable.
But that won't save your kids.
You kill me, they're dead.
I die from my wounds, they're dead.
I get killed by walkers, they're dead.
Michonne.
Michonne!
Shit!
It didn't have to be this way.
You were on the path, Rick.
After all these years, you were finally feeling
the responsibility to fight for something bigger than yourself.
And Beale saw it, too.
He was gonna give you the Echelon Briefing
the moment you returned.
Your eyes would have been opened to the true size and scope
of what the CRM is gonna do to bring this world back.
You could have ensured Alexandria's security.
But you didn't.
You let Michonne pull you away from that.
All you had to do was leave when Rick arranged for your escape.
But you didn't.
And now, here we are, and the fates of your friends,
your children, sealed because you are just like her.
"You look out for you."
You don't really want to kill everyone back home, Anne.
I know you don't.
It's not about "want".
It's about keeping your humanity or saving humanity,
and it is a choice.
I've chosen my community.
I've chosen my life.
So, who's gonna die today?
The two of you?
Or me and everyone back home?
She's right.
Rick.
I didn't want to see it.
I wanted her dead so I didn't have to see it.
But, Rick, there has to be a sacrifice.
Since I found you, all that I've done has been for us.
But now I see this can't end with us going home.
Well, what's it gonna be?
Okay.
There's still a deal to be made,
one where we all can live and Alexandria.
Michonne gets some supplies to keep you long enough
to get you to the jump point, and I'll go back with you.
We'll say I was injured in the crash, the lone survivor,
and I'll go back to the CRM, to working for a future,
like none of this ever happened, on one condition.
Michonne gets away and I never tell them about Alexandria.
It's the only way this works.
We got a deal?
Why should I trust you,
after all the shit that you've pulled?
We got a deal or not?
Yeah.
We got a deal.
Come closer, Rick.
Show yourself.
We laid down our weapons. Lay down yours.
You've looked better.
I was a fool to think I could take you
down with you two together,
which is why I agreed to your deal.
Her getting the med kit.
I don't trust you, either, but I respect you, Rick.
You're lying to yourself.
You keep lying to yourself.
You don't keep coming back here.
You never left.
You're wrong.
I'm not--
Go ahead.
Shoot me.
Make me understand. Show me who you are.
Drop it.
I said drop it.
You double-crossed me before I double-crossed you.
That's a good plan.
Drop the gun, or I will kill you.
Even if it means that Alexandria is destroyed?
Everything I've ever had or lost.
My people, my friends, everyone.
I was tired of losing.
I was finally part of something that could last.
And I couldn't lose another community.
My old one.
And my new one.
I knew if I didn't kill you all,
somehow, some way, you'd come for the CRM.
So, I drew up the dossier to protect myself
and make sure you couldn't.
I thought, in my death, it was worth it.
I'd chosen a side, right?
I thought I had.
Back and forth.
Jadis,
Anne,
Alexandrians,
CRM.
Go.
You came to me to help you find an answer.
You just found it.
I'll see you next year, Anne.
He already showed me.
I found my answer.
The dossier-- it's in my room at the Cascadia Base.
Just destroy it and go home.
The CRM will bring the world back.
Tell me you won't come after them.
No.
Because we are coming for them.
We're gonna get the dossier.
And then the CRM--
we're gonna stop them.
He's gonna get the Echelon Briefing
and find out everything that they do
that the city doesn't know about.
The city I saw won't stand for what they are,
and we're gonna help the city stop them,
because, Anne,
the CRM is not the answer,
and they must end.
We're gonna do that.
You kept us alive for a reason.
Mm.
I wish I'd died an artist.
It was never about survival in that life.
It was just about truth.
And this is mine.
The end of my story.
My peace.
*
On the bridge, you told Gabriel you wanted to marry her.
He found this, and he wanted to give it to you.
How did you--
You weren't dreaming, Rick.
Go ahead.
Do what you said you would do.
Please.
*
The jump point's just over that ridge.
What you said to me before, in front of her--
it wasn't just for her.
You couldn't have changed them by yourself, Rick,
but together?
The whole damn world--
I see how we could make it better,
and if we can,
Rick, we have to.
Michonne, wait.
I've been wanting to say something.
It's a broken world, Michonne,
and you're the only thing that puts it back together.
'Til my last breath, I am yours.
*
I could never have imagined this.
But it could only ever have been you.
*
I'm yours.
*
Show me the other way.
We go in, you get the briefing
and get the dossier she left behind,
then go home together.
*
Anything changes on base, keep walking.
This is it.
After this next moment, everything will change.
Are we crazy?
Certifiable.
*
Episode five,
it's a throwback, a little bit,
to an episode that we had during "The Walking Dead."
It's like a honeymoon.
An apocalyptic honeymoon, but a honeymoon.
There's a sweetness to it, and they're so together
and everything's going to be fine,
but obviously the world is still coming for them.
Gabriel. It's okay. I'm alone.
Is it okay?
Even if you are alone?
This is something that we were kicking around
a little bit in the writers' room.
The character of Father Gabriel
really did open up things about Jadis that we hadn't seen.
And in fact, really, as Anne before she took on that persona.
I think in many ways, Jadis is trying
really, really hard to be Warrant Officer Jadis Stokes,
who is working for the cause
and will stop at nothing to get her job done
because there is this other part of her that she misses,
and there is this other part of her
that feels guilt for the deaths
and for the fact that she's keeping this massive secret--
that she knows where Rick is.
You're doing this for you, Anne.
No, for the Republic.
The stuff that goes down in the cabin,
I think, is the tell that Jadis is conflicted.
In some way, she couldn't make a choice.
She doesn't want to lose the CRM.
She doesn't want to lose Alexandria
the way that she lost her own people.
It didn't have to be this way.
After all these years,
you were finally feeling the responsibility
to fight for something bigger than yourself.
And Beale saw it, too.
In Jadis' mind, it's extremely selfish of him
to try and get in the way of such a greater plan
for everybody, forever,
beyond this little blip in the universe
in which we're living.
So, she doesn't want to kill him,
but if she has to, she has to.
It's central to Jadis to be thinking grandiosely
about the entire world, but she isn't lying.
She thinks this is the way it works.
The dossier-- it's in my room.
You just destroy it and go home.
In the end, in telling them about the dossier,
she chose Anne,
which is kind of what Gabriel was saying all along.
I think Jadis' death is a very
"Walking Dead" classic kind of death.
There's emotion,
there's conflicted choices that have been made,
and Rick has to end things for her.
It just makes it that much more complex.
Do what you said you would do.
Please.
*
In my experience as an actor,
I've always carried characters on with me.
I hope I hold on to her groundedness and her quiet
and her unabashed sense of self, as odd as that might sound,
because she has been many people.
She's a very grounding character to play,
and I'm like a hyperactive puppy,
so she's been really good for me for that.
And, um, this fandom rewatches,
and this fandom comes to you from all angles.
And so, I feel like I'll probably be talking about Jadis
in the street with people for the rest of my life,
and I hope so.
Michonne, wait.
I've been wanting to say something.
The marriage proposal was driven by Danai
as a story idea to bind them even closer.
That's their last moment they get to have in that way
before all hell breaks loose.
*