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Hellatus Rewatch 2015: Season 5 Episode 16– Conquet

When Daryl tells Aaron he had to try, Aaron responds that he doesn’t/didn’t have to. But he does. Since they’d survived Terminus, since Carol had returned to them, since he and Carol had driven into Atlanta, he’d been trying. He’d told her he was. And he was. He was trying to keep moving, to be strong, to keep it together, to mourn but survive, to move on but remember, to fit in even as he stood out, to compromise when he wanted to run, to forgive himself, to heal from childhood abuses, to stay in the moment, to protect and provide for those he loves, to remind Carol they’re not ashes, to remember he’s not dead, to grieve and survive, to help give the boy and the baby a roof, to trust others, to keep his new home safe. He has to try because Rick and Carol asked. Because Carol asked. Because he told her he was. Because if he doesn’t try he’ll wind up dead without trying. Because trying is all they’ve got. And together they can make it.[x]

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Hellatus Rewatch 2015: Season 5 Episode 15– Try

Trying is a difficult thing for TF to do in a place like Alexandria. Sasha’s trying is hunting walkers (the emotionally dead hunting the psychologically dead). Eugene’s trying is braving up and saving Tara. Abraham’s, Maggie’s, Glenn’s, Tara’s, Carol’s trying is accepting jobs in the community. Michonne’s trying is not using her katana when outside the walls. Rick’s trying is offering Deanna a choice whether to kill Pete or not. But we can see the tension in all of them. Carl sneaks outside the walls with Enid, and they discuss the feeling of normalcy outside Alexandria. Deanna harkens back to Rick’s s1 mentality in that they don’t kill people, even as he struggles to remain calm in the presence of Pete and the knowledge of his abusive nature. Though ‘Try’ is the name of this episode, several of TF talk about not forgetting what it was like outside the walls. Rick sees the red balloon almost every time he sees Pete. The first time, it’s tied to a boat floating in the middle of a pond. Rick is much like that boat, out of his depth in a place he as a human being was meant to live—in a society—but alone on the water, ready to do what needs to be done and take it over if needs be. The red balloon is his brutality, a representation of the red he sees and blood he spills when living outside the walls. Here it’s tethered, serene, and simply there. He sees the red balloon again just before he goes to confront Pete as a boy (Sam?) runs by with it, the balloon bouncing along behind the boy. This is also Rick, being pulled in a direction he’s not entirely able to control (as we’ve seen throughout the seasons). He’s tried staying afloat in this community, but he’s being pulled along by his instinct, the balloon being shaken and upset. And we see the red balloon again when Rick’s seeing red and ready to strangle Pete to death. This time the balloon is off the string and is floating away, the sense that who Rick’s been pretending to be is gone. He can’t quell the beast, won’t sit by and watch as the Alexandrites destroy the good thing they have, won’t allow things to progress as they have without taking leadership. The tie to the boat and the boy have been cut: the brutality, the monster he can become, is out and free. In the previous episode, Rick tells Jessie the ‘broken window theory,’ in which he determines that if windows are kept intact, society will stay intact. As we watch TF start to crack and crumble under the pressure of living in a civil, relatively safe society again, Rick and Pete get into a fight, and they break through the windows of Pete and Jessie’s house, just as several people run to watch the beginning of the ruination of the Alexandrian society as Pete and Rick bloody each other up. The broken window theory is accurate: the windows have been broken, and now the Alexandrite society will be as well; things are no longer intact. Oh. And MichOWNED.(Can't take credit for the fabulousness that is this, but I do so agree with it!)[x]

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Hellatus Rewatch 2015: Season 5 Episode 13– Forget

The drug calling Team Family to remember the Before is lulling them. When Daryl attempts to rope Buttons, he tells Aaron, “The longer they’re out there, the more they become what they really are.” This is clearly a commentary on the state of Team Family. Society requires us to keep certain restraints on our personality, our animalistic nature, our emotions, and our desires. We’re expected to behave a certain way, and most of us do. But remove those constraints, laws, expectations, and the society governing those, and people’s true natures are revealed. We can see this with our unholy trinity: Daryl was forced to be hardened and angry to hide the soft, caring heart of gold inside; free to be himself, his true colors shine through. Carol, previous subdued and meek because of her marital circumstances, now stands strong, makes decisive, executive calls, and has taken a leadership role. Rick, who always tried to do the right thing, be the good guy, and served the good of others, is now all about the good of him and his family, with others being secondary. They’ve (d)evolved into who they really are at their core. Buttons being eaten is a callback to s1 when the horse Rick rod into Atlanta on was eaten alive while he ended up trapped in a tank. This reads to me like a parallel of TF in Alexandria, seemingly protected but still in a dangerous predicament. Aaron tells Daryl that Buttons always ran, and he responds, “You were trying to help him.” Buttons, though still edgy and not ready to be domesticated, started getting a bit comfortable with the presence and closeness of humans. He allows Daryl fairly close before running away, and it seems that was only because of the approaching walkers. This ended up being his downfall, and while this is occurring TF is settling in at Deanna’s dinner party, becoming domesticated and falling under the spell of pseudo-normalcy. Additionally, Rick’s seen walkers with a W carved into their foreheads. He allows his hand to be stamped with an A. These letters aren’t only labels put on them by others—but literally and literarily—but the A specifically is a callback to Terminus. TF was trapped in train car A, the Termites put a red A on Father Gabriel’s church when TF was inside, and now Rick has willingly allowed himself to take on that same A. (The A, of course, is also a literary reference to The Scarlet Letter, even more pronounced since it’s Jessie’s son who stamps Rick’s hand and then Jessie later waves to Rick, showing off her matching A mark.)[x]

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Hellatus Rewatch 2015: Season 5 Episode 12– Remember

Rick starts off by telling Aaron and Nicolas it’s a good thing Team Family’s there. But good for whom? Rick tells Deanna (Who’s Deanna?!) she shouldn’t be welcoming groups of people into the Alexandria community. He explains, “it’s all about survival now. At any cost. People out there are always looking for an angle. Looking to play on your weakness. They measure you by what they can take from you. By how they can use you to live.” I don’t think the insinuation was that TF starts out by doing this (as it always seems they’re the victims of this ‘take what you can get’ mentality), but it’s definitely not beyond their capability or purview. Deanna’s Rick-like in that she confronts him straight-up: “Are you telling me not to bring your people in? Or are you already looking after this place?” And honestly, Rick’s smart enough to be doing both at the same time. Though Deanna doesn’t realize it yet, she’ll have to side with Rick, and she unknowingly foreshadows it: “Sounds like I’d want to be part of your family.” As Rick witnesses Daryl’s refusal to play nice and heeds Carol and Carl’s warnings about becoming weak (let’s remember not to get too comfortable in here, huh?), Rick understands they may need to become the very group he warned Deanna about. There’s another subtle parallel between Deanna, who tells Rick “your son, your daughter, should have a place to grow up,” and Daryl, who tells Deanna during his interview that Carl and Judith deserve a roof. (Foreshadow of s6’s supposed divergence of ideals between TF?). Daryl’s willing to suffer staying if it means they’re protected, whereas Rick’s willing to try to fit in if it means his family’s safe. Opposite sides of a fairly fortunate but questionable coin. The episode is book ended by Rick’s warning to Deanna, incredibly fitting considering he instructs TF to take the compound if necessary. And this after realizing how weak the compound truly is. [x]

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Hellatus Rewatch 2015: Season 5 Episode 9– What Happened and What’s Going On

This episode was beautifully done by Chad L. Coleman. What a tribute to a nuanced and sometimes frustrating character. Who Tyreese has been to viewers is who Tyreese is to himself: fighting between being okay and accepting what he’s chosen to do or not do and understanding there are harsh consequences to holding on so tightly to his humanity in a world that demands he discard it. This plays out beautifully and tragically in his swan song, the struggle between what the Governor and Martin stood for/against and how Bob chose to live, how Tyreese cared for the girls versus the result of that caring. How brutality requires he pay Carol back for killing Karen, but humanity says she’s redeemable, valuable, and heartbroken over her actions. That he deserves to live as much as the inhumane in this sick, upside-down world, and is more needed, indeed rare, in the After. Ultimately, his humanity wins, both in his life and as he crosses to the afterlife. The Governor and Martin, criticisms of how he should’ve been, dissipate, and he’s left with the members of his family—whose deaths, it should be noted, he believes he’s somewhat responsible for—assuring him it’s okay, it’s better, and that he can let go. RIP Tyreese.[x]

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Hellatus Rewatch 2015: Season 5 Episode 8– Coda

Definition: Coda: 1. Anything that serves as a concluding part; 2. in music: a more or less independent passage, at the end of a composition, introduced to bring it to a satisfactory close; 3. a concluding section or part, especially one of conventional form and serving as a summation of preceding themes, motifs, etc.

The irony of Gabriel banging on the church doors seeking refuge from walkers shouldn’t be lost on anyone. He yells out, “I had to see it! I know now!,” which is oddly reminiscent of Bob Lamson, who, after double-crossing them, just told Rick he was starting to see who Rick & Co. were. This parallel foreshadows Gabriel’s future betrayal of Team Family, even as he recognizes there are people out there who’re worse than he believes TF to be. As Team Family’s songbird, this is Beth’s swan song, and this episode’s title is quite fitting. Since she was kidnapped in 4b, she’s been on her own (independent; see definition #2), navigating the strange world of Grady Memorial. This is the conclusion of that story/storyline/character and the final resounding note of the motifs from seasons 4 to 5b: loss of what once was, of the belief it can be again, of kids teaching the adults, of there being a place to belong. With the loss of her life, Team Family changes course, purpose, and location (summation of preceding themes/motifs; see definition #4), concluding their life in Georgia. Through the introduction of Noah and the combining of Teams Family and Washington, they’ll now move north, beginning the next part of their journey.[x]

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Hellatus Rewatch 2015: Season 5 Episode 7– Crossed

Everyone and everything in this episode is crossed. Sasha’s cross (upset, livid, pissed, grieving, etc.) and takes it out on the church pews. Gabriel’s cross because they’re destroying his church and asks if they’re going to take the cross, too. Daryl’s cross because so much time has passed and he wants to get back to Atlanta. Gabriel’s cross again, this time about the bloodstains on the church floorboards. Abraham’s still cross about Eugene’s lie. Sasha becomes cross with Tyreese when he tries to sympathize with her anger over Bob’s death. Maggie’s cross with Abraham’s attitude, eventually telling him to get over himself. Rick’s eyes nearly cross when Daryl sides with Tyreese’s plan of attack over his. (Season 5b is still about the kids teaching the adults: Carl attempts to teach Gabriel how to defend himself, but this upsets Gabriel even further.) Michonne gets a cross look on her face as Carl explains how Gabriel needs to prepare for the outside world. Beth and Dawn and one of her officers are all cross with each other, arguing over keeping Carol hooked up to machines. And while Tara’s over Eugene’s lie, Glenn’s not. Rosita explains that she and Abraham crossed paths in Dallas. The white-cross cars show up, the groups cross paths and mix it up, and Rick is still cross trying to figure out why Daryl’s speaking out against him. When Sasha inadvertently rips Bob’s shirt, she get so mad she throws things. And she’s cross with herself for not being able to be the one to put Bob down. When Gabriel attempts an escape from the church, he fights a walker and is ready to kill it until he sees the cross necklace the woman wore. And ultimately, Sasha is double-crossed by the cop Lamson, whom she’s trying to help.[x]

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Hellatus Rewatch 2015: Season 5 Episode 5– Self Help

If anyone sympathizes with Father Gabriel, it’s Eugene. They both acted cowardly to protect themselves, at the highest expense to others. The first thing Eugene says after the bus crashes is “The preacher…didn’t see another way out.” It’s at the forefront of his mind. He saw the way Team Family responded to Gabriel’s admission of guilt, and he’s not prepared to face that judgment. As Tara encourages Eugene to exit the bus, he states being brave isn’t voluntary. And it seems he believes that. That he doesn’t have a choice in the matter. But she insists it is, especially nowadays, as it’s the only option each of them have. To be brave. If not for oneself, then for someone else. To help someone out. Which is the exact thing Eugene is not doing. His actions up through the end of this episode are for him. To protect himself. But Tara’s words strike a chord within him, and by the time they’re on foot, at each others’ throats trying to determine which way to go, Eugene braves up. He admits his deceit. Takes the judgment, the punishment, the fall, for his cowardly ways. And starts to make the choice to be brave. Though it’s exhibited much later, he “cuts through the choice that might help somebody,” as Tara suggests. And it’s Tara whom he eventually saves. Which ultimately leads to him helping himself (self-help!) since the others are more inclined to protect and befriend him since he’s no longer only out for himself.[x]

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Hellatus Rewatch 2015: Season 5 Episode 4– Slabtown

One thing TWD does well is foreshadow and parallel storylines. Beth, in a strangely well-kept hospital, without her family but surrounded by weirdos, finds herself acquaintances with Dr. Edwards. While in his office, they listen to Junior Kinbrough’s “You Better Run,” which warns a girl about a man who’s going to attempt to rape her. It’s not long after this Beth realizes Officer Gorman wants to do just that. Dr. Edwards and Beth also discuss a Caravaggio painting, “The Denial of St. Peter,” and whether they can transcend. Much like the optimism of her father, Beth believes they can. There are two occurrences that hint at Beth’s death. First, the doctor tells Beth everyone has a job—a refrain Beth used multiple times while at the prison, a notion she got from Hershel—just before unceremoniously dropping a dead body down the elevator shaft. Second, and probably more telling, is something that occurs during Beth and Noah’s escape attempt. As Noah escapes through the fence, Beth, though still trapped, smiles because he’s free. Not only is this reminiscent of Hershel smiling at all of the progress Rick’s made under his tutelage, just before the Governor beheads him (OWWWWWIEEEE!), but both Greenes’ are trapped behind gates with their enemies with little to no chance of escape or rescue. Beth’s always been most like Hershel, and this parallel clues us in to her upcoming demise. [x]

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Hellatus Rewatch 2015: Season 5 Episode 3– Four Walls and a Roof

Just after Rick keeps his promise to Gareth and kills him with the red-handled machete, Father Gabriel emerges from his study to witness the slaughter’s aftermath. He proclaims the church the Lord’s house. When Maggie responds, “No. It’s just four walls and a roof,” it appears she’s lost her faith. However, later in the season we see her offering forgiveness to Father Gabriel and praying with those who’re struggling the most. Her meaning is more location-based than faith-based. The building isn’t what makes a place sacred. The church had already been the haunt of the parishioners who’d come there seeking refuge and solace, only to be locked out. Left to die. It had become Father Gabriel’s tomb, a prison of his own making, with remnants of the shepherd he should’ve been on every wall. It’s the place Team Family thought they could catch a respite, only to discover that Daryl and Carol are missing, that Bob was kidnapped, that he’d die there, that it’d be a place of armageddon, a battle to the death against their rivals, their enemies. Regardless of its purpose, of what it had previously been, to Maggie the church was no longer a holy place. It hadn’t been for a long time.[x]

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Hellatus Rewatch 2015: Season 5 Episode 2– Strangers

Meeting Father Gabriel and being surrounded by religious symbolism gives biblical insight into the TWD world and the featured characters. As she struggles with the decisions she’s made, Carol skims Gabriel’s journal of Exodus with the worlds “THOU SHALL NOT KILL” emphasized in large block letters, what she sees as a condemnation. Glenn, the humanitarian always willing to go out of his way to save people, sees Galatians 6:9 on the wall, which reads “And let us not grow weary of doing good. For in due season we will reap if we do not give up.” The verse over the church’s front archway is John 6:54: “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.” This is a particularly disturbing verse since Team Family has just escaped Terminus. Michonne sees childrens’ drawings of baby Moses being sent down the Nile and the 40 years of desert wandering; this seems appropriate, as she lost her child in the wanderings since the Turn and has semi-adopted Carl and Judith, much like Moses was adopted and raised by Pharoh’s sister. Daryl stops to look at a picture of the Last Supper, a fitting analogy of the end of the episode where everyone’s drinking the communion wine and having a last supper together before they’re divided—which leads to the revelation that one has betrayed the group and one will die. The verses posted at the front of the church all speak of the dead rising:

Romans 6:4 – We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

Ezekiel 37:7 – So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone.

Malachi 27:52 – The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

Revelation 9:6 – During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.

Luke 24:5 – In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them “Why do you look for the living among the dead?”

And finally, Tara confesses to being with the Governor, coming clean with Maggie, who absolves her of her crime, offering forgiveness and acceptance into their Family. None of these illustrations give us new information about Team Family, but they do offer biblical parallels, which we haven’t seen since Hershel-days at the prison.[x]

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Hellatus Rewatch 2015: Season 4 Episode 16– A

Let’s discuss Daryl. As he’s about to leave the Claimers, he changes his mind, which allows him to find Rick, Michonne, and Carl. He knows the kind of men he’s traveling with, and when he discovers they want to kill Rick, he offers himself as a substitute. Daryl LOVES his family with everything he has, and there’s nothing he wouldn’t do for them. He’s willing to die to keep the others alive because he knows Rick has Carl and Lil Asskicker and Michonne. He doesn’t have the family Rick does, but they are his family. Daryl feels he owes Rick an explanation for why he was with the Claimers. His guilt is obvious, but Rick absolves him of it. Daryl needs to hear his choice to stay with the Claimers doesn’t negate him from being the man Team Family has come to know him as. Daryl needs to reaffirm Rick too. Daryl sees the people he loves, the good, the bad, the ugly, the inhumane, the compassionate, the loving, the brutal, and he accepts them in all their messiness. We’ve seen Rick have a hard time accepting what he believes is the darker side of Carol, so much so that he banishes/abandons her. Rick knows there’s brutality living in him and is coming to accept it like he wasn’t ready to do at the prison. But Daryl has always seen both ends of the spectrum in each of them and this doesn’t change the way he views them as people or his love for them as his family. Daryl told Rick that Carol “not being sorry” was “her, but that ain’t her.” Facing the brutality that Rick has just exhibited, he tells him “that ain’t you.” He understands it’s a part of him, a part of all of them, but that doesn’t define them in his eyes. He sees them, even these ugly parts, and loves them unconditionally. Perhaps Rick starts to learn his forgiveness of the darkness from his brother Daryl. [x]

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Hellatus Rewatch 2015: Season 4 Episode 15– Us

This episode requires Glenn, Tara, and Daryl to choose sides between them and “us.” Abraham wants Glenn and Tara on board their mission, but Glenn wants to continue his search for Maggie. Tara relentlessly follows him, and now Eugene, though not because he’s a particularly great person, decides to side with Glenn and circumnavigates Abraham and Rosita to do so. Once the members of Team Family are reunited, Bob, Sasha, Glenn, and Maggie then recruit Team Washington to go to Terminus with them, allying themselves together further and creating a new “us” group that won’t soon be broken. Team Family is slowly merging back together, becoming an “us” again, and adding members to their numbers. For all that Joe thinks Daryl’s one of “us,” he refuses to play by their claimed rules. He’s with them, but he’s not one of them, disgusted by their ridiculous rules and brutality. Daryl knows the group’s not for him, even though Joe tries his hardest to convince him otherwise, analogizing that he’s an outdoor cat attempting an indoor life. The alliance Joe tries to make with Daryl is loose at best, though he seems to think Daryl’s some kindred spirit of his. While Joe uses the phrase “us” multiple times to try to convince Daryl he’s part of their group, he’s the one member of Team Family who least has an “us” at the moment. The groups are at crossroads, literally—at a terminal for travel—and make decisions that’ll alter their courses and alliances, which will ultimately decide the “us” for everyone. [x]

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Hellatus Rewatch 2015: Season 4 Episode 14– The Grove

It’s no secret Tyreese and Carol don’t adhere to traditional gender role characteristics, and this episode juxtaposes them in a complimentary fashion. Tyreese, the tall, muscular, bear of a man prefers a quiet, gentle touch and abhors violence. He struggles to reign in his rage and quell the destruction he knows he can cause with his bare hands. His gentility, his humanity, contradicts his physical appearance and upset society’s view of masculinity. Carol is feminine, with a toned but slight frame and leadership qualities to rival, if not far surpass, every male on this show. She’s a woman of strategic action, and though she feels things deeply—straight to her core—she doesn’t allow emotion to prevent her from doing what needs to be done. She’s maternal but not weak; emotional but intelligent; flawed but loveable; and badass but feminine. Carol makes the emotionally riveting decisions and carries them out while Tyreese watches from afar. Ty encourages Carol in a way usually reserved for female-to-female conversations. He initiates a hug, the intimacy in their conversations, and talks about his dreams and emotions. Carol teaches the girls how to fight and hunt, and encourages them to become hard enough to survive, a role usually fulfilled by fathers; Ty stays at the house, baby-sitting and nurturing the girls in a way often fulfilled by mothers. Neither of these characters are ‘less than’ for tapping into these non-traditional but very real aspects of humanity, but they compliment one another as a unit, and together they act as parental figures for the girls. Their interactions are also much more even-keeled than when at the prison. When Ty and Carol get water from the well, a scene that parallels Carol and Rick at the water pump, Ty talks with Carol, not at her. He doesn’t tell her what they’re going to do; he simply discusses the options with her. They’re a team: when they talk about staying, when they talk about leaving, and when they decide what to do about Lizzie. It’s not ideal, particularly for Carol. But Ty and Carol’s breaking of society’s gender standards are laudable, for both remain complex characters that elicit sympathy and love and an abundance of tears.[x]

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Hellatus Rewatch 2015: Season 4 Episode 13 – Alone

I love that many women are portrayed as strong leaders and not at each other’s throats the way that men leaders are. For Maggie, Sasha, and Bob, Maggie takes the lead on their path, and Bob follows. Sasha disagrees with Maggie’s reasoning for traveling to Terminus, and so she tries to get Bob to agree with her. This makes Bob the deciding factor, but the women aren’t pitted against each other, nor are they irrational. They both have logical and legitimate reasons for their decisions. And Bob doesn’t take the lead and make others follow him like Shane, Rick, or the Governor. The women fight together, protect each other, depend on each other, and admit they need each other. They exemplify bravery and strength. Bob and Sasha have the same type of conversation that Daryl and Beth had in the previous episode. Bob confront Sasha about her fear that Tyreese is dead, and Sasha adamantly responds that she’s not afraid, which blatantly reveals that she is. Daryl’s fear, too, is that everyone is gone, regardless of the fact he states he’s not afraid of anything. Sasha’s confounded by Bob’s upbeat outlook, and he explains it’s because he’s not alone. Ironically, that’s the episode title, and for a while everyone featured in this episode is alone. Maggie takes off alone, Bob follows after Maggie without Sasha, Sasha is left alone because she won’t go after Maggie, Beth runs out of the funeral home thinking Daryl will meet her, and for hours Daryl chases after the car that kidnapped Beth. But Sasha, while trying to get Bob to stay with her, says he doesn’t have to be alone again, to which he responds, “I won’t be.” Team Family’s given him a new outlook. Before the walkers storm the funeral parlor, Daryl suggests they wait for the people to return and make it work. All of them are seeking community, family, and the absence of being alone. Though Maggie knows Sasha believes everyone from the prison is dead, she tells Sasha she can’t search for Glenn alone. They all need each other. They need to not be alone. And yet Daryl’s alone. With the Claimers. Ouch.[x]