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He's in charge. (Apparently just barely, though.)

I get the sense that the Savior middle management don't get to select their staffs.

My problem with that theory is that Morgan asked Richard if he had told Ezekiel. We know that Richard had told Morgan he would confess to being behind the shopping carts and the missing melon. Morgan would NOT have expected Richard to tell Ezekiel about a mutually agreed-upon murder/sacrifice because Ezekiel would

I think Shiva has his number.

I think the scene prior to the credits was a sequence jump to the end — that final cantaloupe delivered the next day.

But Richard had been preaching war and Morgan had been preaching peace. Even to the end, Morgan couldn't advocate for going to war; he left that to Carol to handle. Add that to the fact that Ezekiel likely was aware of Richard's good intentions and weakness of character, and I think he understood what had gone down.

Nothing wrong with that. I'm glad Lizzie didn't.

I think that's what we were supposed to think. "Who the hell cares about 12 cantaloupes?" It shows how controlling and aggressive the Saviors are. Anyone who has been in an abusive relationship knows how the smallest failure can be turned into reason to be violently attacked, and it will all be their fault.

The telling note there is Morgan asking Richard if he had come clean with Ezekiel. Richard said that he had not, and Morgan realized that that had been an empty promise.

I thought this was an excellent episode, and an odd but good fit with "Say Yes." By this point, there is no one left (except for very young children like Judith) who hasn't experienced personal loss and trauma. How does one deal with that? Richard sees a bigger picture but, like Rosita and Sasha, he's impatient.

Michonne paused again as they were searching the bodies in the grassy area. No real evidence but I thought that was why; the body she was near seemed quite small.

So which is it?

If he suspected that the request for pills was a setup, he a) wouldn't want to admit he couldn't make the pills, and b) would want Negan to believe that Eugene has his back. (We don't know for sure that what he made was lethal, but we know for a fact that he wants others to believe they are.)

I think you have to look at what people (characters) do, rather than what they say or how they react.

I was looking forward to the Carol/Daryl reunion not because I'm a shipper, but because I think they are played by excellent actors, and their characters' back stories are believable and compelling. And they didn't disappoint. But that whole bizzarro Scavengers episode threw their reunion into higher relief. We

Romero didn't use "zombies," he called them "ghouls." So it might be an inside tribute to Romero to not call them "zombies" (which were, in earlier lore and movies, the living who were under the control of others).

Fitting, though.

One reviewer noted that their bond goes way back and is largely based on that fact that they were both abused. To expand on that, I'll say that they grew into their heroic, take-no-prisoners identities later — but that, to each other, their bond will always be defined as the kinship of victims. They understand each