The Walking Dead

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Thats a bit on the nose, given the Whisperers penchant for wearing the dead-flesh variety.

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Cue the montage of people drifting apart.

When Daryl tries to bring Carol some food, she wont open her bedroom door.

Magna and Yumiko get busy, but afterward, Magna seems distant, for reasons well learn later.

Even ol Earl knows damn well this isnt an accident its a message from the Whisperers.

Judith asks her mom if they could live alongside the Skins, as she calls them.

Never take your enemy at their word, Michonne says.

Measure them by their actions.

Seems like the kid is right.

So while Hilltop scrambles to repair the fence, some folks at A-Town are low-key preparing for war.

Daryl fits that description, too.

Then theres Zeke, who is so depressed that he nearly hurls himself into a ravine.

(Out here, most ride-or-die relationships end in the latter.)

Im feeling confident that a Michonne-Zeke-Carol love triangle will thankfully not happen.

Mom cant help but smile, and really, isnt this what family is all about?

Two critical scenes set the stage for next week and beyond.

Something is certain to go wrong with this strategy.

So Gabe does what any inspirational leader would he sleeps on it.

Thanks for the anticlimax, G-man.

(Maybe if she saw what Negan did to Glenns head, Lydia wouldnt be such a fangirl.)

Luke joins her, but lets face it, hes just hoping to get laid.

As it all winds down, that damn song plays again.

Carol looks to the horizon pensively as Daryl scrubs Silence the Whisperers off of his front door.