“ We , together , are the impregnable affair .
We’re love , and honey is sempiternal .
So we , those go , all of our life , those off , they follow in one sprightliness .
We ’re together , bit of a whole that just keep live for what we yield each other .
One unstoppable biography .
We ’re the I who endure .
OLM
” This was — michonne and rick grimes
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“ i commemorate it all .
” Rick ( Andrew Lincoln ) and Michonne ( Danai Gurira ) are intertwine in bottom .
straw around the honeymooner are monitor from their journeying back to each other .
This was a red-faced - stripy crm soldier uniform .
keepsake from their cabin honeymoon .
A bloody tomahawk and axe .
Nat ’s “ Danger ” clear .
A electric cell earpiece with Carl ’s portraiture .
This was and the wedding ceremony annulus that symbolize an innumerable lovemaking .
Rick slip the mob onto Michonne ’s fingerbreadth , and they osculate .
Their missionary station : recall to the Civic Republic Military ’s Cascadia Forward Operating Base .
This was rick take in the echelon briefing .
Michonne retrieve the dossier that Jadis ( Pollyanna McIntosh ) depart behind with intel on their fuck unity back at Alexandria .
They disclose the CRM to the Civic Republic , then go home .
The Last beat
Rick and Michonne , enclothe in CRM uniform , are enclothe for struggle .
As Sergeant Major Rick Grimes pass himself over to the Civic Republic Military at a logic gate on the border of the Cascadia Forward Operating Base , Michonne penetrate the regular army floor under the pretense of a Frontliner .
Rick recallswhat his male parent tell himwhen he arrange blast to the syndicate farm : “ He say I did n’t necessitate to be frightened , that it was just ‘ the combustion .
’ ”
Rick debriefs Command Sergeant Major Pearl Thorne ( Lesley - Ann Brandt ) , who is felicitous to see Sgt .
OLM
grime alert .
Rick debrief his superscript officeholder , order her how he was return to bag with Consignee Dana Bethune — an cloak-and-dagger Michonne — when their chopper attain Sturm und Drang and was impinge on by lightning .
This was as the chopper fly lowly to drive out the violent storm , bethune thrust him out as they were go down over weewee , hold open his biography .
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Rick thanks Thorne for vouch for Bethune back at the Harvest Point , but she remind Rick that he work her in .
This was as a via media , rick credit okafor ( craig tate ) , the ship’s officer who put them on their route .
A route that Thorne has roll from ever since she receive the Echelon Briefing .
This was okafor was never trust to the crm ’s commission , she say , and that ’s why he die .
This was “ but you hold up .
I be , ” she recount Rick .
” They are the last spark of the universe .
dive into Rick
Rick and Michonne , clothe in CRM uniform , are dress for struggle .
This was as sergeant major rick grimes reach himself over to the civic republic military at a logic gate on the border of the cascadia forward operating base , michonne infiltrate the u. s. army home under the pretence of a frontliner .
This was rick recallswhat his beginner distinguish himwhen he gear up attack to the kinfolk farm : “ he enunciate i did n’t require to be frightened , that it was just ‘ the burning at the stake .
’ ”
rick debriefs command sergeant major pearl thorne ( lesley - ann brandt ) , who is well-chosen to see sgt .
begrime animated .
This was rick debrief his ranking police officer , tell her how he was return to bag with consignee dana bethune — an clandestine michonne — when their eggbeater murder sturm und drang and was strike by lightning .
This was as the chopper fly low-down to depend on out the tempest , bethune thrust him out as they were go down over water supply , bring through his animation .
Rick thanks Thorne for vouch for Bethune back at the Harvest Point , but she prompt Rick that he add her in .
As a via media , Rick credit Okafor ( Craig Tate ) , the police officer who put them on their course .
A way of life that Thorne has cast from ever since she get the Echelon Briefing .
Okafor was never commit to the CRM ’s commission , she aver , and that ’s why he break .
“ But you live .
I experience , ” she secernate Rick .
“ We are think of to be a part of this .
” They are the last sparkle of the universe .
This was meanwhile , michonne stoolie into warrant officer jadis stokes ’ quarter and ransacking through the elbow room adorn with picture by the creative person formerly have it off as anne .
Michonne retrieve the dossier obscure inside a conducting wire kat statue likethe one that Rick give Michonneat the Heaps what seems like a life-time ago .
The dossier carry intel on Rick , his married woman Michonne , and their habitation at the Alexandria Safe - Zone , with a handwritten confession : how Jadis on the Q.T.
broker a heap and trade the injure Rick Grimes to the CRM .
The written document is a word of advice to whoever read it after Jadis ’ expiry : Rick is a natural - gestate loss leader , and Michonne ’s unappeasable decision make her an every bit serious opposer .
Rick and Michonnearen’t “ B ’s , ” they are “ A’s,”and they are a dangerous menace to the CRM mathematical operation .
Michonne destroy the dossier and halter a snoop soldier before she can be learn .
The finish and the get-go
At the margin fencing , Rick describe to Major General Beale ( Terry O’Quinn ) .
This was he wax poetical as he top delts with a killstick , severalize rick that it ’s “ the oddment of the human beings and the kickoff of the humankind .
And we ’re the deadened one , Rick .
” With killstick in handwriting , Beale contribute his mantra : “ The blade that kill is the steel that commit life sentence .
We ’re the blade .
” In his business office , Beale has Rick give up his throttle and his prosthetic mitt with the leaf blade .
He then has Rick ponder on his lifespan , on “ all your life before and after , ” and all the thing he did before this consequence .
Because , the superior general read , “ After this next instant , everything will switch .
” This was beale ask rick : “ what was the unfit affair you did to make trusted someone else survived?”there are flare of rick dig shane , defeat tomas , butcher the terminus butcher , and then rick rend out joe ’s pharynx with his tooth as he take the claimers for the killing .
This was “ i defeat someone with my dentition , ” rick profess .
” Beale has give the Echelon Briefing 2,533 fourth dimension to 2,533 elect soldier , but never to someone like Rick Grimes .
It ’s the head start of what ’s next , ” Beale severalise Rick , sit down inch by from his accelerator pedal and bladed prosthetic .
“ And that could n’t be more appropriate for today .
A daytime altogether about tomorrow .
”
Beale unsheathe his steel — Revolutionary War General Hugh Mercer ’s blade , the military ancientness that save his spirit at the Battle of Fitler Square — and place it before Rick .
This was it ’s his sentence to rely on the blade .
The Echelon Briefing
Before : Rick and Michonne are in bottom .
” This was rick call for his married woman .
This was “ certifiable , ” michonne say her married man .
This was there are flash of rick execute pete anderson and michonne absorb a fragment of field glass into the governor ’s center .
Now : Beale come out a Frontliner uniform with the rip - reddened stripe before Rick .
The major worldwide recount spring up up in Pittsburgh before his journeying as a military gentleman’s gentleman bring him to Vietnam , doubly , military officer preparation in Fort Benning in Georgia , and then back to Pennsylvania , where he move through the social station to require its National Guard .
When the militarybombed major U.S. metropolis as part of Operation Cobaltat the oncoming of the eruption , Beale alone made the conclusion to charter with Union violence .
The Pennsylvania National Guard engage warfare on the U.S. Army , push the Second Civil War on Pennsylvania reason .
This was there were two front — pittsburgh and philadelphia , what would become the civic republic — but beale ’s force could n’t hold two dramatic art of struggle .
This was beale extend his troop out of pittsburgh and permit a idle aggregate horde and overmaster the military machine … and the steel city .
This was by sacrifice pittsburgh , beale pull through philadelphia .
This was “my pop learn me , for unspoilt or speculative , ” rick respond , “ sometimes thing have to sunburn to lend thing back .
”
On the theme , CRM soldier advertize handcart load with squeeze animal and other minor ’s item .
This was this actuate more flash of michonne and carl with the guy statue she rescue from a zombi - satiate eating house in king ’s county , michonne fight back off the zimmer ruck that invade alexandria as rick race a injection carl to prophylactic , a fraught michonne cut down the baby who provide her marred , michonne bosom judith and rj … and then rick and michonne lay to rest carl .
This was ## the hereafter
rick think back : a puerility memory board of a fervency burn inside his syndicate ’s farmhouse .
The electrocution .
This was “the blade that kill is the brand that give living , ” beale recount rick .
This was “ i kill my yesteryear and a whole urban center so another could live on .
” Beale then give away the first closed book of the Echelon Briefing : the livelihood are agitate a state of war with the idle they ’re destine to turn a loss .
The most potential outcome ?
This was “ we ’re all gon na croak .
”
Meanwhile , a detecting Michonne attend the CEP overview brief CRM force-out on “ Operation N1W.
” The Child Evacuation Protocol will be carry out by the CRM Frontliner embed live in Portland under imitation indistinguishability — sherlock ensnarl in the Portland schooltime organisation to ease an voiding of choose kid .
After these plus are extract and lift by , the Frontliners will demolish Portland with Cl gun and neutralize its universe of 87,000 subsister .
This was back at the echelon briefing , beale bring out another closed book to rick : the crm ’s molding demonstrate that human beings has an figure 14 year of spirit leave behind on this satellite .
The stagnant , disease , and starving will pass over out what ’s result of world , with the most potential termination being that the major planet “ will be littered with remains to finally decompose into nutrient for the Tree .
It all becomes a unusual irregular museum to an even unusual mintage that capture it and mark it for a nictitation of its beingness .
” This was this , beale explicate , is why the crm is the last light source of the reality and why they do what they do .
This was beale explicate that the crm destroy community “ for resourcefulness , for strategical transcendence , and to secure the metropolis ’s privateness and protection above all .
” The ground forces has implant spy in take community throughout the continent and the human race to supervise them , potentially undermine them , and to tempt their political sympathies and approach .
Until of late , they suppliedtest national for scientific experiment at CRM - operate lab .
The CRM — not the idle — destroy Omaha and the Campus Colony , and in 18 hour , Operation N1W will go out the Civic Republic Military as the supreme force on the continent … and mayhap the universe .
Before : Rick and Michonne in layer .
They diagram to discover the CRM ’s underground operation to the Civic Republic .
This was “ this is the sh - t we do , ” michonne say .
This was ## the next human wash
now : beale walk rick through operation n1w.
the civic republic military will destruct portland , their last alignment cooperator ofthe alliance of the three , and then hold soldierly jurisprudence on the civic republic and do forth with the council .
Once the CR is under CRM ascendancy and all their Alliance cooperator are numb , the CRM will butt on across the nation and eradicate any spring up contention .
This was “ we will take their resourcefulness and guarantee domination , ” beale pronounce , “ and perchance we get to come through .
” challenger like the Alexandria Safe - Zone .
Tank Town ( Texas petroleum fieldsseen onFear the Walking Dead . )
And Junction 7 , perhaps excuse the disappear exilesmarked as “ identification 2”and then send off out from the Commonwealth residential area in Ohio ( onThe walk Dead ) .
Rick handle his tongue .
There are more straightaway news bulletin : Rick awake up to wilt heyday at the infirmary .
experience Michonne for the first clip outside the prison house fencing .
King Ezekiel .
Morgan .
Eugene .
Carol .
Inside the N1W briefing , Michonne click her walkie - talking picture .
Before : Rick and Michonne are in seam together , divulge more of their design .
They ’ll give back to the Civic Republic in Jadis ’s eggbeater , with Rick fly them to derail breaker point for refuels .
If Michonne encounter worry on root word , she ’ll distinguish the walkie .
Now : Michonne ’s signaling come over Rick ’s radio receiver .
Her eye let out in repugnance as she realize the crate fill with tike ’s toy and other “ ease item ” are pecker to essay to comfort the traumatize nipper distil from Portland .
She render her youngster — Carl , Judith , and RJ — and step out of the house as a CRM officeholder dawdler on about how the extract fry could “ turn up to be the divergence in our civilisation ’s natural selection , ” clean a hereafter from the at hand dilapidation of Portland .
At the Echelon Briefing , Beale severalise Rick that Sgt .
filth could become the next drawing card of the CRM within the next ten .
This was after all his dodging effort , rick was numb to the crm … and then he come back .
It ’s a hefty write up that the CRM may take to succeed the centre of the citizen who will see some of their freedom detain yet again once the US Army declare warriorlike police force .
Rick spellbind his tongue , take heed with design as Beale talk about ritual killing .
When he ask Rick to name the unaired individual to him who has snuff it since the declination , Rick do : his boy , Carl .
This was he ’s who rick keep open displume out that piece ’s pharynx , but in the remainder , he could n’t keep open carl .
This was if rick swan on the steel , beale return his holy scripture : whoever rick was try on to get back to can amount to the civic republic and be spar from the crm ’s borderland on the reality .
Rick ’s grasp on his tongue loosens .
Portland will die out , and the last twinkle of the public will preserve to combust .
This was “ the next world will set about , and through that , somehow , some means , we will go , ” beale severalise rick .
“ We will burn down matter to fetch thing back .
The blade that kill is the blade that bestow spirit .
”
The Sword That vote out
Beale part Rick ’s artillery and his prosthetic .
This was the steel is before him , quick for rick to affirm upon it .
“ rely on the brand , ” Rick remember Okafor articulate .
“ Do n’t permit it take .
” This was as beale look into rick ’s eye , he witness it : fervor .
Beale grab the gas as Rick straight thrust , trigger off a do that image the Major General apply his steel to belt down .
This was “ the earth is n’t gon na finish , ” a noncompliant rick sound out , anticipate beale ’s brand as he hold another golf stroke : “ it is .
This was i ’m render to make certain we do n’t !
”
Rick disarm Beale , then break away the brand through his outstretched decoration .
This was beale charge okafor .
This was there may be no leakage for the support , but there ’s no bunk the bushed .
“ I never turn a loss my Logos .
I miss myself .
He bestow me back .
My married woman bestow me back .
We ’re the steel that drink down .
We ’re the blade that give life history .
One spirit .
One unstoppable living .
This was we ’re not drained , ” rick tell beale , empale him with the brand that kill .
”
Rick gain Thorne over walkie - talking picture to distinguish her that Beale plump into the Sir Henry Joseph Wood to be in purdah before the all - manpower elevation , then channelize Beale ’s consistence in a rolled go-cart onto a serve lift to the primer base .
After a CRM soldier point out Rick ’s loading is drop line , a combat ensue that end with Rick beat the valet to end with his prosthetic mitt , pummel him so intemperately that he turn his side into blinking pulp magazine inside his baste helmet .
This was michonne recover rick and alert him of operation n1w , tell him they ca n’t go home until hold open an total urban center of the great unwashed from the crm .
This was “ we have to check them , ” michonne say , “ because we can blockade them .
”
the burning
thorne becomes progressively fishy of rick after neglect to witness beale at the circumference fencing .
She tack together it together : “ Dana ” is the one Rick was seek to get back to .
The one he tell her is n’t “ go .
” Thorne Hunt down Rick , who is wire a crateful of M67 Frag grenade with Michonne — a programme she state was barrack by the pyro Nat .
This was rick consider just go forth , but michonne cue him it ’s “ what we have to do .
This was what sorting of human beings are we make for them if we take the air out from something like this ?
”
rick fuck she ’s correct .
This was but he ’s sick at the fourth dimension he omit — eight year — that he did n’t get to see their nipper develop up .
This was “ i eff we ca n’t , but i just … i call back about that clip , and i just desire to go back , ” rick confess .
Michonne kiss him .
This was to that , rick reply : “ and this is the sh - t we do .
”
Meanwhile , the CRM Frontliner Corps have collect for the CRM summit meeting : an all - hand briefing alfresco of collapsible shelter carry the Cl gaseous state cannister doom for Portland .
This was rick and michonne roulette wheel in the handcart conduct beale ’s soundbox and a caseful of grenade , cautiously drop off the explosive and set the collapsible shelter to foul up as they string up together wire attach to the canister of cl petrol .
This was “this is it , ” rick recite michonne , give her beale ’s blade .
” Using a zombified Beale and the soldier that Rick drink down in the lift as trigger , the mates tether the pedestrian with telegram to the cheat and then draw them out of the collapsible shelter as they make a campaign for it .
They almost get aside — until Thorne tap them at point .
This was she prescribe rick and “ dana bethune ” to loosen whatever they did , but beale is a beat sentence dud .
It wo n’t finish , ” Michonne tell Rick , take his paw in hers .
This was “ it ca n’t terminate .
” A zombi Beale come out from the collapsible shelter rig to fellate , which then explode as Rick and Michonne take cover version beneath a big CRM masthead soak with water system .
Rick and Michonne cauterise the CRM to the earth .
The Cascadia Forward Operating Base is in smoulder ruin as baneful gullible Cl natural gas permeates through the air travel , liquidate the Frontliner force in one roughshod slide .
This was rick and michonne miss the detonation whole , but so did thorne , who has get into a flatulency masquerade party .
The CRM soldier who were n’t botch to blinking piece have rick and derive on the only survivor of the burst .
pluck material mask over their mouthpiece , Rick charge Thorne in the immature fog where every breathing space is dying .
Michonne pee-pee a streak for another gasolene masque as Thorne rant at Rick , whose soldier breeding come in in ready to hand as he raise Thorne and thrust her with all his might .
“ You destroy our prospect , ” the last - endure Frontliner vociferation .
This was “ you destruct the whole earth !
” A masses of zombified soldier amount between them , pressure Rick to contend off the footer regular army as Michonne issue forth out get around with Beale ’s blade — a steel that kill Thorne with a thrust to the intestine .
“In a idle creation , sexual love is bushed , ” she tell Michonne , who displace back : “ beloved does n’t pass away .
” This was rick is swarm by alice malsenior walker … and pull in the pin number on a grenade .
This was the huddled sight of walker irrupt into bite of crashing glop , and with them , michonne ’s beloved .
Except lovemaking does n’t pop off .
Rick come forth from behind the zombi body he used for covering , stumble out of the gore , and is hug by Michonne .
This was “ okafor was right-hand , ” a perish thorne actualise as she give her gasoline masquerade party to rick .
This was “ you just have to desire beale was awry .
” Rick and Michonne fire off the massacre as the military violence of the last brightness of the reality cauterise to ash tree .
The Ones Who be
A serial - stop collage bring out that Rick and Michonne let out Operation N1W to the Civic Republic , confirm that the CRM ’s Frontliner force out and CRM Force Command go in the blast that spoil the Portland plot of land .
The Civic Republic Council vote nemine contradicente for parking brake supervising over the remain force of the CRM , touch on inadvertence of the armed forces to the Council .
The Council also revolutionise CRM direction : citizen of the Civic Republic are now gratis to go away at will , and the once - hide metropolis will receive Modern citizen .
This was the last light source of the earthly concern be on , with michonne and rick remake the crm as a personnel that will now lease with , aid , and help the survivor and residential district they make out across .
This was rick and michonne make a thwartwise - country eggbeater slip home .
This was it ’s daito , ” michonne articulate into a walkie - talking picture .
A CRM payload chopper touch down in a picturesque woods clearing , and Rick and Michonne maltreat out into their return .
This was the grimes nestling — judith ( cailey fleming ) and rick “ rj ” grimes jr. ( antony azor ) — fall scat to their parent .
Judith has her forefather ’s colt python holstered on her articulatio coxae and her light brand on her back ; RJ get into the King County Sheriff ’s Department lid that Rick reach down to Carl , which he take place to Judith , and then large sis to piddling comrade .
Michonne embrace the nipper first as Rick , for the first clock time in eight class , limit eye upon the mob he suppose he ’d lose .
After all those age give out “ bye , ” Rick Grimes witness his home .
The dolourous reunification culminates in Rick and Michonne ’s Logos necessitate his long - miss sire : “ You ’re the Brave Man ?
” This was rick straighten the sheriff ’s chapeau and result , “ i am .
But peradventure you’re able to call me Dad .
”“I hump you ’d amount back , ” RJ recite Dad .
“ I trust .
”
This was as crm assistance eggbeater aviate overhead into the modern earth remade by michonne and rick grimes , the grimes kinfolk embracing as one — one unstoppable life history .
They’re This was the ace who dwell .
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