Negan and Rick clash as war breaks out.
In the morning, Negan brings a pancake breakfast, complete with a blueberry smiley face, for Sasha.
(We’ll get to which little birdie in a moment.)
As he rides off to execute the deed, Daryl promises Rick vengeance if he’s lying.
Punishment, he says, is a necessity that “built everything we have.”
The sun is hanging over the church steeple when Jadis and her junkyard crew enter Alexandria.
But the threat of Negan’s little birdie still looms.
Rick is choked up to hear his former friend now asking them to submit or face death.
When they die, he says, it should be for someone else; it should mean something.
Another flashback, this one from The Sanctuary, with Negan prepping for Alexandria.
Eugene gives Sasha the iPod for the road trip.
When Negan finally does launch the coffin, walker Sasha attacks him, inciting Rick’s group into action.
Gunfire erupts as Sasha is pulled off the tyrant before ravaging another Savior.
But remember those other forces on their way to Alexandria?
Elsewhere, Maggie and Jesus go off in search of the walker that once was Sasha.
The show previously honored his artwork witha “Wrightson” zombie, showrunner Greg Nicotero revealed in 2015.)
