The first scene opens, and here we go again with the suspiciously perky music! This time, the chippy music played as we followed the least chippy of them all: Carol.

I consistently am amazed by Carol and her ability to put everything aside and be the perfect homemaker, even though, deep down, she’s the wildest of the group. Carol is a resident badass, maybe even more so than Rick. Throughout the show, we’ve watched Carol go through many changes – there was the death of her daughter Sophia, her heartless murdering of Tyrese’s girlfriend and even controversially putting down a little girl. You might think that’s a lot, but these few tragedies are just the half of it! We now see Carol in a difficult place where she’s attempting to transform into a domesticated, wholesome and moral individual.

On the bright side of her confusing new life, Carol seems to have found herself a little main squeeze. This guy isn’t intimidated by her strength; in fact, he admires her for how strong she is. She’s keeping a record of the number of people she’s killed, allowing her to truly feel the weight of her actions. This was really surprising to me because Carol has always struck me as someone who does what needs to be done and permanently puts it in the past.

As if matters weren’t complicated enough, here comes Morgan badgering her about why she didn’t spill the beans about him holding the Wolf prisoner. I’m getting really tired of Morgan and his moral shenanigans! I assumed Carol was too, especially since she told Morgan that they moved past it and to stay quiet. Morgan let her know that staying quiet further makes it like she held the Wolf prisoner too, and those words obviously cut like a knife, because that conversation caused her morality to overflow throughout the episode.

Town meeting! Rick gathered the posse for a pow wow about invading Negan’s compound, a very risky move since they have no idea how many "Saviors" there are. Rick justified killing Negan and his Saviors, but wouldn’t go forth without the group’s approval. He invited objections, to which Morgan took advantage of. Morgan motioned to speak with Negan and his Saviors first before ambushing them because, "Where there’s life, there’s possibility." I believe that the cheesemaker gave him this noble quote, but it doesn’t apply to this situation – so Morgan needs to take several seats.

In the end, everyone agreed to the ambush and Rick told everyone that they don’t have to fight, but they have to accept what needs to be done. Only time will tell if Morgan will be able to comply. I chuckled at the idea of Rick going out of his way to have everyone add in their two cents, because we all know that Rick was going to go after the man whether anyone else liked it or not. Negan is a threat, and threats need to be eliminated to ensure survival. Rick’s attempt to include everyone in the decision makes him more trustworthy to the Alexandrians, which was a necessary move on his part seeing that he was their replacement leader. Let’s not forget that Rick once shot a man in the head point blank with no remorse, so he needs to ease into his authority position – we don’t want another Governor here!

Last week, we saw Abraham daydreaming about Sasha as he cuddled with Rosita. It seems that Abraham has decided to take action in the form of tragically leaving Rosita in the middle of the night. It was a bit painful to watch Abraham and Rosita’s dispute, especially when he told her straight up that he thought she was the last woman on earth when he met her but she’s not. Ouch. I get cutting ties before stringing someone any farther, but his way of breaking up with her would be absolutely traumatic to any woman. Rosita has been walking around believing that everything was kosher between her and Abraham, so I can only imagine what emotional damage this is causing her right now.

As for Abraham, what does he expect to happen now? He lives in the same neighborhood as Sasha AND Rosita; nothing good can come of this. Without further adieu, let’s have a moment of silence for Rosita’s ego and self-esteem.

Negan’s Saviors told the people of the Hilltop that they’d exchange their prisoner for Hilltop leader Gregory’s head. Rick and company won’t deliver Gregory’s head, but instead that of a lookalike’s. They found the perfect candidate, but the nose didn’t match Gregory’s, so Rick punched the sh*t out of the head to break its nose – problem solved. The guy from the Hilltop that’s going to guide them through the compound thought that Negan was scary, but Rick has nothing on him. I resent this comment a bit, especially since we see Rick making moves towards his humanity once more. Who are you, bro? You don’t know Rick’s life. You don’t know what Rick has been through – back off.

Soon-to-be baby daddy Glenn is partnered with original Alexandrian, Heath, a character that I’m pretty neutral about. As they hunted down heads to provide as Gregory’s double, they discussed the weight of taking another’s life. Glenn hasn’t committed murder before (let’s be honest about what they’re about to do), and he imagines it to be way worse than the most heartbreaking and sick feeling that he’s had thus far.

We see just how hard killing is for both Glenn and Heath later during their mission. Heath couldn’t even go through with it, so Glenn beared the burden of Heath’s kills. I feel like Glenn took over, not just because it needed to be done, but to somehow save Heath’s innocence. Furthermore, Glenn saw the sadistic tendencies of the Saviors firsthand with their collection of photos with people’s heads smashed in; that had to have made things a bit easier.

Heath hasn’t faced half of what Glenn has, so going from being innocent to murderous is a pretty substantial leap. It’s not like the Saviors were attacking them (that way it would be self-defense); they were in a nice slumber in their beds. Heath’s inexperience with this kind of death could cause him to go off the deep end if he went through with killing those men. Glenn’s decision was a noble one. Out of everyone, Glenn has managed to keep his humanity during the apocalypse. When the time comes for Glenn to lose his humanity, I already know that I’ll greet that moment with indifference, but mostly sadness.

Gabriel the coward also had his first kill this week. I found this scene to be highly disturbing, though. He quoted scripture to his victim right before blowing him away – immoral much? This brings up the question: "Is Gabriel still a priest?" Will he be able to separate his morals from his reality? It seems like he finally understands what needs to be done to survive, something that he wants above all else. His cowardice is attributed to him wanting to survive no matter the costs, so it’s interesting that he’s avoided killing all this time.

Maggie decided to go along with the group since she lead them into this predicament, and Carol was not happy about it. Carol was confused as to why Maggie was there in the first place – and I kind of share those feelings as well. It’s not like this was some food run, or even a sit-down with a leader; this is war. Personally, I don’t think Maggie should be taking such a risk while pregnant. I understand that she wanted to be there, but why risk your child’s life in an unsure battle?

Rick assigned Maggie as the sole person to guard the perimeter of the compound as they attacked, but Carol insisted on staying with Maggie. It seems as if Carol looks to Maggie to be the perfect, motherly homemaker of the group, a role that the Alexandrians believe belongs to Carol. Carol told Maggie that she’s supposed to be someone else; however, I’m not 100 percent sure what that means.

Rick and the posse massacred the Saviors and made it outside before Daryl spotted one of them on his beloved motorcycle. They shot him down (obviously), and just as they’re interrogating this guy, a voice appears on his walkie talkie. The unknown voice was that of a woman, who alerted them that she now had Maggie and Carol as her hostages. Just great. Now Rick is at the mercy of some heartless crazies – which is definitely NOT a good thing. I sure hope that both Maggie and Carol make it out of this unscathed.