Abraham tried not to stare in awe, when the pilot flew into the opening, on the side of what looked to be some kind of mountain, then landed in a lot full of helicopters! Once things were silent, Abraham knocked the pilot out with the butt of his gun, then opened the door, calling out for help!
"Help! The pilot passed out! I'm lucky we didn't crash!"
Medical personnel came to get the man, and Abraham knew it would only be a matter of time before they could see that he had a blow to the back of the head. As he was taken away, Ethan Burke appeared. Abraham looked at him with new eyes. His cousin had planned on marrying Michonne off to this...this...
"Where is Dr. Pilcher and Pam?" Ethan asked, interrupting Abraham's morbid thoughts. "And I thought you were bringing back someone sick?"
Abraham slowly closed the door.
"Pilcher is dead. He said something that someone didn't like."
Ethan looked him up and down.
"What the hell do you mean he's dead? Where's Pam?"
"Still there. The people went crazy and kept her hostage."
"The people? You mean 'your people' that Michonne and you have been living with all of this time? They just up and killed Dr. Pilcher for no reason? You couldn't protect your cousin?"
"Hey!" Abraham snapped. "They were on edge about the Governor! And Pam outright admitted that he had been her husband. I thought things would be fine. I left them to go and pack. I go back to see to them and shooting started. Hell, I took one in the ass, see?"
Ethan eyed the wound that Abraham insisted on showing him. It looked as if it had been seen to.
"So walk me through this whole thing. Because now we have to go an invade your old homestead, just to get Pam back."
"Invade?" Abraham asked uneasily. "There's no call for that. Cousin David was just a mistake. A misunderstanding."
Ethan nodded and Abraham was surrounded by guards.
"You can walk me through the misunderstanding, that took the only two people that know how to run this place worth a damn." Ethan told him. He watched as Abraham was taken away and shook his head. How the hell did he tell ANYONE the news that David Pilcher was dead?
Then again, he didn't know Abraham worth a damn. He would get a team together and see proof of Pilcher's death...
A security worker ran up to him!
"Sheriff Burke! Pam Pilcher is calling on her emergency communication watch. She wants to talk to you."
Ethan nodded and hurried after the worker, until he reached a room with a large screen. Pam's face filled it. She looked like she was behind bars.
"What's happening?" Ethan asked.
"David is dead. My cousin killed him from what I can tell. The others locked me up for safe keeping. Or so they said."
Damn! Ethan thought. But at least Pam was alive. She was as good as Pilcher's right hand person.
"I've got a tactical team ready to come and get you and imprison the others."
"No. Abraham did this and he should be the only one to pay. I think he freaked when David revealed his plans for Michonne and you. Did he make it back?"
"Yes and he's locked up now."
"Let him out. Let him think he's going to have a happy life with Michonne. I don't want anything done until I get back. Then, Abraham Ford will be reckoned. That is the only way to take care of this."
Ethan saw that a few people had been listening. He looked back at the screen.
"Okay. Well you still have to be rescued."
"No. People here think Michonne needs to be rescued. I'm going to bring them here by ground vehicle. There are some people here that I think would stay." Pam said.
"Alright. I'll lay low on Abraham until his reckoning." Ethan said. Pam cut off communications. He turned to the few employees that heard the conversation.
"As you can tell, Pam would like this kept quiet. Until Dr. Pilcher's murderer is brought to justice. No one can know he is dead, got that?"
The employees nodded, but many were already shedding tears.
Megan unlocked Michonne's cell and let her out. Michonne slowly walked out while Megan sat on the corner of the secretary's desk.
"I am sorry you are in a town with that awful woman." Megan sniffed.
"Not a fan of Nana's food, hey?" Michonne asked, almost politely. She honestly didn't want to think about Mike's mother!
"She takes business away from perfectly nice restaurants around here, where you can eat healthier. And I have to say, I don't know what Ethan was thinking, arresting you like that."
Michonne didn't answer that. Because she didn't have time to. Suddenly the door flew open and Abraham was brought in by guards!
"Abraham? What's going on? What's happened?" Michonne asked, confused at Abraham's predicament. How had things in Alexandria went so wrong, that Abraham was apparently now a prisoner?
"Carl's fine, that's all you need to know." Abraham said in cool tone. He was shoved into a cell and the door was promptly closed and locked. Megan walked over to one of the guards.
"What's happened? Did Dr. Pilcher or Pam order this?" she asked.
"The prisoner didn't come back with either of them, that's why he's in there. Sheriff Burke heard from them. They ordered his imprisonment." the guard replied.
"Why?" Megan asked.
"No clue. And I'm not quite buying the story. The prisoner came back with just the pilot, who he claimed fell unconscious before landing."
Megan folded her arms.
"So David and Pam sent a prisoner back with no other guard than the helicopter pilot? Was he cuffed?"
"No. Sheriff Burke is going to give us the details but something is off here." the guard replied, his focus now on Michonne. Megan noted this and covered.
"Dr. Pilcher left specific instructions to leave her in my care. He and Pam have plans on integrating her into Wayward Pines."
"I heard she broke Nana's hand," the guard sniffed, "if she can't cook..."
The guard almost teared up! Nana's soul food was mouth watering. The idea of never being able to eat anything from her restaurant again, or maybe it not tasting right because of her injury, incensed him!
"I know how you feel about Nana's food, but what Dr. Pilcher wants is most important. He'll probably want Nana reckoned."
"NO!" the guard cried out. The other guards looked at him, as did Michonne. What was that guy's problem?
Megan stood directly in front of him.
"Calm yourself and take your men out of here. The prisoner is locked up and I'm sure Sheriff Burke will tell us what's going on." she ordered him.
Ethan walked in just then and walked up to the men.
"Dr. Pilcher stayed behind to talk more people into coming here. Pam is tending to some medical needs. The prisoner left without their okay and forced the pilot to bring him back here. He then knocked knocked him out after he landed."
Michonne heard that! She walked up to all of them.
"Why would Abraham do that? It makes no sense!"
"Pam told me that Abraham learned what David's plans were for you and freaked." Ethan said meaningfully. Everyone was staring at her. Michonne cleared her throat.
"I need to see Abraham." she said.
"I know. I need to question him as well." Ethan said and turned to the men.
"You need to get back to your posts. I'll tell you when Dr. Pilcher and Pam are expected." Ethan told them. The men nodded and slowly left the station. That only left...
"Did Dr. Pilcher say how many new people would be coming here?" Megan asked. Something about this story was still off.
"No. And I think you need to get back to the school." Ethan said firmly.
"Fine. But what about Nana's reckoning for upsetting Michonne?"
Ethan moved so that he was barely whispering.
"There will be a reckoning but it won't be Nana. Just go back to the school."
Megan's eyes widened and for some reason, she felt a sense of deep unease. Ethan dragged his feet when it came to reckoning the unruly. So if HE said there was going to be one, then it had to be serious!
Megan smiled wanly and looked at Michonne.
"I plan on having Ethan and you over really soon. Take care!" Megan said in a light and airy tone, before leaving. Once the door closed, Ethan turned to Michonne.
"Your boyfriend killed Dr. Pilcher. Pam is being imprisoned by your friends. She managed to communicate with me unbeknownst to them. I am helping Abraham by not telling this community that David Pilcher is dead, but I'm just putting off the inevitable. Abraham will be killed when this comes out."
Michonne shook her head, then faced Ethan.
"If Abraham killed Dr. Pilcher then had to have a good reason. He is not a cold blooded murderer. I have to talk to him."
Ethan nodded and he moved past Michonne to unlock Abraham's cell door. Abraham was standing in the middle of the room.
"Sit down." Ethan told him.
"I'd rather not. I was shot." Abraham said.
"Shot?!" Michonne snapped, looking around him.
"Yeah," Abraham began lying, "by my damned cousin. I caught him trying to force himself on poor Deanna."
Michonne's mouth dropped open as she looked at his ass wound. Ethan looked skeptical as hell.
"What?" he asked.
"You heard me, Sheriff! I'm talking about outright rape!"
"Dr. Pilcher?"
"Yeah!"
"I have never seen him express any interest in a woman, much less behave like that." Ethan said, eyeing Abraham. Michonne looked at Ethan.
"Why would he lie about something like that?" Michonne challenged Ethan. Abraham continued lying.
"He knew her from before. Said something about how Deanna hadn't believed him when he came before her congressional committee. I'm telling you, Michonne, Deanna looked uneasy at just the sight of him."
"And you walked in on David trying to force himself on this congress woman that you live with?" Ethan asked, still disbelieving.
"Let me tell you: it happened in Deanna's house! I went over there to ask my cousin about all this nonsense he had planned between Michonne and you. And by the way, I'm not having that for two seconds! Anyway, next thing I know, I walk in and he's got Deanna's skirt off and he's pinning her onto the couch!"
Michonne frowned. She didn't think she'd ever seen Deanna wearing a skirt. But then again, it was possible the woman owned one.
"Then what?" Ethan asked.
"You're a goddamned perv, you know that?" Abraham snapped. "You think it's easy admitting to killing kin?"
"Oh cut the crap, Abraham! If you saw Pilcher on top of some woman on a couch, why the hell didn't you just pull him off of her? You outweighed David by like a million pounds!" Ethan scoffed. He didn't want to hear anymore of this shit! Besides Pam told him what happened!
Abraham walked up to Ethan.
"He had already forced himself inside of her! And when I told him to get the hell off, he just started humping on her faster! I just took out my gun and blew him away."
"Was Deanna hurt?" Michonne asked.
"No, thank the good lord."
"Yeah, I thought you said David shot you?" Ethan asked.
"No I said my damned cousin did! My cousin Pam came in and shot me, after she saw me shoot Cousin David! Rick and Darryl came in and dragged Pam off. Jessie helped me with my wound."
Michonne eyed it. It still looked like it could use some more work. But it would do for now. She looked at Ethan.
"Clearly you don't believe Abraham." she said coolly.
"I heard from Pam. She had been restrained and she's telling a different story. One that doesn't include rape."
"Hey!" Abraham snapped. "What the hell do you expect her to say? That my brother was trying to force ass on some poor woman and he got killed for it? Remember, Cousin Pam was married to the Governor, remember?"
Michonne's mouth hardened.
"I haven't forgotten it. And by the way, Pam's 'husband' tried to rape one of our people. I believe Abraham."
Ethan said nothing. The truth was, the story itself was not provable at this time. The rapist and victim were not here. But his sense told him that despite David Pilcher's many flaws, rape was not his style.
"Why don't you head back to the house David gave to you. Both of you. I'll check this story out with Pam."
"She won't admit it." Abraham snorted.
"Nevertheless, I'll pass it by her anyway." Ethan said thinly. Abraham nodded and he looked the sheriff directly in the eye, as he slid a muscular arm around Michonne's waist and walked out with her. Ethan sighed.
No, he didn't believe a word of it. But Michonne did. He would let Pam know what was being said and see if she still wanted to keep Abraham alive after hearing it.
ALEXANDRIA-
Pam hid the fact that she could talk into her watch, as Rick Grimes walked into the jail and closed the door behind him.
"Let's talk." he said simply, walking up to her cell.
"About?"
"What you want done with your brother's body? And what will happen if you don't return to Wayward Pines? I suppose there are instructions for your security to raid this place?" Rick asked.
"Why don't we talk about Michonne and your unresolved feelings for her?"
Rick turned and leaned against the desk that would be Michonne's.
"I don't see what that has to do with anything?"
"But you're admitting that you do have feelings for her? Your wife seems to think so. And what about that woman that shot my cousin in the ass? She seemed to think Michonne was a threat to her relationship with my cousin. I don't think that it would be safe for Michonne to come back here. Maybe that's why Abraham escaped with my helicopter pilot?" Pam asked in jibing tone.
"Who said he escaped?" Rick challenged her.
"Oh, God, please! Look, you're not going to win this one. When I don't come back you all will be killed. All we have to do is bomb this place from the air and if that doesn't kill you all then it will break open your stronghold here. Or even better...we have a different breed of undead swarming near Wayward Pines."
Rick's face turned serious.
"What are you talking about?"
"Let' s say that our undead can climb. You won't stand a chance if a few of them are suddenly 'dumped' here. You have nothing to work with here."
"If I have nothing then why do you want to know about Michonne and me?" Rick asked knowingly.
Pam said nothing for a moment, then she spoke.
"My brother always dreaded seeing Abraham. He was a relentless bully when we were kids. David never got over it and he had a right to decide who could be, and couldn't be in this town that he had spent so much time and care to build. Abraham is jealous of you. To the point where he was panicked at the thought of our taking you to Wayward Pines. David wanted Michonne to be paired with our sheriff and you could tell that the idea of Michonne being paired with anyone but him, freaked Abraham out."
"So Abraham didn't lie about that? You all do force people to marry up with people they don't know?" Rick asked in an accusing tone.
"I plan to make sure David's plan is followed. Or at least that was my intention. But Abraham must pay for what he did. I won't tell the people of Wayward Pines that David is dead and that Abraham killed him. Because the moment that gets out, Abraham and probably Michonne, are as good as dead."
"What do you want?" Rick asked.
"I want you to return to Wayward Pines with me. And I don't want you to be shy about how you feel about Michonne. You can take your kids but not your wife. That would be a start, to avenging David's death."
Rick said nothing at first.
Then he answered.
"So I go to Wayward Pines and live happily ever after with Michonne? And what happens when you decide that that's not punishment enough?"
"Then Abraham, alone, will die for David's murder. What do you say? Do we have a deal?"
"I go to Wayward Pines and bring Michonne back here. You keep Abraham and do whatever needs doing. I don't bring my children."
"Because?" Pam challenged.
"Because something about this town seems less safe than here!" Rick snapped. "And I am married to someone else. Michonne would never go for it."
"Are you stupid?" Pam asked with contempt. "You don't tell Michonne you're there to be in love with her! This is about making Abraham's life unbearable. If he doesn't believe he's losing Michonne then this isn't going to work."
"I won't do it." Rick told her.
"Then you all will die here. I'd think about it some more and talk it over with Jessie." Pam said blithely. Rick squared his jaw, turned and left . Pam grinned at the closed door. Oh yes, Rick Grimes, you will do it!