5:45a
James sits on top of the of the wall barricade at the bottom of the cul de sac heavy with remorse over the death of his brother. He knew that he should've stopped trusting Jane a long time ago but, he wanted desperately to keep his family together now that the world had changed so drastically. The only way Jane could control her little brothers was by threatening them. As her obsession for Rick and his children grew so did the seriousness of her threats.
The sun begins to emerge from the horizon; James decides that its time that he goes and talk to Jane to see exactly what she says regarding Jimmy's death. So he climbs down the wall and walks over to the house. When he opens the door he hears Jane in the kitchen. He walks toward the kitchen and stands in the doorway and observes her as she puts away the supplies that Rick left behind. He's startles her when she turns around and sees him standing in the doorway.
"James, you scared me have to death. Aren't you on guard duty?" She asks.
My shift is almost over, the sun is coming up." He tells her.
"Oh, I hadn't noticed. The past couple of days have been a blur." She says in a somber tone.
He walks in to the kitchen and sits down at the table, "Do you want something to eat?" She asks.
"No, I want you to tell me what happened to our brother in the drug store." He says with all bitterness.
Jane turns back around and continues putting the supplies and food away, "I told you…there were a couple of walkers that snuck up on him."
He watches as she puts the supplies away and says, "You sure that's what happened? You didn't push him in to walkers just to save yourself."
Jane turns around stunned at his accusation and says, "Do you really think that I would do something so horrid as to push my own brother in to walkers just to save myself?"
James walks over to her and grabs her arm, she tries to yank her arm away because she knows what he's looking for. When he lifts her arm he sees a large bandage with dried blood that has seeped through sometime earlier. He rips the bandage off only to find that she has resorted to long vertical cuts down her side instead of short horizontal ones under her arm.
He backs away from her slowly shaking his head; tears are rolling down his face as he realizes that she must have had something to do with Jimmy's death. She quickly grabs the bandage from his hand and places it back on the cut. "I told you it was a nightmare seeing how they ripped him apart!" She yells.
James shakes his head in disbelief while saying, "I won't help you, I won't help you destroy these people anymore. These are decent people trying to survive. They saved us from Terminus, they trust us…", he pauses and looks at her with contempt, "...but I don't trust you anymore."
Jane looks at him with a eerie hollow darkness in her eyes and says, "You still owe me James, you still owe me."
"I don't owe you a fucking think!" he screams, "We're even you sick bitch! We're even!"
Just as he's about to head toward the front door she runs in to the living room she yells "I'll tell them!" James looks back at her as she says, "I'll tell Rick or Daryl or Michonne' and they will kill on the spot! They would never believe that I had anything to do with that attack on Michonne'. You and Jimmy were the odd men of the group, you never spoke to anyone, you never tried to connect with any of these people. I, on the other hand, know everyone. I have a rapport with these people they trust me. When I finish telling them about what you did they will condemn you and not think twice about it. The only thing they'll think is that you, Jimmy and Eugene were a couple of perverts looking to take advantage of the only self-sufficient female that moves about on her own."
James looks back his half-sister; he sees the vengeful hate in her eyes and on her face as she says "I told you, you will never be free of me until I say we're even. Now go and pack you shit and get back down here."
James leaves the house and slams the door behind. He stands still for a moment trying to come up with a plan to get from under his sisters grip. But he immediately becomesfrustrated. It was always Jane that came up with a plan or scheme that would benefit them (but mostly her) in the long run. Now that he has told her where his loyalties lie it was only a matter of time before she got rid of him as well.
6:30a
Maggie's in the kitchen feeding Judith when Carl walks in and tells her, "Hey, I am gonna go see Michonne', maybe I can help her get ready for the dispersing of the supplies to the neighborhood."
Maggie looks at him and says, "Ah…o.k. let me grab Judith and I will watch walk up the block."
"I'll be alright Maggie, I have my gun and it's loaded." Carl reminds her.
She smiles at him because he doesn't to want to be treated like a little kid but, the fact that he still relies on his gun as a first defense for few walkers confirms that he is still a kid.
"Carl, it's always good to carry you gun but remember if you shoot your gun off in the block you will attract walkers. Gun shot noise travels, you know that. So until you are capable of protecting yourself against a few walkers without a gun I have to watch up walk up the block. Especially since it so early in the morning", she tells him while grabbing Judith.
Carl walks out the front door walking towards Daryl's house while Maggie and Judith watch him from the front porch. As he walks further away she says, "Carl, make sure to tap the windows for walker before going in." Carl shakes his head and keeps walking.
7:00a
"Daryl!…Daryl, why does everybody in the world have set of bump keys except me?" Michonne yells at Daryl as he walks toward the shed. He turns around and walks back over to the patio deck where Michonne's standing waiting for an answer. With a smirk on his face he tells her, "Rick said not to give you a set cause he doesn't want you to go and kill that ass hole next door."
She suck her teeth then tells him, "I wasn't gonna kill him…I was just gonna cut his balls off. Castration never killed anybody." Daryl laughs and keeps walking toward the shed while chuckling to himself, "The way you would do it, it just might."
Michonne turns back around and walks back in to the kitchen, Carl is sitting at the table eating some bacon and powdered eggs trying to hold in his laughter. She cuts her eyes at Carl and grins at him, "It's not funny."
She sits back down to finish eating her oatmeal, "So what are you missing this morning, I know the one I have is better than yours", she teases.
He finishes the last of his breakfast and puts his fork down; takes a sip of water then he says, "Snowballs." Michonne looks at him and says, Ahh...snowballs."
Carl comes back with "Yep, on a hot summer day me and my mom would walk over to the snowball stand and get a couple of snowballs. Just looking at the way they would scoop the ice up watching it get bigger and bigger then dumping it in to that paper cone…" Carl sighs, "… on a hot day it was the best."
"Well, I miss lazy days", she says while grabbing the plates off the table, "...when you could just lay around and…" Michonne catches herself before she says something x-rated, "…and do anything you wanted to. You could go swimming or read a book. You know do whatever you wanted."
Before Carl got there that morning, Michonne was trying to imagine what it would be like to have a lazy day with Rick. No walker threats, no people threats just a quiet peaceful day. After her confession to him last night she began to warm to the idea of the two them being a couple.
While she's washing the dishes she looks over her shoulder to look at Carl when she sees a barbered and well-rested Rick standing in the doorway grinning at her somewhat censored answer. He joins the conversation with, "Yep, I miss those kinds of days too, when you could just lie around and..." he makes an awkward pause then continues with, "…read or nap in the middle of the day. No pressing issues to address."
Carl turns around surprised to see his father standing behind him, "Hi Dad, what are you doing here?"
Rick's a bit unprepared to answer his son but he decides to come clean about his feelings for Michonne while the three of them are in the same room.
Michonne gets a nervous and announces, "I should probably start moving the supplies on to the front lawn."
"No, Chonne' just hold on, I want you here." Rick says while taking a seat at the table. "Carl, I spent the night here…with Michonne'. You were right, the four of us should be under the same roof", he looks over at her and smiles with much affection, "So later onto day you and I are going to find another vacant house, for all of us."
Carl looks over at Michonne with the smile of a child opening presents on Christmas day. He looks at his father and says, "Really?" Rick smiles and nods his head yes. Carl jumps out of his seat and hugs his father, then he quickly runs over to Michonne and hugs her as well.
Rick gets out of his seat, walks over to the Michonne as she's hugging Carl. He kisses her for the first time in front of Carl then he looks down and kisses the top of Carl's head.
Michonne smiles at Rick but he sees traces of uncertainty. He kisses her again; and asks her for confirmation, 'You want this too, right?"
She looks at him unable to hold back her tears and says, "Yes."
7:45a
James is about to leave the house that he, Rosita and Abe shared with his belongings. Rosita's coming out of the kitchen when she sees James going for the front door with his stuff.
"James where are you going?" she asks with trepidation.
He turns around and tells her regretfully, "I'm sorry Rosita; I gotta go to stay with my sister. She's really handling Jimmy's death bad…I should be with her."
She walks over to James and grabs his arm, "Well, maybe I could go with you to help", she says with anxiety and fear. She then whispers in a trembling voice, "I can't be left here alone with him."
Abe stands at the top of the steps and watches as Rosita pleads with James to stay and says, "Rosita, I need to talk to you for a minute?"
James looks up at the stairs at Abe then back down at Rosita. He sighs painfully and says, "I'm sorry Rosita but I have to go…" he leans over and gives her a hug then whispers in her ear, "You should get out of this house too." He lets her go and walks out the door for his sister's house.
Rosita gets upstairs stands in Abe's bedroom doorway, "What's up?" she asks. He yanks her in to the room and slams the door shut. "What did you tell Daryl and Glenn last night?" "I told them we were arguing over how to use the supplies" she answers.
He slowly walks closer to her and asks, "What else?"
Rosita starts to back away seeing the temper in his eyes and whispers in terror, "Nothing, nothing."
"If anyone in this block ever finds out that Jane and Judith come to visit me now and again, I'll know it was you. You saw what I did to that the last group that raped my daughters and made my wife and son watch. You know that's why family ran away from me." He finally backs her up against the bedroom wall and gently grabs her neck slowly squeezing it enough to make it difficult for her to breath, "I will have those kids and Jane, I will have a family again." he tells her.
Abe finally releases her neck and she begins to cough and catch her breath, "And don't even think about moving anywhere else or the next time we are out of the road I won't be so inclined to save ass from walkers", He tells her while leaving the room.
9:00a
"Before we get started with passing out these supplies, I wanted to let everyone know that we lost some people over the last two days. We lost Jimmy and Tero while out on a supply run." Rick announces.
The survivors in the block gasp, the older ones begin to cry because they had known Tero long before the outbreak.
Carl catches the eye of a young girl with ponytails standing next to her statuesque mother. The young girl quickly hugs the young woman out of the sorrow she hears as the loss of their neighbor Tero. When the little girl catches the eye of Carl, he quickly takes a step back trying to hide behind Michonne.
A voice comes out of the crowd and says, "Ever since you and your motley group came here we have had nothing but problems! We were making it just fine before you showed up. Since you been here our block was nearly over run by walkers and now suddenly the smartest man on the block is killed; and now your people are moving in to Tero's house. How do you think that looks to us?" The voice from in the crowd states.
Sasha, Bob, Michonne, Daryl, Rick, Abe and Carl, try to locate the voice making the accusations. Then Daryl and Michonne see it the man that lives next walking up to the front of the line, "It sounds like foul play to me." he says.
The neighborhood survivors all begin to agree with the next door neighbor openly. Rick motions for the crowd to lower their voices and says to the elderly gentleman, "Excuse me, who are you?"
"My name is Ed. Me and the rest of the true homeowners in this block think its best that you and your, 'maledetto gruppo familiare' leave before you end up getting more people killed or before on e of you end up killing one of us like what happened with Tero and Jimmy." Ed says.
Daryl rushes from behind the supply set up to stomp Ed to the ground but, Ed pulls out his Glock 17 stopping Daryl in his pursuit. This instantly causes Rick and his people to draw their weapons on Ed.
Ed continues to hold his target at Daryl and says, "You may kill me but I know that you need your redneck. So why don't we just put are weapons away and save them for the true threat…what do you say?"
Everyone calmly puts their weapons away. Ed adds, "Besides most of us have, rice, spam, canned foods we are just here for the chips, pretzels and booze."
Bob gets upset and says, "You mean to tell me that everyone in this block has had food all along while we shared whatever we had with all of you? Sometimes we would only eat one a day because we were busy sharing what we had."
"Hey, we are just trying to survive." Ed laughs.
Rick and his people stood in shock at the selfishness of the natives to the cul de sac. He rubs his eyes trying to hold in his first impulse. He looks at them and shakes his head, "Fine, take as much booze as you like. Just know that this will be the last time we will be helping you out. Our people need a surplus as much as the rest of you."
Rick walks over to Ed, "We won't be leaving until we are ready, so it would be best that you keep your people away from mine and I will make sure my people don't bother yours." Rick looks Ed in the eye with all the hate he has for this nightmare world and says, "If anything and I mean anything happens to any of my people because of you and your band of selfish assholes I will kill you…nobody else…just you." Then he turns and walks back in to the Daryl's house.
10:30a
Carl, Michonne, Daryl, Abe and Sasha start moving the left over supplies back in to the house. They pile all the supplies in the living room.
Before Sasha goes back outside to help bring more supplies in Rick pulls her to the side, "Sasha where are you on the thing we talked about last night" he asks. "Well, Tyreese and Glenn are on watch all day today, me and Michonne tonight then Maggie and James on the wall during the day tomorrow" she tells him. "Good. We are gonna make that run tomorrow."
Rick begins to walk away when Sasha grabs his arm, "What's going on? Why tomorrow?"
He shakes his head then says to Sasha, "Keep this to yourself but…something is wrong, very wrong."
She asks, "What, because of that confrontation with Ed earlier?"
"Yea, but it's something else I don't know what but it's more serious than that." He confesses.
Sasha never questioned Rick's judgment ever since he brought her and the others from Woodbury after the first incident with the Governor and she didn't feel like starting now. So she agrees to keep his concerns to herself and goes back to bring the supplies back in to the house.
Daryl is bringing more supplies back in to the living room when Rick calls him over to the dining room to speak with him privately.
The two get in to the dining room when Daryl looks at him and says, "What's up?"
"Look, me the kids and Michonne are gonna find another vacant house to hold up in." Rick tells him.
Daryl looks at him in shock, "Rick, what the fuck is up with you man? I told you last night that all of you can stay here. You know last night I had a feeling that you had an issue with me and Chonne' staying under the same roof but I shrugged it off chalking up to the weed and booze but, now I am starting feel like you really have a problem with me being alone with her." He tells him.
Rick affirms, "Alright, I admit that it crossed my mind once or twice but, that's not the case now. After I saw you with Rosita last night I just thought…"
Daryl cuts him off, "So you just think I'm gonna throw my people out because a female batted her eyelashes at me. Shit man, that's what you think of me?" Daryl paces the dining room then turns back around to Rick and in a loud whisper he says, "I'm not Shane man, I wouldn't do shit like that. Damn! You call me your brother then you think of me putting the moves to your woman?"
Rick is stunned by Daryl's statement and says, "Why would you say that Michonne is my woman?"
Daryl turns back around and looks at Rick dumbfounded, "Did you really think I didn't know what was going on with the you and Chonne'? I am observant Rick, I always knew there was something there before either one of you knew it."
Daryl takes a few steps away then turns back around, "Look, I knew exactly what I was saying last night. I want the four of you here in this house with me. In fact I would rather have all of us under the same roof. But, this place isn't big enough to hold everybody. But I would feel better knowing that the kids were here under the same roof with you or me, or Michonne or Maggie, Tyreese…we are all too far apart right know that makes us vulnerable." Daryl explains
Rick is relieved that Daryl feels the same way. "I couldn't agree with you more, which is why I want to start moving these supplies to the bar tomorrow." Rick watches as the others are about to enter the house with more stuff, "There's something not right about this place, I can't put my finger on it but we can't stay much longer and it's not because of the incident with Ed…it's something else", he tells Daryl.
Daryl agrees, "Alright then, we'll leave for the spot early tomorrow morning, better yet we should leave in the middle of the night." Before Daryl leaves the dining room he says to Rick, "I really want you guys to stay here. I function out there better knowing that my people…my family are safe." Daryl turns to look at Rick and Rick nods his head in agreement that they will stay.
11:30a
The sun is slowly vanishing and overcast is quickly dominating the skies. Sasha has left to go and get some sleep for her watch tonight and Daryl goes down to talk with Glenn about the urgent run to the truck stop.
Rick and Carl are in the backyard by the over grown garden. Rick is uncertain about why he feels the way that he does but, he feels the need to talk to Carl alone.
"Carl…I have a feeling that there's something wrong with this place and we are going to need to get out of here sooner than I expected." Rick tells him.
Carl asks, "Is it because of that Ed guy?" "A little bit but, for some reason he is merely a distraction. Something we can't see just yet." Rick kneels down and tells him, "I'll be going on a run in the middle of the night tonight. Michonne and Sasha will be on watch. So I am gonna have you, Judith, Maggie and Bob stay here until I get back. I'm taking Glenn, Ty and Daryl with me so Ty and Glenn will know where to go in case of an emergency and hopefully Daryl can start up on of the mac trucks so we can clean out the shed." Rick grabs his son's arm and says, "I know I told you you're a man, but…you haven't been in that roll very long. I am expecting you to listen to Maggie, Michonne, Bob and any adult in our group within in reason. These are the people that I know would give their lives for the sake of you and Judith. Whatever they say or tell you to do is only gonna be in the interests of keep you and your sister safe. I want you to keep that fact in mind while I am gone, alright?"
Still ever the kid Carl hears his father but he also hears that they would be staying in the coolest house on the block. "So we are gonna start staying here?" Carl says with excitement. Although Rick had hoped Carl listened to what he just told him he didn't want to damper his excitement, "Yea, Daryl prefers that that the four of use stay here."
Carl blurts outs, "Yes!" When he sees Michonne walking toward them Carl blurts out, "We're gonna stay here in Daryl' place!" She looks at Carl then at Rick and says, "Oh, o.k. that'll work."
"Carl, I want to you to run down to the street and collect the rest of your stuff and Judith's stuff from Jane's house and bring it back up here." Rick tells him.
Carl leaves the yard to make the run down the street leaving Rick and Michonne alone in the yard. He looks over at Michonne and passes a weak smile. She clearly notices the worry on his face, "There's something wrong isn't it?" she asks, "and it's not that shit that happened with Ed."
Rick loves how the two of them are always in sync with one anothers thoughts. "No, it's something bigger…" Rick reaches down and places his hand in the muddy soil then looks at the over cast in the sky, "Rosita said last night it hasn't rained in at least two days here. But the ground is still soaked. Something tells me we need to get ready to leave in the next few days." He stands up and tells her, "Me, Daryl, Glenn and Ty are gonna start moving stuff to the bar tonight, or as much as we can. Sasha says that you and her are on watch tonight so you keep watch your ass cause you'll be down by few people. If anything, and I mean anything comes up you and Sasha grab Abe, James and Bob. You already know how to get to the truck stop."
Michonne looks at Rick and says, "O.k."
1:00p
Daryl decides to knock on Rosita's door to see how she's feeling after last night. When he knocks on the door Rosita opens it up. He sees Rosita and he instantly notices how red her neck is. He angrily asks, "What the hell happened to your neck Rosita?"
She forgot about the bruises on her neck and quickly says, "I was choking on some of those stale pretzels." She says nonchalantly.
Daryl sees Abe coming down the steps, the heat from his anger quickly shows upon his face, then he says in front of Abraham to Rosita, "Well you can always come stay with me there's more than enough room for you."
Abe comes to the door and says, "Why would she want to do that?"
Daryl comes back with, "Maybe she'll be safer with us."
"Now why do you think that?" Abe asks with challenge in his voice.
"I don't know, maybe the army doesn't teach the Heimlich maneuver." Daryl responds.
Rosita sees the tension between the two men and says, "I'm alright, really Daryl." Abe brushes past Daryl and begins to walk down the block. Daryl looks at Rosita and says, "If you change your mind you know where I live."
Daryl is on his way next door when he sees Maggie and Judith leaving the house. The two meet and Daryl greets them with, "Hey lil ass-kicker where are the two of you off to?" he asks.
Maggie looks at Daryl and laughs, "Glenn is still hung over from last night so I'm gonna take over his shift today."
Daryl kneels down at Judith making silly faces, "I knew that he couldn't handle hanging with the big dogs. Is he alright? I need to talk with him real quick?"
"Yea, he's in the kitchen making some soup." Maggie says.
Daryl walks in to Glenn's house and yells, "Glenn, where you at lightweight? I need to talk to you." Glenn comes out of the kitchen and in to the hallway. Glenn whispers, "Yes, I'm in the kitchen but please lower your voice."
Daryl laughs and follows him in to the kitchens.
Glenn sits down at the table and lays his head on the table, "So what's up?"
Daryl sees how hung over Glenn is and decides to make him something greasy to eat. A few minutes later Daryl places a plate of bacon and powdered eggs in front of him. "Eat this man, if you did a lot of throwing up you need something on your stomach even if you do throw it back up." Glenn begins to eat tiny forkfuls of powdered eggs and asks Daryl, "So what's up?"
Meanwhile, Rick is on his way out the door when he sees Maggie coming with Judith. "Hey guys", Ricks says happy to see Judith and Maggie.
Maggie walks up to Rick and says, "Hey, Glenn is still hung over from last night so I am gonna take over his shift today. I was thinking that you or Michonne could watch Judith until this evening."
Michonne walks up to the front the door and sees Maggie handing Judith over to Rick. "Hey Chonne', I have to cover Glenn's watch he's still hung over from last night." She tells her.
Rick looks at Michonne knowing that he was about to go talk to Ty. She takes a deep breath; walks over and grabs Judith from Rick's arms while saying to Judith, "Come on mommy. "I'll keep Judy til you get back." She tells them.
"You sure?" he asks. Michonne looks at Judith as she plays with her locs and smiles, 'Yea, I'm sure."
"Good I'll be back by sun down," Maggie says and runs down the block.
Rick walks Michonne and Judith back in the house, "I'm gonna go and tell Ty the plan for tonight then I'll be back." He tells her.
"Rick it's fine, she looks as though she could use a nap anyway. I could use one as well." She tells him.
"I know. I will need to get some sleep too…" Rick says while kissing Judith on the forehead, "…I'll see you two in a bit."
2:00p
Jane knocks on Daryl's front door, Carl opens the door and he looks at Jane with a shocked look on his face as to what she was doing there. "Hey, Whatcha need Jane?"
"I just came by to see Michonne and Judith. You know how seeing Judith makes everybody's day better."
Carl couldn't find too much objection to her reasons for stopping by to see Judith so he lets her in.
Michonne comes out of the kitchen holding Judith's hand as the two walk out. Judith sees Jane and becomes ecstatic and pulls Michonne anxiously over to Jane. Jane embraces her as though she hadn't seen her in weeks. Michonne smiles at how happy Judith is to see Jane.
Jane's face becomes flushed with tears as she embraces Judith. After planting kisses on Judith face she puts her down and walks her over to Carl. "Carl she's probably ready for a nap would you do me a favor and put her to sleep so that I can talk with Michonne for few minutes? She asks. Carl agrees and begins to walk Judith upstairs.
Michonne yells out, "Use the first bedroom at the top of the stairs Carl."
The two women sit down on couch in the living room that's filled with leftover supplies from earlier that morning.
Michonne's not sure what Jane is doing here but she tells her, "Jane I'm sorry to hear about Jimmy how are you doing?"
Jane pulls out a snot rag and begins to sob, "Thank you, I'm trying to get a handle on the reality of Jimmy being gone but…" She gets up and walks over to the mantle to look at the pictures of Tero's family, "…seeing him devoured by those monsters seems to haunt me every time I feel a peaceful moment come about.
Michonne says, "I know the feeling, losing someone to this world never gets any easier."
The two women are silent for a moment, then Jane says, "With all that has happened, I realize that for every loss of life there's hope." Jane turns around to look at Michonne's face then walks back over to the couch; sits down and hold Michonne's hand and says, "I haven't even been able to tell Rick about the good news."
Michonne looks at Jane and is dreading her answer, "What good news?"
"Rick and I are expecting."
3:00p
Rick is talking with Ty when he sees Daryl sprinting down the block towards Jane's house. Once Daryl gets there he kicks open then the door and runs upstairs.
Rick and Ty look at each other confused, suddenly they hear Daryl screaming, "You sorry sack of shit! You think you can come in to our group and fucking rape our women!"
By the time Rick and Tyreese reach the front door they see Daryl dragging James down the steps then throws him out the front door knocking Rick and Tyreese to the ground.
Daryl jumps on James and proceeds to punch him repeatedly in the face while saying, "You fucking coward! After everything we did for you!"
Maggie jumps down from the wall and runs over to the fight while Rick and Tyreese try to pull Daryl off of James. "Let me go, get the fuck off of me! I'm gonna kill this asshole!" Daryl yells.
By this time Abe, Tyreese and Rick are pulling Daryl off of James. As they are pulling Daryl off of James he continues to kick him in the stomach.
Glenn is now running down the block because he doesn't understand what he said to make Daryl run out his house so fast.