Jane announces cheerfully, "Isn't that wonderful news." She pulls Michonne up by her arm so she can embrace formally.
Michonne is astonished by what Jane has just told her. For Michonne, it's as though Jane has pushed her backwards off a cliff; arms and legs flailing while she yells down to her, "Isn't that wonderful news!"
While Michonne continues to be stupefied by this revelation, Jane clutches Michonne's hand and places it on her small distended belly. Michonne is completely aghast and speechless during this outer body experience. Jane on the other hand is beaming a hurtful smug smile due to the gratification she feels looking at Michonne's expressionless face.
After orbiting the living room a few times, Michonne manages to come back to reality upon hearing an eruption of voices quickly coming up the front sidewalk toward the house. Jane quickly removes Michonne's hand and pulls her shirt down. "Remember it's a surprise" Jane softly giggles to Michonne.
Rick and Glenn burst in the front door while Rick reiterates to Glenn, "Are you absolutely positive that is what he said?"
"Yea that's what Eugene said, Maggie was…" Glenn stops in mid-sentence.
Rick and Glenn stare at Jane and Michonne in the living room, "Jane what are you doing here?" Rick asks in an irritant tone.
Glenn closes the door behind him, "It doesn't matter. Jane you need to go and say your goodbyes to your other brother." He tells her.
"Why? What's happened? What's wrong?" she asks anxiously, "Did he get bit?"
Rick continues to stare at Jane oddly then he looks at the numbing look on Michonne's face. He walks over to Jane and tells her, "I think you'd better do what Glenn says."
Jane rushes out the front door leaving it wide open and runs down the block.
Rick walks over to Michonne with a puzzling look; grabs her hand and sits her down on the couch. He's upset because she's never told him about what she saw the day Carol died and also because she felt free to tell Daryl before him. But for some reason he knows that something bad has happened since he left her with Judith earlier, something that has left her in state of suspended animation.
Rick starts with a low but restrained tone, "Michonne, Daryl said that you saw something the day that Carol got bit"; He takes a deep breath and continues, "You really need to tell me what you saw out in the field that day."
Glenn jumps in and says, "No wait, let me tell her what Eugene told me and Maggie first."
Rick agrees and Glenn explains how Eugene was running down the block with him and Maggie to help kill off the herd because Michonne had been attacked the other night. And how once the three of them had gotten to the weapons crate; he recalls the strange look on Jimmy's face after Maggie questioned him about Michonne being attacked.
Once Glenn finishes telling Michonne about Eugene and Jimmy he says, "Now Michonne, what did you see out in the field?"
Just as Michonne is about to speak she feels the sudden urge to vomit. She quickly lifts her hand to her mouth; gets up and runs to the kitchen sink. Rick and Glenn run in to the kitchen behind her.
After she vomits, Michonne rests her arm and head on the sink. Rick asks, "You o.k.?" he carefully places his hand on her back but Michonne abruptly stands up; at the same time jerking her shoulder with attitude in order to remove Rick's hand from her back. Right before Rick is about to catch the same attitude as hers, Glenn blurts out, "Michonne' what happened that day? What did you see?"
She stands up in front of the kitchen sink and says, "I didn't say anything because at the time what I saw just wasn't enough to assign any blame." She opens the cabinet doors under the kitchen sink and grabs a gallon of white vinegar then starts to pour it all around the inside of the sink. As she begins to wash the vomit down the drain she says, "When everybody started moving in to the fields I glanced over at James, Jimmy and Eugene as they were moving out in to the field…", She takes a deep breath and continues with, "…the grass was really high so it was difficult to keep the binoculars in focus but, I saw Jimmy swing his axe in the direction of Eugene's leg causing him to fall to the ground; that's probably why walkers got him. What really made it bizarre was when Tara came running up to Jimmy and started yelling at him."
Rick immediately asks, "What was she yelling about?"
She shrugs her shoulders and says, "I don't know. When I tried to zoom out to get a larger view of what was happening I couldn't see Tara anymore; like she was never there. After that the only people I saw over that way was James and Jimmy killing walkers. The only way I knew that Tara had been there was because I could hear her screaming in the distance."
Rick and Glenn stood in silence for a moment then Glenn stands up declares, "Well that's it, James is a dead man, I only wish that Jimmy and Eugene were still alive so they could die with him." Glenn rushes out the kitchen.
Rick follows him in to the living room and asks, "Hold on Glenn where are you going?"
"Rick, me and Maggie can't stay here knowing there is a rapist maybe even a murderer in the group! He's got to go!" Glenn tells him.
"Hold on, this is Michonne's call." Rick says. He leans his head slightly back to look at Michonne who sitting at the table still looking very detached from the day's events so far. "Look, let me talk to Michonne first, James's is gone for good either way whether we kill him or not. But we should find out what she wants to do first then we move from there."
Glenn reluctantly agrees and goes back down the block.
Rick walks back in to the kitchen to sits down at the table with Michonne, "So, what do you want to do?" he asks.
Michonne automatically changes the subject with, "Why did you change your mind last night about staying with Jane until she was finished grieving?"
Rick looks at her oddly and says, "Because she was all over the place, she kept grabbing at me and calling her man. What does this have to do with what's going on right now? What's going on with you?"
Michonne stares at Rick hoping for a visual affirmation and asks, "Are you sure that's the only reason?"
Rick looks at her angrily and says, "Yes, that's why? What the hell is this? Is there something I need to know, Chonne'?"
She rubs her hand on her legs trying to restrain her emotions, "Rick…just tell me this, did you at any time, anytime have sex with her?" she asks.
He looks at her in horror and says, "No, absolutely not. Why would you even ask me that?"
Michonne gets up and walks over to the kitchen sink, quickly trying to decide if she should tell him that Jane's pregnant or not.
With more sternness in his voice he asks again, "why would you even ask that, Michonne'?" She looks at him and regrettably tells him "Jane told me she's pregnant Rick. She said that with everything that has happened over the past few days she hasn't had a chance to tell you."
Rick looks at Michonne with absurdity and says, "What?!"
"So you never touched her?" She asks.
"That's right!" He tells her.
"You never shared the same bed with her?" she asks.
Rick looks down at the kitchen floor and pinches the bridge of his nose before going silent. Michonne exhales hopelessly and walks over to the patio window; her body language exudes disappointment.
He stands up and tells her, "I-I did sleep in the same bed with her for a while but there was never anything intimate involved. I never touched her or held her or anything. I just had her there just to…" Michonne turns around sharply and yells, "To what Rick? Was she a place holder for when someone better came along?"
Rick loses his temper and spitefully reminds her, "Why the hell do you even care you're the one who said there no such thing as monogamy in the world, right?"
Michonne dodges his nasty knee jerk remark with, "Who cares about what I said, how will it look to the group if you're just flagrantly going around sticking your dick in every single women in the group? And then you knock'em up too!"
Rick smirks at Michonne's reasoning and chuckles, "I know you don't think for one second that I slept with that girl. You're scared," he tells her. "You're scared about making this in to something more than just…" She cuts him off and injects with, "Someone you enjoy fucking in the shadows."
Pursing his lips together in anger and says, "Take that back Michonne, take it back right now. You know that's not true. You know me better than that. Look I don't know whose kid Jane is carrying but it not mines!"
Rick and Michonne don't even notice that Carl is standing in the kitchen doorway until he blurts out, "That crazy bitch is gonna have a baby?!" When Rick and Michonne see Carl in the doorway, the two of them sigh even harder, "It's not Dad's baby, I know it isn't! He does love her, he loves you not her, she's crazy!" Carl yells.
Rick walks over to Carl and tries to reason with him by saying, "Carl you're right, I'm not the father but it's not that simple what would everyone say about me as a leader if…"
Carl interrupts him while shaking his head no, "You're the leader and you may have to go back and live with her but it's not fair to make me and Judith go back. This is a mess that you created!" Carl squints his eyes hatefully at his father, "I told you a while ago to get rid of Jane and that it should just be the four of us but you never want to listen to me cause, 'I'm just a kid'. No, me and Judith don't have to worry about what everybody else says or thinks, You do. We are staying her with Daryl and Michonne." Carl leaves the kitchen doorway and runs back upstairs and slams the bedroom door.
Rick can't believe how awful this day has turned out to be in just a matter of hours. He turns back around and sees that Michonne has stepped out on to the patio deck. He walks over and stands in the patio doorway looking at the allure and elegance of her neck and body.
He tells her, "You are the most fearless person I have ever met; I've seen you fight dozens of walkers and people. I've never seen you lose hope or be afraid of anything in this strange world so far. Instead of using that same confidence and optimism with our intimate connection, our bond, you'd rather believe that silly ass little girl down the street and the lie she told you.
Michonne begins to feel queasy hearing the truth in Rick's comments. "It doesn't matter now", she says, "We can just go back to the way it was before."
"Oh," Rick says with a quiet yet surprising look on his face, "You mean go back to fucking in the shadows?" He shakes his head, "No, I can't do that, I won't do that anymore. I want all of you Michonne or none of you. Carl was right this was my mistake; it should've been you lying in that bed next to me. I won't be making same mistake twice."
Michonne looks at Rick with defiance at his ultimatum. "Fine, it's over then; from now on it'll be business between you and me nothing more." She tells him; then turns back around to look out at the yard.
Rick had a terrible feeling she would call his bluff; so he walks out on the patio and leans down on the deck railing. The two of them stand out on the deck in silence for a few minutes then Rick asks, "So what do you want to do about James?"
Michonne completely forgot about the James situation. She sighs and says, "Come on, I won't know what to do until I'm face to face with him."