![]() ![]() The little boundaries the world sets for all of us. He talks about how back then society kept his inner demons in check. He talks about seeing red when he beat that guy up in the bar. When he does, bad things are going to happen.Īnd he talks. “You better hope I never stop talking,” he tells him ominously. He let’s the bandit leader live, but not for long. He hops on kicks the throttle, knocking the mailbox off with his bat as he pulls out of the drive.įrom here he goes and rescues the doctor and Laura, killing his first handful of people in the process-some with his bat, some with bullets. Puts on the leather jacket that Lucille surprised him with (she didn’t return it after all) and sets the house, and his zombified wife, afire. a little much (the song, or rather its use as both their “song”, his impetus for beating a guy half to death in a bar, the song he sings to her to comfort her in bed and as the Very Sad Music that plays during the dead Lucille montage is a bit over the top. “You Are So Beautiful To Me” plays over the whole thing which is. He sits and weeps and you can see the guilt and shame crushing him. Negan can’t bring himself to put her out of her undead misery. She’s killed herself rather than die slowly and alone. Inside, Lucille is tied to the bed, a plastic bag over her head, empty pill bottles on the nightstand. A note on the door begs him not to leave her this way, with a little heart drawn after the message. Unfortunately, when he returns the house is quiet. You can tell he feels bad, but Lucille is his only priority. He hears Laura screaming in a camper but drives off on a motorcycle without a second look. He gives the doctor’s group up and in return, the bandits honor their word and let him go, cooler full of medicine and all. From there we cut back to the doctor, giving him the medical supplies he tried to steal, and Laura giving him the bat since it’s better protection than an empty pistol.įrom there we pull back to the bandit, and Negan finally giving up the doctor and his group to save his own-and Lucille’s-skin (though it’s been two months since he set out, leaving her alone). After learning that Lucille knew about the affair, we cut back to his tearful confession. We’re pulled back out layer by layer- Inception style. It’s not really hard to follow by any means, but it’s quite the layer cake of flashbacks. Russian doll levels of flashback going on in this episode. That’s a flashback within a flashback within a flashback within a flashback if I’m not mistaken. That all takes place 7 months prior, meaning we’re very, very early into the apocalypse. And within this flashback, we get Lucille’s story of her diagnosis, discovery of the affair and so forth. Here, Negan tells the doctor some of his story, and we get the flashback about Negan and Lucille living in the apocalypse, the dead generator and so forth. She smacks him over the head with a bat- the bat, which eventually becomes Lucille. He’s foiled in this attempt by none other than future-Savior, Laura, the daughter of one of this group’s doctors. When Negan finally spills the beans, we get another flashback to just a few days earlier when Negan tries to rob a mobile medical clinic with an empty gun. Negan has lied to them already and now they want the truth or they’ll dump the medicine and make him watch (and kill him for good measure). Bandits interrogate him, demanding to know where he got the medicine he’s carrying a cooler. His mind drifts back in time, 12 years back, to the early months of the apocalypse when supplies were a little easier to come by. He finds it, but breaks it fighting off a walker. He goes and searches for his bat-Lucille, named after his wife-out at the spot where Rick slit his throat at the end of the Savior war. He wonders if she’s simply taking matters into her own hands but she plays coy. We have the present timeline in which Carol takes Negan out to a cabin a good ways away from Alexandria and tells him he’s been banished. When he realizes, he’s distraught and guilty and tells her he broke off the affair the moment he found out about the cancer. But she doesn’t tell him she knows until after the apocalypse is well under way. Instead, she tells him about her diagnosis. Maybe she would have saved a lot of lives if she had. She goes home and gets a gun and waits for Negan to return.īut she doesn’t shoot him. She puts two and two together, realizes the two of them are having an affair, and drives off in a hurry. She calls her friend and she doesn’t pick up, either. She calls his parole officer (where Negan said he’d be) but he’s not there. When she gets her cancer diagnosis she tries to call Negan but he doesn’t answer. Meeting with his mistress instead of giving Lucille a ride from the doctor’s office. He’s been both a good husband-caring for his sick wife-and a lout, cheating on her with her friend while she works and pays the bills. Hilarie Burton Morgan as Lucille Credit: AMC ![]()
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