Here’s what happened on Danai Gurira’s final episode as Michonne.
Well, we do knowthere is potential for Gurira to returnfor thoseWalking Deadmoviesthat are in the works.
Maybe that’s just because of Gurira’s hectic schedule.
But it’s a goodbye that, for the vast majority, did not feel all that unique.
It felt in part like a replay ofRick’s sendoff.
So, too, does Michonne.
What could possibly compel her to leave her children and her family at Alexandria?
So, let’s start from the beginning.
As that turns out, that means the character’s beginnings on the show.
She watches as Andrea falls to the ground, frantically struggling to crawl with the dead.
This we’ve all seen before in season 2.
It’s an abandoned U.S. Navy Research Facility.
A map they walk past sees spray paint designating the locations of five different groups across the island.
But soon Michonne feels that something is off with Virgil.
Applying a little pressure to Virgil (i.e.
Frustrated but with little choice if she wants to get the ammunition, she does so.
Virgil’s wife is one of them.
He claims the tide will be low at dark, preventing her from making it through the channel.
So, she should stay the night and look for the weapons in the morning.
Michonne can’t sleep, however, and goes on the hunt for whatever she can.
That’s when she hears whispers.
Turns out, Virgil’s a bit crazy.
The whispers belong to three of his old coworkers who used to work on the island.
That building was the one filled with the dead that Michonne had just cleared out.
The supplies don’t last her long.
She finds herself walking down the street, desperately trying to flag down Daryl in his car for help.
But he chooses to leave her behind.
Now completely alone, she comes across Negan, who welcomes her as a Savior.
She rises through the ranks to become his right hand.
Short answer, not well.
It ends with Daryl firing an arrow through her chest and Rick shooting a bullet into her head.
When she comes to, Michonne is vomiting into a bucket in her cell.
She’s able to surprise attack Virgil and steal his keys.
Doing so will give them peace, whereas killing him will only take more pieces of them away.
But there’s still the issue at hand, the reason she came all this way: the weapons.
She searched everywhere she could and didn’t find anything.
Virgil says he never met Rick, but it inspires hope in her that he’s still alive somewhere.
Michonne radios back home to tell Judith she found something that might mean Rick is alive.
(Technically,that is true, though we know this war isn’t completely won and done.)
So, that is now Michonne’s new mission.
But where will she go?
She doesn’t really have any leads to find Rick.
At least, not yet.
They ask for help because “they” will leave without them if they don’t hurry.
Who are these new people?
We don’t know.
All Angela Kang confirms to EW is that these are not the samepeople with the three rings.
The “wild” West perhaps?
And that’s the last we will see of Michonne… at least for some time.
