The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

Warning : This article contains mentions of self - harm . It also contains spoiler for The Walking Dead : The Ones Who Live episodes 1 - 3 .

Summary

After their reunion in episode 2,The ace Who Livelooked like it would focus on Rick and Michonne ’s unity in attempt to escape , butRick ’s attempt to make Michonne leave without him tot a surprising plait . Rick has spent years trying to yield home and reunite with Michonne , but despite seeing her for the first time in years , he tries to make her allow for on her own . Michonne had to make out up with a fake personal identity to be allowed into the CRM , mean she ca n’t openly be with Rick , force him to come up with a plan in secret .

Michonne follows Rick ’s precise and elaborate instructions which he hands to her on a note , but when she finally gets out of the CRM facility , Rick is nowhere to be see . Rick shit it look like Michonne has die trying to escape , allowing her to turn back home to their children . However , with everything thathappened to Michonne after herWalking Deadexit , she refuses to give up on him that easily . To Rick ’s surprisal , Michonne returns , causing latent hostility between the twosome . While Michonne is rightfully upset that he test to make her leave without him , Rick ’s decision is apprehensible .

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Rick Leaving Michonne Proves The CRM Has Truly Broken Him

Rick ’s decision to depart Michonne may issue forth across as cowardly , but it is also proof that the CRM has truly broken him . The CRM andMajor General Beale are amongThe Walking Dead ’s most menacing villains , withThe Ones Who Livehighlighting how much they ’ve impact Rick mentally . Their rule about not being allowed to will leadsRick to cut off his own hand , indicating just how do-or-die he is to escape . After numerous failed leak attempts , Rick even contemplated taking his own life , showing just how mentally exhausted he had become at the custody of the CRM .

Rick ’s mental decline has likely made him scared of pass home .

Losing years of his life and his hand to try and flap the odds highlight why Rick desire Michonne to allow for without him . He tells Michonne he does n’t think they can run away and would rather her return home to their girl , so she does n’t have to last the same fate he has . In plus , Rick ’s mental descent has likely made him frightened of returning home . see his one-time allies as well as his daughter after all these years will be difficult with how much his time with the CRM has change him , suggesting he ’d prefer Michonne to leave without him .

Danai Gurira as Michonne wearing a CRM consignee uniform next to Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes in a CRM uniform in The Ones Who Live

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Rick Wants To Fulfill Okafor’s Plan In The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

Although Rick ’s mental fragility is a big factor for him forget Michonne behind , he also wants to fulfillOkafor ’s plan inThe Walking Dead : The Ones Who Live . Okafor was undertake to change the CRM by trying to get more loss leader need in alter the overall mindset of the military faction . The CRM are responsible for for around 100,000 deaths , and their current way of operating indicates that they will stay on to belt down anyone who digest in the path of their security . This essentially put all survivor outside the Civic Republic in risk , which Okafor want to change before his dying .

Fittingly , Rick seems to want to continue this finish . He has always been about doing affair for the outstanding good that do good the many , not the few . While there are hundreds of thousands of people living safely thanks to the CRM , it does n’t justify taking innocent lives just because they could be a threat . While Rick does n’t know just how austere the CRM ’s criminal offence are , he is aware that they ’re a trouble . Therefore , Rick may have tried to make Michonne leave without him so that he could put his entire focussing into changing the CRMand lead the Civic Republic .

development in The Walking Dead : The Ones Who know episode 2 are evidence that Michonne is even more important to the CRM ’s defeat than Rick himself .

Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes and Craig Tate as Okafor in The Walking Dead - The Ones Who Live

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Michonne Stays Because She Sees Through Rick’s Excuses

Despite Rick trying to give Michonne an easy fashion out of the CRM , she does n’t go through with the escape programme without him because she sees through Rick ’s justifications . There are very few survivor who jazz Rick as well as Michonne does , mean that she can see he ’s hurting , but is mindful it ’s not the only cause behind his conclusion . Despite not being aware of Okafor ’s program , Jadis mentions that " something else " is keep Rick there . If Jadis can see through Rick ’s exculpation , Michonne definitely can and that is why she wo n’t leave , at least without find the truth .

Michonne has sacrificed so much to be with Rick and would n’t lease their journey end in such an anti - climax . Good citizenry died for Michonne to find Rick and result without him would be disrespectful to everyone she lost . Knowing that this is the same man who led the struggle against Negan and The Governor show why Michonne chooses to stay . They can leave together or fight together , but she wo n’t let Rick depart her behind . Michonne ’s loyalty and Rick ’s sacrifices are test copy of how much they love each other , whichThe Ones Who Livehas dead conveyed .

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February 25

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The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

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March 3

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" Bye "

March 10

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" What We "

March 17

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" Become "

March 24

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" The Last Time "

March 31

The Walking Dead : The I Who Live follows Rick Grimes and Michonne as they navigate a transform world that challenge their relationship . part by distance and facing an unstoppable force out , they endeavour to reunite and rediscover their identities in this protraction of the walk Dead macrocosm .