The Walking Dead

Previously on AMC's The Walking Dead...

Merle has military experience.

He may be erratic,

but don't underestimate his loyalty to his brother.

I want Michonne.

He'll kill her.

Are you willing to sacrifice your daughters' lives for her?

Position gunmen all around that feed store.

The minute you see Michonne, you open fire.

Kill the others, but you keep her alive.

I have to go back, warn them.

Shh, shh.

It's the only way.

No one else knows.

You gonna tell 'em?

Not till after.

We have to do it today. It has to be quiet.

You got a plan?

We tell her we need to talk.

Away from the others.

Just ain't us, man.

No. No, it isn't.

We do this,

we avoid a fight.

No one else dies.

Okay.

We need someone else.

I'll talk to him.

I'll do it.

- I'll go with you. - No.

Just me.

Just looking for a little vacation.

Best dope I ever had was in a mattress.

Nothing.

This place must have been no fun at all.

We need your help.

Do you even know why you do the things you do?

The choices you make?

If we give the Governor Michonne,

Woodbury stands down.

I don't like it, but it's what needs to be done.

We need to make it quiet. We need your help with that.

You ain't told any of the others, huh?

Just Hershel, Daryl and you.

Huh.

The inner circle.

I'm honored.

You know,

when we'd go out on runs,

he'd bash somebody's skull,

slash somebody's throat,

and he'd say, "Never waste a bullet."

I always thought it was just an excuse.

You go on.

Give him that girl.

He ain't gonna kill her, you know.

He's just gonna do things to her.

Probably take out one of her eyes.

Both of 'em, most likely.

You'd let that happen

for a shot?

Whew.

You're cold as ice, Officer Friendly.

You're gonna need wire,

not rope.

Wire. Nothing she could chew through.

Oh.

You know something?

You're right.

I don't know why I do the things I do.

Never did.

I'm a damn mystery to me.

But I know you, Rick.

Yeah, I thought a lot about you.

You ain't got the spine for it.

We need to get her to the Governor by noon.

Hey! Come on! Over here!

- Hey! Come on! - Over here!

Hey! Right here!

Over here!

- Come on! - Here! Here!

Come on!

Come on, let's go.

They try to drive up to the gate again,

maybe some blown tires will stop them.

- That's a good idea. - It was Michonne's.

We don't have to win.

We just have to make their getting at us

more trouble than it's worth.

Hey.

Let's go.

Ain't no way.

What?

Nothing.

What happened here?

We got any whiskey?

Hell, I'd even drink vodka.

Go to hell, Merle.

Are you with us?

Sure.

I'm not talking about occupying the same space.

Are you with us?

I'm here for my brother.

Well, he's here for us.

It's not time to do shots.

It's time to pick a damn side.

You ain't like you was back in the camp--

a little mouse running around,

scared of her own shadow.

It wasn't my shadow, it was my husband's.

Well, you don't seem scared of nothing anymore.

I'm not.

Hmm.

You're a late bloomer.

Maybe you are, too.

Hey.

You seen Merle around?

He say he was sorry yet?

'Cause he is.

He's gonna make it right.

I'm gonna make him.

There's got to be a way.

Just needs to be a little forgiveness is all.

He tied me to a chair,

beat me, and threw a walker in the room.

Maybe I could call it even.

But he--

he took Maggie to a man who terrorized her,

humiliated her.

I care more about her than I care about me.

Merle.

You down here?

Merle.

Hey, little brother.

What the hell?

I was just about to holler back at ya.

What you doing down here?

Just looking for a little crystal meth.

Yeah, yeah, I know.

Shit mess my life up

when everything is going so sweet, right?

You talk to Rick yet?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm in.

But, uh,

he ain't got the stomach for it.

He's gonna buckle. You know that, right?

Yeah.

If he does, he does.

You want him to?

Whatever he says goes.

Man.

Do you even possess

a pair of balls, little brother?

Are they even attached?

I mean, if they are, they belong to you?

You used to call people like that sheep.

What happened to you?

What happened with you and Glenn

and Maggie?

I've done worse.

You need to grow up.

Things are different now.

Your people look at me like I'm the devil...

grabbing up those lovebirds like that, huh?

Now y'all want to do the same damn thing I did--

snatch someone up and deliver them to the Governor,

just like me.

Yeah.

People do what they got to do or they die.

Can't do things without people anymore, man.

Maybe these people need somebody like me around, huh?

Do their dirty work.

The bad guy.

Yeah, maybe that's how it is now, huh?

How does that hit you?

I just want my brother back.

Get out of here, man.

"Thou shalt not be afraid

for the terror by night.

Nor for the arrow that flieth by day.

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness.

Nor for the destruction

that wasteth at noonday.

1,000 shall fall at thy side

and 10,000 at thy right hand.

But it shall not come nigh thee.

Only with thine eyes

shalt thou behold

and see the reward of the wicked.

Surely He shall deliver thee

from the snare of the fowler

and from the noisome pestilence."

You're not there.

She's not there.

"He shall cover thee

and under His wings shalt thou trust.

There shall no evil befall thee.

Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling."

You okay?

What I wouldn't do