The Walking Dead: The Return

Lincoln: Rick and Michonne are perfect partners in an imperfect world.

Gurira: They first met as reluctant allies,

but over time, their bond grew.

Through so many hardships, so much loss and sacrifice,

they found each other.

Until one day when it all got taken away.

Michonne was fearful that she may have lost Rick forever.

And Rick never stopped thinking about his family

and never stopped trying to get back to them.

But when Michonne made a fateful discovery,

she knew she had to find him.

She had to make her family whole.

So how weird is this... after all this time?

Yes, and finishing telling the story

of Rick and Michonne, to be here where it all started.

The only thing to really do

is to start at the very beginning,

'cause it's a very good place to start.

This is approximately where Rick and Michonne first met.

Yeah.

How did you feel that day?

What do you mean, how do I feel?

How did you?

What? Meeting you, or...

Yeah. Do you remember it?

I think... I do remember. Of course I remember it.

'Cause I think he was going through

quite a defensive phase

where he was very distrustful, and seeing somebody

with a katana and two zombies with their...

Okay, you don't-- you don't remember.

Oh. I have no idea.

- I'm leaving, guys. - Yeah.

Going down memory lane with someone with no memories.

W-- but... How do I do this?

Did I... Come on.

Okay, so to help my colleague out here.

Listen, don't tell them the st--

How I came to the gate was--

I didn't have-- I didn't have the two zombies.

I was covered in zombie gunk.

Okay, so you didn't have the two people on the chains? No.

They were long gone. I got rid of them long before I met you.

Oh, my God. There were a lot of walkers clinging onto this fence.

Yeah.

And you're standing there and--

And Carl's there as well. Should we help her?

'Cause he was the one that convinced me to go and get you.

And that's when Carl says, "We have to--"

Says, "We got to--" Yeah, that's right.

And pushes for her to be saved. No, I do remember that.

Guys, everybody calm down.

Carl.

That was a memorable way for the characters to meet.

It was a great way, yeah.

And also because they're so similar in temperament

and personality, there's a kind of--

they're alpha, they're independent, they're stubborn.

It wasn't easy for them when they started. Yeah.

It was such a counter experience

for Michonne from the Governor. Yeah.

'Cause the Governor, he was trying to charm her

and sort of woo her into his little--

Yeah, and she was like, "Mnh-mnh."

And she does have respect for Rick

even before she meets him, because of Andrea.

And so she knows it's time to not be a loner anymore.

But the Governor was trying to treat her all good

and she's, like, flipping swords in them

and killing his zombie daughter.

But when she comes here, Rick is hostile,

but Michonne trusts that.

She trusts that, considering the world they're in,

considering the man she knows he is,

considering who he's protecting. Yeah.

And she has a lot of grace for Rick from the jump. Yeah, yeah.

So when you joined, Danai, we were in season three.

What did you feel joining this cast?

Were we a welcoming cast?

Yeah, everyone was amazing.

I remember I became immediately very close to Lauren

and of course to the awesome Steven Yeun

and of course to Laurie Holden.

You did a lot of stuff-- And you were okay.

You were all right.

You were nice-- you were nice enough.

You know? It was like, "Okay."

Yeah. No, I'm kidding. You were very sweet.

Apart from when I dropped you.

Well, yeah. I mean, that was a funny day.

You want to tell it?

No, you tell it 'cause it's always gonna end up going there.

If you tell it, then, you know, it'll-- it'll lighten it up.

Okay, so we had a policy. In the sense that you lighten up for you.

We had a policy when we were filming

that we didn't throw marks down.

The crew were absolutely the heart and soul

of "The Walking Dead."

And we had this environment where everybody kept acting

at all times, and we didn't call "cut."

What does this have to do... I'm getting there.

This is-- This is basically protecting myself.

The scene goes where-- I see you drop.

I'm like, "I don't think she should come in here.

She's got a katana. She's dangerous. We need to--"

And Carl's going, "Get out. We have to save her."

So eventually I do. I concede we're gonna do that.

And it was supposed to cut when I pull you onto my back.

And I didn't do that.

And so I picked you up, got about three steps,

dropped you... And fell.

...and then decided to fall on top of you as well,

which wasn't the ideal welcome.

I'm like, "What is this dude doing?

You're not supposed to do this."

I'm just lying there. I'm dead. I'm like, "I'm out. I can't..."

I remember Lennie James.

We were on the porch in Alexandria at one time

and we watched you, and you had your dreads and your katana,

and you were just sort of walking down the main street.

And he went, "Look at that." And I went, "I know."

And he went, "That's the coolest character."

We'd never seen anything quite like it.

It's so deeply, profoundly, apocalyptically cool.

You know what I mean? Mm-hmm.

I think we were just always a bit jealous.

That's probably why I dropped you.

Ha ha ha ha ha.

Speaking of jealous of great, cool characters,

your son, Chandler Riggs.

Yeah. Extraordinary young man.

Yeah. We just struck gold with that kid.

It's an extraordinary bond to see somebody grow up

in front of your eyes on screen

and spend so much time

with this incredibly impressive young man.

It's not the truth, but I spent more time with Chandler Riggs

than my own son for a lot of that decade.

That's not the truth, but it felt like that some days.

And you never know what you're gonna get with young actors

and what they're gonna turn into.

But I think he's a brilliant young man, you know,

and a very, very impressive actor.

And I always sign off "DTVS"-- "Deceased TV Son"--

is my sign-off with Chandler Riggs.

You know what I mean? It's a bit weird, but...

Yeah, a little. ...that's the way we roll here.

I couldn't speak more highly of him.

He's so incredible and really was that warm, welcoming heart

that was at the heart of this show.

It was exactly what he did for Michonne

was kind of what I felt he was towards me.

We just really clicked and got along.

I loved my scenes with him so much.

I-I just thought Judith should--

should know what her mom looked like.

It was really with Carl

and the idea of this young man growing up in this world

that really warmed her heart and of course

aligned her with you very deeply

to want to keep-- preserve him and save his life.

Well, we sort of had this family, didn't we?

It sort of established-- before we even fell in love.

What are you doing?

Winning a bet.

In your dreams.

I'm still on.

You spoke too soon, wise guy.

This might go on a while. Maybe we can speed this up.

Yeah, you're right. Shouldn't be fooling around.

We should probably-- Carl!

Lincoln: This is the one.

'Cause I know from all the scars.

Yeah.

It's so cool.

I remember doing an interview with a magazine

and they challenged me to a firing range,

and it's actually really well balanced, this thing.

And I did quite-- I don't want to big myself up or anything,

but I got quite a lot. But you will.

But I will right now big myself up.

I got quite a lot of bull's-eyes with-- with real things

in Atlanta.

We went to a shooting alley. Well...

He's the only one who remembers this, so...

Bit more coordinated than-- than you were...

Just take his word for it. ...hitting me on the head.

Just...

Why is there a rock here that says "Andy's rock"?

That's because I had a limp for a while

and I liked that rock in my boot.

And I get a little bit OCD about things.

No!

And this was the one that I had to have.

So... You?

Yeah, and so I would put that in my boot

because we didn't want to fake it.

I mean, it's absurd, but, yeah, that's what we did.

So that's why I was hobbling around

with that rock in my boot. Wow.