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She tells Michonne if she doesn't get off her, she will have the knife halfway through her neck before she can do anything about it. Some residents question the bold choices Rick makes for their community and attempt to seize control of Alexandria.With the series' ninth season, which started broadcast in October 2018, Angela Kang was promoted to showrunner with Gimple now in charge of all Walking Dead properties at AMC. Laura tells him he never should have threatened Rick, but Dwight suggests he should have gone all the way. Everyone starts to fight each other, until Rick pulls out his gun and tells the Alexandrians to go home or he'll shoot at them. The company also noted that additional limited edition collectibles and festivities would be announced at a future date, prior to the October 2018 event.

Magna tells Connie and Kelly, that they're doing this for Luke and for them, then Magna and Yumiko walk off. Eugene pitches Rick the idea of using Lydia against Alpha as a form of payback for the recent massacre of the colony members. Rick suggests they should form a route to her community, and she asks for a day to discuss the idea with her people. Negan compares his emotionally severed connection to the world with Alpha's façade and argues she's only pretending to be emotionally detached. Maggie refuses to give him what he wants, saying he must live with what he has done as she leaves the barn.He had envisioned the series to end around the time that Rick Grimes and his allies reach the Commonwealth, a large human community protected from the walkers, as this would allow him to give a complete arc.

Alpha asks him to stop, but he continues making sexual remarks, leading to Alpha punching him in the face, prompting Negan to apologise, saying " I can tell when I crossed a line". The three communities ally to formulate an assault, but Negan arrives early to collect his tribute from Alexandria.Lydia tells Carl that he should be scared, but he tells her that no group is as large, organized or strong as theirs. Rick underestimates the Saviors and dismisses their threat level until his best friends, including Glenn and Abraham, are savagely killed.

He reassures her that although he is unable to kill him or lock him up again, he will be on his way soon. A resident tells him he should wait until the morning and asks if he's willing to risk his life for a bunch of bullets. Negan says they should use that to bring peace to the group and no one will have to die - on their side or his. Three strangers, Abraham, Rosita and Eugene, arrive and inform the group that they are on a mission to Washington D.

Maggie, Michonne, Jesus, and Dante have led some of the herd away, but Jesus comments it is still too close. He asks Dwight if he has seen Jesus, and Dwight snaps back he has been too busy which Rick will get all the credit for. Alpha and Beta continue to debate on how to handle Negan, with the later stating his disapproval for allowing him to live despite him deceiving the Whisperers of his true nature as an escaped prisoner and that he doesn't understand the nature of their ways.