
As they’re talking an alarm starts going off. I love that he really wants to maintain law and order. Mercer tells her that if she can get the people back, he’ll have witnesses and legal grounds to remove Pamela. Once again, Shaw delivers just one word – perfectly! – Yeah. He asks what she’s planning to do, and she tells him change things – and asks if he’s ok with that. She tells him on a train heading back to the Commonwealth with the people who were disappeared. Mercer tells her to switch to a different channel – her old apartment number. I love that Princess picked Aurora – the name of Sleeping Beauty – as she is a sleeper agent! AND that Mercer knew immediately that it was her! Yumiko asks if they’re done, and he says for now before kicking Vickers out of his office too – so she’s clearly not his boss. A trooper interrupts to tell him that “Aurora” is trying to raise him on the radio. Mercer makes a show of interrogating Yumiko in front of Vickers. And this sounds a LOT like an impending death speech – but surely they learned from the blowback over Carl and Glenn’s deaths!!! Daryl promises to tell Judith all the stories he knows about all the people who loved her. She also wished that they had more time to just remember them. Judith asks whether Carl would be – and of course he would! She tells them that he died saving people and that she wished she’d had more time with him. Daryl tells her that her Dad and Mom would be proud of her. Carol tries to reassure her, telling her that there could be a lot of reasons for that and that Michonne can take care of herself pretty much better than anyone else Carol has ever known (except for Carol herself!).

Judith tells Carol and Daryl that she hasn’t heard from Michonne in a long time.

It’s the morning after the group took Alexandria back and everyone is loading up to head back to the Commonwealth. Tyler (Cameron Scott Roberts) tells Gabriel that when he was a soldier kids without parents ended up at the city’s children’s home, but he doesn’t know where it is. As she puts Rick’s hat on RJ (Anthony Azor), she ominously tells us that they didn’t know when they started this that this would be the day that everything changed…. She says that she was afraid to say it – and many things out loud.

It’s like a good luck charm for her and RJ too. She also picks up Michonne’s Bill of Rights, and thinks of a secret saying she shared with her dad. Carl dreamed of a time they’d all live together in peace. But that comes with a cost.” And as Judith picks up her katana – which is SO small now that Fleming is becoming a young woman! – and Rick’s pistol – she says she never got to know her mother – Lori. And we’re fighting now for something bigger – a new beginning. The voice over continues over the montage as Judith says “this family would do anything to protect each other.
