The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live: Rick Grimes desperately tries to help Michonne escape from Civic Republic – Daily Mail

Rick Grimes risked it all to try to help his wife Michonne escape from the clutches of the Civic Republic Military on Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.

‘To get away you need someone on the inside,’ Rick [Andrew Lincoln] told his wife. ‘I’m that for you.’

The spin-off series episode titled Bye picked up after Rick and Michonne [Danai Gurira] had reunited six years after the bridge explosion that separated them. It opened with a flashback of Rick running into Jadis [Pollyanna McIntosh], who had brought him into the CRM after rescuing him.

‘You brought me somewhere I can’t leave,’ Rick told her. 

Jadis tried to convince Rick that the CRM was a great place to live.

‘I’m going home,’ Rick said.

‘Follow your bliss, Rick,’ Jadis said. ‘But I did save your life, that is what happened.’

The show flashed back to the present with Jadis telling Rick if he tried to leave the CRM that she would go after him and kill everyone he ever loved. Jadis told him to have a life with Michonne inside the CRM. 

Jadis also told Rick that if he killed her that she had a file on him that would be released and the CRM would kill everyone he loved.

Meanwhile, Michonne, who was hiding her identity and going by the name Dana, worked on the front lines clearing zombies.

Beale [Terry O’Quinn] the Major General of the Civic Republic Military (CRM), held a funeral for Donald Okafor [Craig Tate], the Lieutenant Colonel of the CRM, who was killed in action. Beale then told Pearl Thorne [Lesley-Ann Brandt] he needed to speak to her privately.

Later, Pearl returned and told Rick that Beale had promoted her to commander.

‘He told me everything,’ Thorne said. ‘He gave me the full briefing.’

‘The Echelon Briefing,’ Rick said.

‘I’m going to need you to take over logistics,’ Pearl said, ‘They’re accelerating the schedule and there is a lot that needs to be done before the commanders arrive for the opening summit.’

Pearl told him that all the commanders were going to be at the meeting. She also shared that Beale asked about ‘Dana,’ and that she wouldn’t have her pulling her down.

‘You didn’t hear what I heard,’ Pearl said. ‘You didn’t see what I saw. You will.’

After she left, Rick pulled out a map and other supplies that he had hidden in his room.

Later, Rick secretly passed Michonne a note outside that read ‘This is it, tonight, we have got to move fast.’

The note directed Michonne to a locker where he had hidden a key that would get her out of the building and told her to follow the map.

‘I love you,’ Rick said in the note.

Rick left Michonne with Beale’s treasured historical sword to use to escape in the locker. Rick cleared the zombies for her outside the city walls so she could make it to a river. He had hidden a red canoe for their escape, but by the time Michonne got there Rick was gone. He left a note instead.

‘I’m not coming,’ Rick’s note read. ‘And if you don’t go, you’ll never get away and we both die here. The only way to get you back to Judith is that I stay here to make sure. I love you forever. If you love me you’ll go.’

The next day Rick told Jadis that Michonne was gone. He said he knew he needed to get her away so that he could stay in the CRM.

‘She actually left without you?’ Jadis said.

‘She didn’t know she was leaving without me,’ Rick said.

Jadis asked him if he still wanted to kill her. Rick told her their fates were bound and how he dressed up a dead walker to look like Michonne.

‘You just make sure you’re on the investigation,’ Rick said.

‘I’ll make sure I’m on point when Dana goes, but any s*** that rains down, it wasn’t my doing,’ Jadis said.

Pearl called Rick to the yard. Rick was stunned when he saw that Michonne had returned and was back at work killing zombies. Rick pulled Michonne aside for them to talk, but Michonne didn’t say anything and walked off.

Later, Michonne went to the city on her day off to walk around. Michonne stumbled upon a man who had drawn her and Judith before on the old phones that she had carried around with her. The man told him that Rick’s late son Carl had asked him to make the drawings and their conversation gave her renewed hope.

Pearl summoned Rick and ‘Dana’ to confront them. Pearl asked ‘Dana’ to tell her who she really was.

‘I’m letting you in on a secret,’ Pearl said. ‘You are here because of me. People like you, they’re not let in. You’re a leader what we call an ”A”.

Pearl grabbed her knife behind her back and told ‘Dana’ that if she lived in the city she would try to seek justice. Pearl said she could give her a way to get answers.

‘A chance very few get, very few in the entirety of this force, very few in the world,’ Pearl said.

Rick pulled out his gun.

‘I would say yes,’ Michonne said.

Pearl put her knife back and told Rick to equip Michonne and for them to join her on a mission. Rick told Pearl that she did well in recruiting her.

‘I am not going to be responsible for a vulnerability,’  Pearl said.

The three of them then flew in a helicopter to the Cascadia Forward Operating Base. Once they landed, Pearl told them that they had a breach at the facility and 200 zombies were moving toward them.

‘We are going to move the delts ourselves,’ Pearl said.

Pearl pushed a device out in the field with Michonne and Rick helping to clear the dead. When Pearl got the car stuck, Michonne took over and pushed the cart carrying the device through the forest. Rick activated the device, which drew the zombies to it, and then it exploded. Rick and Michonne ran to a tree and the two of them kissed.

‘Come on,’ Michonne said.

‘They will find us,’ Rick said.

‘We’ll make it so they can’t,’ Michonne said.

‘Not like this,’ Rick said.

While Michonne was killing zombies, Pearl raised her rifle to kill her, but Rick stood in her way.

‘She went rogue and you followed,’ Pearl said to Rick later. ‘I trusted her. I put my neck out for her. I regret it.’

‘Don’t,’ Rick said. ‘Maybe it was too early for her.’

‘We need to take care of this,’ Pearl said.

Back at the base, Pearl told Rick that he was moving up and General Beale wanted to brief him. Michonne then saw Rick talking to Jadis.

‘Doesn’t matter,’ Rick said. ‘ You are going back to base right now, and I’m getting you the hell out of here if I have to knock you out and put you on that goddamn boat myself.’

They took a helicopter back to the CRM headquarters during a rainstorm. 

In the final moments, Michonne grabbed Rick and pulled him with her as they both fell out of the helicopter.

‘Shoto, it’s Daito,’ Michonne said using nicknames for herself and their daughter Judith. ‘I don’t know if we’ll be back.’

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live will return next week on AMC.