- Michonne revealed to Rick that they had a son named Rick Junior and that she had been pregnant when the bridge exploded
- ‘He’s almost eight,’ Michonne said
- Rick was sure that he needed to stay with the CRM to protect Michonne, but she convinced him otherwise
Michonne convinced Rick Grimes that his life was with her and not the Civic Republic Military on Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.
The spin-off series episode titled What We opened after Michonne [Danai Gurira] grabbed Rick Grimes [Andrew Lincoln] and pulled him out of a flying helicopter during a storm. They survived the fall escaping the CRM and hid inside a modern apartment in a building.
‘I can’t believe you did that,’ Rick said.
Michonne revealed to Rick that they had a son named Rick Junior and that she had been pregnant when the bridge exploded.
‘He’s almost eight,’ Michonne said.
Rick told her that he tried everything to be with her, but that they needed to go back to the CRM.
‘I’m trying to get us out of here alive and you pull us out of a goddamn helicopter!’ Rick said.
‘That’s because I don’t like who you are with them,’ Michonne said. ‘What they make you. It isn’t you.’
Michonne asked if he just was going to let them win. Rick said they won the day Jadis Stokes (Pollyanna McIntosh), who had whisked Rick away in a CRM helicopter saving him, brought him back.
‘She will destroy our whole world if I try to leave,’ Rick said. ‘I was making her let you go. I got that much out of her.’
Rick said Jadis was threatened by them.
‘We can stop her,’ Michonne said.
Michonne said they could kill Jadis but Rick said the CRM will know where to find them. Michonne then suggested they could go back and destroy Jadis’s evidence on them so they couldn’t find them.
‘We kill her and then we go home,’ Michonne said. ‘Do you still love me?’
‘Always, I’ve never stopped loving you,’ Rick said.
Rick then looked out the window and saw their helicopter had crashed into the side of a building.
‘You saved our lives,’ Rick said.
‘It’s gone,’ Michonne said. ‘So we’re gone.’
‘Yeah,’ Rick said.
‘We can go home,’ Michonne said. ‘Jadis will think we died in there.’
‘I’m not going home,’ Rick said.
Michonne said his son and Judith talk about him and call him the brave man.
‘We just got a way out,’ Michonne said. ‘They think we’re dead and you want to stay, with an army that kept you against your will for years.’
‘I have to make sure you’re protected,’ Rick said.
Rick said he stayed to make sure Rick and Judith were protected.
‘Do you remember the life we had,’ Michonne said. ‘You don’t choose to stay in prison. When the doors open you leave!’
Rick said he wanted to stay to change the CRM from the inside. Michonne didn’t think that made sense.
‘I don’t want to do this, I have to,’ Rick said.
Michonne got angry and said she was going back to her kids.
‘You’re lying, you’ll see it and it will be too late,’ Michonne said.
She walked out of the apartment and waited in the hall crying. She turned back and looked at the door and then left.
Rick finally left the apartment and went after her just as a CRM helicopter hovered towards the building. Michonne got to the lobby and saw the dead were surrounding the building.
Rick ran to the lobby to save Michonne just as the CRM fired a rocket into the building. They ran to the basement of the building to find a way out and escape the zombies walkers. Rick told her that CRM destroyed any evidence that they existed which is why they fired to destroy the helicopter.
‘The only time I feel safe is when I’m with you,’ Michonne said. ‘We don’t have to be afraid.’
‘Yes, we do,’ Rick said. ‘I’m not the brave man. You shouldn’t have come.’
Rick and Michonne then tried to escape the building, killing a walker in their path. A chandelier then fell onto Michonne’s leg trapping her.
‘You should go,’ Michonne said as hordes of walkers approached.
‘That is never happening,’ Rick said.
Finally, he was able to lift the chandelier off her leg.
‘Thank you,’ Michonne said.
‘You never have to thank me ever,’ Rick said.
They escaped to an apartment and Rick held her and the two of them kissed and then made love. Later they hugged and Rick asked about their son.
Rick said he noticed how skinny the walkers were. He said he still wanted to change the CRM. Rick asked Michonne about the ‘X’ scar on her back. She said she let this woman, an old college body, into Alexandria.
‘I was seven months pregnant,’ Michonne said. ‘She stole Judith and then some other kids. She was sick, twisted. Did this to me and Daryl.’
Michonne said they killed her and stopped looking for him for a while to care for the baby and Judith. She saw his hand that he cut off and said he was still trying to come home.
The building started to rumble and Rick told them they needed to leave.
‘We are not moving until we decide,’ Michonne said. ‘It’s not time to go until we know where we are going.’
‘You’re the love of my life,’ Rick said. ‘I couldn’t just let you go.’
‘Then come home with me,’ Michonne said. ‘It’s that simple.’
Michonne said she lied to him and actually didn’t know if Judith was okay. She told him that he was hurting her for not coming with her.
‘What did they take from you?’ Michonne said.
‘Carl, they took Carl,’ Rick said crying. ‘I lost him again. When I got taken, I fought and I fought.’
Rick said his love for Michonne kept him going.
‘I can’t live without you,’ Rick said. ‘Without you I die.’
Rick broke down crying and said he was worried about losing her again.
‘When I śaw you I got so scared,’ Rick said. ‘I needed to get ahead of it. I had to.’
Rick said he wouldn’t survive losing her. She then showed him the iPhone that had Carl’s picture drawn on it.
‘If Carl was here right now what would he say?’ Michonne said. ‘What would he want you to do with this new chance to be with those you love?’
‘Despite all the odds, I found you Rick,’ Michonne said. ‘We go home Rick and we figure out how to protect it together.’
Rick and Michonne kissed and then got dressed to leave the crumbling building. They fought the walkers together in the hall.
They ran out of the building as it crashed and got into a yellow pickup truck parked outside. They kept kissing.
‘We can make this whole damn world ours if we want to,’ Rick said.
‘Yes, we can,’ Michonne said.
Michonne drove them off and Rick looked at her and smiled.
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live will return next week on AMC.
