Chapter 69

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~~~Third person's view~~~

Carol and Ava stop Maggie from joining the gub battle against the Saviors, and as they confront each other they are approached in the night. Ava shoots a man named Donnie before she and Maggie and Carol are surrounded and surrender to Paula, Michelle and Molly. As day breaks they observe Daryl capture a Savior named Primo, and to stop the savage beating inflicted on him Paula tells Rick over a walkie-talkie that they have Ava, Maggie and Carol. Rick tries to negotiate for a prisoner exchange, and while Donnie needs the medical attention Primo could provide, Paula feels they are at a disadvantage against Rick's group and decides to withdraw.

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While awaiting reinforcements and deciding her next move, Paula and her group bring Ava, Carol and Maggie to a former slaughterhouse where the Saviors have cached supplies guarded by trapped walkers. Carol and Ava puts on an act of being frightened and weak-willed, while revealing that Maggie is pregnant in an effort to protect her. Donnie suffers excruciating nerve damage from a tourniquet and tries to physically take out his frustrations on Ava but is pistol-whipped by Paula. Paula says she doesn't blame him and casually accepts the violence, and through some direct discussions she and her companions each show a determination to fight regardless of Ava, Carol and Maggie urging them to deal with Rick.

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Paula directs Rick to a location for a prisoner exchange but believes he is being duplicitous and tracking them. Paula, Michelle and Molly prepare to flee the moment their reinforcements arrive, or to ambush Rick's group should he get to the slaughterhouse first. Left unguarded, Ava is able to free herself Car and Maggie, who insists on killing their captors. They use a zombified Donnie to ambush Molly, taking her handgun and beating her to death. Paula catches them as they negotiate a gauntlet of walkers and Ava gets the upper hand but only wounds Paula as the walkers get loose. Maggie fights Michelle who slices at her stomach with a knife and is shot dead by Carol, at the same time Ava throws her knife into her head. They catch up to a wounded Paula who fights Ava but is impaled on a spike and attacked by a walkers. Ava takes Paula's radio and tells the Savior reinforcements to meet them on the kill floor, where she traps the five men with burning gasoline.

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Killing the walkers on their way out, Maggie, Ava and Carol get to the entrance just as their own group arrive, and are embraced by Glenn and Daryl. Ava admits to Daryl that she's not OK, and Maggie tells Glenn, "I can't anymore." Carol also tells her friend Daryl that she is not ok.
Primo tells Rick that he's Negan and proposes they chat but Rick brusquely apologizes and shoots the bound prisoner in the head as Carol looks on in shock.

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