IN A HOUSE, RICK IS SLEEPING IN A BED, ALL BANDAGED UP. RICK GROANS SITS UP AND chuckles and groans again leaving against the wall.Michonne asks, "What's so funny?"
Rick asks her, "You were here the whole time?"
Michonne says, "All night. What's so funny?"
Rick says, "It's—it's like the train car. After the whole thing, I'm still there."
Michonne says, "Deanna wanted you in here, calm things down. Anastasia patched you up. Carl came by for a while. I sent him home. Rick. What are you doing?" Rick sighs. Michonne says, "We put Pete in another house. You could have told me what was happening."
"You could have told me about Anastasia." He says. Michonne gives him a look, knowing that Anastasia trusted her and she didn't want him to know for this exact reason. "It moved fast. And then Noah. I couldn't tell you about the gun."
Michonne says, "No, you couldn't."'
Rick says, "Oh, you wanted this place."'
Michonne says, "We had to stop being out there."'
Rick says looking around the small room, "Well, we're here."
Michonne scoffs, "Well, you just said you weren't."
The door opens, Glenn, Carol, Anastasia, Ash and Abraham walk in. Abraham stands by the door.Michonne asks, "Where'd you get the gun?"
Carol asks, "You took it, right? From the armory? That was stupid. Why did you do it?" Anastasia looks at Rick upset, this is what she was trying to avoid. Her kids and brothers had asked her why Rick said her name. Her brothers were ready to beat Pete's ass, which was sweet but she told them not to. She handled it.
Rick says, "Just in case."
Glenn informs them, "Deanna's planning to have a meeting tonight. For anyone who wants to."
Abraham asks, "To kick Rick out?"'
Carol says, "To try."
Glenn says, "We don't know that. Maggie's with Deanna right now. She's gonna find out what it is." Michonne and Ash look at Anastasia.
"I'll talk to Reg." Anastasia says.
Carol says, "At the meeting, you say you were worried about someone being abused and no one was doing anything about it. You say you took a gun just to be sure that Jessie was safe from a man who wound up attacking you and who attacked Anastasia. You say you'll do whatever you want them to. Just tell them a story that they want to hear. It's what I've been doing since I got here."
Michonne asks, "Why?"
Carol explains, "Because these people are children and children like stories."
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