12/26/2023 0 Comments The go getters bandBy now, the Saviors’ methods of subjugation are well established enough that exploring how they play out in yet another community just feels redundant. “Go-Getters” is more compact than last week’s superfluously super-sized episode, but that’s about its only advantage. Jesus isn’t taking Gregory’s place, exactly: He remains a useful idiot, a way of keeping the Saviors believing that Hilltop is still fully in their thrall. (That Gregory winds up pointing the Saviors to his personal cache of Scotch is a fitting, if minor, comeuppance.) When Gregory predictably flips out after the Saviors have left, Jesus pushes back: Either Maggie and Sasha stay, or the Saviors will find out what Gregory’s been doing behind their back, and his will be the next grave to be dug. But Gregory’s disloyalty was predictable enough that Jesus outmaneuvered him, stashing the two women in Gregory’s room instead. ![]() to the hall closet where he’d sent them to hide. He attempts to betray them, pointing Simon and co. He’s none too pleased that they took matters into their own hands.įortunately, if not very plausibly, Simon seems unaware that Sasha and Maggie were involved in fighting off the zombies, but the risk that they might be discovered throws Gregory into a panic. Simon, who leads the group of Saviors that roars through Hilltop’s gates, admits that they staged the previous evening’s incident as a way of demonstrating their power: The idea was to place Hilltop under threat and then save them from it. Even defending themselves against zombies is too much of an act of defiance. It’s not entirely clear how, being both a coward and a charisma-free weasel, Gregory ever came to lead the Hilltop colony, but when the Saviors finally show themselves the day after the car attack, we get an inkling that he primarily has the job because no one else wants it, and anyone who tries a more aggressive tack with the Saviors winds up in the ground. Fearing that sheltering her and Sasha could be seen as an act of defiance by the Saviors, and utterly lacking in anything resembling a spine, he orders them both to leave Hilltop-although, being a generous man, he’ll give them until the following morning to make themselves scarce. Given the way Gregory drooled over Maggie the first time she visited Hilltop, you’d think he might be glad to have her around full-time, but this “smart, beautiful woman” no longer floats his boat now that she’s carrying another man’s baby. But it’s Maggie who saves the day, first by playing Paul Revere and sounding the alarm, then by hopping into the Hilltop’s tractor and going monster-truck on the offending vehicle. The Saviors send an armored car blasting loud music through Hilltop’s gates, knowing that it will attract zombies to the settlement, and Sasha and Jesus lead the charge against them, with the latter deploying some sweet flying-kick moves. She makes a point of taking Glenn’s last name-it’s “Maggie Rhee” now-and when the Saviors launch a nighttime attack on the Hilltop, she rises to its defense despite the doctor’s advice that she should take it easy for a bit. ![]() Despite the trauma of watching her husband bludgeoned to death in front of her, Maggie remains determined, and her baby remains unharmed.
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