Warning: SPOILERS ahead for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live episode 2!
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live star Danai Gurira has opened up about Michonne’s emotional moment during episode 2. After recovering from a chlorine gas attack by the CRM, her and Nat finally make it to Bridgers Terminal, a location she hopes holds a clue to where Rick is. However, the survivors that had been living there are all dead, leading to an emotional moment where, crying, she decides to go back home to Judith and Alexandria.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Gurira explained the importance of Michonne’s emotional moment in The Ones Who Live. The actor spoke about how important it was to see her at her breaking point, mirroring Rick’s decision in episode 1 to give up trying to escape the CRM. Check out what Gurira had to say below:
That moment for her at the fire is really her letting go in a way that is just unheard of for her. It kind of breaks her, but also sort of makes her. Because she’s a mission-driven person and a love-driven person, so she has to go to her other loves now, to her children, and that becomes where she’s going to. So that aspect of her breaking to that point and then finding him right at that point is this mirror. They’re sort of mirror episodes in that regard, because that is so not her, to let go the way she finally does in that episode.
Why Michonne Almost Let Go Of Finding Rick
When Michonne and Nat arrived at Bridgers Terminal, the dead survivors they found had been piled up and burned, taken off a massive cruise ship that had once been their home. None of them had shoes on, causing worry because she’d found Rick’s boots on a boat during The Walking Dead season 10. In an emotional conversation, Nat tells her she can still believe he’s out there while also going home to her family, causing her to break down in tears.
However, after shooting down a CRM helicopter to avenge her fallen friends, Michonne is finally reunited with Rick, giving her a chance to crawl back up from her lowest point. It gives Rick a chance to do the same, since he’d previously given up on getting home before their reunion. While she almost stopped her search to go back to Alexandria, she now has an opportunity to save the man she loves while coming home to her kids.
It won’t be easy, though, as revealed by Rick’s final scene with Jadis, who knows Michonne is a consignee because of her time with the group in the main show. With a number of obstacles in their way, both of them will have to push past their hopelessness to get back to Virginia. However, now that they are back together, there’s a little more hope for each of them that their escape will be a success.
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
Created by Scott M. Gimple and Danai Gurira, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live is a sequel spin-off series in The Walking Dead television franchise. The series picks up some time after Michonne departs from the original series, as she searches to be reunited with her lover, Rick Grimes. Meanwhile, Rick finds himself amid another war between the living and the dead.
- Cast
- Andrew Lincoln , Danai Gurira , Pollyanna McIntosh , Lesley-Ann Brandt , Terry O’Quinn
- Release Date
- February 25, 2024
- Seasons
- 1
- Network
- AMC
- Streaming Service(s)
- AMC+
- Franchise(s)
- The Walking Dead
- Writers
- Scott M. Gimple , Danai Gurira
- Showrunner
- Scott M. Gimple
