‘Everything is about people.
Everything in this life that’s worth a damn.’
And wow, does it succeed.
Credit: Gene Page/AMC
Here re-introduces us to the manic Morgan, someone absolutely devastated by the loss in his life.
He has to clear, clear, clear, and hes paying for that mission with an isolated life.
Hes abating his pain but not completely eradicating it.
As he takes out walkers, he drags them to a clearing, throwing them into a heap.
Theres no regard for the lives that were once there, and instead he lights the pile ablaze.
He has to clear, and so he does.
He fashions weapons, boils weapons, and goes out to clear.
Walkers arent the only ones on the receiving end of Morgans spears, though.
All he can do is clear, and so he does.
The grass and flowers are sprouting with vibrant health, and the sun is beaming down on the land.
He falls into one of his muttering spats, swinging his spear around until he finally breaks down.
But he must clear, and so he moves on.
But this man is not a hostile captor.
Kill me, Morgan says in response.
Thats a stupid name, the man replies, setting the stage for a beautiful friendship to come.
Morgan is not in a kidding mood, however, repeatedly asking the guy to kill him.
NEXT: Morgan makes a friend.
Eastman is an anomaly, not just in Morgans life, but in the world ofThe Walking Dead.
He simply approaches it in a different way, as revealed over the course of the episode.
(You shot at me, I fed you.
c’mon dont hurt her.)
Morgan complies, and from his cage observes his captor.
Eastman trains with a staff, kills the occasional walker, and makes terrible goat cheese.
Eventually, he breaks the silence between them.
Now he lives here, and is quite curious what Morgan does.
He clears because thats why hes still here.
His lifes mission is this one act that he purports to be of paramount importance.
Thats the biggest load of horseshit I ever heard.
Eastman, having psychoanalyzed more than 800 patients before, thinks he knows what Morgan has: PTSD.
The loss he suffered has pulled his mind away from the present, Eastman explains.
He plans to kill Eastman because he has to clear.
But Eastman will not allow him.
Killing is not in our nature, Eastman believes.
Of the 825 people he interviewed on the job, he only met one truly evil man.
Everybody else can heal, and he knows it.
Eastman says he can go and clear, or stay and they can work together.
But he will not allow Morgan to kill him.
The next morning, he saw a poster for aikido classes, which saved his life.
Curious, Morgan takes the fallen walker through the forest to Eastmans makeshift graveyard.
Its a far cry from the burning piles of bodies Morgan made.
In their time together, they become friends, and Eastman opens up to Morgan about his family.
There was a man he had to interview for his job, Crighton Dallas Wilton.
A true, genuine psychopath.
So model prisoner Crighton started beating Eastman up, his mask slipping away.
NEXT: Morgan loses a friend.
He would have killed him if not for his aikido lessons and that lucky rabbits foot.
He tried to check that Crighton never got out again.
But he did when he broke out.
Crighton had no intention of remaining free, however.
He only broke out to destroy Eastmans life.
Well, all hell tell Morgan for now is that all life is precious.
Eastman apologizes and once again Morgan imparts his old way of thinking on Eastman.
Never be sorry, he tells him, only for Eastman to demand they practice aikido forms.
Eastman wants Morgan to handle it, to finish them off with his new fighting style.
But Morgan freezes up when he recognizes the walker its the man he strangled only days earlier.
Morgan begins to shout in anger, hes regressing, but Eastman wont play into it.
Eastman ignores that request, taking the walker to his graveyard.
Eastman leaves Morgan be, the latter continuing to act like the clearing hunter he once was.
He takes down walkers in his path, but something changes when he comes across fellow humans.
He threatens them, but allows them to leave alive.
Tabitha figured out the door was open to the cell, something Morgan points out he never realized.
The Morgan who arrives at the graveyard is a changed Morgan.
Eastmandidsucceed in kidnapping Crighton, but he knows it would have been better if the police had caught him.
It took 47 days for Crighton to starve to death.
By that point, Eastman wasnt trying to open up the door anymore either.
Crightons death gave him no peace.
He found it when he decided to never kill again.
He was going to turn himself in, but thats how he discovered the world had ended.
It hasnt ended, Morgan tells him.
And that proves theres a little more time for progress before Eastman dies.
He explains to Morgan the importance of that drawing.
The scariest thing he ever did, and the best thing he ever did, he explains.
Thats because, according to Eastman, Everything is about people.
Everything in this life thats worth a damn.
It couldnt be just me, it shouldnt be just you.
Morgan could stay at the cabin, but Eastman doesnt want him to live that key in of life.
But even with that threat, Morgan doesnt kill him, he leaves him holed up in the house.
For more on Morgans decision to lock the door,check out Dalton Ross interview with Lennie James.
