STDF ARMY

Q&A Episode 10.5 "What it Always is"

Who's the goodest boy ever?! Let's find out! Big thanks as always to our kind and wonderful source for giving us the goods!!



1. What communities are featured in this episode?

Hilltop and the Whisperers.

2. What supplies are missing from Hilltop? Do we find out what happened to them?

A crate of fish from Oceanside and a quarter of the medical supplies are mentioned. Yes, we do. More on that later.

3. Who released Negan from his cell?

We don't know exactly, but apparently not Brandon because he also asks Negan about it to no avail.

4. We see that Brandon has followed Negan. Why? And how do those interactions go? Does Negan kill him like in the comics?

This dude is straight-up psycho. He seems to have all these weird, twisted fantasies about Negan and the Saviors. I know these Q&A's are supposed to be the mother of spoilers, but the stupid shit he says and does kinda makes me want to not spoil it to not ruin the fun. He leads Negan to a place where he thinks can be the New Sanctuary. He puts barbed wire on a baseball bat and presents it to Negan "as a gift" along with his leather jacket that he says he found in the back of a storage garage. And yes, Negan does kill him, thank God.

5. Who is the lady Negan saves on the bus?

Some random lady and her son. After Brandon and Negan save them from some walkers inside the bus, Negan blows Brandon off, saying he should go wherever the hell he wants, as long as he doesn't have to see his creepy-ass face anymore. Negan then has a nice little chat with the boy (redemption arc much), goes to gather wood for a fire to make dinner. He comes back to find a psychotic Brandon whistling, rambling on how Negan sending him away was a test and that he actually wanted to see if he had the balls to do what it takes, which for him was to kill the boy and his mother, which is what he did. Upon seeing this, Negan kills him. Just as he's about to say "I am Neg--".

6. Does Negan end up at the Whisperer camp?

YES! He takes the new Lucille, crossing the border and yelling out to get the Whisperers' attention, and sure enough, Beta comes along.

7. What is Ezekiel’s secret?

Apparently, he has thyroid cancer. He shows Siddiq a lump on his throat. He says that when he was growing up, his grandmother and his father fought it and won because the survival rate for thyroid cancer is 98%, but times were different back then with all the treatment options, and now, there's nothing to be done for him.

8. What’s going on at the Whisperer camp? What are they planning?

We see what Alpha means by a change in strategy. She tells the Whisperers that when the enemy's world starts to collapse, the smart ones will know where to come and that they will be waiting. She also tells Gamma that "the metal man can be useful", implying that they will attempt to use Gamma to get to Aaron. More on this on Q10.

9. Do we find out if the Whisperers set up the walker attacks on the communities?

Yes. It turns out they were responsible for both the walker attacks and the falling of the tree. And damming (and maybe contaminating) the creek. Again, more on this on Q10.

10. Aaron appears briefly in the promo. What is he doing?

He sees Gamma killing and disemboweling a walker near the creek, turning it on its side to both block the flow of the water. I don't know if this makes sense but somehow, from what I can tell, contaminating it (because she makes sure that the walker's innards are in the water). Later on, he sees her for a second time. Gamma cuts her hand, and Aaron throws her some bandages. He asks her for her name, tells her his name, tells her that he's from Vermont, asks her where she's from, she flees mid-sentence.

11. What happens during Daryl and Connie’s search for Kelly? Do they find her and make it back to Hilltop?

Magna is also searching with them. Kelly is badly beaten up, so Daryl thinks they should find some place closer to take her. Kelly tells Magna to "tell them", and when they take them to a stash, we learn that the two of them were responsible for the thefts.

12. Is Kelly ok?

Yes.

13. What is the goodest boy Dog doing in this episode?

The goodest of all good boys finds Kelly.

14. Does anyone die?

Some walkers and ****ing Brandon.

15. Are there any shocks or surprises?

I'd say Ezekiel's cancer is the biggest surprise.

16. How does the episode end?

With Negan telling Beta "Alright, you big-ass freak. Let's do this."

17. Does anything else interesting happen?

A few things:

- Daryl and Connie interact a lot more, there's even a little bit of hand-holding. He tells her a funny story about him and Merle. They also connect a bit after bringing Kelly back safely.

- Magna and Yumiko have a big falling-out after Yumiko finds out that Magna was the one stealing supplies. They talk a bit about how Magna ended up in prison, by her account, 13 years ago. Apparently, she had a young cousin, a man hurt her, and Magna went after him for it.

- When Daryl and Siddiq come back from looking for Negan, Daryl asks Ezekiel if he's going to ask him about Carol, he straight-up says "NAH". Afterwards, when Siddiq and Dante are talking over the radio, Siddiq tells Dante to go get Carol and gets up. Ezekiel sits in front of the radio, but when he hears footsteps and the sound of a chair coming from the other side, he abruptly turns it off.

- I don't know if this means anything for the future, but Dante mentions Rosita having caught a small bug back in Alexandria.


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