![]() Maggie throws up, which seems to affirm to Michelle that Maggie really is pregnant. Seeing how Maggie is dressed, Michelle knows that they must be living somewhere good. Maggie is taken away by Michelle for questioning. ![]() Carol stares up at the walkers on the other side of the window of the door. Maggie and Carol take turns protecting each other from Donnie until Paula steps in and knocks him out. He gets increasingly aggravated and eventually approaches Carol. Paula isn’t interested.ĭonnie isn’t happy that Carol is still in one piece while he’s been shot. Maggie points out that Primo doesn’t have 30 minutes to wait for help to arrive and suggests that Paula negotiate with Rick. Primo is being held by Rick, who offered a trade, but Paula is waiting for reinforcements to get there. The wounded Donnie is in pain and wants Primo, who must have some kind of medical skill. Molly has no qualms about smoking around the pregnant Maggie, while Michelle seems more sympathetic. Other members of the Saviors have mixed reactions to the baby news. Don’t hurt the baby.” The leader scoffs at Maggie’s choice to have a baby in a post-apocalyptic world. Carol tells her, “It doesn’t matter what happens to me. The leader of the group, Paula, asks Carol is she’s actually afraid to die. Is this an act, or is Carol finally having a well-deserved breakdown? Maggie stares at Carol, trying to understand what’s happening. Molly sees the rosary, which Carol grabs and cradles. Molly, one of the Saviors, removes Carol’s gag and she questions how someone with such frailty could have survived all this time. As their captors return, Carol begins to hyperventilate. Maggie uses this time to try to get the rope off her wrists while Carol grabs a rosary left by a dead walker. Welcome to the Kill Floorīound and gagged, Carol and Maggie are left alone in the kill room of a slaughterhouse while their captors take care of the walkers. The Saviors take Maggie and Carol to the safehouse to wait for those they have contacted to arrive with help. Carol wounded Donnie, one of the Saviors, when she shot him in the arm. ![]() ![]() After contacting others in their group, the Savior survivors take Carol and Maggie to a “safehouse.” The safehouse is no longer quite so safe as it has quite a few walkers roaming about, and it has no more food or supplies. Rick’s mission to kill all of the Saviors didn’t go quite as planned, and a group of survivors have captured Maggie and Carol. In “The Same Boat,” The Walking Dead tells a suspenseful story that serves to examine the transitions that both Carol and Maggie are struggling with while also introducing us to the darkness of the Saviors and the path not taken. Maggie also has a Dark World counterpart in Jeananne Goossen. “The Same Boat” was directed by Billy Gerhard (“ Crossed”), and was the 13th episode of The Walking Dead written by Angela Kang. Saviors lieutenant Paula was skillfully played by Alicia Witt, who provides a parallel to Carol’s journey. Maggie and Carol find themselves facing women quite similar to themselves, but who took a darker, more violent path than their own. Both Melissa McBride and Lauren Cohan gave outstanding performances that showcase their characters’ strength and emotional vulnerability. The episode was dominated by powerful female characters. In “The Same Boat,” The Walking Dead focuses on Maggie and Carol after they’ve been captured by a group of Saviors. ![]()
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