![]() The note is a transparent attempt to make it look like the doctor let Daryl go at Sherry’s behest, and even by Dwight’s standards of cowardice, it’s low. Instead, when Dwight returns, he tells Negan that he saw Sherry get killed by zombies and frames the camp doctor for aiding in Daryl’s escape by leaving him with a handwritten note from Sherry that matches the note from Daryl’s escape. In a farewell letter to him, she explains that although she had originally agreed to “leave” Dwight and join Negan’s harem in order to save Dwight’s life, she now realizes he’s becoming an unrecognizable shell of the man he used to be. ![]() Dwight immediately heads to his and Sherry’s former home, where he discovers Sherry has gone to live alone in the woods. Meanwhile, Negan sends Dwight to find Sherry. After confirming that such a pill could be made by combining the right pharmaceuticals, Eugene agrees to make it for them, but it’s clear he has reservations. Now, the women tell Eugene, Amber just wants to end it all. She’s the “wife” of Negan whose family was threatened and whose real husband recently had his face ironed because she tried to have a secret tryst with him. “Well, I was gifted these pickles,” Eugene stammers, in one of the episode’s only truly funny moments.Īfter the women of Negan’s rape harem get a whiff of Eugene’s skills as a chemist, they ask him to make a pill that will help them painlessly poison Amber. “I feel like I should give you some kind of signing bonus,” Negan comments. Instead he’s shown to a clean, well-stocked room and given a jar of pickles as a housewarming present.Įugene proves his importance as a scientist by telling Negan how to basically smelt a zombie into an armor-plated, unkillable terminator by pouring molten metal over it to permanently fuse its decaying structure into place - a clear callback to his fight with a molten-headed zombie from last season. Not only that, but Daryl has left behind a note which Dwight recognizes as Sherry’s handwriting - implying that she aided in the escape.Īt the same time, Eugene ( Josh McDermitt) arrives at the compound, terrified he’s about to be executed or tortured after his assistance in Rosita’s failed plot to kill Negan. A horrified Dwight ( Austin Amelio) realizes that not only has Daryl escaped but that Sherry is also nowhere to be found. “Hostiles and Calamities” picks up immediately after Daryl’s escape from the Saviors’ compound. Eugene “joins” the Saviors, and Negan immediately tests his loyalty the way he does best - through horrific torture It’s all right, Eugene! Gene Page/AMC The episode thus feels sinister even in its airier moments - like it’s trying to make you laugh solely in order to yank out all your teeth. Director Kari Skogland imbues this balance with thematic weight, lending solidity to a flimsy script. ![]() ![]() “Hostiles and Calamities” is a strange combination of slapstick comedy and dark cynicism, lighthearted fun and horrific sadism. That’s where “Hostiles and Calamities” - the 11th episode of The Walking Dead’s seventh season - leaves us: with Negan ( Jeffrey Dean Morgan) once again strutting around threatening people at the Saviors’ compound, while both Dwight and Eugene arrive at simultaneous moral crossroads. It’s probably inevitable that a show so committed to indulging a single character’s nihilistic fantasies about his own self-importance would eventually start to get lost in its own hollowness.
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