SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the Season 8, Episode 14 of The Walking Dead entitled “Still Gotta Mean Something.” Proceed with caution.
Fans finally learned Jadis’ plan for Negan Sunday night.
The leader (and sole survivor) of the Scavengers captured the Savior boss after his scuffle with Rick Grimes. She took his jacket and his barb wire-wrapped bat, Lucille.
A flashback revealed how Jadis survived the massacre orchestrated by Simon, Negan’s top lieutenant. As the Saviors were mowing down the Scavengers, Jadis fled. She found a body and covered herself with blood, playing possum. After the massacre, she mourned and cleaned herself up.
Negan — who didn’t know about the massacre or that Simon ordered it — pleaded with Jadis. “That was the work of someone not following the program,” Negan said. “I’ll own this. I am sorry for this.”
Jadis chained Negan to a trolley, and then wheeled out another trolley with a walker tied to it. Rather than kill him outright, Jadis appeared to give Negan a chance to fight for his life gladiator-style, as she gave Rick earlier in the season.
A still tied-up Negan was able to find a gun and flare, as well as some of Jadis’ personal photos. He threatened to burn the photos with the lit flare. Jadis tried to wrestle the flare away, not only to save the photos, but to signal a helicopter flying overhead.
The flare went out, and by the time she retrieved another one, the helicopter flew away. She then threatened to burn Lucille as revenge, but Negan begged her not to (revealing Lucille was the name of his dead wife).
She decided to spare both Lucille and Negan. Negan offered her an alliance, but she refused, retreating back into the heaps of garbage.
Meanwhile, Morgan continued to lose his sanity, setting up his departure from the show. He and Rick went after the Saviors that escaped Hilltop, brutally killing them all.
Both Rick and Carol told Morgan he was someone who saves instead of kills, but to no avail. When Rick asked why Morgan saved him all the way back in Episode 1, Morgan said, “because my son was there.”
Later, after discovering Henry (whom he considers his son) was still alive, Morgan wept.
It was also revealed that the arrow that struck Tara was not tainted, so she will not turn.
