When he doesn't drop it she slashes it in half with her sword.
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Later that night, Michonne finds him looking at his violin and assumes it's a weapon. They find their weapons there (which Michonne confiscates) and Luke finds his priceless violin, an original Stradivarius from the 18th century. They go to where Magna, Luke and the others had last had camp and find it completely destroyed. She still won't let them have their weapons (until they need them) and she won't accompany them the whole way to Hilltop (until she learns about Rosita.) Meanwhile, Michonne, DJ and Siddiq are escorting the newcomers from Alexandria to Hilltop, because Michonne is too stubborn to let them stay in her community but too compassionate to hang them out to dry. Remarkably, The Walking Dead is evoking real emotions in me other than annoyance and eye-rolling. I'm actually tense and afraid for these characters again. The whole time I'm worried that they're about to be ambushed. While Aaron and Jesus are talking, they see a flare go off nearby and race off to find Rosita leaning against a tree in bad shape. That applies to almost everyone (except Michonne.)
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I was, frankly, enormously critical of both actors over the past couple seasons but I think they were just given bad writing and poor direction to work with. In any case, for a minute I thought that perhaps Aaron and Jesus had formed a romantic relationship but that doesn't appear to be the case (or at least not yet, though it would make sense.) I like both their characters a lot more this season. It's Siddiq who reveals to her that Maggie has left the community with Georgie. Alexandria has closed itself off to the rest of the world, and Michonne herself won't even go all the way to Hilltop for fear of running into Maggie. It appears that after Rick's death, Michonne blamed Maggie and the bad blood between the two led to the splintering of the various communities. We have a few different storylines going on in 'Stradivarius.' As is the case with the rest of this season, the show's writers and producers have done a bang-up job weaving all the different characters' stories together across each episode (for the most part.) In the past, The Walking Dead has had an annoying habit of either giving us just one or two characters per episode, or telling just one group's story per episode, leaving major characters like Carol out of the show for five or six episodes at a time.
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The rest of the episode builds toward next week.
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Now we have real terror again, if only for a moment at the beginning of the episode. This is supposed to be a scary show, but it hasn't been in quite a while. The creepy factor here is through the roof, something The Walking Dead hasn't pulled off in ages. Rosita is stumbling through the forest, bloodied up, no sign of Eugene. In Stradivarius, we pick back up after last week's insane cliffhanger. And while that's a pretty big problem, it's something that I hope we'll see resolved by the midseason finale. Really, the only thing I don't like about The Walking Dead right now is Michonne.