RickGrimes: When I was a kid... I asked my grandpa once if he ever killed any Germans in the war. He wouldn't answer. He said that was grown-up stuff. So... so I asked if the Germans ever tried to kill him. But he got real quiet. He said he was dead the minute he stepped in to enemy territory. Every day he woke up and told himself, rest in peace. Now get up and go to war. And then after a few years of pretending he was dead... he made it out alive. That's the trick of it, I think. We do what we need to do and then, we get to live. But no matter what we find in DC, I know we'll be okay. Because this is how we survive. We tell ourselves... that we are the walking dead.
In the walking dead season 4 episode 10 After, there is a scene where Michonne gets back to the prison and sees nobody there. Then, she uses her old technique of camouflage and uses two trapped walkers as protection by tying them with ropes and cutting their jaws and arms.
Then several walkers walk with her as she is also a walker, Then she is taken aback by the sight of a specific female walker, as it physically resembles her. After a while she again saw the walker and then she kills all walkers beside her including her pets.
Small spoiler ahead: somewhere in the latter episodes she says something like being with walkers was safe because of camouflage but it wasn't life. Being with people is life. She even said that she doesn't love her sword, because it is part of that life among walkers.
She was still restless in prison and constantly going out because she still didn't handle and accept her loss when everything started, but she liked the prison and people trying to live normally. She was broken when prison went down and tried to switch to her old way, but she couldn't accept it again.
The female zombie that resembled her was not a hallucination, but the final trigger. Where she will end up, and who she is at that moment if she just walks among the walkers. It is so striking that she doesn't try to sneak out, but risks her life to fight walkers and decides who she wants to be. So death to walkers, and out to find other survivors, no more camouflage.
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