The Walking Dead Season 9, Episode 4 ‘The Obliged’ (Bring Out Your Dead! Live Blog)

Welcome back to Bring Out Your Dead: Bleeding Cool’s The Walking Dead Live-Blog!, as we take a look at the fourth episode (and the second-to-last episode for Andrew Lincoln's Rick Grimes) in the game-changing ninth season of AMC‘s long-running drama-horror series, ‘The Obliged.’ /// Less than two years after Rick, Maggie (Lauren Cohan), Michonne (Danai Gurira), and the rest of the communities banded together to bring down Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and the Saviors, work on rebuilding society continues on – as Negan stews in a prison cell. And while the communities may be working together, not all are created equal: the Sanctuary is unable to grow its own food – or move out from under the shadow of the Saviors, thanks to those still loyal. Add to that a growing view among the communities that they shouldn’t feel obligated to save a community that once tortured and killed their citizens – a view Maggie’s shared since Rick made the decision to let Negan live. /// After last week’s episode, Maggie and Daryl (Norman Reedus) decided on a more “permanent” solution to the communities’ “Saviors problem” – starting with Negan. In this week’s episode of AMC's The Walking Dead, ‘The Obliged,’ we see their plan unfold - and see if Rick can make things right. /// The Walking Dead s09e04 ‘The Obliged’: Rick’s vision of a civilized future is threatened by a sudden reckoning with past sins that remain unavenged and unforgiven.