The Walking Dead/Acts of God

Acts of God
Season 11, Episode 16
Airdate	April 10, 2021
Written by	Nicole Mirante-Matthews
Directed by	Catriona McKenzie
Stream
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The Walking Dead — Season Eleven

Acts of God is the sixteenth episode of the eleventh season of The Walking Dead, and the one hundred sixty-ninth episode overall.

Starring: Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon), Melissa McBride (Carol Peletier) (credit only), Lauren Cohan (Maggie Rhee), Christian Serratos (Rosita Espinosa) (credit only), Josh McDermitt (Eugene Porter), Seth Gilliam (Gabriel Stokes), Ross Marquand (Aaron), Khary Payton (Ezekiel), Cooper Andrews (Jerry) (credit only)

and Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Negan)

Also Starring: Eleanor Matsuura (Yumiko Okumura) (credit only), Nadia Hilker (Magna), Cailey Fleming (Judith Grimes) (credit only), Cassady McClincy (Lydia), Lauren Ridloff (Connie), Paola Lázaro (Princess) (credit only), Michael James Shaw (Mercer) (credit only), Lynn Collins (Leah Shaw), Josh Hamilton (Lance Hornsby), Margot Bingham (Max), Laila Robins (Pamela Milton), Angel Theory (Kelly), Medina Senghore (Annie), Okea Eme-Akwari (Elijah), Avianna Mynhier (Rachel Ward), Teo Rapp-Olsson (Sebastian Milton), Gonzalo Menendez (Commonwealth Soldier) Matt Bushell (Romano)

Co-Starring: Kien Michael Spiller (Hershel Rhee), Gustavo Gomez (Marco)

Plot Overview

Hornsby arranges for his plan to eliminate Maggie and those helping her, which includes a vengeance seeking Leah.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Max manages to steal what's needed with the names over 200 people accompanied by numbers. Still needing to figure out what they mean, Connie decides to simply write the story about the heists. The realisation about Pamela worries everyone about how the people react. Magna brings in Ezekiel who has rounded up others to help to get the article out.

• After Daryl, Aaron, and Gabriel survive the attempt to eliminate them, they reunite with Maggie and the others.

• After failing to "clear the field," Hornsby decides to "take it all." We then see Alexandria, Hilltop, and Oceanside under Commonwealth occupation with the residents of the latter of the three gathered and tied up as Hornsby flips his coin.

Characters

• Maggie expresses gratefulness for Negan saving her son, earning his trust, although Hershel still doesn't.

• Leah finally confronts Maggie, but the two get into a fight that ends with Daryl killing Leah.

Trivia

The Show

• The teaser opens with a scene from later in the episode with the first act following the trend from previous episodes by having the text:

19 Hours

And One Act

Of God Ago

Quotes

• Negan: You helped us and I am grateful. And I got no problem watching the kid, at all. But, Annie, my wife, is pregnant, so there is no way I'm gonna sit in some Whisperer worm hole while you're out... I don't know, saving some shithole of a home that's not worth saving.

Annie: Negan, don't.

Maggie: Actually, he's right. Maybe Hilltop isn't worth saving. Those people are. This fight that I'm in, that I started, with Hornsby, it's not gonna end until I end it.

Negan: And I got no doubt you will. But I also got no doubt that you are firmly in the crosshairs of this Lance asshole, so... So I'm coming with you.

Maggie: No. I'll finish it.

Annie: Maggie, we can help fight--

Maggie: No, please. I need you to stay here with Hershel, with those others. Keep them away from Hilltop and safe until this is over.

Negan: He doesn't exactly trust me, you know?

Maggie: But I am starting to. You saved him at Riverbend. Whatever else happens and whatever else has happened, I will never forget that.

Negan: You have big balls, Maggie Rhee. I got you. And I got your boy.

• (everyone's attention is grabbed by the large swarm of locusts flying overhead)

Negan: Oh, shit. If that ain't a sign from the Man Upstairs.

• Leah: I have waited for this moment for a long time.

Maggie: I know what you want. I wanted it myself for a long time. You can't kill me. That would be too easy. If that was what you wanted, you would've done it already. You want me to suffer. Feel everything that you felt. All the pain. 'Cause somewhere inside you, you think that'll take away your pain. It won't.

Leah: You're wrong. It's not just you. By the time I'm done, everyone you love will be dead.

Maggie: Then I guess that makes us even. I took your family, you take mine.

Leah: Nature has a way of taking care of these things.

Maggie: It's not nature. Or fate. It's us. I killed your people because it was what I wanted. If this is what you want, Leah... Go ahead. You want it, so do it. Go on.