The Walking Dead/Warlords

Warlords
Season 11, Episode 13
Airdate	March 20, 2021
Written by	Jim Barnes & Erik Mountain
Directed by	Loren Yaconelli
Stream
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The Walking Dead — Season Eleven

Warlords is the thirteenth episode of the eleventh season of The Walking Dead, and the one hundred sixty-sixth episode overall.

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

and Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Negan)

Also Starring: Eleanor Matsuura (Yumiko Okumura) (credit only), Nadia Hilker (Magna) (credit only), Cailey Fleming (Judith Grimes) (credit only), Cassady McClincy (Lydia), Lauren Ridloff (Connie) (credit only), Paola Lázaro (Princess) (credit only), Michael James Shaw (Mercer) (credit only), Lynn Collins (Leah Shaw) (credit only), Josh Hamilton (Lance Hornsby), Margot Bingham (Max) (credit only), Laila Robins (Pamela Milton) (credit only), Michael Biehn (Ian), Jason Butler Harner (Toby Carlson), Medina Senghore (Annie), Okea Eme-Akwari (Elijah), Connor Hammond (Jesse)

Co-Starring: Kien Michael Spiller (Hershel Rhee), Gustavo Gomez (Marco), Michael Hanson (Jake Daniels), Braian Rivera Jimenez (Green), Henry Bazemore Jr. (Sgt. Crowe), Jenique Hendrix (Hart), Camry Rose Brault (Shipment Trooper)

Plot Overview

Aaron and Gabriel are tasked with trying to welcome a new community into the Commonwealth. It's not until it's too late do they learn why they're there.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Hornsby claims a group called Riverbend hijacked a convoy full of supplies "for that other thing." He asks a former CIA agent, Toby Carlson, to carry out a stealth mission to find the weapons, using Aaron and Gabriel to help them let their guard down. Toby kills the leader after not knowing anything. After securing the building, he begins killing members until they reveal where the weapons are.

• Gabriel reunites with Negan and a woman named Annie and they are holed up in the building. With them seeming to sincerely have no knowledge about the weapons, they resolve to fight back as the troopers are ordered to find and kill anyone who doesn't know.

• Aaron regroups with Maggie, Lydia, and Elijah who enter the building.

Characters

• Elijah seems to have an interest in Lydia.

• Negan is revealed to now be apart of the Riverbend group.

Trivia

The Show

• After the episode begins, we cut back to the following various points:

• ONE WEEK AGO
• ONE WEEK (AND ONE HOUR) AGO
• TWELVE HOURS AGO

DURING THE ATTACK

• NOW

Behind the Scenes

• Michael Biehn becomes the second high profile actor from the Terminator films to appear in the series, following Robert Patrick from the previous season.

Quotes

• Ian: Hey, dickless. If I found those weapons, don't you think I--

(Toby shoots Ian)

Toby Carlson: Ready the shelf, warlord. Top shelf, dead centre. How's that sound? Right above Billy. Ooh! Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hey! Hey, where'd you go, huh? All that talk and you died so quick.

• Aaron: We are supposed to be helping people.

Toby Carlson: We are. This is the other side of it. Snuffin' out threats. This is how we make the world safe.

• Annie: What we need to do now is stick together. You can forget about giving up or begging for forgiveness. Ian's dead. But he wasn't our first leader. He wasn't what kept us together this long. We did and we did it by working together as a family. And right now, our family's scattered all over this building, but you know what? We know this place better than the assholes in our house do. We're coming out of this on top.

Negan: So that was, um... That's pretty good. They... They took out our best.

Annie: Yeah, but they needed to hear it.