The communities join together on a risky run into Washington, D.C. to look for farming supplies. After a fatality tensions run high at Hilltop, while Daryl decides he wants to leave the Sanctuary.
Rick and Daryl lead a work crew to restore a bridge vital to trade between the communities, where tensions with the Saviors run high. As Maggie considers the future of her prisoner, the workers come under attack by a herd of walkers.
After one of the Saviors from the bridge project turns up dead the fragile alliance hangs by a thread, as an unknown assailant continues to target members of the work crew.
After Maggie sets out from Hilltop to see Negan face-to-face, Daryl tries to keep Rick away from Alexandria -- only to fall into a trap. Meanwhile Michonne visits Negan's cell, where she is confronted by her own past traumas.
Critically wounded, Rick leads a herd of walkers while he hallucinates people from his past and present -- uncertain if his own part of the story has come to an end. Maggie arrives in Alexandria to confront Negan.
The citizens of Alexandria are on guard when Judith brings five newcomers to the town, and must decide whether or not they can be trusted. Henry and Carol depart the Kingdom to visit Hilltop, but are waylaid en route.
While Michonne accompanies the new group on the road to Hilltop, Jesus struggles to fulfill his new leadership role there. Meanwhile Carol and Henry pay a visit to Daryl's new home away from home.
A rescue team searches for Eugene, unaware of the disturbing new danger from a seemingly intelligent herd. Michonne and the new group arrive in Hilltop, and Henry makes some new friends.
The communities are forced to regroup after discovering a group masquerading as Walkers -- and Michonne finds herself a prisoner. Negan must survive on his own after escaping is cell, and Hilltop sends out search parties to find their missing people.
While Hilltop's new captive reveals more about her childhood and the leader of the Whisperers, the newcomers put their place in the community at risk by striking out in search of Luke.
Hilltop is threatened when Alpha brings her people to the gates in an effort to retrieve her daughter. Ezekiel leads a group from the Kingdom on a supply run, including a risky gambit for a rare item.
With the leadership of Alexandria at odds over their support for the Kingdom, Gabriel must decide his future with Rosita. Henry follows Lydia and the Whisperers, but soon finds himself a captive in the lion's den.
Pursued by Beta and the Whisperers, Daryl's group sets a trap inside an abandoned building -- though Lydia is hesitant to take up arms against her people. Elsewhere Carol and Ezekiel seek a nonviolent solution when faced with a new threat to the Kingdom and the fair.
Daryl brings Lydia and Henry to Alexandria, opening old wounds for Michonne -- who once opened the town's gates to an old friend and another group of young people.
As the fair kicks off at the Kingdom the leaders of the four communities assemble to heal old wounds and forge a new alliance -- while Alpha makes a deadly move to reassert her dominance.
