Lesley Ann Brant | The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

• Genre: Horror, Serial drama, Zombie apocalypse
• Created by: Scott M. Gimple, Danai Gurira, Andrew Lincoln
• Based on: The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, Charlie Adlard
• Showrunner: Scott M. Gimple
• Starring: Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, Pollyanna McIntosh
• Composer: Sam Ewing
• No. of episodes: 6
• Executive producers: Robert Kirkman, David Alpert, Gale Anne Hurd, Denise Huth, Brian Bockrath, Greg Nicotero, Danai Gurira, Andrew Lincoln, Scott M. Gimple
• Production location: New Jersey
• Cinematography: Adrian Peng Correia
• Running time: 52–60 minutes
• Production companies: Skybound Entertainment, Valhalla Entertainment, Circle of Confusion, Hush Hush Films, Gurazoo Productions, Idiot Box Productions, AMC Studios
• Network: AMC
• Release: February 25 – March 31, 2024

A love story of two people kept apart by an unstoppable power, trying to find each other.

"Years"

Five years after being taken by the CRM,[a] Rick Grimes has tried unsuccessfully four times to escape, including sending a message in a bottle to Michonne along with his belongings on one occasion and chopping his own left hand off on another. Rick is assigned as a consignee, someone who spends six years doing work on the outskirts of Philadelphia – now the Civic Republic – before being allowed into the city. Rick dreams of a regular life with Michonne and eventually accepts an offer from Lieutenant Colonel Donald Okafor to join the CRM. Okafor reveals that he had helped the CRM, then the Pennsylvania National Guard, save the city from being napalmed at the cost of his own wife and he attempts to recruit Rick and Pearl Thorne into his plan to change the CRM from the inside. After another failed escape attempt and the destruction of Omaha, Rick finally accepts his new life and a position building a CRM forward operating base in the Cascade Mountains. Recalling a story from his childhood, Rick agrees to join Okafor's plan, just before their helicopter is shot down and Okafor is killed by an explosive projectile. The attacker then kills the other soldiers one by one after they exit the helicopter until she gets to Rick. She takes his helmet off and recognizes him, then takes her own mask off, revealing herself to be Michonne, who is reunited with Rick for the first time in years.

"Bye"

In a flashback, Jadis approaches Rick in Millennium Park, and explains her people's deal with the CRM and her intention to sign up. However, Rick is only interested in escaping. After returning to base, Rick enlists Thorne's help in successfully getting Michonne into the consignment program, but Jadis warns that if Rick and Michonne escape, she will have to kill everyone that he loves for security. Rick attempts to help Michonne escape on her own, but she refuses to go without him. While touring Millennium Park, Michonne meets the artist who created Rick's engraved iPhones and finds new hope. After receiving the Echelon Briefing - the revelation of all of the CRM's secrets - and a promotion, Thorne becomes unsure of whether to follow in Okafor's footsteps, reluctantly enlisting Michonne's help for the mission. When Michonne goes rogue during a walker fight, Thorne nearly kills her, and Rick ends their relationship in an attempt to protect her. Having earned Major General Beale's trust, Rick is slated to receive a promotion in advance of a summit of the CRM's entire leadership. However, Michonne throws herself and Rick out of a helicopter in a daring mid-air escape on the return trip in the middle of a severe thunderstorm.

"The Last Time"

Rick and Michonne return to Cascadia Base where Michonne sneaks in and finds and destroys Jadis' dossier before attending a briefing for the Frontliners where Michonne learns that the CRM intends to abduct select children from Portland before destroying the city with chlorine gas. Rick is given the Echelon Briefing in which Beale informs him of the truth about the destruction of Omaha and the Campus Colony and the upcoming attack on Portland. Beale reveals that, believing that humanity only has around fourteen years left, the CRM is going to declare martial law on the Civic Republic and destroy survivor communities all across the world, scavenging their resources to ensure their own survival. Rick kills Beale with his own sword, and Rick and Michonne rig up a makeshift bomb on the chlorine gas arsenal before being confronted by Thorne who had deduced the truth about Michonne's identity. Michonne is forced to kill Thorne, and the bomb and the gas kills the CRM Force Command and all of the Frontliners. With the CRM's atrocities exposed and its command structure decimated, the civilian government takes over and reforms the CRM to aid other survivors while enabling free travel to and from the city. Rick and Michonne return home and are finally reunited with their children, Judith and R.J.