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Posted: 2020-03-23T02:17:55Z | Updated: 2020-03-23T02:17:55Z

The cat (statue) is out of the bag.

Sundays episode of The Walking Dead marked the final appearance of the shows resident feline art connoisseur, Danai Gurira s Michonne.

We knew ahead of Season 10 that Gurira was leaving the show, but the exact plan wasnt quite clear until the latest episode, What We Become. It was a trippy, confusing exit, remixing some of the shows most infamous moments and ending with Michonne riding off into the sunset after Rick (Andrew Lincoln).

In the episode, Michonne is traveling with Virgil (Kevin Carroll) to take him back home to his family and retrieve weapons from his home island. To be honest, it seems a little foolish of Michonne to leave with the newcomer based on his word, and who wouldve thought! it turns out it is. Virgils family members are zombies. He just wants Michonne to help put them down. Also, hes secretly keeping some other people captive. Whoops!

Virgil briefly captures Michonne and drugs her, causing her to hallucinate about past Walking Dead moments while struggling with the shows age-old question, Are we the baddies ?

The episode features new and old footage. In Michonnes original introduction to the show, she saves Andrea (Laurie Holden) from zombies. In the drug-induced scene, she lets her die and takes her stuff.

this callback to michonne's iconic entrance scene,, omg#thewalkingdead pic.twitter.com/3sd9mIybcu

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this callback to michonne's iconic entrance scene,, omg#thewalkingdead pic.twitter.com/3sd9mIybcu

stephy (@gIennsrick) March 23, 2020

Other scenes show Michonne joining the Saviors instead of Ricks group, shooting Glenn (Steven Yeun) and actually taking Negans (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) place at the infamous lineup scene from the Season 6 finale.

This was that shot of Michonne holding Negans bat, Lucille, from the Season 10 trailer .

After she hallucinates Rick shooting her in the head, Michonne comes out of it. She and the other prisoners eventually overtake Virgil, who was apparently going to release everyone the whole time. He just wanted Michonnes protection from the other people. OK. Whatever, dude.

Everyone lets him live because it turns out they are the goodies after all. Yay!

Michonnes exit comes when she finds Ricks boots among Virgils stash of stuff. He points out a boat where he found the boots, and she also discovers a cellphone with pictures of her and Judith (Cailey Fleming) etched into it, along with Ricks name.

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Even though thats clearly not how to use a cellphone, the drawing seems to be enough proof for Michonne that Rick is alive. With her daughter Judiths blessing, Michonne heads off to find him.

Is it weird that Michonne is essentially abandoning her kids to search for Rick? Sure. But she had to leave somehow, and its better than tripping into a bunch of zombies, a la Carl (Chandler Riggs) . If she has the possibility to show up in the future Rick Grimes movies, thats probably the best-case scenario.

Until next time, Michonne. Its not farewell for good; its just goodbye for meow.

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