'The Walking Dead: Dead City' Season 2 Episode 7 Recap: Nothing Will Be the Same After That Shocking Twist Ending

The second season of The Walking Dead: Dead City has been full of ups and downs. As boring as it has been to see Maggie (Lauren Cohan) forced back to New York City, and as disappointing as it is to see Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) so lifeless, there have also been many interesting moments. At the top has been the corruption of Maggie's son, Hershel (Logan Kim), by the Dama (Lisa Emery), but lately we've also seen Negan start to fight back, playing the Dama and the Croat (Zeljko Ivanek) against each other so he can return to his family.

In the last episode, "Bridge Partners Are Hard to Come by These Days", Negan finally gets to see his family, but before they can lay eyes on him, his shame causes him to send them away. Negan still has a purpose in New York anyway. He still needs to be there for Maggie and Hershel, as he'll always be in their debt. All of that nearly didn't matter, because in the episode's final seconds, Ginny (Mahina Napoleon) had a gun pointed at Negan's head, ready for her own vengeance, but her previous wounds caused her to pass out. As we faded to black, Negan cried, knowing he'd destroyed someone else's life. Can he make up for his sins in the seventh episode,"Novi Dan, Novi Početak", which is Croatian for, "New Day, New Beginning"?

Negan Must Risk His Life To Save Ginny

The episode begins with Maggie on the hunt for Hershel. She follows the sound of music to the Dama's quarters, where she finds her burnt body on the ground. The Croat sits there, looking sad, and Maggie demands to know where Hershel is. He has to be here. The Croat says he doesn't know where her son is, but a threat to cut off pieces of him gets the Croat to agree to help. Maggie and the Croat end up in Hershel's old room, but he's not there. The Croat then remembers a safe house he had discussed with the Dama, but it won't be easy to get into.

Negan takes an unconscious Ginny back to his cell, where Benjamin Pierce brings him supplies. A sullen Negan says he's sending Ginny home as soon as she's better. He then opens up to Pierce about taking care of his first wife, Lucille, when she was dying of cancer. He says that he failed Lucille, but he got a second chance with his second wife, Annie, and her son. He admits that he failed them, too. Now here's Ginny, and Negan doesn't understand why God keeps giving him second chances. Wondering where Pierce got medical supplies, he goes to the church sanctuary, hoping someone will have medicine. One man tells a story about a hospital nurse who was storing medicine in a third-floor operating room at Bellevue as the outbreak started. Others have gone in there looking, but no one's come back. You know that's not going to stop Negan.

Negan leaves Pierce to watch over Ginny, but he can't understand why this stranger is helping them. Benjamin admits that he doesn't have a lot of experience with other people. He was a boy when the outbreak happened and has no memory of the time before it. Negan puts an arm on his shoulder, then kisses an unconscious Ginny, her breathing now raspy. If he's going to save her life, he has to be quick.

Can the Croat Lead Maggie to Hershel?

The Croat takes Maggie to the safe house. It's on the top floor of a skyscraper, but the problem is that there is no way in except to go to the tower next door and walk across a makeshift bridge made of glass that's several floors up. They slowly make their way through the tower next to the safe house. The Croat had set traps there in the past, but it was so long ago he can't remember where they are. He notices Maggie looking down the stairwell and tells her people don't have a fear of heights. Instead, they have a compulsion to jump, especially if their life is filled with pain. He disengages a trap, pulling Maggie out of her trance with the blackness beneath.

Negan makes it to the third floor of the hospital, where he must hide from a small group of walkers, but then he comes across a small boy who is undead. Negan pulls out his knife, but he can't do it, so he goes to trap the boy in the room, only to fall and knock himself out. Negan wakes up from his unconsciousness in time to find the undead boy ready to chomp down on him. Bleeding from the back of his head, he staggers off.

Maggie is exhausted and near collapse as she follows the Croat through a maze of office cubicles. For a moment, she loses her guide and has to fight off some walkers alone, but as the Croat comes back, she collapses. Maggie wakes up in a meeting room with the Croat sitting at a table in front of her. She pulls out a knife, but that's not necessary. He means her no harm. The Croat talks about how his mother believed in him, just like Maggie believes in and protects Hershel. She opens up about her mother dying when she was young, sending her dad into a depression.

Maggie's Greatest Threat Is Alive and Well

A chilling scene has Negan walking into a room filled with child walkers, but they're catatonic and can't see him. He quietly makes his way through them, like they're landmines, to the operating room. The walls are ripped apart where others have looked for the medicine. Negan starts smashing through the operating room walls, too, but there's nothing there. He's ready to give up, but then he notices someone human and masked watching him from the ceiling tiles. He chases after them, awaking the zombie kids as he goes, and tackles them in the lobby. The bag they carry is empty. When Negan pulls down their mask, he's impossibly staring into the face of Lucille. He apologizes for how he treated her when she was dying, but she's grateful. Negan is obviously concussed as the world spins, and he grabs at his head. When he looks up again, it's Annie and her son that he sees now. They disappear, and he walks out of the hospital, having found nothing. At hearing a whistle, he turns to see Ginny watching him. That can't be good. Negan brings a breathing machine back for Ginny and tells Pierce that people will be arriving soon to kill everyone. Ginny can't be moved, though, and Negan won't leave her. He won't show mercy when they arrive. Instead, he will kill them all.

The Croat and Maggie make it to the glass bridge. Without fear, the Croat crosses it, but Maggie is terrified. Her fear causes her to stop in her tracks halfway across, and she's unable to move as a walker attacks, causing the glass to begin to break under their weight. The Croat screams for her to move now. Maggie fights through the fears and is able to slowly crawl across the glass in the most tense scene of the season, with the Croat saving her life by pushing a ladder out to her right before the glass breaks.

Maggie and the Croat now walk into the safe house, but no one is there. Maggie wants to know why she was brought here, and she holds the Croat out the window, ready to let go. The Croat came here to die, he confesses, but he needs Maggie to do it for him. She refuses, knowing Hershel has to be here, but she stares down at the street below for a long time, feeling the temptation to jump, before the Croat pulls her back. At night, the Croat talks to Maggie about his mother leaving him when he was a child. Grown-up, he found her two days after she had died, living just 10 kilometers away. The Croat lived in this building, hiding and contemplating death, until he found the Dama. Her gift is seeing pain and knowing what to do with it.

Looking across the skyline, Maggie sees a light on at a building. The source of the light is the New York Times. The Croat won't go inside with Maggie. This isn't about him. He shakes Maggie's hand and walks away. Maggie goes inside and finds Hershel standing in a room, pointing a flashlight outside. He's shocked to see his mother and goes to her, a smile on his face. They embrace and both apologize. It looks like everything's going to be okay, but from the darkness comes the Dama. She's not dead after all. In the last seconds, she knocks Maggie unconscious. Will Maggie get out of Dead City's Season 2 finale alive?