The Walking Dead recap: 'The Same Boat' 

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The realities of killing that nipped at Carol’s conscience in the last episode come back with full force in “The Same Boat,” a bottle episode that traces what exactly happened to Carol and Maggie during the Saviors raid.

And as the radio communiqué at the end of last week’s episode suggested, Carol and Maggie have been taken by Saviors who were out during the night’s bloodbath. “Boat” opens with the opposite end of that conversation, as a group of Saviors corner Carol and Maggie, holding them hostage as they watch Rick and his group emerge from the building.

The group, comprised mostly of women save for one man Carol shoots in the arm upon first seeing him, radios in as they watch Daryl tackle their fellow Savior, Primo. The woman on this end of the line, Paula, knows they need to keep these two alive as collateral, but she doesn’t take kindly to Rick’s offer for a trade.

He suggests they give up Carol and Maggie for their man and their lives. Rather than agree, Paula tells Rick she’ll get back to him when they decide before the group leads Carol and Maggie to a secreted away location.

And the duo’s first look at the place is a foreboding one — the camera follows their first-person perspective as they’re led through the woods, into a car, and eventually to this hideout. With the words “Killing Floor” stamped on the ground, Carol and Maggie find themselves in a Saviors safehouse. This house is anything but safe, with walkers having infested the place since anyone last inhabited it.

The most clear and present danger for Maggie and Carol, however, is Paula and her group, who hold the two on opposite sides of the room while they contemplate what to do. Paula is just itching to kill them, so she leaves them with a warning as her group goes to survey the rest of the area, and Maggie uses the ensuing moments to claw at any hope of freedom. Bound with her hands duct taped together and gagged at the mouth, Maggie scurries around to find something to free her hands with, but doesn’t make much progress before Paula’s people return.

Carol, on the other hand, simply grabs at the rosary she finds in the room and begins to fake hyperventilate as the Saviors return until they finally ungag the two of them.

While doing so the Saviors mistake Carol’s little show as signs of weakness. They wonder how someone like her has made it so far in such a cruel world, pegging her as little more than a meek, religious nut.

Carol leans into their beliefs of her, coming out as a concerned woman who just wants to make sure Maggie and her baby aren’t harmed. This includes chastising one of the Saviors, who chain-smokes like she’s got little time left to live — and she doesn’t appear to, as she’s coughing up blood.

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But perhaps the worst among them is the solitary man, who Carol shot in the arm. The pain is worsening, and their scout crew is still 30 minutes out. Maggie warns them that in 30 minutes he could lose the arm or his life — his nerves are dying as far as she can tell.

Naturally not wanting to die but hearing he might, he goes into a bit of a panic mode, wanting retribution for his injury. He wants to kill Carol, or at the very least have her pay an arm for an arm. Paula tries to stop him only to be smacked in return, setting off a chain of struggle as Maggie knocks him down and headbutts him. Carol jumps in to help Maggie, but is repeatedly kicked in return until Paula hits him over the head with the butt of her gun, knocking him out.

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