The Walking Dead: Dead City – Season 2 Episode 6 'Bridge Partners Are Hard to Come by These Days' Recap & Review
Episode 6 of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 begins with Bruegel bringing Ginny, Hershel, Maggie and Perlie to his museum. After they head in, one of the guards is dragged away.
Meanwhile, the Croat tries to defend himself as he explains the Dama's death to Negan. Negan is ready to kill him but thankfully, the Croat doesn't figure out his trap. In fact, Croat tells him that he is free to go with his family.
Back at the museum, Maggie convinces Perlie to head home. Her progress is ruined when Bruegel offers to give Perlie the methane and destroy the Burazi. In exchange, Perlie is to end New Babylon's invasion. We also see Bruegel heartlessly killing the mauled guard. Maggie doesn't trust him and is shocked to see Perlie consider his offer.
It cuts to Negan and the Croat discussing what to do next. The Croat regrets the Dama's death and the eventual departure of Negan. He is lonely and Negan claims it is a fresh start. They smoke together and the Croat tries to convince Negan to come to Croatia with him. The moment is broken when the Croat sees Negan's bloody boot and realises that he killed Dama's rat. The Croat grabs Lucille 2.0 and beats up Negan, upset by his betrayal and manipulation. Negan gets the upper hand and a cowering Croat declares that he is what Negan made him. Negan looks sad but kicks him out.
Onto the methane drama, Perlie wants the dead soldiers' sacrifice to mean something. Maggie insists that they can get the methane alone and Perlie realises that she doesn't want Bruegel to kill Negan. Both Hershel and Ginny are upset by this revelation. Ginny storms off and Maggie goes after her. She sees herself in Ginny and explains that she is conflicted about killing Negan, as she is scared of the other side. Maggie adds that revenge has cost her everything and it won't get better with Negan's death.
Back to Negan, he mourns Croat's exit and hides in the prison. He finds Benjamin and frees him. But the historian doesn't know what to do next as he has lost his purpose. Negan declares that history is just the winner's story. He believed that by killing rival surviving communities, his people were winning. But now, he realises that he has just broken his own people, like the Croat.
That night, Hershel tries to infect the museum's water supply with walker blood. Maggie stops him and begs him to go home. She blames the Dama's influence and he lashes out at her. He brings up her obsession with Negan and because of it, he has no real home. He tries to leave, but a bear pops up. Maggie tries to distract it but she is cornered. Hershel weakens it with his knives and kills it before running off.
Maggie goes after him and runs into Negan. He comforts her as he explains the Dama's almost-magical pull on lost minds. He deduces that Hershel has gone to the Dama's theatre, and in exchange, she tells him about Bruegel's ambush. He asks about Ginny and ends up trauma-dumping on how he may be a threat to his family. Maggie looks uncomfortable and leaves.
The next morning, Annie and Joshua arrive but Negan tells the Burazi to take them back to Tennessee. He goes as far as to hide so his wife and son don't spot him.
Elsewhere, Ginny and Perlie are upset as they think Maggie and Hershel have abandoned them. Bruegel invites Perlie to a game of bridge and mocks Maggie's thoughts on cheating. To him, all that matters is the actual game. There is a walker chained up and we see it is Lucia.
Before she turned, she told Bruegel about Perlie's lies on killing Negan. Bruegel looks gleeful as he claims that whether Perlie likes it or not, he is stuck in the game.
At the end of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 6, Ginny points a gun at Negan. She hesitates to kill him and then passes out. He looks worried as her wound is infected.
The Episode Review
The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 6 is yet another highlight of the season with the ingenious bear action, the angsty bromance, bittersweet reunions and betrayals. The cherry on top is the fact that Lauren Cohan is the director while churning out some hard-hitting performances and action sequences in this episode.
Viewers can see just how well she knows the characters as we get several emotional, unsaid moments from Negan's remorse at kicking out the Croat to Ginny hesitating to kill Negan.
Bruegel finally fills in the space as a worthy antagonist now that the Dama and Lucia are gone. His final reveal of walker Lucia heightens the stakes for Perlie who knows he is a dead man if New Babylon finds out about Negan. And with Bruegel being a cheat, our heroes are in danger of being betrayed.
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