Carl tricks Jesus into bailing out before reaching Sanctuary and Carl continues onwhere Carl butchers lots of Saviors and Negan takes him back home to Rick and apparently we get the ironing scene from comics and Negan shocks most of Alexandria when they stroll past Ricks house and Negan is sitting there holding her on the swing unannounced.
Daryl also gets a strange note with a bike key in it and the word GO on it.
This is the start of Dwight's turn from Negan.
We know the mid season finale is:
Hearts Still Beating
Negan's unwelcome visit to Alexandria continues as other members scavenge for supplies; things quickly spin out of control.
We know from leaked info as well Rick will spend much of the 2nd half of the season visiting Hilltop, Kingdom, Oceanside and every other person he can muster to fight Negan with Dwight
Looks like the season finale on April 2 will be the start of the all out war.
Dwight I assume will start convincing Rick and the Kingdom and Hilltop Negan can be taken down in the episode above/2 weeks from now.
To do this they need to finish volume 18 in the next 2 weeks and volume 19 March to war in the 8 episodes next year( and this seems VERY likely now )
Appears we will get our All out war in the finale/next year.
What is impressive about all that is that is 4 volumes covered in 1 season( even with shitisodes ) when only 17 were covered in the previous 6 seasons.
Granted several of those seasons went way off the trail and added bunches of crap not in the comics.
I am assuming next year will only be 2 volumes which is AOW 1 +2 and season 9 will start with A New Beginning.
Sadly this means no Whisperers until season 9.
Now why I brought all this in is because I know for a fact Alexandria is attacked by a group in the next 3 episodes( including after break ) but I no longer have that leaked document and I cannot for the life of me remember if it was wolves or whisperers.
To be Whisperers would be way early and to be wolves would be shocking since they are all but gone.
Could have also been bad info and Alexandria is in fact attacked by Negan again too. I wish I had kept better records but it came pre season when I said I was done with this series.
Departures from Comic-
Jesus sneaks into Ricks room to tell him of Carl going to Sanctuary in the comics. In TV he did this last year to tell them about Hilltop instead.
In comics Rick goes to Sanctuary to save his son Carl. In TV Negan takes Carl back to Alexandria and sneaks in and finds Judith. Apparently Rick is out hunting supplies with Aaron, as are Eugene and Rosita, who run into Gabriel and Spencer and a fight breaks out between Rosita and Spencer, setting Spencer up for this death later on down the line/losing friends fast.
Negan will make Carl remove the bandage and sing at least during the next episode.