Craven claims to be sympathetic to Negan's plight, but the bikers didn't find the doctors where Negan had claimed they had given him the drugs. Negan insists that keeping him there is killing both Negan and Lucille. Negan begs his captors to let him go as his wife has cancer and she needs the chemotherapy drugs in his cooler. Twelve years earlier, a terrified Negan is tied to a chair in a bar. After digging numerous holes, Negan finally hits something and, with a smile, recovers Lucille from where she has been buried for years. The next day, carrying a shovel, Negan returns to the tree where he had fought Rick Grimes and remembers Rick slitting his throat and Michonne telling him that they don't have Lucille and that the bat is "still out there." Negan begins digging holes around the tree while a walker slowly approaches him from across the field. Negan tosses his glass at the chair, shattering the glass and causing the hallucination to disappear. "It's time to face the facts old man: you are nothing without her," tapping Lucille. Negan calls his younger self a clown and "a cult of personality with no cult." The younger Negan reminds his older self that he had gotten a lot further as Negan leader of the Saviors than he's gotten just by being kind. The younger Negan taunts him about how Negan believed that the people in Alexandria would ever see him differently than who he truly is, the younger version of himself that had been the brutal leader of the Saviors. That night, Negan sits drinking heavily by the fire when he hallucinates a younger version of himself sitting in a chair holding Lucille. With a smile, Carol tells Negan that the rabbit they caught is for him and leaves without answering Negan's question. Although disappointed, Negan accepts this and asks if he was really banished by the council or if Carol acted on her own again. Carol feels that given their less recent history, it's better than Negan deserves. Carol explains that Daryl helped her to move Negan in and that the council has voted to banish him and that what Negan wants isn't going to happen and that it's not possible. Carol leads Negan to Leah's Cabin where he finds his belongings inside. Although he doesn't mind being "lay low Negan" for a bit, Negan asks if Carol can help him smooth things over with Maggie, stating that given his and Carol's recent history, Negan feels that she at least owes him that much.
Negan later accompanies Carol hunting and thanks her for getting him out of Alexandria for awhile due to how tense things currently are with Maggie.
Negan works on rebuilding in Alexandria with Barbara while Maggie, walking with Hershel, glares at him from across the street. There, Negan reflects on his late wife Lucille and the events that led him to this point.
With Maggie back at Alexandria, Carol takes Negan on a journey to minimize the increasing tension.