Or should I say several murder mysteries? We're talking about TWD, after all.
When they arrive, the place is ominously rundown, and both Gabriel and Aaron want to leave it the hell alone. Yet Carlson forces Aaron, Gabriel, and a kid named Jesse —the one who died in the intro!—to accompany him into Riverbend, alone and unarmed, and most bizarrely,the platoon of Commontroopers they’ve brought. What’s about to happen that gets Jesse killed?This is exactly as stupid a decision as Aaron and Gabriel knew it would be.
” While it turns out Carlson really does love bringing new people into the Commonwealth, he also used to be a CIA assassin, and Hornsby wants him to use his old skills to retrieve the supplies at any cost. Hornsby tells him to bring Aaron, who’s resumed his old Alexandrian work of finding and sorting out the good people wandering around the zombie apocalypse for rescue, as well as Gabriel, since the Riverbenders are religious and maybe a priest will be an asset.