You were a cop, right? So you know. Not everyone in this world is cut out to fight the shit that goes on out there. Now if you people want to make babies and grow vegetables than that is up to you. That was never what I was good at. I am good at knocking heads together and enforcing the community rules. But you tell me, Rick. Were there cutbacks at the police department? Pay freezes? Did you have to fight tooth and nail to earn your pension? Nobody values protection when they feel safe. They start thinking they don't need you. Hilltop needed a little reminder of what they had the privilege to be protected from. That's the simple truth.

You've met other groups, so you know; the men who've survived this thing are like animals. Hell, all we ever think about is sex. But do any of my mine touch you and yours? No. Did we mow you all down when you started blowing us away? No. If you feel intimidated, it's because I want you to feel that way. Because even now you still think that this is an even fight. A winning streak has to end sooner or later, Rick. You can't get cocky off the back of a thing like that.

Tell me. How exactly do you see this thing working? You imagining me tilling the earth and teaching your kid how to throw a baseball? Because I don't think either of us think that's a thing that's gonna happen, now, do we?