<P> As in the comics, she is accompanied by two chained walkers, side - by - side with their arms and lower jaws removed to prevent them from attacking . In removing their ability to eat, Michonne effectively tamed these walkers . Michonne has demonstrated economic uses for her pet walkers, such as using them as human pack mules by loading supplies onto their backs as well as a camouflage / repellent, as their presence and scent fools other walkers into thinking those accompanying them are also walkers . Michonne later decapitates the walkers shortly before she and Andrea are discovered by Merle . </P> <P> In the episode "Walk with Me", Michonne and Andrea are taken by a group led by Merle Dixon (Michael Rooker) from a nearby town called Woodbury, run by the Governor (David Morrissey). Andrea, having been severely ill after spending eight months on the road, embraces the town's sense of community which Michonne resists, suspicious of The Governor and his leadership . In the episode "Say the Word", Michonne ultimately decides to leave alone after failing to convince Andrea to leave . In the episode "Hounded", Michonne's suspicions of The Governor's true nature prove to be true as Merle and his men go after her under the orders of killing her . However, Michonne kills two of Merle's men and escapes . She then spies Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Glenn (Steven Yeun) on a supply run in a nearby town and overhears directions to the prison where they are staying, but Michonne is not able to make contact with them as they are ambushed and kidnapped by Merle . A wounded and weakened Michonne soon arrives at the prison with Maggie and Glenn's basket of infant supplies . In the episode "When the Dead Come Knocking", Michonne is brought into the prison, albeit cautiously, by Carl (Chandler Riggs) and Rick (Andrew Lincoln), who directs Hershel (Scott Wilson) to tend to her wounds . Michonne informs them of Glenn and Maggie's abduction by Merle, of the Governor, and of Woodbury . In the mid-season finale "Made to Suffer", she accompanies Rick, Daryl (Norman Reedus), unaware he is Merle's brother, and Oscar (Vincent M. Ward) to rescue Glenn and Maggie from Woodbury . In the process, Daryl is kidnapped . After Glenn and Maggie are rescued, Michonne breaks off from the larger group and proceeds to discover the Governor's zombie - head aquaria and reanimated daughter, Penny, whom she kills despite his pleas not to . She and the Governor get into a hand - to - hand fight, which she wins, stabbing him in the eye during the scuffle . Andrea's arrival and intervention at gunpoint prevents Michonne from killing the Governor, and Michonne instead withdraws . When Michonne returns to Rick's group, they question her reliability after her disappearance, but she counters that they need her due to the loss of Daryl . </P> <P> In the mid-season premiere "The Suicide King", Rick continues to show distrust toward Michonne, and tells her that she will be sent away when she is fully recovered . In the episode "Home", Michonne observes Rick as he hallucinates an encounter with his recently deceased wife, Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies). When the Governor and his men attack the prison, Michonne helps defend it . In the episode "I Ain't a Judas", when Andrea comes to the prison to start a negotiation with them, Michonne tells her The Governor sent Merle to kill her, demonstrating that he won't allow anyone to leave (or live) who isn't under his control . In the episode "Clear", Rick has her join him and Carl on a weapons run to Rick's hometown, where she bonds with the two and eventually earns their trust (Rick confirms to her that she is "one of us"). She confides in him about his hallucinations and tells him she used to speak to her dead boyfriend . In the episode "This Sorrowful Life", Rick reveals to Merle that the Governor claimed he would leave the prison group alone if they handed over Michonne . Merle takes it upon himself to capture her and deliver her to the Governor, but as they talk in the car he has second thoughts and releases her; he instead ambushes the Governor's group alone and kills a number of them before the Governor finds him and kills him . In the season finale "Welcome to the Tombs", following another attack on the prison Rick, accompanied by Michonne and Daryl, sets out to locate the Governor . However, they come across the scene where the Governor slaughtered his own troops . One survivor (Karen) (Melissa Ponzio) leads the group back to Woodbury to locate Andrea, as they fear the worst for her safety after learning she had fled Woodbury for the prison, but never arrived there . They manage to find Andrea but not before she has been bitten by the reanimated Milton (Dallas Roberts), whom she managed to kill . Michonne offers to stay with her in her last minutes before killing herself to prevent reanimation, using a pistol borrowed from Rick . While Michonne is with Andrea in the room, the others outside the room hear a gunshot offscreen . Michonne is seen with Woodbury's remaining citizens and the rest of the group returning to the prison, as they also bring Andrea's corpse back to bury it . </P> <P> In the season premiere "30 Days Without an Accident", Michonne comes back to the prison from her tireless search for the Governor which have proved unsuccessful . In the episode "Infected", Michonne is about to head back out on her search, but tries to get back in when a walker attack is announced and she injures her ankle . Beth (Emily Kinney) tends to her wounds, and asks her to watch Rick's baby Judith; when Beth leaves the room, Michonne breaks down crying as she cradles the baby . In the episode "Isolation", she volunteers to go with Bob (Lawrence Gilliard Jr .) and Daryl to get antibiotics from a veterinary college to treat a deadly illness that has broken out among the prison population, and Tyreese (Chad Coleman) joins them before they leave . On the car radio they hear a message offering sanctuary at a place called Terminus before the car is swarmed by walkers and they are forced to flee on foot . In the episode "Indifference", they obtain the needed medicine from the college . Daryl and Tyreese argue with Michonne that the Governor won't be found, and that she is more needed at the prison, and she ultimately agrees to give up her search . In the episode "Internment", they return to the prison with the medicine after Rick and Carl have defended the prison from a walker herd . Michonne takes the bodies to be burnt offsite and Hershel decides to go with her . In the episode "Dead Weight", Michonne and Hershel are seen chatting and laughing in the distance as they prepare the bodies for disposal, unaware they are being watched by The Governor who aims his gun at them . In the mid-season finale "Too Far Gone", the Governor kidnaps Hershel and Michonne and convinces his new group to use them as hostages to take over the prison . At the prison, the Governor takes a well - armed caravan with a tank and demands that Rick order his group to leave the prison, using Hershel and Michonne as leverage . Rick tries to reason with the Governor with the offer of living together peacefully but The Governor declares him a liar and decapitates Hershel with Michonne's katana . Rick's group opens fire, and Michonne rolls away and unties herself . The Governor orders his group to kill everyone at the prison, and they attack, breaking down the fences with their vehicles . When the Governor is punching Rick in the face, Michonne impales him through the chest with her katana and escapes as the prison is overwhelmed by walkers drawn by the noise . </P>

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