[Carol really, really hates to admit it, but Merle has a point about the double standard. A resentment she didn't have until after Rick claimed he couldn't trust her with his children. Given how things went with Sophia, those words cut her deeply.]
I had to try. [And it was worth the try, she feels. How many could have been saved if she'd succeeded? And they would have, likely, died even had she not stepped in...]
[Those are rationalizations, and Carol knows it. But she has to feel like it was for some reason, some good purpose, that she didn't kill two innocent people and give up her only family for nothing.]
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I had to try. [And it was worth the try, she feels. How many could have been saved if she'd succeeded? And they would have, likely, died even had she not stepped in...]
[Those are rationalizations, and Carol knows it. But she has to feel like it was for some reason, some good purpose, that she didn't kill two innocent people and give up her only family for nothing.]