Like many of the other "The Walking Dead" shows, the zombies aren't really the point here. In fact, perhaps even more than other shows in the franchise, the people are the real problem in "The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live." While the zombies are an ever-present force, the people have even more reasons to kill. This is especially true of the CRM, who have a mandate to remain secret despite having built a city where thousands of people work and that supports a military of impressive proportions. Nevertheless, they're happy to indiscriminately blast away civilians outside of their city, although we have no idea why.
Moreover, we have no idea why they want Rick, but some light is shed by Maj. Donald Okafor (Craig Tate), who has an idea that if he can get an A — a person who's a leader — into power, he might be able to change the CRM from the inside. Rick is certainly a leader, but he's also not interested in being part of the CRM. Or so we think. And that's where a great deal of the drama comes from.
Michonne, of course, doesn't see the point of the CRM or anything that would keep her and Rick apart, and she says so in more ways than one. But she's at the mercy of other forces when it comes to whether she'll ever have the opportunity to reunite with Rick, and if she does, what he'll be like. After eight years with the CRM, he's so beaten down and sure that he can't leave that it'll take a miracle to convince him to go, and Michonne will have quite a time trying.
