It Makes the Dead Stand Up and Walk Again
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Andrew Lincoln's concluding episode of The Walking Dead begins with a trippy scene, as present-day Rick stands over pilot episode-era Rick and a True Detective flock of blackbirds zig-zag beyond the sky in inkblot patterns before turning into helicopters.
Earlier Lincoln can leave the show with a clear conscious, Rick has to make peace with his ghosts — only not all of them.
Carl is only present in the sense that Rick wants to fortify his son's dream for their community (and The Walking Dead left such a bad gustation in Chandler Riggs' mouth I'm not even sure the actor would've returned to see his Television dad off if he'd been asked). Morgan and Glenn, other figures who played such significant roles in shaping Rick'southward life, were left out of the latest reunion episode, though Morgan'south voice tin be heard request, "What's your wound?" — the same question he first asked Rick when an injured stranger was smacked in the head by his son in the first episode. Just Shane, Hershel, and Sasha were there to ease Rick off the show — even though the ending leaves room for a potential cameo appearance or a single-episode arc downwardly the line.
Rick isn't prepare to die. Slipping in and out of consciousness, he forces himself off the metal barb that impaled him and remounts his white horse (a Biblical symbol of the end times). With blood oozing out of his wound, he keeps merely far enough ahead of the now combined herds to avoid joining their ranks. As he keeps mumbling to himself, he needs to "keep them safe." Fighting against flashes from his life that invade his mind, his first end is a motel with a mailbox out front that reads "Cardille." A leaked still epitome of this mailbox made its way online earlier in the week causing speculation, ranging from a Lori Cardille reference (the actress backside Dr. Sarah Bowman who escaped the zombies of 1985's Day of the Expressionless in a helicopter, and also invoking the starting time name of Rick'south late wife) to an anagram for "Carl Lied." If this was indeed a moment of foreshadowing, it would seem the former theory is true. (We'll become to that later.)
Rick bandages himself up equally he glances to the skeleton that was the motel'due south former resident. He loses himself in the beams of sunlight shooting through the bullet holes in the walls and sees himself riding his equus caballus with the herd at his back towards Atlanta, a familiar visual from season i. In the metropolis, he finds Shane. The two recreate their first scene together in the serial: eating takeout in a cop car. If it wasn't for that third man in the shootout, he says, Rick wouldn't be where he is at present. Shane was the source of Rick'southward rage and killing him began the Ricktatorship. Afterward once more confirming Judith to exist his biological child, Shane calls on Rick to dig deep into that rage once again and wake up. Rick opens his eyes to observe the herd already invading the motel, forcing him to flee.
By this fourth dimension, Maggie arrives at Alexandria with a crowbar in hand fix to impale Negan, but Michonne is already waiting for her exterior the prison in the hopes of talking her downwards. She can't. Maggie can't live the manner she'southward been living anymore and can't but detect a manner to turn off her rage over Glenn's death, it's not that like shooting fish in a barrel. Then Michonne lets her pass. To Maggie's surprise, she tin't bring herself to impale Negan because it's non Negan anymore. The once ominous, omnipresent villain tries to provoke Maggie to kill him, just when she brings him out into the light, she sees his tears. He just wants to die and so he can be reunited with his wife, Lucille. Maggie realizes Negan is at present worse than dead so she locks him back up. Dorsum outside, she and Michonne are informed of what happened at the camp with the battle against the revolting Saviors.
Rick is notwithstanding riding along the road with the expressionless at his dorsum when he'due south visited by the second ghost, Hershel. With the expiry of player Scott Wilson yet lingering, the episodes is but as much of a sendoff for his graphic symbol as it is for Rick. The ii men gaze out over a lush sunset from the view at the farm. Rick apologizes for what happened to Maggie and Glenn, just Hershel has hope for his daughter and new grandson. He tries to wake Rick up, but Mr. Grimes is trapped in a delirium, talking about needing to notice his family unit.
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Rick is whisked away to the hallway of the hospital where he beginning woke up amid the outbreak. The door that once read "Don't Open Expressionless Inside" now has the "Don't" crossed out. He walks through and finds himself below a grey sky amongst a pile of dead bodies, the corpses of people he knew. It's in that location Sasha appears. "Trivial things end," she says, "but information technology'south non the end of everything." She likewise mentions that he'll never find his family here because his family isn't lost — and neither is he.
Rick wakes again, hitting the ground as he falls off his equus caballus at the bridge campsite. He sees the remains of the battle as the herd breaks through the trees and tramples over the tents. Rick's run turns into a haste walk to a shamble. He finds himself earlier the span and as the herd is about to ready upon him, Michonne and Daryl lead the rest of the group to clear out the walkers. But that, too, is just a vision. Michonne's presence reaffirms to Rick that these people are his family, that his story wasn't about reuniting then much with Lori and Carl only the family they created for themselves afterward.
He comes to for the final time and leads the walkers across the bridge, ready to cede this project that would've boosted trade and travel between the colonies. The bridge, yet, is holding — and his family, too, volition concur together when Rick is gone. The real Michonne, Maggie, and Daryl lead in the cavalry from opposite sides of the bridge, but as they race to salvage Rick, he sees an opportunity to settle the situation himself without putting the ones he loves in harms way. He pulls out his pistol and aims it at the enshroud of dynamite on the bridge. He fires and the span explodes, seemingly incinerating himself along with the dead. The others watch through tears as the expressionless fall in flames into the rushing current below.
From a altitude, Jadis spies the column of smoke from the accident. She's waiting to be picked upward by the mysterious helicopter grouping but she lied virtually having an "A" offering. She hears over the walkie shouts from the others most what happened on the bridge and sees the charred remains of the walkers floating down the river. A lone helicopter is seen flying towards her, but her eye is drawn to something on the river'due south edge. It's Rick, still hanging onto life, his body slumping into the moist soil. Jadis calls to her envoy on the walkie saying she has an offering, only information technology's now a "B" instead of an "A." The voice on the other manus warns her that at that place would be consequences if she lied, but she pleads with them. Rick saved her life one time before and she wants to return the favor.
Rick is still alive when we concluding see him. Jadis stands over his body, now fastened to an Iv in a infirmary stretcher within the aircraft. Nosotros still don't come across who else is at that place, just we encounter them fly off into the distance. Now, as the title of the hour suggests, information technology'south time to encounter "What Comes After."
A time jump takes u.s. to the same scene where Rick took off simply with a new group. Straight from the comics, it's Magna, Yumiko, Connie, Luke, and Kelly, a group introduced on the page subsequently a like time jump and were involved with the plotline involving The Whisperers, some other more than villainous group coming down the piping. They are surrounded by walkers in the open up field when gunfire from an unknown source rips through the trees and clears a path. The voice of a young girl calls out to them, telling them to run through the opening in the herd. The five bolt for the woods and meet their mysterious savior.
A small samurai sword is strapped to the child'south back. She holsters her familiar revolver equally her hair — half braided, the rest direct — rests against her plaid button-downward. Magna asks for her proper name and the young girl reaches for something on the footing: a brown cowboy chapeau with a gilded ring wrapped around the crown. Her name is Judith Grimes.
It's a similar arc to what happened with Fear the Walking Dead: Alicia is the final of the Clarks, and Judith is at present the but remaining descendant of the Grimes family — assuming Rick doesn't come dorsum. We still don't know what happens to "B"southward in that mystery colony. Also like Fear, The Walking Dead is presented with a new challenge. What is Fear without Madison? What is The Walking Expressionless without Rick?
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