

The Walking Dead airs Sundays at 9/8c on AMC.Still watching The Walking Dead? Much like the animated corpses that haunt its episodes, AMC’s long-running zombie series, once a compelling blend of gore and back-to-basics, push-people-to-their-limits drama, lost its vitality a while back. It looks like Negan's going to survive this war because that's what Carl wanted. Then another flash-forward to Rick when his mercy prevailed over his wrath. Negan ( Jeffrey Dean Morgan) was working in the garden at Alexandria and he and Judith greeted each other with warmth. They all told each other they loved each other, and Rick again promised to "make it real." Rick and Michonne went outside to the porch of the church, and as the sun came up, they heard the silenced report of Carl's gun. He said that while he was still capable of taking himself out, he would. "It's just to love."Ĭarl reached for the pistol he had in his hip holster. "I'm gonna make it real." Carl's vision is the way forward. "I'm gonna make it real, Carl, I promise," Rick said. And then at the prison, it was for you and Judith. Back in Atlanta, the farm, everything I did it, it was for you. If you can still be who you were, that's how it could be. She's listening to the songs that I used to before.

You have a beard," Carl said, revealing that the visions we've been seeing throughout the season were his, not Rick's. The Walking Dead Mega Buzz: Will Jesus Turn Into a Judas Against Maggie? But there's a way out of the vicious cycle, and Carl and Rick know it, even if Rick's not ready to go back there yet. It was Henry (Macsen Lintz), Benjamin's little brother, who's about the age Carl was when he killed the boy at the prison. But as he was about to stab Gavin with his staff, someone else's staff exploded through Gavin's throat from behind. Morgan can no longer conceive of a way of life not governed by brutality. He didn't want to kill Gavin, and Ezekiel ( Khary Payton) and Carol ( Melissa McBride) pleaded with him not to, but he felt he had to to get revenge for Benjamin ( Logan Miller). This conversation between Rick and Carl was intercut with Morgan ( Lennie James) grappling with killing Gavin (Jayson Warner Smith), the most reasonable of the Saviors who found himself at Morgan's mercy. There's gotta be something after." (There was a lot of dialogue repeated for emphasis in this episode.) "You can't kill all of them, Dad," answered Carl. Siddiq, who it turns out was a doctor before the apocalypse and therefore has uncommonly useful skills (even though that's not why Carl brought him), told Carl that he will honor his memory by living in a way that shows Carl's sacrifice wasn't for nothing.

"These people, you saved them all," Daryl told the dying boy. Rick and Daryl's enmity seems to have evaporated in the face of this tragedy. I know you will." Judith began to cry, seeming to understand the gravity of the situation, and Rick picked her up and handed her to Daryl ( Norman Reedus) to take to the Hilltop. Before Mom died, she told me that I was gonna beat this world. "I don't know, just having it, it always kept Dad with me. Carl gave her Rick's sheriff hat, which Rick gave to him when he was recovering from being accidentally shot in Season 2.
