A moment of silence please everyone. Because this was the last episode of Andrew Lincoln playing Rick Grimes on the Walking Dead. It’s been 9 long years since Rick began his epic journey fighting off Walkers, making friends and enemies alike. And of course seeing his son Carl grow up within the course of the series is all at an end now.
Rick’s final episode titled “What Comes After” picks up right as the previous one ended. With Rick in great pain and even greater danger, as he desperately tries to pull himself out of the metal stake that has pierced his chest all while being surrounded by walkers. He first has one of the many flashback/vision scenes with his younger self lying in a hospital bed. And the current bearded and older version of himself talking to himself. “I’m looking for my family” he says.
He then snaps out of it, and has a clever plan for pulling himself out from the metal stake. He unbuckled his belt and throwing on the rack above him uses it to lift himself up and out of the metal stake. When he is finally free, he starts to bleed out. He hops on the same jerk horse who threw him off onto the stake in the first place and slowly rode off way from the walker herd who was coming for him.
He eventually found an abandoned house to wrap his shirt around the wound and rest for a while. He eventually had another flashback with him in it. This time with Shane and him in a police car eating burgers and fries. It was good to see Shane back for Rick’s final episode who he ribs pretty good in this scene. He then tells Rick to reach deep inside himself and find the rage and get up.
Rick wakes up alright, to a half a dozen walkers who caught him sleeping as they burst through the door trying to bite him. But Rick has so much experience against the undead that even in his dying state punches through the wood planks and escapes the hell house.
Meanwhile, Maggie has arrived in Alexandria with crowbar in hand. Ready and willing to use it to bash Negan’s head in with it. Michonne stops her short of the door the underground cell where he is being kept. Maggie getting emotional when speaking about her late husband Glen who Negan killed using his favorite bat Lucile in cold blood. Michonne got just as emotional saying that “are you really going to to go through me to get to him.”
Eventually, Michonne seeing that their was no turning back for Maggie gave her the key to Negan’s cell. She entered the cell to find him sitting there and commenting as she walked in. He started talking major crap about Glen purposely to rile her up. Pissed Maggie uses the key and enters the cell. She strikes him then throws him out of the cell, Negan’s head smacking against the wall like a bowling ball.
Then something unexpected happens as she is about to go Rambo on him, she stops, as Negan starts crying. Not crocodile tears neither, real genuine ones. He begs Maggie to kill him, that he can’t go on like this without Lucile. And not his bat Lucile, his dead wife of the same name. He says “kill me, so that I can be with her again.”
Maggie was as frozen as ice after seeing this new side of the creep that killed Glen cry like a baby. So she told him to go back into his cell as she shut the door. “Your worse off like this then if you were dead” she says to Negan walking away from him perhaps for the last time. As she steps outside, Michonne inspects her crowbar looking to find Negan’s blood on it, but their was none. Isn’t closure just the greatest.
Now back to Rick, he has some more flashback scenes with Hershel, and Sasha. Both of them sending words of encouragement into his mind. He starts crossing the bridge that the Saviors and Alexandria both built together, but now is being overwhelmed by hordes of walkers as they just keep on coming. He flashes back again to a more likely scenario of him being rescued by his allies.
Michonne stays close to him and encourages him to fight, that he isn’t going to die. He comes to, and starts walking across until he is nearly at the end. That’s when it looks like the walkers have closed the gap on him and are about to feast on his flesh. Nice knowing you Rick, but not yet, an arrow flies from out of nowhere and kills the walker that was on him. He turns around to see that the Calvary has arrived, but for real this time, not any sort of vision.
Daryl, Maggie, Michonne, everyone is here to clear out the walkers, but when Rick sees the sticks of dynamite in the center of the bridge. He aims his gun at the explosives and says…”I found them.” Boom! the bridge explodes, and everyone watches in tears as burning walkers go straight down into the water below. Daryl watches the whole bridge burn as everyone else are in shock and looking away. This reminds me, of what Rick said in the previous episode to Daryl before they were split up. “Don’t blow the bridge, we need it.”
Which begs the question, was this Rick’s plan all along. To lure a crap ton of walkers onto the bridge just to blow it up. But I’m sure that he couldn’t have imagined himself being caught up in the explosion himself. Or…was he. As soon as the next scene begins, it shows Anne talking to the voice again that’s on the other end of the walkie-talkie. And here comes that helicopter that we have been seeing bits and pieces of all season long and even before that.
It looks there is someone lying down wounded on the ground next to her as the chopper is about to land to pick them up. Holy shit it’s Rick. Anne and Rick are in the helicopter now as he has tubes in him pumping him with life support. Rick lives, but where he is being taken to, as of now none knows.
The show then does a flash forward a years later and some new faces emerge on the scene. The scene being an ambush by some walkers. The newcomers are surrounded and nowhere to run. Then a shot from the trees, then more shots came, but from who. Then steps out a young girl whose a bit older and taller now and holding a very familiar gun. The same gun that belonged to her father Rick Grimes. That’s right folks, Judith Grimes is here and is a bad ass just like her dad and her big bro Carl.
If that wasn’t enough for you fans to slobber over, there were scenes from the next 3 upcoming episodes of the Walking Dead. Plenty of new faces and some familiar ones like Daryl, Michonne and Eugene, who has a new look again by the way. It appears that Rick’s farewell is valid yet just for the Walking Dead, and not the recently announced Walking Dead AMC movies that apparently have Rick in them. It appears as though Rick Grimes isn’t dead yet after all. That something has to come after. And it will with time.
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