The Walking Dead Recap Season 9 Episode 5: Rick dies?

Say what do you want from what The dead who walk has become, but even if you hate the end of the evening, it is clear that "What Comes After" paid tribute to Rick Grimes and changed the game at the end of the season. Negan is broken. Rick is gone, but still breathing. Indicate a significant time lag and a band of new survivors. And meet Lil'Ass-Kicker, Judith Grimes, who came here for two things: distributing gradients and colors, and she only has crayons left.

As shocking as Rick's exit, the signs were really everywhere. The episode was billed as Rick's "finale", with no mention of his death. The dead friends he met while he was constantly slipping and disappearing, repeated, "We're not dying." We know there's no way Rick is just crunching on a concrete slab. And allow me an honorable mention for saying this last week (and yes, I'll quote myself): "It seems that any chance for Rick to get out of this living thing has disappeared (unless the Jadis-Anne helicopter does not fly to a hospital). This is not a prediction, but quite close!

Before Rick flies to the great unknown, he embarks on an exhilarating journey that straddles the physical and metaphysical worlds – or more simply, bleeds slowly while performing a wild journey to the head of 'This Is Your Life'. ". The opening scene carries a new meaning now that we know how everything ends. At first, it looked like a nod to the first episode of the series, when Rick woke up alone in the hospital. But there was no skyscraper behind its window at the time, and what looked like a swarm of crows in the distance turned out to be … helicopters. The unrecognizable voices asking him, "What is your injury?" Could be members of the rescue helicopter. Allusions to what was coming.

But to get there, Rick had to take off his belt, throw it over a piece of metal over his head and get out of the tip of the rebar impaling it. Is it possible? With a rush of adrenaline and two hordes of zombies that are probably approaching. But if you still judge this show according to its plausibility, you may want to find something else to do on Sunday evenings. Things certainly do not get any more realistic from here: Rick survives an immense blood loss, has enough energy to get up / down from this nervous horse, remains of zombies, and more impressively, he is blown cleanly by a bridge the raging waters and washes on the ground alive.

But what about these dream sequences? A nod to the iconic picture of Season 1, Rick drives the newly formed megaherd to downtown Atlanta. the alleys are full of abandoned cars, while the aisles are wide open. Soon, he will find Shane in their sheriff's car, as before Rick's attack, and the whole world started to shit. While they eat fries and bust balls, Shane hits Rick where it really hurts – explaining how Judith is his daughter. You think he would have said, "Hey brother, thanks for treating the kid I had with your wife so well." Rick killed him again. They're probably right, they're both badholes. (Kudos for the fright of the jump as Shane rushes to Rick and the scene shows a zombie getting ready to bite.)

The best cameo is Hershel, who looks so wonderfully healthy, wise and two-legged. The Hershel farm is basically a paradise, and after Rick stops apologizing to everyone who has left and everything that has happened, Hershel tells him that he can not stay (that's to say, do not die yet). Sasha's appearance was a bit irritating – she on Glenn or Abraham or T-Dog or even the kid who was being eaten by the revolving door? – but this sea of ​​bodies was impressive. (Cue another first episode of reference with the door marked "Do not open Dead Inside.") In these scenes, there is much talk of Rick's guilt, his repair, his end and the search for his family. Rick never finds Carl and Lori, but Sasha is well aware that it's not in the cards: "Your family, you will not find them because they are not lost. And you are not lost. But it will be soon.

As Rick walks between life and death, Maggie arrives at Hilltop with a crowbar in her hand and a murder in her head. It only takes a minute of debate and a few tears to Michonne to be able to cough up the keys to the prison and withdraw. From behind the bars, Negan's ploy is pretty transparent: he's not trying to get into Maggie's mind, he's trying to push her over the back so she can get him out of his misery. I can not blame him for doing this favor after Negan was pleased to hear Maggie's cries and [Glenn’s] skull and came out of his damn eyeball. When Maggie opened the cell door, it looked like a trap. Would he fight this crowbar and escape? One of the biggest surprises of this episode was how badly Negan was – begging for death, crying horribly, following orders in his cell and kneeling. Even Maggie can not believe what she sees. She delivers a sentence that could sum up what many people think about Rick's farewell: "You're already worse than dead."

About this goodbye, it's a doozy. Rick manages to get to the other side of the bridge and, according to Eugene's calculations, that the megaherd would cause his collapse was completely done. Coincidentally, (again and again in this episode), someone left a box of dynamite on the spot, and Rick still has at least one bullet in his Python. The band arrives in time for Daryl to shoot some marchers with his crossbow, but after that, they can only watch, powerless, Rick look in the face and blow the bridge – and it is reasonable to badume – to make it disappear . Michonne's grief was as painful as seeing Daryl see everything that was happening, losing his recently reconciled brother, and being unable to save him. There was also a macabre poetry in the heaps of walkers who were drawn to the fire, went up in flames, then plunged into the flooded river.

It was at this point that the series began to look like the third. the Lord of the Rings movie – just when you thought it was over, boom, another end! Formerly Anne appears, and frankly, with all that was going on, I was not in the mood for her bullshit. But, one way or another, Rick is washing on the ground and Jadis-Anne has the same luck: she not only found a pbadenger, but she went from A (Gabe) to B (Rick ), whatever the problem. Inside the helicopter, Rick has a tube in his nose and his eyes retract, probably because of the unimaginable pain in which he finds himself, or more likely, to think of his future with Ziggy Trashpile. (Note one of the darkest reminders at the beginning of the series.) If you're wondering about the strangely optimistic music of this scene, it's Wang Chung's "Space Junk," which we heard when Rick was stuck in the tank and heard Glenn's voice the first time: "Hey you! Dumbbad. Hey you in the tank. Comfortable over there?")

But wait, there is more! As the helicopter disappears into the sky, the cabin in the foreground ages suddenly. I'll tell you what I do not need right now: more hikes. This is what we have; I could not really understand their rushed introduction, but the interwebs tell me that four of the five are Magna, Yumiko, Connie and Luke. The most important is who is behind the child's advocacy that leads to safety. If you did not know it the second you heard that voice, she has a rifle, a sword … and a sheriff's hat. "Judith," she said. "Judith Grimes." She even has the James Bond thing.

According to Judy Kick-Ass's appearance, we have progressed about five years, though she was about three years old and now about eight years old. I do not know where to start with all the questions this raises. A-town and the other agglomerations will certainly look different; The guarantee that Mill Michonne talked about the construction last week (and we see in the opening credits) is already over and hope that Maggie has repaired this tractor. In what state is Negan? Carol and Zeke have a royal baby? Have the saviors been badimilated? Who is in charge? When and how will Maggie make her exit? Leave to join Georgie, perhaps? Has anyone erected a statue of Rick, and if so, is it Bearded Rick or Rick's Five O'Clock Shadow or Rick's Clean Shaven? The only complaint I would make is that they have not taken an extra step. We can therefore consider the young Hershel and Judith as the couple of power that they are destined to be one day. I've been saying for a long time that the series has to make things happen. Love this or hate it, consider it – and we – shake.