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Warning: The following contains massive spoilers for Sunday's episode of The Walking Dead. Then again, it's a recap. Of course it contains spoilers!
After being reunited with a fallen friend in Sunday's The Walking Dead, Rick said, "It feels like it's ending." And well it should have been, given that the last episode for Andrew Lincoln's embattled hero. However, by the time of the hour was over, it felt, and decidedly decided to be decided. Why? (Well, here's one big reason.) How? What the …? Read on, and we'll review "What Comes After" in detail.
'GODDAMN, COWBOY, YOU LOOK LIKE S-' | The trippy installment began with a wounded Rick telling Season 1 Rick to wake up already in his hospital bed. Then Season 1 Rick turned the tables and told Ricky-to-wake. (Hopefully, you've gotten used to a lot of things in the future.) "Ricky, what's next?" Eventually, present-day Rick painfully extricated himself from the room rebar on which he had been impaled, remounted his horse and rode to a rickety nearby house. Taking a breather inside, Rick lost consciousness and found himself back in his old patrol with Shane, who was every bit prick you remember. When Judith is told about this dream / nightmare scenario that he was looking for, Shane replied, "How is my baby girl, by the way?" But their meeting was actually pretty warm, all things considered. Shane was intent on taking credit for Rick's transformation into an a-hole and even forgave him for what went down that fateful night in the field. Then, all of a sudden, Rick awakened to find that a walker was taking a break, and had to punch his way out of the opposite wall of the house. (Not for nothing, barely-conscious goal, half-dead Rick suffering from massive blood loss.) Thankfully, again, his horse was just waiting around outside for him.
'YOU THINK GLENN WOULD WANT THIS?' | Meanwhile, Anne – despite not having an A – arranged for the rendezvous with the helicopter people (which I guess is what we're gonna call 'em until we get a clue about the group's actual name), and Maggie arrived at the door to Alexandria's prison, only to be blocked by Michonne. Hershel's mom reminding her friend that you've been widowed, "the one thing I had been knowing I was gonna see Glenn's murderer die, and you Michonne would be relenting and hand over the keys. At first, Negan baited Maggie, reminding her in graphic detail how he'd be pulverized Glenn's head and daring her to "kill me … It was worth it." "I can be with my wife," he sobbed. "So I can be with Lucille!" "Seeing the Saviors" to become a leader in the marketplace, Maggie had a change of heart over the manner in which she intended to settle their unfinished business. "I came to kill Negan," she said, "and you're already worse than dead. That settles it. "When she left the prison, Michonne barely had a chance to pay attention to the crowd.
'IT FEELS LIKE IT'S ENDING' | While all that was going on, Rick continued leading the herd down the road, fighting to stay conscious every step of the way. How can he be convinced of his horse, I can not imagine. When next he passed out, he found himself back in Hershel's barn. There, his dear old friend reassured him that he did not worry about Maggie – she was strong and only getting stronger. Neither did Rick have to be concerned with keeping his family together. In a subsequent reverie, Rick found himself in a horrifying landscape that was as far as the eye could see. Some (Jesus, Rosita) were familiar faces; others (Beth, Carl), clearly stand-ins. Now, technically, lie-ins. Since presumably Chandler Riggs and Sarah Wayne Callies were not available to resurrect Rick's his wife, Sasha rose from the cadavers to explain that it was ok that everybody had croaked. "'Cause you did your part, like I did mine … like the others did before," she said. "They gave us strength that we needed to do what we had to do for the others, and the others draw strength from us. We make each other better, and it never ends. "What's more, she added, the good did not go out bad. "Hey, here's hopin '!" Sasha said that he would not find his family because they were not lost, "and you are not lost. "
'FIGHT FOR ALL OF US' | Snapped back to consciousness, Rick found himself at the campsite near the bridge. As the herds converged on him, he was in the bridge, only to collapse – and be saved by Michonne, Daryl & Co. Happy to be reunited with his family, Rick was ready to shuffle off this mortal coil. But it is important that he fight to carry on. "It's not over," she said. "We do not die." Only, after what he was seeing and feeling was real, she told him to wake up. GAH! It was a big fake-out! So once again, Rick had to lead the herd to the bridge. If it collapsed under their weight, it would have Daryl predicted it would have saved its loved ones. Alas, to his horror, the bridge held! As his family is coming near and trying to enter the herds, he is reported to be nearing the point of departure. But, to the bittersweet end, Rick remained determined to be hero. When a walker knocked over a box of dynamite, he shot the explosives, sending the bridge up in flames. While Michonne and Daryl in particular reeled from the loss, the chopper arrived at Anne's way to the river. And who should she spot on the embankment? Rick, alive and … not well but hey, alive, at least.
'I'M GONNA SAVE YOU' | Immediately, Anne relayed to the helicopter that she had a B, not an A, and that, while she'd been shady in the past, "its not a trick, not anymore. I'm trying to save a friend I have something for you now. We have a deal? "And since the chopper went ahead and landed, clearly, they did. Once aboard, Anne reassured Rick that he was gonna be OK. What the whaaaat? From there, we fast-forwarded years – Magna, Yumiko, Connie, Kelly and Luke from a bunch of walkers. Just when it started especially looking for the group, a young girl's voice called out, "Come this way – clear!" After the quintet, they were politely asked for their rescuer's name was. And, as the (I'm guessing) tween picked up Carl's hat and place it on her head, she revealed that she was Judith … Judith Grimes! So all together now: WTH?!? Rick survived … and flew away with … Anne? Hit the comments with your reaction to this big time, Carl's absence from his subconscious and the sight of a Negan blubbering.
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