Warning: this publish contains spoilers from the Sunday, February 25, episode of The Walking Dead.
I’m now not crying, you’re crying … OK, I’m crying, too.
Returning Sunday, February 25, after a number of weeks away, The Walking Dead devoted most of its 82-minute runtime to saying an extended good-bye to Carl (Chandler Riggs), who survived the zombie apocalypse (not to point out puberty) via eight seasons most effective to get bitten through a walker whilst seeking to escort a brand new acquaintance again to Alexandria.
With a detailed center of attention on Carl’s ultimate moments, “Honor” was once an episode with a lot of middle … and, infrequently, different inner organs. Here’s the whole lot that came about within the mid-season premiere.
Reclaiming the Kingdom
While Carl’s drawing close death dominated the episode, just about 90 minutes of tearful goodbyes would’ve been too bleak to maintain. Hence, this great, plump side plot excited about Morgan (Lenny James) and Carol (Melissa McBride) returning to the burning Kingdom to rescue Ezekiel (Khary Payton). This sequence only showed how much Morgan has developed: from a doting father to an unhinged head case to a Zen pacifist, and in the end, on this episode, into a cold-blooded, cruel predator. Between yanking a man’s intestines out through a wound in his abdomen, and stalking his enemies with all the terrifying, deliberate slowness of Michael Myers, Morgan racked up somewhat a frame count — till Ezekiel and Carol caught as much as him and begged him to turn mercy to Gavin, the ultimate surviving Savior.
While the three of them argued, young Henry (Macsen Lintz) crept up like a ninja and did the bloody deed himself, avenging his brother’s loss of life and making everyone extraordinarily uncomfortable. Especially because it was once Morgan who confirmed him methods to kill with a stick.
A Long Goodbye
Meanwhile, excluding the happenings at the Kingdom, this episode used to be All Carl, All the Time. In a flashback montage, we noticed the poor, doomed youngster making peace along with his impending demise and profiting from his final day on earth — snuggling with Judith, writing good-bye notes, and putting in place Siddiq (Avi Nash) in some brief digs underground. But then, the flashback was completed, and we were again in the tunnels underneath Alexandria while the Saviors firebombed town above. With his fever worsening, Carl spent his remaining hours describing to Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) his imaginative and prescient for a calm long run: the one we saw back within the season premiere, that includes music by means of Weird Al Yankovich and Rick with an enormous Santa Claus-style beard.
What fans assumed was Rick’s imaginative and prescient, used to be actually Carl’s. It also, surprisingly, featured Negan residing in Alexandria with the crowd, planting and being candy to Judith. (In the imaginative and prescient, he used to be wearing the flannel, quite than protecting it tied round his waist.)
Seeing that Snapchat-filtered vision of humanity in solidarity come true was once Carl’s final want, and his father promised it could: “I’m gonna make it real,” Rick mentioned. A protracted and tearful goodbye later, Carl shot himself, ending his personal life. Rick and Michonne put their kiddo in the flooring. RIP, Carl.
A Final Twist
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While Carl’s tale used to be over, the remainder of the crowd will have to go on — most likely to a couple surprising places. With simply moments left within the episode, The Walking Dead changed its dreamy, fable flash-forward with a far grimmer picture: Rick, covered in blood, sitting by myself underneath a tree embellished with stained-glass windowpanes.
The Walking Dead airs on AMC Sundays at Nine p.m. ET.
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