![]() Of course she never would’ve been out there if Morgan had just killed the Wolfman in the first place. But wait! Wolfman died trying to save Denise, so maybe Morgan was right after all: The prisoner could be redeemed, and letting him live is what saved Denise. (Comics readers can comment on how close, if at all, this is to how it went down in the book.)Įlsewhere, Carol and Morgan woke up to find the Wolfman gone and Denise as his hostage, which would seem to validate Carol’s belief that Morgan’s sanctimonious no-kill policy jeopardizes his comrades. The answer, it seems, is via a Rube Goldbergian family decimation machine. There has been lots of speculation about if and how Carl would receive his wound, a key event in the comics. We mentioned it earlier but it’s worth breaking down, Zapruder-style, with a sort of disgusted awe, the sequence that followed: 1) Little Sam loses his cool and thus is consumed by zombies in front of his mother, who 2) loses her own cool and is herself consumed while somehow managing to maintain a death grip on Carl, which 3) leads Rick to hack away at her arm like it was a stubborn piece of firewood, inspiring 4) Ron, her other son, to point his gun at Rick and Carl, leading 5) Michonne to skewer the boy with her samurai sword, at which point 6) he shoots Carl in the eye. (Daryl’s crossbow may still be missing but I’d say he’s traded up.) introduced a few episodes ago, his head a briquette as our heroes continued on their way. Soon he met the business end of the Chekhov’s R.P.G. (We haven’t forgotten, AMC.) Negan was again invoked by an oleaginous minion who, played by the quality character actor Christopher Berry, seemed like he might turn into a fixture. We opened where we left off in “Into the Badlands” last November. (Following previous prisoners like Morgan and Rick.) Along the way we saw Glenn and Maggie finally reunite - or get close, anyway - Daryl, Abraham and Sasha make a victorious return and Carol shows signs that she might be close to another banishment, or maybe just a recuperative stint in the stockade. the farm season), lay shot and unconscious, clinging to life. The formerly soft Alexandrians were emboldened and Rick was left hopeful, even as his son, in a reprise of Season 2 (a.k.a. CARL SHOTS AND KILLS RICK THE WALKING DEAD FULLAn episode that included Rick dismembering his dying girlfriend and Carl getting shot in the face by her son somehow morphed into a tribute to the power of community, with Rick, Michonne and the rest joining the Alexandrians for even more hacking as they finally confronted the zombie invasion head on.īy the end the subdivision had been transformed into an Antietam of the undead, the lanes littered with corpses and even the once-tranquil community pond full of zombie cinders. CARL SHOTS AND KILLS RICK THE WALKING DEAD SERIESTheirs was but the most horrific demise in a midseason premiere that was, even more than the average “Walking Dead” episode, a symphony of violence, one that told a story of Alexandria’s struggle, loss and redemption almost exclusively through a gooey series of chops, shots and splatters. Since their interlude in the gun shack last season, Little Sam had been haunted by Carol’s gothic tale of “the monsters out there,” a warning meant to ensure the boy’s silence that turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy on Sunday.įor eat him up they did, along with his mother Jessie, all while they were still alive just like Carol said they would. ![]()
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