The Walking Dead
- type
- TV Show
- Current Status
- In Season
- seasons
- 6
- run date
- 10/31/10
- performer
- Andrew Lincoln, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, Melissa McBride, Norman Reedus, Chandler Riggs, Steven Yeun
- broadcaster
- AMC
- genre
- Drama, Horror, Thriller
We gave it a B
Rick doesn’t handle grief well. He took out his executing Shane on the group by igniting the Ricktactorship, no one was really there to save him from his own insanity after Lori died, and the slaughter of Glenn and Abraham broke him into submission. With Carl gone, he tries to retreat from his feelings, unwilling to read the letter his son left behind and ignore his final request: to make sure there’s something left for everyone when this own Negan thing is over and done. Rick following a dark but familiar path, giving the brutality of his Rick rage some fresh air.
But before we get into that, there’s Jadis.
How did she escape with her life when the shooting commenced at the junkyard? She ran around the corner and played dead. After, as the weight of her peoples’ deaths sunk in, she shed her leather clothes to reveal the white dress beneath. Flashing forward to the present, we see her in jeans, boots, and plaid — significant only because she’ll later reveal how her identity was stolen. Jadis is waiting for something in her model IKEA home of the zombie apocalypse: pristine wooden floors and walls, a modern skylight, futon, bench and closet, and Negan’s bat is leaning up against a wall.
Time goes by. She’s packing a suitcase to go God knows where and scribbling in her journal, presumably about being truly, utterly alone now. When her cue comes, she wipes up her tears, picks up the bat, and walks out to the crate where she’s keeping Negan, tied up on a dolly and trying to figure out “what the sh–” is going on.
Carol is chopping wood at Hilltop when she’s approached by Ezekiel. He knows where the escaped Saviors went and believes they are their best lead to finding Henry. Carol either already believes Henry’s dead or isn’t allowing herself to think otherwise in order to spare herself the pain from a dashed hope. Either way, she’s not leaping into action. Daryl is also in denial — denial that Dwight actually saved Tara by shooting her with an untainted arrow. She still hasn’t turned and the doctor cleared her for duty, but Daryl is still fuming for one reason or another. Tara tells him to do what he feels he needs to do, but to know that seeking retribution would only be for his benefit, not hers.
Michonne is reading her letter from Carl when Rick walks in. He still hasn’t read his, though it’s a reaction she’s familiar with. When she lost family members amid the outbreak, she felt she needed to keep “moving” to avoid stopping and actually dealing with the grief. Andrea stopped her from moving, and now she wants to do the same for Rick. She takes his coat and leaves him alone in their room. We see him open his drawer to take out the envelope with his name scrawled in Carl’s handwriting, but did he actually read it?
Carol then spots Morgan storming off to go hunt the missing Saviors. He feels responsible for losing Henry because he could’ve just ended the Saviors when he had the chance. She puts down her axe to go with him, while Maggie, Rosita, Dianne, and Daryl are weighing their resources to see if they could survive another attack. Daryl suggests the Saviors are running out of ammo and would probably attack with melee weapons instead, but Rosita reminds them that they have Eugene, their bullet maker, so they can make more ammo. On the bright side, she reckons she knows where they’d go to get the necessary ingredients to make bullets.
Back at the Heap, Jadis is turning a wheelbarrow into a pyre. She pours salt around the wood, while listening to Negan rant about finding a way to fix this. Simone “wasn’t part of the program,” he says, and for trusting him with the task of intimidating the Scavengers, he’ll now have to own that. She’s not quite paying attention. Jadis glances again at her watch, waiting for something. When she feels she’s had enough of Negan’s rambling, she swings his own bat close to his face but stops just short of bashing in his temple.
Carol and Morgan are tracking the Saviors in the woods when they spot a turnip, putting them on the right path. Morgan sees a body moving through the trees and believes it’s Henry. He rushes ahead, shouting his name, but only finds a mirage of Henry looking back at him. With a gash in his neck, he tells Morgan, “You know what it is, you were supposed to.” Carol finds Morgan screaming, “You are not here,” to seemingly nothing, and she reveals she didn’t come along on this mission to find Henry, but to keep an eye on Morgan. He has his “I see dead people” confessional, though they spot another sign that the Saviors were there and continue on the path. (Recap continues on next page)
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