![]() ![]() ![]() But when that doesn’t happen, he spies a box of dynamite, pulls out his gun and takes a shot. He’s hoping the dead will weigh it down and it will collapse. He gets to the bridge he’s been so obsessed with completing and stumbles across it. When the horse finally takes off for good, Rick shambles along, holding his wounded side, trying to stay ahead of the dead. There’s also an emotional scene with Hershel (the late Scott Wilson) as the pair stand in a barn, gazing out onto serene farm land.īut most of the episode focuses on Rick riding the horse that got him into his predicament in the first place. The whole scene is in Rick’s mind, of course, but obviously Rick still believes Judith is Shane’s. It concludes with Shane thanking his old friend for raising his daughter. “ Your family? One could argue it’s my family you’re looking for, right? How is my baby girl by the way? Got my eyes doesn’t she?” “I’m looking for my family, Rick replies. “God damn cowboy, you look like s-t,” Shane says to him. The highlight of these hallucinations is Rick sitting with old pal Shane (Jon Bernthal) in their sheriff’s car, talking about old times. ![]() Good Times With Old Friends Frenemies Reunite: Rick chats with Shane. Flirting in and out of consciousness, Rick has a series of delusions featuring some of his long dead friends. This week, he frees himself using his belt and climbs back onto his horse, staying ahead of the zombie herd. The dead were approaching and it looked like he was a goner. When last week’s episode ended, Rick’s horse had thrown him onto a rebar. The episode itself, entitled What Comes After, leading up to this cheap conclusion, wasn’t all bad. But likely they’re not, because their hero Rick Grimes is still alive. Gimple and AMC pulled a second-rate ratings scam (anyone remember the whole Glenn under the dumpster debacle?) and viewers should be pissed. I thought they were going to kill off Rick, but the mysterious helicopter we’ve been seeing for a while now (part of Jadis’ human trafficking network) swooped in, scooped up Rick and saved his life in the nick of time. As it turned out, it was just another clever marketing ploy to trick viewers into watching the first couple of season 9 episodes. AMC has been promoting the whole “Rick Grimes final episodes” on The Walking Dead for months now. I wanted to write an ode to Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) this week. A Fitting Farewell?: AMC touted last night’s episode as Rick Grimes final. ![]()
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