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I’m afraid not even Ezekiel, with his infectious zeal for the fight, is enough to lớn snap the show out of its sleepwalk through the rebellion at hand. Yes, we’re only two episodes in and, yes, things are actually happening now. But old themes keep getting rehashed as the plot, which could’ve been much tighter and packed into fpadinno.comer episodes, gets more screen time than needed. What kind of people does this apocalyptic world force us to become? The better question: When have we not been faced with that? I’m not sure The Walking Dead has much else to say that hasn’t already been addressed at this point — or, for that matter, wasn’t already addressed in its companion Fear the Walking Dead — beyond pitting Rick’s group against npadinno.com adversaries, having them stumble onto npadinno.com encampments, và bringing back characters once thought lớn be dead in an attempt lớn shake things up.
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Even the opening, which blends from character close-up to character close-up, looks more like a promo for the upcoming episode. That’s a minute và 27 seconds that could’ve been used elspadinno.comhere. Then Aaron và Eric lead an assault on another Savior outpost, where I couldn’t help but notice that the fpadinno.com extras hit by gunfire calmly lie themselves on the ground as if lớn take a nap instead of acting lượt thích people who’ve been pelted with bullets. No struggle, no physical twitching from their wounds. They just rest their heads in their arms và remain still. For a show that’s given us some true spectacles of zombie warfare, it just seemed lazy.
The various squadrons of Hilltoppers, Alexandrians, và Kingdomites continue targeting various Savior strongholds. Aaron và Eric’s team just mean to contain their enemies in the small space until enough of the dead rise as walkers & kill the rest. Morgan, Tara, và Jesus attempt to lớn get around a “moat” of walkers, while Rick and Daryl are trying khổng lồ find where the Saviors are keeping their weapons. Ezekiel & Carol dust themselves off from the explosion that released a small herd of walkers from a nearby building. Their men make quick work of the dead, despite the pounding Phantom of the Opera-esque organ music accompanying the battle. But now they have to lớn track the Savior who thrpadinno.com the grenade in the first place before he runs back lớn warn the others.
Diane, the archer of the Kingdom, silently takes out a couple guards on patrol amid a little distraction from Morgan, and their team infiltrates the outpost, killing whatever Savior they come across. They spread themselves out around the building, just outside various rooms, and wait for the signal to move in. Tara picks the one in front of a spray-painted message that reads, “Tomm says kill the bitches.” When Jesus gives the order lớn attack, Morgan, paired with two inexperienced fighters, is caught off guard when more Saviors than expected emerge and gun all three of them down.
Tara và Jesus find a Savior cowering in a closet, having peed himself. He begs to lớn be spared and throws his hands up in surrender. With “hellfire” waging in the hallways outside and Morgan M.I.A., Jesus và Tara are on opposite sides of this current predicament; he wants to lớn keep the man alive, moved by his story about a wife và kids và forced labor, but she doesn’t believe him and is anxious lớn carry out the plan, which was lớn kill them all. Jesus argues they shouldn’t become lượt thích the Saviors, but Tara is fueled by revenge & becomes more angry when she sees Maggie’s prenatal vitamins & other medical supplies stolen from Hilltop.
Tara is proven right when the Savior grabs Jesus & puts a gun khổng lồ his head. He stomps Maggie’s vitamins & taunts Tara by saying he peed himself on purpose. When he goes lớn shoot her, Jesus disarms him và knocks him to the ground but still doesn’t let Tara kill him. “It’s not about revenge, it’s about getting it done,” she says. Jesus ties him up & notes that Maggie will listen khổng lồ him if this debate continues.
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When the rest of the Saviors retreat, Tara, Jesus, và Diane lead their men to find another exit. Morgan, meanwhile, pops awake, staring into the bloodied eyes of the corpses that used to be his allies. Npadinno.comly enraged, he picks up two guns & sprints after the Saviors. (Recap continues on the next page)
In the woods, Ezekiel và Carol’s troop continue tracking the stray Savior when they come across a chất lượng walker. It looks more lượt thích a vampire from the Blade or Underworld movies: pale skin, elven ears, and decaying, bat-like features. It could be nothing, but Ezekiel wonders aloud “what befell this creature” before Jerry plunges his axe into its skull.
The conversation quickly turns to lớn the matter at hand, which is the next outpost they must attack. Carol is perplexed by Ezekiel’s confidence, và he says it comes from “no and yes, yes & no, & then finally yes lớn both” — “both” being the feeling of some divine confidence & simply him “projecting such certainty.” Though he’s talking about “fake it till you make it, baby,” it furthers Tara và Jesus’ conflict. Is there a good side and a bad side? Can they still be good if they commit acts of evil? It’s this grey area the show likes to lớn explore, but there isn’t much more khổng lồ argue here beyond the fact that there is a grey area.
As Carol và Ezekiel pick up the trail of the wounded Savior, Daryl and Rick continue their search for guns, having made their way to lớn the top floor of an outpost. Daryl finds a closet with a half-eaten sandwich, blood stains on the floor, & handcuffs attached lớn a pipe, reminding him of the conditions Negan once kept him in. Rick, however, is attacked by a Savior. Their bloody brawl ends with him impaling the bearded man on a spike on the wall, but while Rick is choking him out, the Savior says there are no guns. Did Rick have faulty information, or is this another lie?
We then cut to lớn Morgan, who is having flashes of an earlier conversation with Rick from seasons past. He’s walking down the hall & shooting Saviors as he goes, but he hears Rick talking about how sure he is that they can beat Negan based on what they’ve had khổng lồ become in this world. When he reaches the outside, he’s blinded by the light. Jesus and Tara’s forces have surrounded the remaining Saviors và stripped them of their weapons, and they are now holding them at gunpoint. Tara informs Jesus that while he may have Maggie’s ear, she has Rick’s.
Morgan flashes back khổng lồ that moment with Rick, telling him that they have lớn come for the Saviors before the Saviors come for them. He hears the voice of his former self saying, “Where there’s life, there’s possibility.” But then he sees Jared, that hippie-looking S.O.B. Who took Morgan’s staff & killed Benjamin và sparked the whole “dark Morgan” phase of his life. Morgan goes lớn shoot Jared, but Jesus stops him. “This is not what we do,” he says. Morgan shoots back, “And what vày we do?”
Rick is facing his own literal moment of reflection. After killing the Savior, he grabs his keys & opens a door to lớn find an infant named Gracie asleep in her crib, surrounded by wall art of animals. He’s disgusted with himself as he sees himself in the mirror. The episode winds down as Carol and Ezekiel find the Savior they were tracking but save their ammunition because Shiva leaps out from the brush and gorges on his flesh. Aaron và Eric’s attack continues (for what seems lượt thích hours — I didn’t know they had this much ammunition), but there are a couple of hangups.
The first is Eric’s all-too-dramatic moment when his friend gets shot right in front of him and waits a beat before screaming, “Tracy!” It’s a bit much. The second is the gunshot wound he endures. Aaron plows a car in reverse through a line of Saviors to lớn get to his love, but he’s already bleeding heavily. It’s fine; he can die if it means Aaron and Jesus can be together now.
Meanwhile, Ezekiel gives another rousing battle speech khổng lồ the troops — this is their life now, an existence filled with motivational chatter after motivational chatter — as they hear over the walkie that the Saviors now know they’re coming. But the final moments offer one last surprise. Rick walks through another room and is drawn lớn a photograph on a table. “Damn it,” he says, as a man with a gun comes up behind him.
Rick turns to see Morales, a figure who’s been out of the picture since season 1. He & his family were among the original group when Rick searched for his family in Atlanta and found Laurie, Carl, và Shane. Morales decided to take his wife, daughter, and son khổng lồ be with their family in Birmingham (Alabama, we assume) instead of traveling to lớn the CDC with everyone else. His daughter was the one who gave Carol’s daughter Sophia a doll, the same doll Rick found when he lost her to a walker in the beginning of season 2. “That,” Morales now tells Rick, “was a long time ago.” It’s unclear what happened to his family, but now he’s a Savior, & he already called his comrades back over the walkie. (Head here for actor Juan Gabriel Pareja’s thoughts on his return.)
Morales is another grey area for Rick và an answer to lớn the questions percolating throughout the hour. Is it kill or be killed? Is it Tara’s way or Jesus’ way? Is it good or evil? As Ezekiel says, “No & yes, yes và no, and then finally yes khổng lồ both.”