Hilltop was beneath assault but once more in “Morning Star,” the eleventh episode of The Walking Dead Season 10. The colony is in probably the most precarious place from outdoors forces it has been in because the Saviors engaged in organic warfare with walker-contaminated weapons again in Season 8. The Whisperers are doing their very own type of organic warfare, filling human stomachs harvested from walkers with selfmade turpentine and launching them from slingshots constituted of intestines at Hilltop’s gates and troopers, then following that up with flaming arrows that turned the perimeter of Hilltop right into a hellish inferno. And that is along with the horde of walkers Alpha (Samantha Morton) lastly unleashed after threatening to take action many occasions. Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), the person chargeable for the unique siege, is even participating on this one and sharing roadblock-building recommendation together with his new mates. He is a completely initiated Whisperer with a masks of his very personal. He seems to be like Corey Taylor from Slipknot circa 2004. I am not satisfied his coronary heart is actually in all this Whisperer enterprise, although. He is not all the way in which again to being the previous, dangerous Negan. He is working an angle, as he all the time is.
He proposed a plan to get the folks of Hilltop to hitch the Whisperers, and Alpha heard him out. However on the finish of the episode, she was raining loss of life from above on her enemies.
“I assumed you wished them to hitch us,” he mentioned.
“They may,” she answered. “As a part of my horde.”
“Holy sh–, you’re a badass,” he mentioned.
We’re getting forward of ourselves, although, because the siege of Hilltop began late within the episode. A lot of the episode featured everybody at Hilltop making ready for the battle. It was a small power of fighters, and due to Negan’s signature tactic of slicing down timber to dam the highway, no reinforcements from Alexandria or Oceanside might make it. So the characters have been making ready themselves for the very actual chance of loss of life. The episode felt loads like Sport of Thrones‘ “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” the episode earlier than the battle of Winterfell, which additionally discovered everybody quietly settling up earlier than heading right into a battle they knew not everybody would make it via. It was an episode that spent slightly little bit of time with plenty of characters.
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Eugene (Josh McDermitt) tried to make plans to fulfill up with Stephanie (Margot Bingham), the voice on the radio, who he discovered was just a few hundred miles away. He advised her he was in Virginia, and he or she was going to verify with the leaders of her neighborhood to see if she might schedule a rendezvous. However then Rosita (Christian Serratos) virtually blew it by arriving at Hilltop and stunning Eugene in his radio tower and responding to Stephanie, who had been assured Eugene had not advised anybody about her.
Rosita later caught up with Eugene whereas he constructed an electrical fence powered by a generator and advised him that she might inform how into Stephanie he was and the way into him she clearly was, too. Despite the fact that Stephanie wasn’t speaking to him for the time being due to Rosita, she would in all probability forgive him. Rosita invited Eugene to kiss her, and he could not do it. It was an odd second that Rosita appeared to do so as to get Eugene to understand how a lot he cared about Stephanie, and it labored. It is a huge change for Eugene to not wish to kiss Rosita, who he pined over for years. He went again as much as the radio and sang Iron Maiden’s “When the Wild Wind Blows” over the air for Stephanie, after which advised her that he did not know after they’d communicate once more. His stunning singing satisfied her to fulfill him, and he or she gave him a time and place: a rail yard in Charleston, West Virginia. Eugene has one thing to stay for, and The Strolling Lifeless‘s journey to the comics’ well-known Commonwealth is on the horizon.
(Be aware: “When the Wild Wind Blows” was launched in August 2010, which might be across the time the apocalypse began within the timeline of The Strolling Lifeless TV present. Or perhaps not? The present has been deliberately imprecise on when precisely it is going down. However there have been hints, most clearly through tombstones on Concern the Strolling Lifeless, that it began in 2010, which can be when the present premiered. Additionally, Eugene being a fan of the bombastically nerdy steel band Iron Maiden makes plenty of sense.)
Ezekiel (Khary Payton) went and located Carol (Melissa McBride) hiding out within the woods and moping about inflicting the cave collapse, and he persuaded her to come back again to Hilltop with him. He revealed his most cancers to her, and so they made love for what is perhaps the final time.
He additionally revealed his sickness to Daryl (Norman Reedus). Daryl and Ezekiel have by no means been shut, however they respect one another. They advised one another as a lot in a pleasant second earlier than the battle. They agreed that if one in all them dies, the opposite will be certain Hilltop’s kids get out of the colony safely. I feel the chances of Ezekiel surviving this battle are near zero.
Carol, greater than anybody else, was on a mission to ensure she was in an OK place with folks in case she died. She and Lydia (Cassady McClincy) lastly acknowledged one another’s ache concerning the lack of Henry (Matt Lintz), Carol’s son and Lydia’s boyfriend. They’re each remoted from others, and so they’re linked by their relationships to Alpha. Carol reiterated her dedication to kill Lydia’s mom, and Lydia mentioned killing her will not save them.
“Nevertheless it’ll really feel good,” Carol mentioned. “Will you hate me then?”
“I will not be occupied with you,” Lydia answered.
Carol additionally tried to make peace with Daryl. Daryl was visiting the graves of Glenn, Abraham, Jesus, and different fallen troopers when Carol approached him. She requested him to to not hate her.
“I am by no means gonna hate you,” he growled. He did not have the rest to say to her, however that is all he wanted. And there wasn’t any extra time to speak anyway. It was time to struggle.
The horde of 1000’s of walkers approached Hilltop, and not one of the safety measures like Eugene’s electrical fence or the comb pile fence did something greater than sluggish them down slightly bit. And that brush pile simply grew to become tinder when the flaming arrows began raining down.
When Hilltop’s outer wall caught fireplace, the combating power was trapped between the encroaching horde and the blaze. How will they get out of this one? We could have to attend some time to seek out out, as subsequent week’s episode will give attention to Michonne (Danai Gurira), who’s on a mission with Virgil (Kevin Carroll) to get weapons to deliver again to help within the struggle.
The Strolling Lifeless airs Sundays at 9/8c on AMC.