[Warning: The next accommodates spoilers for the newest episode of The Strolling Useless, “Take a look at the Flowers.” Learn at your personal danger!]
After sending off Michonne final week, The Walking Dead returned to the Whisperer Struggle for “Take a look at the Flowers,” what’s now the second-to-last episode of this a part of Season 10, for the reason that finale has been delayed attributable to coronavirus, together with the premiere of World Beyond.
And it was an incredible return, with glorious performances from Melissa McBride, Samantha Morton, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, in addition to Josh McDermitt, Khary Payton, and Ryan Hurst. The episode moved with fleet-footed vitality, offering nice character-building for a lot of characters whereas transferring a number of plot threads alongside in significant methods. As Beta (Hurst) and his horde transfer the Whisperer Struggle towards its ultimate stage, Eugene (McDermitt) and his touring get together are establishing the subsequent section of the Strolling Useless story.
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Carol
The episode began with a flashback displaying the deal Carol (McBride) made with Negan (Morgan) when she freed him from jail: Convey her Alpha’s (Morton) head, and he or she’ll be certain the communities know him because the man who saved them, not as the person who terrorized them again within the day and was jailed for it. So long as he did it quick.
Again within the current, Carol put Alpha’s zombified head on a pike, like Alpha as soon as did to Carol’s son Henry (Matt Lintz). She regarded on the head with a posh mixture of emotion fantastically articulated by McBride’s face. She was making an attempt to resolve if getting revenge made her really feel higher, and in the end realizing it did not, and all of the ache and mayhem she had brought about in her pursuit of Alpha hadn’t been price it. She turned to Negan and requested what took him so lengthy. She informed him she wasn’t going again but, she wanted to be alone for awhile, and that he was free to do what he needed.
Out within the woods alone, Carol had a imaginative and prescient of Alpha, who taunted her about shedding Henry and her daughter Sophia (Madison Lintz), who each died alone and afraid. She was a projection of Carol’s psyche, making an attempt to get Carol to confess to herself that she needed to die. (Within the comics, Carol killed herself by zombie chew fairly early within the story; present Carol may be very completely different than comics Carol.) Within the midst of her taunting, Alpha talked about that Carol had written a letter to Maggie (Lauren Cohan) about her, which units up Maggie’s return. Showrunner Angela Kang has teased that Maggie will return “within the nick of time,” so Maggie will arrive to save lots of Alexandria from Beta’s ultimate assault.
Carol went right into a boathouse to get a canoe with a view to depart the area, and by chance pulled a big chunk of the rotted constructing down on prime of her. Whereas trapped underneath the rubble, she thought-about letting an approaching walker chew her. “Simply have a look at the flowers, such as you s’posed to,” Alpha mentioned, referencing what Carol mentioned in one of the devastating moments in a present filled with devastating moments, when she executed Lizzie. However Carol wasn’t able to die, and he or she pulled herself out and put the walker down. “It is by no means too late,” she whispered to herself. She went again to Alexandria, the place Daryl (Norman Reedus) let her in. However she confirmed no emotion to her finest pal. She’s too spent proper now.
Negan and Daryl
Negan went to the cabin the place he’d been maintaining Lydia (Cassady McClincy), not figuring out that she’d gotten free and located Daryl. Daryl was ready within the cabin, and Negan tried to clarify what had occurred. However when Negan and Daryl went to the pike so Negan may show that he’d killed Alpha at Carol’s behest, the top was gone. Daryl, like Carol, accused Negan of not finishing the duty quick sufficient, and in addition of liking being a Whisperer. They obtained surrounded by a trio of Whisperers, who declared Negan the brand new Alpha. One in all them had Alpha’s sawed-off shotgun, which Negan demanded. It was the primary time he’d held a gun in a few years.
“That feels good,” he mentioned, cradling the weapon in his arms. “I by no means had a child of my very own, but when I did, I’d think about that is what it is like holding your child for the very first time, apart from it seems my child can kill individuals by spittin’ bullets at em.” The outdated Negan jumped out. He made Daryl kneel earlier than him, and admitted that he did like being Whisperer.
“You must most likely shoot me,” Daryl mentioned. “Do not threaten me with a very good time,” Negan quipped. However as an alternative he killed the Whisperers and freed Daryl.
The subsequent morning, they have been sharing a canteen and ready for Carol to point out up. Negan elaborated on what he meant when he mentioned he appreciated being with Alpha. After being locked up for thus lengthy that his recollections had bars on them, it felt good to really feel essential and revered once more. “However she took it too far,” he mentioned. “You do not kill individuals who do not deserve it. And also you by no means kill youngsters.”
“Is that presupposed to make me such as you?” Daryl grumbled, as a result of it did not.
“What about my successful character?” Negan joked. Even now, in any case this, Negan remains to be gonna Negan.
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Eugene, Ezekiel, and Yumiko
In the home the place the survivors of the autumn of Hilltop have been regrouping, Rosita (Christian Serratos) made Eugene (McDermitt) inform everybody about Stephanie and the opposite group and their deliberate rendezvous in West Virginia. Folks have been skeptical at first, however after Eugene gave a transferring speech about how they wanted to have hope on this troublesome time, they got here round. Newly single Yumiko (Eleanor Matsuura) and bodily and emotionally ailing Ezekiel (Payton) agreed to accompany Eugene on the journey, which led to my favourite character second of the episode, between Ezekiel and his loyal proper hand man Jerry (Cooper Andrews).
Jerry informed Ezekiel he did not assume it was a good suggestion for him to go. “As a result of I am sick?” Ezekiel mentioned. “Cuz I’ll miss you,” Jerry answered.
“The Kingdom wants you,” Ezekiel mentioned. “Be certain our legacy lives on.”
“You bought it, bo-” Jerry began, then stopped himself. The Kingdom solely nonetheless existed of their hearts, and Ezekiel wasn’t a king anymore, only a man. “Ezekiel,” Jerry completed. It was the primary time he known as him by his title. They hugged, and I had tears in my eyes similar to Jerry.
The trio set off, and on the highway they discovered a cage with walkers inside it, together with one pigeon, randomly. They’d no thought who left it there.
Whereas camped for the night time, Ezekiel’s horse obtained sick, and he needed to put it down. This brought about him to spiral out, as a result of he felt like the identical factor was occurring to him. He was outdated and sick and ineffective. The most cancers was making him bodily weak, which put his buddies in danger. He needed them to vow to go away him behind if something occurred to him, however they refused. Yumiko informed him they have been on the market to attempt to discover out what was doable, and nobody had a greater sense of what was doable than the person who constructed a kingdom within the apocalypse.
They arrived in a metropolis, which was empty, however there was one thing bizarre concerning the walkers there. They have been all mounted in place in little scenes. One was siting in a rocking chair on a porch, two extra have been at a restaurant desk. When Ezekiel realized that one was handcuffed to the steering wheel of a automobile, he started to chuckle uncontrollably on the absurdity of the state of affairs. They examined an especially rotten skeleton wrapped in a purple feather boa, and after they regarded up, there was a lady standing there.
“Oh my God, hello!” she blurted, excitedly. She had a giant smile, and appeared genuinely very blissful to see them. She had purple hair, goggles, a pink jacket, and a giant assault rifle in her fingers. She was not recognized within the episode, however she’s Juanita Sanchez, higher generally known as “Princess of Pittsburgh” or simply “Princess,” who turns into an essential character on this journey. She’s performed by Paola Lázaro.
Beta
Alpha’s right-hand man discovered his chief’s severed melon. He was with two different Whisperers, and when considered one of them mentioned that Beta was the Alpha now, he grabbed him and let Alpha’s zombified cue-ball head chew him. Beta put Alpha’s head in a bag and took orders from it. (Like Carol, Beta’s thoughts was speaking to him in Alpha’s voice, although we did not hear her when Beta imagined her speaking to him.) He ended up at a lodge whereby his previous life as a rustic singer he as soon as carried out. We noticed a poster on the wall that exposed his stage title was Half Moon. He smashed his guitar in rage and despair, placed on considered one of his information, and cranked up the amount, drawing walkers from throughout to the lodge.
He took Alpha’s head out of the bag, thanked it and mentioned he noticed now, and stabbed it. Then we noticed him, from behind, as he walked out into the center of the walker swarm. He circled, revealing that he had sewn half of Alpha’s face to his masks. So now his masks is the 2 most essential individuals to him, his finest pal and Alpha. It mirrored the origin of Alpha and Beta’s relationship, which was additionally the origin of the Whisperers and their masks approach, when Alpha mentioned that there was a manner he may at all times hold his pal with him. And his face seems like a half moon. He shuffled off with the swarm towards Alexandria.
The Strolling Useless airs Sundays at 9/8c on AMC.
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