Hotdamn, that was a fantastic episode of The Walking Dead! The Season 10 “finale” (an additional six episodes are coming early subsequent 12 months) was a tense, thrilling, and emotional hour that gave us all the things we would like from The Strolling Useless. The Whisperers have been vanquished, Maggie (Lauren Cohan) returned, and the following chapter of the story acquired arrange, with every occasion occurring as satisfyingly as potential.
The episode started with the survivors prepping their protection towards what remained of the Whisperers, led by Beta (Ryan Hurst), and his horde of walkers. The plan was to stealthily transfer via the Whisperer-infested horde towards a wagon on the opposite aspect of the horde, which they’d load up with a loudspeaker to attract the walkers away from the hospital they have been barricaded in and over the sting of a cliff, the place they’d be swept away by the river under. The mission led to some thrilling moments like Dianne (Kerry Cahill) saving folks from shut calls by sniping Whisperers from the home windows of the hospital together with her arrows, and Lydia (Cassady McClincy) getting Carol (Melissa McBride) out of a jam by placing on her late mom Alpha’s (Samantha Morton) masks and slipping via the horde undetected to retrieve a bag of essential tools Oceansider Beatrice (Briana Venskus) dropped when she acquired eaten by walkers. Director Greg Nicotero, editor Alan Cody, and composers Bear McCreary and Sam Ewing did an distinctive job of constructing stress via this sequence.
They acquired the Pied Piper wagon going, blasting the Speaking Heads’ “Burning Down the Home,” an mockingly jaunty music cue, and for a second it appeared just like the plan was going to work, however then a Whisperer counterattack disabled the wagon and compelled the survivors to retreat. Daryl (Norman Reedus) then proposed a brand new plan: return into the horde and decide the Whisperers off one after the other. Lydia mentioned that she knew how to attract the horde away, so she would do this. Hopefully that may be sufficient to earn the belief of the opposite survivors, who nonetheless did not belief her or Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), as a result of Lydia had been a Whisperer and Negan had helped the Whisperers assault Hilltop whereas working undercover to get near and kill Alpha on Carol’s orders.
Seth Gilliam, The Strolling Useless
In the meantime, Whisperers have been storming the hospital, and Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) stayed behind to attempt to maintain off the attackers so Judith (Cailey Fleming) and the others might escape. Within the comics, Father Gabriel died throughout Beta’s last assault, so this actually appeared like the tip for the priest. Because the Whisperers attacked him, I used to be already saying goodbye to one of many longest-tenured characters left on the present, when out of the blue Maggie and a mysterious martial artist in an iron masks arrived and saved him. Like showrunner Angela Kang promised, Maggie arrived within the nick of time. She’s again, and she or he introduced a good friend! We’ve got completely no concept who the person within the iron masks is but, aside from he got here with Maggie from wherever she was after she acquired Carol’s letter asking her to return again, however know he is good with bladed weapons. He hasn’t been formally launched, and even spoken a phrase but.
Again within the horde, Daryl and the remainder have been searching Whisperers when Beta noticed Lydia — and Alpha’s masks. As he went after her, somebody shouted “Hey sh–head!” Beta circled, and Negan engaged him. Beta knocked Negan to the bottom, and as he raised his knife as much as ship a killing blow, Daryl swooped in together with his personal two knives and stabbed Beta in each eyes. Beta then PULLED THE KNIVES OUT OF HIS OWN FACE, AND YOU COULD SEE THEM COME ALL THE WAY OUT THROUGH HIS SOFT PALATE. It was superior. Beta, who mainly already considered himself as lifeless, embraced dying, and as walkers swarmed him, he held his arms out and welcomed them, as he flashed again to highlights of his life together with his Alpha. He was free.
The walkers pulled his masks off, revealing his face. Negan instantly acknowledged him as nation singer Half Moon, who had been a giant star earlier than the world ended. “Sh–, you understand who that asshole was?” Negan mentioned.
“Yeah,” Daryl growled. “No person.”
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Lydia led the herd via the evening towards the cliff, and within the morning, she reached the sting. Carol then stopped her and mentioned she would end it. Carol walked as much as the sting, able to take the final step off to finish her personal ache and struggling eternally. She was carrying a trench coat with the hood up, and she or he appeared like a blood-spattered monk. As she was about to step, Lydia pulled her again.
“I advised you to go,” Carol mentioned.
“You advised me to search out my very own means,” mentioned Lydia. Lydia has chosen. She desires to be a part of the group, and stay for different folks. She threw her mom’s masks off the cliff, the place it fell towards the river together with the remainder of the horde.
The survivors reconvened, celebrating their victory and second of security. Maggie noticed Judith for the primary time in years. Father Gabriel took care of Rosita (Christian Serratos) and child Coco. And most significantly, Carol and Daryl talked in regards to the future once more.
“New Mexico continues to be on the market,” Daryl mentioned, referring again to a dialog that they had within the season premiere.
“Perhaps sometime,” she mentioned. “We nonetheless have issues to do right here.” It is true! There are 30 episodes of The Strolling Useless left earlier than Carol and Daryl hit the highway on their spin-off.
Josh McDermitt, Paola Lazaro, Eleanor Matsuura, and Khary Payton, The Strolling Useless
The episode then ended with two cliffhangers.
The primary discovered a dirty and bloodied Connie (Lauren Ridloff), who had been lacking since a cave collapsed on her in Episode 9, stumbling via the woods, the place she was discovered by Virgil (Kevin Carroll), who was on horseback and searching rather more put collectively than he was the final time we noticed him in Michonne’s (Danai Gurira) last episode. Is he going to assist her? What’s he doing? He is in all probability coming to inform Daryl and Judith the place Michonne went.
The second caught up with the social gathering going to satisfy Stephanie (Margot Bingham) in West Virginia, which consisted of Eugene (Josh McDermitt), Ezekiel (Khary Payton), Yumiko (Eleanor Matsuura), and Princess (Paola Lazaro), the straggler they picked up alongside the best way. They arrived on the rail yard the place Eugene had scheduled his rendezvous, and Stephanie was nowhere to be discovered. They’d assumed they have been too late, and it appeared prefer it was true. Nonetheless, Eugene vowed to maintain looking out, for Stephanie or for others, as a result of that they had come on this journey to search out different folks to assist and be helped by, they usually could not cease now.
“Rattling, you are one actually attractive dude,” Princess mentioned.
Instantly, floodlights got here on, they usually have been surrounded by troopers in head-to-toe, white-and-red armor that made them appear to be samurai stormtroopers. Their uniforms lacked the telltale three-ring image that may imply they have been CRM, so they’re totally different than the individuals who took Rick Grimes. In reality, their armor is identical to the fits worn by the Commonwealth, a complicated group from the comics. In order that’s who they’re. I’ve a sense all the things’s going to be superb, however for now, it appears to be like like Eugene led the group proper right into a lure, and the final shot of The Strolling Useless in 2020 was Eugene’s scared and bewildered face as he stood together with his fingers up.
“A Sure Doom” was alleged to air again in April however acquired postponed due to the pandemic, but it surely was nicely well worth the wait. Because the present enters its last stretch, it is in superb form. I can not wait to see what the final 30 episodes have in retailer.
The Strolling Useless will return for six extra Season 10 episodes in early 2021. Fear the Walking Dead premieres Sunday, Oct. 11 at 9/8c on AMC, and The Walking Dead: World Beyond airs Sundays at 10/9c on AMC.