Summary:
It is finally the start of Season 6, and First Time Again
The episode cuts between black & white and color to denote the current from the past.
In black & white:
Back in town the mayor tells Gabriel he was wrong. I guess she realizes she needs Rick after all. All around town people are suffering. Rick’s “Girlfriend” and her kids are suffering from the loss of her husband.
There a multiple little reunions. Glen is alive. Tara is alive. And Carl gets to hold hands with his teenage love. And Morgan is now with Team Rick. The community has changed. Power is shifting.
When Rick & Morgan go to bury Pete the killer they find the quarry filled with the undead – which then becomes the foundation of the “in color” mission in real time. Rick talks to the community. At least one person doesn’t think they need to clear the quarry – but Deanna the mayor tells everyone they are going to do what Rick says.
Carter isn’t very happy about it. He doesn’t like the plan, and he tries to get others to join him. He wants to kill Rick. When he get’s caught he falls right in line.
Later (but still in the past) Rick get’s to talk with Jessie but she makes it pretty clear that she doesn’t want anything to do with Rick – and especially doesn’t want him around her kids.
In color:
The team is back on the move – ready to clear the massive horde that was in the quarry. Team Rick has made a funnel out of cars to keep the horde moving in the right direction, them make them turn west at Marshal & Redding.
Daryl is leading them on his bike but Glenn and his small team has to clear an industrial building so the walkers in the building don’t pull the horde off the road. The plan is to let the walkers inside the building out slow, and then kill them in small batches. Only when they open the door there is a steel security gate in the way as well. If Glen can’t quite the walkers inside down he might just find a whole horde coming off the road behind him.
They get to the critical turn and the horde hits the metal walls. They are holding , but it looks shaky.
At the industrial building Glenn busts the window and then there is a brief violent fight. The same man that got Noah killed and then tried to kill Glenn actually stands and fights. (I would have put a bullet in him and not thought twice about it.)
Just when it appears that everything is going smoothly Carter gets sloppy and lets himself get bitten – which draws the horde off the road. Carter won’t stop screaming and Rick does the only thing he can – which is put a knife into the back of his head.
As Team Rick is guiding the horde someone sets off an air horn, which pulls the massive horde off the road and directly towards the walls of town. The carefully laid plan has gone south and now the horde is descending on the town.
And now we have to wait until next week to find out what happens.
Things I loved about this episode…
- Eugene – “I fully respect the hair game.” I love his lack of awareness of social norms.
- Morgan using his short staff to take out the undead on the ridge when they find the quarry full of walkers.
- The horde coming down the road behind Daryl on his motorcycle.
- The sheer number of zombies on the highway.
Things that I didn’t like about this episode…
- The CGI in the opening scenes was a little “rough”.
- Why bother taking a corpse outside the city to dig a hole for it? Just bury the killer or burn the body.
- They the hell would Glenn & Maggie let the guy who got Noah killed, and then tried to kill Glen n Live? It makes no sense.
- The whole episode I was waiting for it to go south. It had to go south right? The engineer naysayer has to end up being correct. Otherwise there isn’t much of a season 6 right?
- Did Michonne & Morgan really think Rick did something wrong when carter got bit? The dude was dead anyway. What was he supposed to do?
- I really didn’t like all the jumping between the past in black & white and the current timeline in color. This is The Walking Dead – not the opera.
- It was a little too artistic and a little drawn out. Cut to the zombie kills.
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