We open with a flashback of the group’s time back at the
prison. Glenn, Maggie and Rick
have come back from a run.
Herschel is there to greet them and Carl still has his gun. Rick takes a cane from Carol and starts
killing fence walkers. Then we are
in what I assume is the present.
Rick is covered in blood sitting against an old Bronco alone.
Michonne, Rick and Carl are in search of food. While checking their hunting snares, Carl
asks if they are close to Terminus.
Rick tells him he thinks they are.
Carl asks what they will tell the people there. Will they lie about the people they’ve
killed and the things they’ve done or will they tell the truth. Rick doesn’t exactly answer him, but
tells Carl they will them who they are.
Carl then asks who exactly are we.
Quick flashback to Herschel waking Rick up one morning. It’s early and he wants Rick to help
him with something. He tells Rick
he won’t need his gun because it will just get in the way. Cut back to the present where Rick,
Carl and Michonne find an old Bronco where they camp for the night. Carl sleeps in the truck while Michonne
and Rick talk by the fire. Rick
thinks Terminus will be a safe place with a system. Michonne is not so sure and wonders if the whole thing is
“legit”. They hear something in
the woods, but nothing happens so they let their guard down. Rick wonders if Terminus will let them
in and Michonne reminds him the Governer took people in. Rick concedes that they won’t know
anything until they know. So
hopefully it will turn out okay.
All of a sudden they have guns to their heads. It’s Joe and his Claim Gang. We don’t see Daryl with them. Joe tells Rick “you screwed up
asshole”. He says today is a day
of reckoning and Rick’s going to get what he deserves. Apparently it’s New Years Eve (if not
for real then it is in Joe’s head) so Joe starts to count down the final
seconds to blowing Ricks head open, when Daryl appears out of nowhere and tells
him to stop. Rick and Michonne
look at Daryl, but no one says anything.
Daryl tells Joe they are good people and they are going to let them
go. Daryl tells Joe to kill him
instead. Joe says Daryl is a liar
because he called Rick good people but he can’t be because Rick killed their
friend. The gang starts beating up
Daryl and Carl gets pulled out of the truck with a knife to his neck.
Rick begs the men to just take him because he was the one
who killed their friend. Joe tells
him how things are going to take place.
First, they will beat Daryl to death. When they are done with him they will start on Michonne, then
Carl, and then he will shoot Rick in the head. Then they will be square. Rick tells them to let Carl go. Then he knocks his head backwards against Joe. The gun goes off and Joe staggers back. Rick starts going through some sort of
crazy thing in his mind. Will he
snap back into defense mode Rick after he’s been a farmer for so long? After a beat he gets up and goes after
Joe. Joe gets him down for a
minute, but that just wakes up the beast in Rick even more. Michonne sees her chance to attack her
captor. Rick bites a chunk out of
Joe’s neck, Michonne shoots Tony in the head and then Rick stabs the guy who
had Carl. Michonne holds Carl
while Rick stabs the guy repeatedly and we get a close up of Carl with a Norman
Bates kind of look in his eyes.
Flashback again to Rick and Herschel, Herschel thinks they
should start farming and catching the wild animals to tame them. He wants Rick’s help and he wants Rick
to teach Carl. Rick is hesitant at
first because he thinks he’s needed to help defend the prison and go on
runs. Herschel says they have a
chance to make a life and make things better. Flash forward to the present where we see Rick sitting by
the Bronco. Michonne is inside
with Carl who is asleep. Daryl
helps Rick clean up. He tells Rick
he and Beth were together and that she is gone. He met up with the gang, but he didn’t know how bad they
were. Daryl says he was going to
leave the gang while they were attacking Rick, but then he saw who it was that
the gang was going after. He feels
responsible. Rick tells him he’s
not responsible and that Daryl is his brother. Daryl tells Rick anyone would’ve done what he did to the guy
the night before, but Rick says a normal person wouldn’t. He says he has to do what he does to
keep Carl safe.
They decide to enter Terminus from the woods since they
don’t know who the people there are.
They split up to come in at different directions and Rick asks if Carl
wants to go with him, but Carl picks Michonne. While they are walking, Michonne tells Carl how Andre died. They were at a refuge camp. People were giving up. She was coming back from a run and saw
that the fences for the camp were down.
She found her boyfriend and his friend. They had been high.
They were bit and she let them turn, then she took out their teeth and
tied chains around their necks. It
kept her safe from the walkers.
She says she was gone for a long time, but Andrea, Rick and Carl all
brought her back. She tells Carl
he doesn’t have to be afraid of his dad.
Carl says that he isn’t who Rick thinks he is, that he is a monster
too.
Rick buries some guns in the woods just in case they need to
get away. They crawl over the
fence and go inside. They find the
room where they are broadcasting the message on the radio. They meet a guy named Gareth. He wonders if they are there to rob
them, but Rick says they want sanctuary.
Gareth is going to take them to be welcomed, but first he has to see all
of their weapons. After they pat
them down they give them back their weapons. They take them to get something to eat. Rick asks why they let people in and
the guy says it makes them stronger.
Then Rick notices a chain hanging from the guys belt loop to his
pocket. He grabs the guy and pulls
it out. It’s the watch Herschel
gave to Glenn. Rick pulls his gun
and asks the guy where he got the watch.
Back to the prison where Patrick is playing with legos. Rick had grabbed them on a run for
Carl, but he wouldn’t touch them.
He was too busy cleaning his gun.
Rick realizes Herschel is right.
He asks Carl to come help him with something. Carl grabs his gun, but Rick tells him to leave it because
it will only get in the way. Back
to the present and the standoff between Terminus and Ricks group. The guy says he got the watch off of a
dead person. Rick sees someone
wearing the riot gear and Gareth says they got that off a dead police officer
and Maggie’s poncho off of a clothesline.
The Terminus people start shooting and all hell breaks loose. They try and find a way out, but are
blocked in. They pass a bunch of
fresh skeletons. They hear people
calling for help and get into a room filled with candles. They get out and almost to the fence,
but they are surrounded. Gareth
makes them drop their weapons and go into a rail car where they find Maggie and
Glenn and the others. Rick says
they are going to be pretty stupid when they find out they screwed with the
wrong people.
End credits…
So, Terminus is bad.
Who saw that coming?
Probably a lot of us. I’m
getting a strong cannibalistic vibe from these people. Thank God Rick pulled a gun on that guy
before they could eat whatever was being barbecued. Plus, when they were running they ran right by a pile of
fresh skeletons still covered in blood, but not a drop of meat left on
them. So, Terminus is a creepy,
cannibalistic cult… (?) That’s how
I’m calling it for now. I guess we
have until next October to let our conspiracy theories crowd the internet. Well until next fall…
#thewalkingdead
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