While there were no horrific, brutal deaths (of living people)
on tonight's episode of The Walking Dead, things were still
incredibly tense in Alexandria.
After they lost Noah and Aiden last week, everyone was in
mourning, and Deanna was trying to determine how
seriously to take Father Gabriel's warning while Rick and
Carol tried to decide how to deal with Pete.
Turns out, Deanna was fully aware of the fact that Pete has
been hitting Jessie. The problem for her is that he's a
talented surgeon who has saved many lives, and she
doesn't want the community to lose him. Rick suggests
separating him from Jessie permanently, and if that doesn't
work, killing him.
Deanna basically says no way Jose to that suggestion, and
while that does stop Rick from outright shooting Pete in the
face, it does not stop him from engaging in an insane fist
fight with the man. They threw each other through a
window and ended up on the ground in the middle of
Alexandria, covered in blood and pummeling each other as
best they could.
Finally, Deanna ran out into the street and told them to get
up, which is when Rick pulled out a gun, waving it around
like a lunatic, shouting things about how no one in
Alexandria knows how the real world works, and they're all
going to die because they don't know what they're doing,
and yada yada yada until Michonne hits him on the head,
knocking him out.
Elsewhere in the episode, Sasha went a gallivanting to do
some target practice with the walkers, many of whom had
that mysterious M (or W) carved into their foreheads. Carl
and his ladyfriend Enid also went wandering outside the
walls and ended up getting cozy in a tree before very nearly
kissing, and Daryl and Aaron found a lady walker tied to a
tree with her insides destroyed, also with that W on her
forehead.
Glenn and Nicholas (the annoying other dude who went on
the run last week) told opposing stories about what
happened with Noah and Aiden's deaths, and Glenn told
Nicholas he would no longer be going on runs.
So, going into next week's finale, one big question is what
will become of Rick. At this point, he's in a prime position
to be kicked right out of town. Pete may have deserved a
few punches and possibly more, but that was still not the
smartest move, and neither was that rant. Would Deanna
kick the whole group out, or would Rick be on his own? Is it
possible that Michonne and the others would let Rick head
out on his own, given how he's been behaving lately? Or
will Deanna decide that it's better to just get rid of the
whole lot and be done with it?
Plus, what is up with those W's?