![]() ![]() Daryl has stepped in as her adoptive father now that everyone else is gone. Judith had talked about having two mothers, but in reality she’s had two fathers as well. Earlier in the episode, Daryl promised that when all this was over, he’d tell her all the stories he could remember about all the people who ever loved her-Carl, Michonne, her birth-mother Laurie and her long-disappeared father, Rick. This is probably the best moment of the episode, packing an actual emotional punch for once. “Daddy?” she says at one point, looking up at him through blurry eyes. The survivors fight through the zombies, clearing an opening for Daryl, now carrying Judith’s near-lifeless form, so that he can break through and find medical help. The goal now is survival more than rebellion. Our heroes make it into the city but the dead are there as well, and barricades have already been set up to funnel the dead away from the Estates and into the rest of the city (though these evolved zombies should be able to make their way past the barricades easily enough). When the woman she has running the army now protests-thousands could die if left to fend for themselves-Pamela tells her that their job is to protect the Estates. ![]() The entire horde makes its way toward the Commonwealth and Pamela orders her troops to seal off the “Estates” where she and the other rich and powerful live. The undead climb the walls, quickly overwhelming the Stormtroopers and opening the gates to the city. The zombies have evolved and the walls no longer hold them back with the few troops she has to spare now that Mercer and his men are in custody. Pamela’s plans go awry in more ways than one. Melissa McBride as Carol Peletier, Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon, Anthony Azor as RJ © 2022 AMC Film Holdings LLC. “You did this!” she shouts at them as she retreats. Pamela is shocked, clearly not wanting the blood of a child on her hands. Judith leaps forward to save her and takes the bullet instead. For whatever reason, Pamela joins the fight, grabbing a gun and shooting at Maggie. Pamela’s men show up and start firing immediately and a big gunfight ensues. Mercer was supposed to meet them, but he’s been arrested along with his loyal troops. She’s shot when Pamela springs an ambush on Daryl and the others as they try to enter the city. The other is Judith, who may or may not be dead, though I’m guessing she survives. Lydia’s arm is one of just two casualties in the penultimate episode of The Walking Dead. It’s a gruesome scene and you feel bad for Lydia-and then for Jerry who agrees to go looking for the others-but it feels like too little, too late. Inside the RV, they tie a tourniquet on her arm and Jerry hacks it off with his sword. Instead, as the group tries to get inside an RV and Luke and Elijah are pushed away from the others by the herd, Lydia reaches out to save her new boyfriend and a zombie bites her. They would have devised this whole method of hiding among the walkers wearing zombie masks and whispering to each other in order to avoid detection from the Commonwealth’s superior military might and waged a series of guerilla warfare battles and terrorist attacks on their enemy. Like, what if instead of the show fighting the Whisperers, they’d taken it in a radically different direction and had the heroes become the Whisperers instead? Their motivation would have been rebellion against the Commonwealth. It made me think of missed opportunities. I actually really enjoyed Aaron and Jerry playing Whisperer during this scene. ![]()
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