The hospital’s long hallways work so well for the negotiation scenes. Those few minutes, which come almost at the end of the episode (the time alotted to each plot thread is really odd in this finale), are unbearable. The negotiation scene is incredibly tense, a very delicate moment that could send bullets flying at any second, Rick weaponless in the crossfire. He’s a very different leader, open to manipulating his people like the Governor did.Īfter the ending of this episode, though, you have to wonder if Daryl should’ve listened to Rick… The way he looks at Daryl as he proposes his plan…there’s something off about Rick. Has Rick’s transformation finally come full-circle? It would seem so. These first few minutes of the finale are some of the best of the entire series.Īfterwards, Rick tries to convince Daryl that now they have to go in guns blazing since they don’t have all of the cops to trade for Carol and Beth. It’s so frightening to see Rick execute someone in such a cold-blooded way. Then Rick delivers the line, “You can’t go back, Bob.” Holy crap, what a line! It’s what Gareth says to the first Bob during the slaughterhouse scene in the beginning of the season. Rick is equally as merciless in his delivery of the line. We start off pretty much where we left off: Officer Bob is making a run for it, and Trigger Rick is right on his trail in a police car! Rick even uses the car’s megaphone…before he runs over Bob.

The conclusions of these threads are haunting.

The walking dead coda