Rick isn’t ready to die.
As he keeps mumbling to himself, he needs to “keep them safe.”
If this was indeed a moment of foreshadowing, it would seem the former theory is true.
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(We’ll get to that later.)
Rick bandages himself up as he glances to the skeleton that was the cabin’s former resident.
In the city, he finds Shane.
The two recreate their first scene together in the series: eating takeout in a cop car.
Shane was the source of Rick’s rage and killing him began the Ricktatorship.
Rick opens his eyes to find the herd already invading the cabin, forcing him to flee.
So Michonne lets her pass.
To Maggie’s surprise, she can’t bring herself to kill Negan because it’s not Negan anymore.
He just wants to die so he can be reunited with his wife, Lucille.
Maggie realizes Negan is now worse than dead so she locks him back up.
The two men gaze out over a lush sunset from the view at the farm.
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Rick is whisked away to the hallway of the hospital where he first woke up amid the outbreak.
It’s there Sasha appears.
“Little things end,” she says, “but it’s not the end of everything.”
Rick wakes again, hitting the ground as he falls off his horse at the bridge campsite.
He sees the remains of the battle as the herd breaks through the trees and tramples over the tents.
Rick’s run turns into a haste walk to a shamble.
But that, too, is just a vision.
He pulls out his pistol and aims it at the cache of dynamite on the bridge.
He fires and the bridge explodes, seemingly incinerating himself along with the dead.
The others watch through tears as the dead fall in flames into the rushing current below.
From a distance, Jadis spies the column of smoke from the accident.
It’s Rick, still hanging onto life, his body slumping into the moist soil.
Rick saved her life once before and she wants to return the favor.
Rick is still alive when we last see him.
Jadis stands over his body, now attached to an IV in a hospital stretcher inside the aircraft.
We still don’t see who else is there, but we see them fly off into the distance.
A time jump takes us to the same scene where Rick took off but with a new group.
The five bolt for the woods and come across their mysterious savior.
A small samurai sword is strapped to the child’s back.
She holsters her familiar revolver as her hair half braided, the rest straight rests against her plaid button-down.
Her name is Judith Grimes.
We still don’t know what happens to “B"s in that mystery colony.
Also likeFear,The Walking Deadis presented with a new challenge.
What isThe Walking Deadwithout Rick?
