"Faith without works is dead"
- James 2:26
Wow! This was by far the best action packed and story driven episode of the walking dead ever! It really challenged my mind and integrated the events of the comic book well which was previously ignored for must of the tv series. I know some of you are dying to know who died on this episode of the walking dead, so I will get to the point.
The show opened with our first introduction to the Negan army holding Darly, Sasha and Abraham up. Words were said and the situation looked like it was going to go from bad to worse. Seems like Negan's group has control issues and don't like to be asked questions on who they are and what they do. The gang's leader stated he had a history of killing first for fear factor and asking questions later, but he held back because felt the trio were "honest folks".
Darly was taken away from the trio to reveal what supplies they were hiding. Abraham and Sasha tried to ask their captures questions but all they got was hostility. Soon the situation lead to Sasha's and Abraham's execution for questioning the Negan gang reasoning, but Darly saved the day by blowing up the bikers with a missile. Sasha, Darly, and Abraham survived.
The next scene was too graphic to show it all. Basically, Sam had a panic attack in the middle of the horde and got his whole family killed. This lead to a domino effect of death.
On the talking dead, director Greg Nicotero said "Jessie sealed her family fate when she didn't train Sam to cope with the zombie reality that exist now."
Once Sam and Jessie got eaten alive, Jon snapped and attempted to take a shot at Rick. Instead of hitting Rick, the shot hit Carl which caused him to lose his eye. Out of rage Michonne killed Jon, and she single handedly cleared a path to safety for a shell shock Rick and the injured Carl.
A lot was happening at once, so it's hard to explain it all in sequence because continuity was not a strong of this episode. After the wolf leader kidnapped he spent a good part convincing us he is crazy add, lol. He was challenged by Denise beliefs and courage while being afraid of his radical beliefs. In the end, he changed and sacrificed himself to save Denise.
Glenn and Enid set out to save Maggie without weapons and gear. Eventually they found a church with a strange message written on the: "faith without works is dead".
On the talking dead director Nicotero said it foreshadowed that if they survivors wanted to save Alexandria, then they have to stop running away and defend it! This unleashed a domino effect butt whipping. Enid found a gun and ammo hidden in a bible and with that alone they sat off to save Maggie.
Well Glenn got in over his head again. Too many zombies swarmed Maggie's hiding spot, and the zombies nearly rock her and Enid off. Glenn sacrifices himself to be a distraction. We think we see the final moments of Glenn, but Sasha, Darly and Abraham show up and unleashed a cloud of semi-automatic fire on the horde to save Glenn. Glenn must have a luck perk bc he seems to survive the most dire scenarios.
Following the injury of Carl, death of Jessie. Sam, and Jon, Rick goes postal and attacks the zombie horde alone. Inspired by Rick's effort, the citizens take the streets to retake Alexandria from the zombie horde. It was twenty minutes fighting! Every able body fought the horde including the priest and Eugene. No one lost their life in the battle. In the end, Carl was alive but lost his eye the city of Alexandria was zombie free again.
A lot of questions were left unanswered and new threats like Negan presented the group with challenges that will be revealed in time or if you read the comic book you know a lot of death, chaos, war is ahead.
