Well done, Rick Grimes!
Your plan totally worked on The Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 8, as both Carol and Beth were "discharged" from the hospital.
The only problem, of course, was that Beth didn’t exactly do so with a pulse.
To close the first half of The Walking Dead Season 5, Rick and company attempted a peaceful negotiation with their new enemies, but these weren’t folks interested in a deal. Or in morals. Or in rules of any kind.
So before Beth could reunite with her fellow survivors and get away,she was shot to death by the hospital’s self-appointed dictator, Dawn. In response, Daryl killed Beth’s murderer.
In this job, you don’t need their love, but you have to have their respect. Otherwise a day’s gonna come when you need backup, and you don’t have it. And what comes next? Everybody goes down.
You can go ahead and put that on your tombstone now, Dawn.
"I think the writing throughout has been great, but I wasn’t ready for it to be over," actress Emily Kinney told TV Line about her character’s demise, adding:
"I think the Beth character, in particular… more could’ve been done with a teenager growing up [in that world]. I did not see it coming at all."
The death of Beth was by far the most notable development on the midseason finale, but also worth mentioning:
- Rick offered freedom to any of the wards at Grady Memorial and only Noah accepted. What will we see from him next year?
- Morgan showed up in the post-credits sequences, following the group’s trail after seeing the map Abraham left behind for Rick in the church.
- We were treated to a nice moment between Tyreese and Sasha on the roof of the parking garage, as the former thinks they’re still fundamentally the same people they’ve always been. “You’re still the same, and that’s good. I don’t think I can be, not anymore," she replies."
- Based on the preview below, it appears as if everyone is off to Alexandria, doesn’t it?
Check it out now and be sure to watch The Walking Dead online via TV Fanatic if you need to catch up prior to the show’s return: