Catch up on The Walking Dead season 5 with our guide to the episodes!
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Be warned: after the picture of gagged Daryl and Glenn, there are life-ruining spoilers.
Rick and the group are being held captive in a storage container in Terminus.
Fortunately, he wins in the end.
Will the remaining Terminans come back to bite the group?
On a happier note, the ENTIRE group is reunited.
Well get there in due time.
They travel in a close formation, rifles at hand.
No one is going to mess with them anymore.
Theres the whole business about Eugenes cure, after all.
On the road, they meet a priest named Gabriel, whos about to be mauled by zombies.
The group saves Father Gabriel, but that doesnt mean they trust him.
In fact, theyre pretty hostile towards him.
In their defense, Gabriel has a very poor sense of humor.
Eventually, Gabriel takes the group back to his little church where the survivors set up camp.
Tainted meat, he yells at Gareth and the others, as they beat him into unconsciousness.
Its a good opener.
They chase after it, and arent seen again until a little later in the season.
But Rick doesnt know where they are, so he assumes that theyre missing along with Bob.
Bob shows up again, of course, only this time hes beaten, eaten, and bitten.
Rick and the group are pissed and go on the hunt for the Terminans.
The baddies know Carol, Judith, Gabriel, and friends are helpless to defend themselves.
Luckily, its an ambush.
Rick and company slaughter all of the Terminans with sharp things.
Its very bloody business.
The next day, the group disperses.
Daryl does indeed return by the end of the episode…alone it seems!
504 Slabtown
Wheres Beth?
was one of the main questions of season 5, and we finally got our answer.
Beths being held captive/had been turned into an indentured servant at a hospital in Atlanta.
When she regains consciousness, Beth begins to get the lay of the land.
Unfortunately, Beth must sacrifice her freedom so that Noah can flee their captors.
Beth is dragged back inside to continue her servitude.
Abrahams only sense of purpose is the mission.
His obsessiveness with keeping Eugene safe is called into question in this episode.
Too bad Eugene isnt really a scientist.
He doesnt have the cure.
Hes just a very good liar leading a band of idiots.
This revelation crushes Abraham, who punches Eugene in the face until hes unconscious (dead?)
Ahead is a zombie horde thats blocking their way forward.
What will they do now?
506 Consumed
Ah, we finally get the Carol and Daryl Power Hour.
Little bits and pieces of Carols life come together in an introspective episode about her many rendezvous with death.
Shes basically walking the green mile.
Daryl and Carol are on Beths trail.
They enter Atlanta in the middle of the night, tracking the black car.
Really, this episode really slows things down and allows the themes of the season to do the talking.
Eventually, Daryl and Carol are ambushed by Noah, whos trying to survive in the zombie-filled city.
He takes their weapons and is on his way.
This time, Noah needs their help.
Daryl hesitates, but eventually helps Noah get away from a zombie.
Right before the end of the episode, Carol is run over by a police car.
Shes quickly taken back to the hospital.
This is more of a tale of three cities.
Abraham and friends are coping with Eugenes revelation that there is no cure or secret lab in Washington.
Theyre pretty much screwed.
Beth watches over Carol at the hospital.
Beth unleashes a plan and successfully acquires the medicine.
Rick and friends are ready to kill more things.
They strip the church of anything that can be turned into a weapon, much to Gabriels chagrin.
Gabriels been going through a bunch of stuff all along.
So all this time he thinks hes being punished for his sins.
Anyway, Rick and friends are to kill more things.
Things are about to get really sucky for one or two survivors.
Rick chases down Officer Bob and kills him.
The plan is still on.
Theyll trade the cops they took prisoner for Carol and Beth.
Theres a cold-bloodedness to Rick in the midseason finale that is not unlike past villains on the show.
Beth and Dawn push him down an elevator shaft.
By the end of the episode, we see that their alliance was only temporary.
During the negotiation, which goes off very smoothly, Dawn asks for Noah.
Just then, Beth stabs Dawn with a pair of scissors.
Dawn shoots Beth in the head and Daryl shoots Dawn.
The episode ends with Daryl carrying Beth in his arms, Maggie watching from the hospital entrance.
A post-credits sequence shows Morgan still on Ricks tracks.
Tyreese, bless his heart, was becoming the new wise man on the show.
Everyone he loves is now either a walker or a mutilated corpse scattered on the street.
Noah decides to visit his home, where his zombie little brother is waiting for him.
510 Them
Its another very,veryslow episode.
There isnt much to tell.
Sasha, Daryl, and Maggie especially get a bit of on-screen sulking time.
Sasha is raging against the machine, Daryl is being the loner, and Maggie keeps finding dead people.
She even finds a zombie teenager tied up in the trunk of a car.
But thats only about five minutes of the episode.
Other than that, everyone is crying, dying of thirst and hunger, or just not talking.
No one is having a good time.
They point guns at him because OMG STRANGER, SHOOT IT!
In fact, he punches Aaron in the face.
Of course, Rick is very, very hesitant.
At the end of the episode, the group reaches the gates of Alexandria.
She welcomes Rick and the others into Alexandria interviews each of them individually.
Later, Deanna gives everyone a job, except for Rick, Michonne, and Daryl.
She says theyll find out soon enough.
Obviously, this makes them suspicious of Deannas intentions.
But by the end of the episode, Rick and Michonne are declared the new constables of the community.
Not enough formal attire and beer to hold us over.
Meanwhile, at the cocktail party, Rick hits on a married woman and Abraham drinks lots of beer.
Carol has been playing double agent since she arrived to Alexandria.
She even bakes cookies!!
Can he get past his demons?
Its awesome to listen to a fight from the outside before seeing the combatants flying through windows.
We also got to really witness the evolution of Ricks character.
What would season 1 Rick think of season 5 Rick?
Surely, the younger, less scarred Rick would put the mad dog down.
It brings me back to the way he killed Officer Bob in the midseason finale.
Can Rick really be considered one of the good guys anymore?
Abraham told Rick that the new world would need him, even after the massacre at Gabriels church.
It doesnt really seem that way anymore.
Rick is a product of the outside world, and civilization no longer suits him.
Sasha, whos completely losing it, is almost catatonic except for her ability to slaughter walkers.
Rosita is wearing pants.
We saw a good man walk too close to the edge of darkness.
He welcomed that darkness inside and became stronger for it, but also a bit more carnal.
Did I ever think the main character of the show was EVER going to get banished from Alexandria?
And the writers delivered the right scenario to ensure Ricks new status as a leader in this community.
Luckily, the writers understood that Rick isnt about all that talking.
Rick started saving people again.
And that proved to be his saving grace.
Too bad Deanna didnt take to Ricks ways in time.
Im sure she wont make that mistake again.
By the time season 6 comes around, I expect big changes in the way Alexandria is run.
At the end of it all, Ill say this: season 5 was a very different animal.
The threat was not so much a singular villain or group as it was the entire world.
A group of survivors vs. their environment.
Im in the middle, but anxious to see more.
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