Watch The Talked About Scene From ‘The Walking Dead’ Episode 8×10

In comparison to unwinding, volatile Rick, he’s much closer to achieving the Alexandria utopia Carl envisaged and dreamed.

What will it take for Rick to learn? She looks and sees walkers coming in the distance.

Simon is champing at the bit to wreak awful vengeance on Rick’s army, but Negan refuses to give up on subjugating them, even after receiving Maggie’s message about her Savior hostages.

We hope it continues to build upon the momentum that they’ve started and don’t let up on the gas.

After saying goodbye to their former home, the two thought about what Carl said to them, wondering what he would have wanted them to do now.

One of the parallels made throughout the series is how Rick and Negan aren’t so different – but the show’s latest episode The Lost And The Plunderers made the clearest indications yet Rick could be on a slippery slope to All Out Madness. More on that later.

I know some of you nutjobs tried freeze-framing the letter from Negan that flashed briefly on the screen. It was a pretty sweet setup. They talk about Hilltop and how their plan went swimmingly, even though Simon didn’t want to play it like that – more basic dialogue. While understandable considering Jadis has double-crossed them, it’s a sign Rick could be too far gone on his dark path to revert back to his old ways. Does he want them to surrender? Although we were never shown the entire letter, we did get glimpses of it while Rick read it incredibly fast. Again, Negan was not on the same page. Not much was known about them at the time, other than they lived in a heap of garbage and talked like they had seen too many post-apocalypse movies and were like, “let’s go for it, dudes, our time is now”. Simon will be sent by Negan to join the group at their sides, but things could quickly degenerate.

Simon asks Jadis what the dump used to be. Again, Simon sounds off about going to kill every last one of the Hilltoppers, and this time Negan screams at him to “do your job”. There’s an attempt at the end to explain what their whole deal was, as Jadis recounts (in normal, non-Dumpster speech) how the landfill became their canvas and they could create something new and blah dee blah. Guess we’ll see you in the second to last episode when we’ve forgotten all about Oceanside and Sure Shot Cindy saves the day? With that, we pose the following question: Is she going to become Alpha? Whatever Rick decides, we have to see Rick make that decision for himself in honor of Carl.

Rick wasn’t feeling sorry for Jadis in the least, and went out of his way to not help her escape.

Enid tries to convince Cyndie, the now nominal leader, not to kill them, that all this killing will just beget more killing.

The most gut-wrenching moment in the episode, however, (no, not that one) occurred when Carl made a decision to end his life himself. Seriously though, what is she going to do now? It’s just so very bad, and inspires the same conversations about standing up and fighting or doing nothing we heard all of last season. Rick says no, repeatedly.

Her chapter ends with one of the better gore scenes in recent memory: Jadis is apparently in possession of a fantastic, industrial-strength Zombie Meat Grinder, which turns walkers into a meaty paste and, in a fine touch of artistry, splatters pulp on her artwork. So many questions here. He doesn’t want interference from Enid or Maggie; he does well with engagement by working alone. After she punched him, he killed everyone else. But it doesn’t look all good for the group as they try to make their way to the Hilltop. So when Rick broke the news to Negan that Carl died, we saw a side of Negan that we haven’t seen before: Compassion. As far as we know by episode’s end, Jadis (Polyanna McIntosh) is still around, eating applesauce and making art (for more on that, and Jadis’ next move, read our interview with McIntosh).

Rick presses his fingers into his forehead a lot and uses the walkie-talkie he grabbed at A-town to dial up Negan.