
The twists kept coming as the final scene jumped ahead six years and saw a 10-year-old Judith saving people from walkers. Who are the helicopter people? What determines if someone’s an “A” or a “B”? Anne and Rick flew away on a helicopter, and fans were left with many questions unanswered. Anne convinced the helicopter people to save his life, though he was a “B” and not the “A” she’d claimed to have for them. In the end, Rick found a new family and sacrificed himself to save them.Īs soon as the bridge explodes, everyone assumes Rick is dead, but there’s a twist. “I found them,” he said before shooting the dynamite on the bridge to blow it up. Rick’s series-long journey culminated with his final words, a reference to his initial focus on finding his family in the Walking Dead pilot. And when the bridge didn’t give out under their combined weight, it was up to Rick to blow it up. By the time the others did find him, they were too late. Just as Rick reached the bridge, he thought his friends had come to his rescue, only to realize that too had been a hallucination. Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) tries to escape walkers on horseback in 'The Walking Dead' Season 9 Episode 5 AMC Hershel assured Rick he didn’t need to be the one to keep his family together. Shane played a role in the person Rick’s become since waking up to a world overrun with the undead. On his journey to the bridge, Rick hallucinated familiar faces whom he’d lost as he searched for his family, much like he’d done in season 1. When it didn’t collapse, he had to destroy the bridge himself. However, by episode’s end, he’d led them to that bridge and planned to take them out (and save himself) by letting their weight bring it down. Rick initially wanted to lure a herd of walkers away from a bridge to keep it intact. Spoilers for The Walking Dead Season 9 Episode 5 below.
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“What Comes After” not only addressed what came after his character, Rick, found himself bleeding out at the end of episode 4, but what happened after that situation was resolved and what the series has to look forward to: A future without Rick Grimes.
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Andrew Lincoln’s last episode of The Walking Dead aired Sunday night, and it was full of twists - including one that was revealed after the episode ended.
