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OH. MY. GAWD. This episode threw us for a loop (in the most wonderful way)! We demonstrate how various characters choose to deal with the lies they've been living with: Silas has no choice but to confront his past and accept it; Hope finally relents and reveals the truth to Elton, after taking some twists and turns along the way; and Huck is what happens when living in the prison of one's own lies is taken to its logical conclusion
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Overlapping information: Where Huck went and her relationship with Col. Kublek
Dave causes retail misery as a child
Huck’s father
The Asset: Iris/Hope
Living in a Lie: Huck slips with Hope and Hope tells Elton the truth
What if Huck and Hope are sisters? Would Huck know the truth?
Leo in the next episode
If you see CRM, it’s already too late: Silas's sneak peek into the next episode
Huck killed Tony. Maybe Percy? Blood trail ends at the river; guilt or panic on Huck’s face; using Silas as scapegoat
Walking Dead Wiki: his full name is Silas Plaskett; Was 2010 the "End of the World"? Kai Lennox (Silas' dad) in Nissan Rogue commercial:
High School fallout shelter: FearTWD parallel with Nora’s Christmas Party 2008
Intro was amazing
Silas’ flashbacks: Grandparents house; wearing his headphones; simulated rock concert music; abusive father; horrible mother
Alcoholism + Midazolam = Memory Loss
The CRM Orange: Shows Organization from the Onset; Alliance of the Three
"Battleground" by Lucian Blaque
In days long ago, in no too distant times/Men fought for freedom, they paid the price with their lives/They fought the rulers, of their country/They won the battle, the right to be free
The king is gone the rules shall be/Written by our hand/To proclaim for all to see/Across this land
Marching into battle, time and time again/Fighting for this nation, with brothers and friends/Taking proudly with them, the symbol of the times/Flying high above them, our stars and stripes
Our flag, our pride, our joy, our life/The symbol of freedom, of love
Marching into battle, time and time again/Fighting for this nation, with brothers and friends/Taking proudly with them, the symbol of the times
Our flag, our pride, our joy, our life/The symbol of freedom, of love
Lie in peace my son we’ll drape you with the flag/That once flew high above you, and now a tattered rag/The river that flows nearby will breeze the heat away/The sun beats to warm the ground, such a lonely day
Love It!
"Lite the Nite" by Chyld
This day you’re happy/The next you want to fly/So now you’re looking for/Someone to share the ride
This night you’re ruling/You’re hot, you’re on your own/Leave all your hates behind/Forget the life you’ve blown
We want ...to feel it/Feel it now...ohhh
You’ve got to feel it/There’s just no way to hide/That extra special light/That opens up your eyes
So open up now/And turn that power on/Let the music ...take control/And let you do your stuff
We want ...to feel it/Feel it now...ohhh/Lite the nite/Lite the nite
You can take me/And turn my heart around/You can take me/But you’re losing all your ground
You need, I see/electric in your eyes/You take, I make/all your living lies
We want ...to feel it/Feel it now...ohhh/Lite the nite/Lite the nite
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In a particularly emotional episode, #WorldBeyond continues to build on what we've learned in their corner of #TWDUniverse, while we get a heaping teaspoonful of the #CivicRepublic / #CivicRepublicMilitary (and manage to give a civics lesson of our own, in the process)!
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Hope gets the FIRST kill for the kids, setting fire to the walkers
Who is the Tyger? Silas/Iris/Hope
Hope is giving off #CarolPelletier vibes
Twin Walkers/Tread Head
The three arrows of ReTread: same triple arrows on Elizabeth’s map
Hope tells Iris the truth: Mirror images of one another
Silas’ grandparents on tape: his 6th birthday and was having problems even then
Physical Plant/Janitorial/Custodial Dept with Silas’ Uncle
Does Huck know the truth about Silas?
Walker Hallucinations: Silas sees a man in the smoke
Hope and Silas, afraid of themselves: What they’ve done/what they’re capable of
Silas/Michael Myers: Rachael’s fear
Felix the Great
Sheltered Elton: Haul Ass?
Goonies Vibes
Rachael’s extra soft spot for "Silas"
Triceratops horn for the win!
Felix could be a vigilante: Roy Harper 2.0
Who throws out a zippo lighter? Impractical survival planning
Inside the CR with Elizabeth Kublek, with Officer Barca (Al Calderon's character finally has a name)
Genocide not sitting well with Barca AND Elizabeth, as it turns out
Communism in the USA. CRM is Authoritarian and spoiled with renewable energy: Vertical farming, WWI posters on Kublek’s wall, Pharmacy, The illusion of free speech, "Consignments"
“Magic Fingers” by Peggy Scott and Jo Jo Benson
Did Iris etch the portrait of Judith & Michonne on the iPhone Michonne found (on the ship off the coast of Bloodsworth Island)?
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Should our protagonists(?) be thinking locally or globally? Is #SilasPlaskett's allegiance going to be tested? #JenniferMallick is starting to realize that her mother, #ElizabethKublek, might actually be a monster (and that she might be one by proxy). And terrific performance by #NicholasCantu as #EltonOrtiz, this episode!
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The wrong end of a kill-stick/telescope. Conflict in this episode and every episode gets better.
What episode are we covering? Reminiscing on older SQUAWKING DEAD episode difficulties (while having current difficulties).
[Editor's Note: we go into a conversation about how it's possible Felix Carlucci knows Percy Delmado is gunning for Jennifer Mallick/Huck, but we know why because both he and Elton Ortiz must've caught everyone up]
Huck's world is crashing around her as she's realizing how much bad she's responsible for. The same may be applied to Lt. Col. Elizabeth Kublek.
Our theory about both Portland being in Texas (not Oregon, ties into Fear The Walking Dead nicely) and Major General Beale being Jadis/Anne are seemingly both incorrect. Is Rick Grimes Mr. Beale?!
Even Dave is having trouble covering for Iris Bennett, but notes the contrast of her character against others (especially Percy).
You hate in others what you hate in yourself: Dave strikes at the heart of why Rachael, in particular (but perhaps #TWDFamily, as well), wouldn't like Iris. We know far too much the cost of standing on principle in #TWDUniverse.
Watching Iris and Hope Bennettpart ways was difficult. Remembering that Bennetts are teenagers (ergo: not thinking things through). Iris might be "butthurt" over not being chosen by the Civic Republic Military - or, at least, not used to Hope not being in her shadow. Things would've been worse if they would've chosen Iris (or, at least, not as interesting).
We're here for Dennis & Silas Plaskett's relationship. Maximilian Osinski's body would destroy Hal Cumpston's. The Culling & Maintenance kids' "training ground" is a post-apocalyptic video game.
Hope & Silas' path forward might be difficult. Silas, in light of this newfound family, and Hope, with the possibility of the cure. The only way out is through? Both Hope & Iris think locally and globally, in their own way.
It's entirely possibly that one or the other sister might die and what that might mean for the greater #TWDUniverse; Mason's Master Controller (him stepping a little out of bounds) might be useful for Hope if she joins the effort to wreck the CRM; and Portland's fate is still unclear, but Hope knows more about the CRM today than she did yesterday, and it might mess with her.
Speaking of Mason, it seems like he's dipping his toes in both camps: clearly has access to things and does what he's told, but steps out of bounds here and there. Mason Belshaw? Mason General Beale?
Silas divulges to Dennis the reason why he tries to leave the Culling & Maintenance Outpost, but understanding Dennis imparts some sage wisdom. It is still unclear whether Dennis knows the killer whom Silas is referencing (Huck), but ostensibly does not appear he's aware. We need to interview Max.
Pulling some cool information off of Indira's insulin bottle. Why it's important that others, like Brody, don't know she's ill (at least at this stage); parallel with Hope's childhood trauma (the irony of Elton discovering this). Dave's imagination runs wild; Fused walker in the Culling & Maintenance facility; Scott M. Gimple makes cast-members paranoid (and his spoilers suck).
Deconstructing the plethora of sources spurring Elton's panic attack.
Say what we all will about characters that we're having trouble digesting, they are nudging the conflict, so it's not all bad: Iris may actually be a psychopath while Percy becomes the responsible one?!
Ithaca, NY: where The Walking Dead: World Beyond's story ends. Is the Civic Republic one large city or a Confederation of settlements? Or both? The Civic Republic/The Commonwealth aware of one another?
Picking more bones: Leaving the Perimeter's armory unlocked.
The necessity of seeing (is believing) Daniel and Margaret fishing Huck our of the river in Omaha: Even Huck saved some people. Remembering Huck's father, Mr. Mallick, and what he represents to both Kublek and Huck. The significance of seeing Jennifer give herself her scar in both Season 1 and Season 2. Symmetry between Silas and Hucks scars/wounds: remembering. Huck & Dennis are married?
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We laughed, we cried, and we learned something along the way. #ThankYou: to you, the fans, who have stuck with us throughout this journey and gotten so much out of our conversations; to #MattNegrete and all the cast and crew who made this incredible show possible. In this, the last episode/light, we take a closer look at the symmetry in #Jadis & #SilasPlaskett's respective journeys, as well as the yin-yang parallel of how Silas somewhat ended up in the same place as the start of the series. We also reflect on the satisfying, yet unfinished ending that is both life, in general, and #TWDWB's end.
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The show never confirmed that Perimeter Colony are the folks Jennifer Mallick saved as a Marine in Middletown, NY.
Even though the series asks more questions than gives you closure by the end of it, it's still fairly satisfying. As Elton Ortiz says, "Maybe there is no ending or beginning."
Last episode, we had said the higher-ups in the Civic Republic Militaryknow that what they are doing will make it so they are tried for war crimes and, case in point, Lt. Col. Elizabeth Kublek is on trial... but not for that.
Though it feels like our little group didn't really have an impact, they saved Portland.
Silas Plaskett is alone in the end, like he started, only now he's a hero.
Will we see these characters in the Rick Grimes movie(s)? There’s a lot of room for them to appear throughout The Walking Dead Universe franchise.
Maybe the PPP card (Tara Chambler found when Heath disappeared) was a first draft CRM logo?
On top of the Felix Carlucci & Lt. Frank Newton fight scene being incredibly satisfying, it was also supremely homoerotic. An honorable mention goes to Robert Palmer Watkins' crotch.
Felix and Will Campbell get married (tattooed wedding bands).
Huck should have known her intel caused the downfall of Omaha/Campus Colony; then again, she might've only acted surprised in order to tie up Warrant Officer Jadis Stokes long enough to explode the gas.
Much like Negan, Jadis a very entertaining character you love to hate, leaning into her badness like Victor Strand.
What pre-apocalypse Jadis might've looked like.
Maximilian Osinski's Austrian accent slips, delivering lines as Agent Dennis. The father/son bond between Dennis and Silas parallels what Silas had to do to his biological father.
What Jadis actually sees in Silas.
Brief discussion on weird names like "Rachael" and "Sherrandy"
Leo Bennet bringing the gun/smoke show. We'll forever see romance between he and Indira in our heads.
MON 26: the present date on Huck's father's watch. Sherrandy theorizes that the night the sky fell must have been September of 2008 .
What will Portland do knowing their kids are effectively kidnapped by the CR? Will they even believe Iris et al?
The unanswered questions, alone, might spawn more spin-offs.
The Walking Dead ARM-my: Alicia Clark, Elton, Aaron, and Virginia. Editors note: I shook my head as I typed that last line, but what is done cannot be undone...
Elton stabs us (but mostly Dave) right in the feels with his - the show's - final monologue:
There was a time when I thought I was gonna die - that we were all gonna die - because I believed we were the last generation. The Endlings.
And then for a while, I thought we were the beginning. But that ignores everything that came before - everyone who came before.
What I know for sure is that there's a lot that's tough about the world - a lot that's harder than I ever thought it could be. Those things have left their mark on us - on all of us - in ways I never could've expected.
I also know there's a lot that's good - that's beautiful. A lot that brings me hope.
But maybe there is no beginning? Maybe there's no end? Maybe there just is - and "is" is whatever we make it, because really we don't get to know.
There's no perfect modelling - no way to predict if today is the last day - if the world lasts a year or two or forever. Maybe all we get to know is now.
And whether we make a small mark on this world or we change it entirely, it's really about those little pieces of now that get us there - those small steps that move us forward, keep us growing and evolving. Because all of those moments put together: that's a life - and that's everything.
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What does it do to someone when they hold on to their darkest secrets? Who is it protecting, in the end? Who does this damage most and what lengths might someone go in order to keep their "monsters" at bay? We find out a lot about the skeletons Huck's kept in her closet and how they connect and affect the rest of our characters, but mostly Hope.
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Silas’ grandparents voices: Jeff Kober, "Joe" The Claimer & Denise Crosby, "Mary" from Terminus
Flirty Elton vs. Flirty Percy
Hope almost tells Elton
No good choices in keeping secrets, right Siddiq!?
Huck dealing with PTSD
Huck and (baby) Felix’s age difference
HOW will Elton find out the truth?
Tony figures out how to read the CRM maps: ⛽fuel & 🧬double-helix symbols
Percy’s mom left, didn’t die
Tony & Felix: both have chosen families & hit rock bottom
Setting Silas up: Percy distracts Iris; The Louvre in the truck; Misdirection; Silas isn’t buying the con; Is Hope next, or does she have a role to play?
Unspoken words from Iris
Who killed Tony?
They’re just outside Pittsburgh now
Kids these days and their loud music
"Mania" by The Last Year: Relating to Huck & Silas, perhaps Hope & Elton
I've got a feeling I've never felt / I could run a million miles, just to hear you make a sound / and I never wanna come down / I'm not gonna sleep tonight / I've never felt so alive
CHORUS: I'm in Mania / I'm in Mania / out of my mind, out of my head / and I'm never gonna sleep again / I'm in Mania
Will you catch me when I fall? / I'm afraid of heights and anything is possible tonight / but I'll be just fine / No reason to be afraid / and no I'm not insane
I'm where I've never been before / so deep, deep inside my world / and I'm losing all control / and I'm never coming home
Hating on Percy: Drives a wedge between Silas & Iris
Etymology of "Jennifer": Fair or Beautiful. "Mallick" = King/Queen/Royalty. Lance Corporal Mallick is a Sniper
Huck takes care of Walter: shared trauma between Huck & Hope
Thermal imaging dream sequence opener: Slowed down version of "What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)" by Information Society
Here I am in silence / Looking round without a clue / I find myself alone again / All alone with you / I can see behind your eyes / The things that I don't know / If you hide away from me / How can our love grow
CHORUS: I wanna know / What you're thinking / There are some things you can't hide / I wanna know / What you're feeling / Tell me what's on your mind
I know I could break you down / But what good would it do / I could surely never know / That what you say is true / Here I am in silence / It's a game I have to play / You and I in silence / With nothing else to say
Cudlitz directed episode
Truth or Dare: Percy is still reading them, poking at Hope
Elton with the (accidental) comic relief: "I don’t know what’s customary"; relatable; Whiskey is "a warm bag of nails"
Devil’s Pass: 2009? Sniper Huck
Huck’s flashback with Drake: "Didn’t I?" by Darondo
Didn't I treat you right, now / Didn't I? / Didn't I do the best I could / Didn't I? / Didn't I give ya everything / Didn't I? / I tried my best just to be a man / Didn't I?
Didn't I do it baby? / Didn't I do right? / Why you wanna leave me baby? / Didn't I treat you right?
I bought you diamond rings / Everything, that a woman could need / I bought you cars, clothes, a home / When things were rough for me I kept on / And I am back again
Didn't I?
There's something wrong with you / Tell me / Bring me all your troubles dear / You look bad, you should be glad / Your leading man, always be glad, sit by home / And let me kiss your lovely lips
Didn't I do it baby? / Didn't I do right? / Why you wanna leave me baby? / I said didn't I treat you right?
It's a mystery to me / That you won't / Talk to me / What it is / That I've done / To make me
Marine verbiage, "KILL" = Acknowledgement or Greeting.
Beer Farts Owens talks about the origin of the Zombie Apocalypse: Robert Kirkman's Troll & Flight 462
CentCom/Central Command: Illegal for them to act on US soil & Sunset Protocols aren't a real thing.
Qualities of a Marine are Honor, Courage, and Commitment: Huck has the commitment & Once a Marine, Always a Marine
Huck scars herself to remember Drake and her actions
The gun goes off in Hope’s hands: what her marble means and Hope forgives Amelia
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Is #ElizabethKublek the enemy we thought she was? Is Anne / #JadisStokes(?) someone we should worry about? And, for someone who's supposed to be(?) a protagonist, #IrisBennett sure acts a lot like the side she's fighting against (sneaky AND manipulative)! It is really nice to see most of our "family" together and it's nice to see #EltonOrtiz find his place in #TWDUniverse
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Jadis Stokes?! The preview into the next episode spoiled what was to be her big reveal in the stinger. Lt. Col. Elizabeth Kublek is gone, indefinitely. Sergeant Major Barca's return as TS A841.
What is Lyla trying to perfect in her secret lab? Do the end really justify the means? PRJ-V Epidemiological Data. Revisiting As & Bs
The newspaper Jennifer Mallick is reading: Small article to the left in the Civic Republic Tribune titled, CRBC Optimizes Signal
The main article's text in the article titled, Military Looks Ahead to Civilian Oversight by Nick [Orgini?]
In an address to the citizens of the Civic Republic This week, Major General Beale surprised many when he spoke not only of recent successes in fortifying the city and military forces, but of the future transition of power toward the civilian government.
A transition of power from military leadership to full civilian oversight is a bedrock provision of the Civic Republic's Founding Compact, the foundational document that has guided our city in rebuilding humanity for over nine years. Authors of the document were in agreement that military [autonomy?/autocracy?] was something for the early survival of the CR, as well as its stabilization in the years to follow. The provision [does?] states that ten years into the CR's existence, a transition of power could take place, a move that would put the power back into the hands of the people.
With that compact's decade.... [cut off/next column]
When asked if the ten-year timeline written into the CR's Founding Compact still seemed feasible to the Major General, Beale responded saying, "There are many | Mjr. Gen. Beale 'looking forward' to long-awaited governmental transition. | variables to consider. But I have full faith that when the time comes, we will execute the plan smoothly."
When pressed to reveal specifics of the plan for the transition of power, Beale remained tight-lipped, "It's something my joint chiefs of ... " [cut off/next column]
military."
A CR farmer, speaking anonymously, shared similar sentiments. "You can't deny what the CR Military has done for this city. We owe our survival to them," he said, "But things are under control more than ever before and it feels like the right time for us citizens to take the reins."
Beale's acknowledgement of the transition of power in his address has proven to be a smart political move. His approval ratings are polling at an all-time high, with many people citing his leadership as integral to the continued survival of the CR. With strong [approval?] and widespread appeal, [...] rest comfortably knowing [...] the last [...][cut off]
CITY IN BRIEF | THE REGION | City Celebrates Eight Years of the New Beginnings Academy, by Anna [Stodden?]
The New Beginnings Academy is celebrating eight years of full [operation?]. With its enrollment of 204 children in [grads? ... over?] time, most consider the [...] of the CRM's greatest success [...].
The biggest worry [...].
Dennis either picks up a second newspaper, or a separate large article in the same newspaper reads, CRM REQUESTS EMERGENCY DELAY OF CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT. An article on the right of that reads, CANDIDATES FORUM TO BE HELD IN MILLENNIUM PARK.
Discussion points as a result of reading the CR Tribune: The CR (gov't) most likely doesn't know the comings and goings of its military. CRM creating panic to remain in power. The people, themselves, might push to keep Major General Beale in power. Did Lyla's failed experiment wipe out campus colony?
Episode synopsis spoilers.
Why does Lyla have a deadline? Unstoppable soldiers? Longevity for the winners?
Kublek out of the picture could spell disaster for Huck. Was she compiling evidence against the CRM on behalf of the CR?
Quatervois: (four) ways of seeing/crossroads. Sign is a callback to Season 1: The Tyger and the Lamb
Hope Bennett & Silas Plaskett see the positives of the CR.
Is Percy Delmado being genuine, or is his odd sincerity a long con?
Iris (and the rest) shake Hope & Silas out of their comfort with the CR.
Kublek's right hand man, Lt. Frank Newton, is off in Portland.
Percy and Elton Ortiz bro out on their girls, Iris and Asha.
Every generation thinks the world's too unsafe for children, but most end up having them, anyway.
Coffee is important!
Silas struggles with lying to Dennis. Dennis may have ratted out Silas. Dennis in favor of civilian oversight/control.
Will Campbell helped draft the CR Research Facility map: Pen for research Dum-Dums.
The Significance songs, this episode: Metal Sport by Hittman and Angel of Wilderness by Craig Marsden.
Symmetry between Silas and Leo's scenes. Leo bumps into Professor Doctor Terry Brooks Ellis.
Why does Jadis take on Gabriel's surname? Mario III advises us that Warrant Officers are, essentially, military police.
Iris may be manipulating Silas with her drawing of the gang.
Elton misses his chance to kiss the girl, but learns a valuable lesson about his place in the universe.
Much like Louis Tully from Ghostbusters 2, the way in which Iris Bennet becomes the savior of humanity.
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#Jadis says, "It's about life, doctor," two episodes ago, but her semi-quoting #ThomasMann to him early on in the episode (all that's out there is "Death and the dead") is all we need to know, narratively, the seat from which all their motivations derive: Fear. Our protagonists show, in action, all the ways in which Thomas Mann "Wakes up": by living life as if death doesn't exist.
So not much pre/post show to speak of, since we recorded both #FearTWD and #WorldBeyond on the same day, but we did edit out chunks and chunks of footage in between for various reasons. Support the #podcast and get the episode that God/Nature/Science intended:
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We went into a rant about the quote from whence the episode title's namesake is derived:
In our recent coverage of #TWDWorldBeyond's penultimate series finale, "Death and the Dead", we examined the quote from which the episode title's namesake is derived. pic.twitter.com/g4zxeXONpl
Huck is finally releasing all the emotions she's pent up inside. Parallels of what she felt she finally had to do against her brothers in the Marines (the right thing) and her driving away in the jeep in the series premiere.
Sherrandy is the M.V.P.: Jadis is allowing nepotism (Mason Beale being held hostage) to halt the Civic Republic Military's agenda (which shows their hypocrisy, considering Elizabeth Kublek and Jennifer Mallick and even Sergeant Barca). Although, from our point of view, do you blame Warrant Officer Stokes from hiding this from Major General Beale?
In the aftermath, even though Project Votus was used as a smokescreen for genocide, they still believe in it. Jadis turns into the monster (Simon, of The Saviors) because MGB wants all the scientists back alive.
Clear parallels between the state of The Walking Dead communities in episodes 1-5 of Season 9 to The Alliance of the Three: How The Sanctuary was a drain on Maggie Rhee and The Hilltop's resources. The Walking Dead: World Beyond is also somewhat an echo of Carl Grimes' vision of the future.
Mason's actions near the end (leading to Percy's death), in spite of hearing The CRM's deceptions from Jadis' own lips. Dave struggles, while the ladies appeal to the rationale that even he has in his own notes. He's a good person, but maybe what was said is a seed in Mason's mind that might sprout later on?
CGI Empties in this episode plus Elton Ortiz and Silas Plaskett hamster balling it in Perimeter Colony's globe art for the Civic Republic Research Facility were kind of necessarily hilarious and light-hearted.
Iris Bennett's decision to stop Hope Bennett from killing Mason (even though The CRM took Iris' future, twice: Campus Colony and Percy Delmado). Drawing yet another line from Iris to Rick Grimes - and even Michonne to Virgil.
I think we'd all be pissed if Dennis('s abs don't save him and he) dies. Annet Mahendru is the M.V.P. Dave works out why actual prayer isn't implemented in this extremely emotional scene.
The premise if the show: the reason why the CRM executioners cull Campus Colony, Omaha, and is moving to genocide Portland. Rachael brings back our theory that, without loud sounds or bright fire, dead columns/walker herds are drawn to massive communities of people.
The CRM might already know that The Civic Republic will try them for crimes against humanity for what the CRM thinks they have to do before they hand over control to the civilian government.
Logistically placing the whereabouts of both the kids and the scientists.
The weight of the scientists, even Terry Brooks Ellis, having to kill the soldiers with the B-Oh-4 Bombs.
Percy's demise.
Hope's (and our) reaction to having to kill Empty Lyla Belshaw. It's the moment that sets up her threating actions towards Mason, near the end.
Dennis tells Silas to find his friends (after having told him not to at the start of the season). The interesting encounter between Silas and Webb.
Briefly revisiting Iris' reasons for stopping Hope from killing Mason. Dispelling the questions behind the capability of frozen empties and why, essentially, empties/walkers look the way they do so soon after reanimation.
Dennis takes his alcoholism very seriously (won't someone think of the abs?!). Silas is a friendly/traumatized drunk. Silas forgives Jennifer Mallick.
Delaying the inevitable: Thanking all of you for joining us, from start to finish, throughout TWD World Beyond's journey. Recording this episode is just inconveniencing Sherrandy from watching next week's episodes.
