This just in: Terminus is not exactly the swell, welcoming place it advertised itself to be. But before we get into what happened in tonight’s Walking Dead finale, let’s issue our standard SPOILER ALERT: Read on only if you have already watched Sunday’s season 4 finale of The Walking Dead.
“Those who arrive, survive,” read the radio signal being broadcast out of the alleged salvation known as Terminus. But they apparently left out the part about “Those who arrive get locked into a train car for possible future human consumption.” That’s where Rick, Carl, Michonne, and Daryl ended up after recognizing the items of their missing friends being used by the inhabitants of Terminus. They were reunited with those friends — Glenn, Maggie, Bob, and Sasha, along with Tara, Eugene, Abraham, and Rosita — in a locked train car as prisoners of Terminus. (Carol, Tyreese, Judith, and Beth all remain unaccounted for.)
While the gang’s fortunes appear precarious at best, the show actually ended on a somewhat triumphant note as Rick told the others, “They’re gonna feel pretty stupid when they find out.” “Find out what?” asked Abraham. Rick’s reply: “They’re screwing with the wrong people.” BAM! That moment crystalized that this episode — which included multiple flashbacks to life at the prison shortly after the fall of Woodbury as Hershel convinced Rick to lay down his gun and pick up his farming shovel — and really the entire season was all about Rick’s transformation away from shunner of violence back into a supreme badass ready to kick rear end and take names.
Oh, and rear ends were kicked this episode, most notably those of Joe and his marauder buddies, who tracked down Rick and looked to waste him, Carl, Michonne, and Daryl (who vouched for his friends) before Rick fought back — biting Joe in the neck and gutting the thug who had Carl pinned down.
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