The Walking Dead: Five Things We Learned From Tonight’s Episode

With the finale coming up next week, tonight’s episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead was bound to answer a lot of our questions — and it did, in fairly spectacular fashion.Spoilers ahead for tonight’s episode, titled “Us.”The episode, originally slated to be directed by Man of Steel writer and Da Vinci’s Demons creator David S. Goyer, eventually had to be handed off to special effects guru Greg Nicotero instead for scheduling reasons.What he did with it was bring together two of our long-separated groups, relieving some of the show’s lingering tension surrounding whether any of our heroes would ever meet again. That unified group then moved on to the end of the line, where they found what seems to be a fairly idyllic home.Pretty sure things won’t really play out that way, but let’s focus on what we did learn today…