The Walking Dead Season Finale Recap: Welcome to the Tombs

Rick and the group have to seriously consider if the prison is worth defending as The Governor’s impending attack looms over their heads.And how did it actually go down? Read on…The episode opens on an iris–wide open and not turned. It’s the Governor, his face spattered in blood, punching the camera–it’s clearly Milton’s POV, and the Governor is talking down to him. He blames Milton for the deaths of the eight men who Merle killed last week. Milton stands up to the Governor, telling him that the only reason anyone in Woodbury took care of him is that he looked the other way. The Governor tells him that it’s time for him to move up. He says that if there’s a threat, and you end it, you don’t ever feel bad about it–you kill or you die.Milton asks him what Penny would think about what the Governor has become, and the Governor says that she would be afraid of him, but if he’d been like this from the start, she would still be alive today.Miilton asks him if he killed Andrea, and the Governor pulls him into the next room and throws him in with Andrea, who begs him to stop what he’s doing. The Governor says he’s going to kill them all, and that people are going to help him. “I had to stretch the truth a little bit but just a little,” he says. “Now they’re foaming at the mouth.” He tells Milton to get the Governor’s torture tools and he drops them, takes his time putting the kit together and clearly does something surreptitious. Outside Andrea’s room, the Governor pins him to a wall and tell him that he has to kill Andrea, to “show me that you’ve learned something,” and that there is no way he’s leaving the room without killing her.He hands Milton a knife, and Milton starts toward Andrea, but then he turns on the Governor. The Governor anticipates it and stabs him to death, telling him that he’ll die, he’ll turn and then he’ll eat her. Then he walks out, telling Andrea “In this life, you kill or you die–or you die and you kill.”Back at the prison, Carl is packing up his things when he stops to look at the picture he recovered of his family back in the episode “Clear.” He, Carol, Hershel and Beth are packing all of their belongings into bags, totes and vehicles, apparently readying to leave the prison after the vote alluded to last week. He ignores Rick’s attempt to talk to him, and Glenn approaches Rick as he’s tinkering under the hood of a Department of Corrections car. Glenn tells Rick he’s never seen Carl this mad–“Even with Lori, he just shut down,” Glenn says. Carl says he’s still a kid, although it’s easy to forget. He looks up at the catwalk and sees Lori standing there.On the ground near his bike, Daryl says that Merle never did anything like he did last episode in his whole life; Carol says it gave the group a chance.Inside the prison, Michonne tells Rick she’s ready–that she understands he had to consider the deal the Governor offered. Rick apologizes for how close he came, and she says that he didn’t do it, which is what matters. She tells him she never thanked him for getting her out to Woodbury that first time, or for taking her in. He tells her that he might not have if she didn’t have the baby formula, but she doesn’t believe that. He says it must have been something else, then, but it was Carl who made the call to let her stay–that she’s “one of us.” She half-smiles and walks away.