The Walking Dead Season Finale Recap With Spoilers: “A”

As previously reported, the episode opens on a flashback. At the prison, the gates are rolled open and a car pulls up. Rick, Maggie and Glenn pile out , and Hershel is waiting for them. It’s before Carol’s excommunication, so she and Tyreese walk by. At the fence line, Rick joins a numebr of survivors who are taking out walkers.Cut from that relatively bright tableau to a shot of Rick alone beside a truck with its windows covered by sheets. He’s covered in blood and it’s silent. He’s in shock, shaking, and there are signs of a struggle everywhere.In the woods, in realtime, Rick is cooking a can of food over a flame with Michonne and Carl; he gets up to check the snares, and ends up teaching Carl and Michonne how to use the animal traps they’ve been relying on for meat. They plan to camp out in the woods for a while longer and for Rick to finish healing up. Carl wants to know how close they are to Terminus, and Rick says they’re close. Carl asks what they’re going to tell the people at Terminus — will they tell all of the things they’ve had to do in order to survive? Rick says only that “we’re going to tell them who we are.”