We opened The Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 8 with with Sam in his room, listening to “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” and coloring a picture of himself tied to a tree, surrounded by monsters.
Outside, meanwhile, the walkers’ appearance at least put a dent in Ron’s plan to murder Carl.
But this invasion also led Eugene (stuck in shock, uttering “help”), Tara and Rosita to end up hiding out as a trio; while Carol and Morgan were also together; and Rick, Deanna, Carl, Ron, Michonne and Gabriel took refuge at Jessie’s place.
So now the scene is set.
There was also Glenn. He watched the walkers flood the east wall and deduced that he an Enid ought to make their attack from the west wall.
At Jessie’s, Michonne discovered that Deanna had been bitten, while Carol (suffering from a concussion) was forced to trust Morgan.
While they waited for Deanna to unfortunately turn, Rick explained to Jessie that he had a plan. He would lead the walkers away the first chance he could.
At the same time, Michonne tried to assure Deanna that her blueprint for Alexandria’s future could still work. Really, it could!
Over in the garage, Rick and Jessie intervened after Ron tried to get his nemesis killed by attracting as many walkers as he could.
But Carl covered for Ron and then redeemed himself by ordering the psycho to give him the gun.
“Your dad was an a–hole,” Carl told Ron, trying to help him move on.
From there, Rick went to check on Judith and found Deanna, crumpled eerily over the crib.
He was just about to kill her when she blurted out that she was alright. Knowing that the end was near, though, she gave Rick notes for Maggie and Spencer, asking him to look out for her child the way he does for all his people… especially since they now were all his people.
Great stuff.
How did the midseason finale come to an end? With Rick dressing everyone in walker-gore-soaked sheets and having them make a run to the armory.
Once Carol got away from Morgan, she went straight to kill Wolf with a knife. But Morgan caught up with her and knocked her out… and then The Wolf knocked Morgan out and was just about to slit Denise’s throat when Eugene, Tara and Rosita busted in.
Denise’s life was therefore spared, but she ended up as The Wolf’s hostage.
Finally, as you’ll see when you watch The Walking Dead online, Rick and company started making their way out of her house; Glenn caught a glimpse of Maggie; Deanna killed a few walkers as her final acts; and it appeared as if Sam was about to have a meltdown that could get his whole group killed.