In one, a red-eyed, wet and distraught Rick is standing on what looks like a porch, where he solemnly intones, "My mercy prevailed over my wrath," which it appears is where the episode got its title from. The episode jumped away from the present multiple times to two different versions of Rick. OK, let's address the graying elephant in the room. It's unlikely that will happen, and the episode leaves those two stuck in the trailer together. Now, I'd like to be the first to say Gabriel is holding a gun, and Negan is just standing there making lewd comments and smiling, so we could all save ourselves some time if Gabriel took care of the series' worst villain. The priest is left with few options, as the herd advances, so he jumps into a trailer that just so happens to have Negan inside it. More: 'The Walking Dead' will cross over with 'Fear the Walking Dead': What we knowįather Gabriel stays behind to try to rescue Gregory, who (of course) double-crosses him and takes off with Gabriel's car. His triumphant and explosive ride felt akin to the kind of energy and goodwill the series had in the Season 5 premiere when Carol burned Terminus to the ground.ĭespite Rick's best efforts, Negan is able to duck out of the way of the hailstorm of bullets, and the team is forced to retreat (but not before, for some wild reason, Rick takes a polaroid of Negan's hiding spot). The real star of the episode was Daryl, as you might expect. The troops assaulted the windows of the compound while Daryl/Carol/Morgan/Tara orchestrated a herd of walkers to follow in an attack. He counts down from 10, but, sneaky man that he is, starts firing on "seven." We band of brothers Rick gives Negan's lieutenants (including Eugene) an opportunity to defect and save their lives. He tries to convince the Hilltoppers to desert, but Jesus affirms what we all already knew: They're following Maggie's leadership now. There's a lot of back and forth, because Negan loves nothing more than the sound of his own voice, and he reveals that Gregory did indeed flee to the Saviors last season. The team kicks off the day's battle plan, and a regiment rolls up at the Savior compound to confront Negan. More: ‘The Walking Dead’ needs to kill Negan to survive We see flashes of the characters not intimately involved in the battle: Carl is feeling sympathetic to a stranger while scavenging for gas (he'll later return and leave the man food), Michonne and Rosita appear to be recovering from last season's injuries and baby Judith is now a small child, further muddying the series' notoriously ill-defined timeline. Crispin's Day best with speeches as the troops ready for battle with the Saviors. Rick, Maggie "they say you can wage war through the second trimester" Green and King Ezekiel do their St. We'll get to what Old Man Rick might mean later.īut the episode's first few scenes have the benefit of rallying both the citizens of Alexandria, the Kingdom and the Hilltop and the audience members that need to be persuaded back onto the show. The episode opens with flashes of what we are going to refer to as Old Man Rick from here on, which some fans may have noticed were also in the trailer the series debuted at Comic-Con this year. (I'd argue that until Negan is dead and gone for good, The Walking Dead won't be truly great again.) It righted a few of the wrongs of Season 7, focusing on our heroes, allowing them agency and keeping them together. That Team Rick actually had numbers and good strategy on its side (Andrew Lincoln told USA TODAY it was "the first time in 100 episodes that Rick has come up with a really good plan") was only an added bonus. "Mercy" is nowhere near the best episode The Walking Dead has ever aired, but it's an effect season premiere that manages to add some energy into the aging series and at least partially hits the reset button. go to war with Negan's Saviors in the new season of AMC's 'The Walking Dead' If there's one thing we can glean from the explosive but cagey Season 8 premiere (and 100th episode) of AMC's zombie apocalypse series, it's that the show is actively trying to shrug off it's creative problems from last year and perhaps win back some viewers after a ratings decline. This is not last year's sad and slow Walking Dead. Spoiler alert! The following contains spoilers for The Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 1, "Mercy." To read our recap of the Season 7 finale, click here.
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