Moving around in time, TWD tonight actually started with focus on a conflict between villain Negan and Rick Grimes occurring after the villain had killed one of the survivors. Prolonging the controversial cliffhanger that ended last season, viewers had to wait until after the second commercial break to find out just who died.“You belong to me,” the Jeffrey Dean Morgan portrayed Negan tells Andrew Lincoln’s Rick after almost making him cut off his own son Carl’s arm. The line – and Negan’s taking of the Norman Reedus played Daryl Dixon hostage near the end – actually summarizes the episode and the thrust of most of Season 7 of the show. And after that long extension of the cliffhanger that marked this episode, the audience as well. The reveal of just who died finally came 2. IGN is the The Walking Dead: Season 7 resource with episode guides, reviews, video clips, pictures, news, previews and more. Plus: Who's switching teams? New character posters for "The Walking Dead" Season 7 show our heroes at the mercy of the savage Saviors leader Negan. First Abraham fell victim to Negan’s bat Lucille. Then it was Glenn who was killed as an example to the others after Daryl attempted to attack Negan for killing Abe. It was a brutal blow to the core cast at the hands of the Morgan- portrayed sadistic villain’s barbed- wire baseball bat, especially since audiences had to wait so long for it. Having already died in the Robert Kirkman comics on which the series is based, the battering death of the Michael Cudlitz- played ex- Army sergeant on TV tonight was but one of many twists and tortures in the 1- hour and 6- minute long opener. Even though there had been some indications that more than one character might be killed in the Season 7 premiere, the additional death tonight of Steven Yeun’s Glenn Rhee character shocked many who were watching the episode at a special event at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles amid some very drizzly weather. Even though the Glenn character was Negan’s actual victim in the comics, many believed that he would make it through the first part of Season 7 after surviving the multi- episode arc last Season in which it was unknown if his character had died from a Walker attack or not. Looks like they, and us in our TWD S7 preview, were wrong on that one. Daryl is gone and Eugene has taken up residency at the Sanctuary. But the newcomer's experience is drastically different in this Walking Dead recap.Still, coming directly off the “eeny, meeny, miny, moe” cliffhanger of the April 3 Season 6 finale where the Saviors and their leader captured Rick, Daryl and more of the core survivors, to call tonight’s bloody opener to highly anticipated and very heavily marketed by AMC would be an understatement. While who would actually die on the death deep TWD was kept under narrative lock and key, AMC was in full PR mode for months. Among other media events, the show and its principals teased out what to expect throughout the summer with appearances and trailers at Comic- Cons on both coasts. The SDCC tease also revealed that the series would be incorporating the Kingdom group from the comics and their leader Kzekiel, to be played by Khary Payton. While it seemed pretty clear from the NYCC teaser dropped earlier this month in the Big Apple that Lincoln’s Grimes wouldn’t be on the chopping block in the season premiere, the guessing game has reached new heights in recent weeks. Adopting a practice that HBO and Game of Thrones have employed for the past few years and that TWD itself has used for past season finales, AMC did not make any advance screeners of tonight’s premiere available for review or anything else. Add to that hype machine the fact that TWD is facing a low scoring and long Seattle Seahawks vs. During tonight’s east coast airing of TWD over 8. TV- related activity on Twitter was related to the season premiere. All of which means that the Season 7 debut could very likely see TWD return to the top of both the broadcast and cable mountain with tonight’s Scott M. Gimple penned and Greg Nicotero directed episode. As a bit of side trivia – Sunday’s show is the fourth consecutive TWD opener that has been written and helmed by the EPs. Nicotero and showrunner Gimple also ran point on the Season 6 . The actors will be joined by EPs Gimple and Kirkman on the Chris Hardwick hosted show. Already renewed for an eighth season by AMC, the first part of the seventh season of TWD runs until December 1. February 2. 01. 7. Season 7 (TV Series) . Was the joke that bad? Negan refers to a character that appears in the Comic Series, the TV Series and Road to. ![]() But I'm gonna kill you. He asks what weapon Rick had; Simon hands Rick's axe to Negan and Negan drags Rick inside the RV. He dares Rick to kill him with the axe. Rick grabs it and charges forward, but Negan turns around at the last second with an assault rifle pointed at Rick. Negan orders him to drop the axe. He says to Rick . I want you to think about what happened and I want you to think about what can still happen. ![]() He starts the RV and proceeds to drive off. He asks Rick if that reminds him of anyone he knows. The people back there? They are mine. This is mine,” he says, pointing to Rick’s axe. He throws it outside and orders Rick to retrieve it. Rick doesn’t move. Rick gets up. Negan pushes him out the door. He climbs to the top of the RV and sees they’re at the smoldering wall of logs that the Saviors previously used to block their path. When he’s finally finished, Negan orders a crying Rosita to look at his . Enraged, Daryl leaps up and punches Negan in the face before he’s subdued by two Saviors. Dwight points Daryl's crossbow at his head and asks Negan if he can do it, but Negan has other plans. Dwight drags Daryl back in line. Negan says . He turns and slams Lucille down on Glenn's head twice. Maggie stares at her husband in horror and shock, the blows having forced one of Glenn's eyes from its socket. Negan begins to taunt Glenn as he tries to speak. She's a vampire bat! From inside the RV, Negan shoots at Rick through the roof and again orders him to get the axe. Rick picks up the axe and jumps off the roof, grabbing onto the hanging walker, but dropping the axe in the process. Walkers grab at Rick’s feet. Negan opens a window and shoots most of the walkers clawing for Rick, but then the hanging walker’s body detaches from its head, dropping Rick into the herd. After saving Rick, Negan once again orders Rick to get the axe. He cleans the bloody axe and tells Rick that he is no longer in charge. He hands Rick the axe, . I just got a feeling. He explains to Rick that the purpose of their drive was to change the way Rick sees him. Negan orders his men to put their guns to everyone’s heads, and tells Carl to lie on the ground. He draws a line on Carl’s arm and presents Rick with an ultimatum: Rick must cut off Carl’s arm, or everyone will die, including everyone in Alexandria. Impatient, Negan starts counting down from three. Rick continues pleading. Satisfied, Negan takes back the axe. He explains to Rick that if he ever tries anything else, he will force Rick to mutilate Daryl. He leaves a truck with Rick’s group so they can transport the goods they are to produce for him. He says he will return for their first offering in one week. Finally, Maggie struggles to her feet. Rick tells her they need to get her to the doctor, but she insists that Rick head back to Alexandria and prepare to fight the Saviors. Sasha volunteers to go with Maggie. She crouches next to Glenn, sobbing. Rosita nods and the two women hold hands on top of Abraham's body. Maggie relents and lets them move the body. In it, his group peacefully eats dinner together. Glenn holds his son. Abraham sits next to him. He picks up his axe as a walker approaches, but he ignores it and gets in the RV. Rick glances in the side view mirror as he drives away. In it, he sees the walker dropping to the ground and eating the remains of Abraham. The episode ends with the camera focusing on a broken Rick's eyes. Her wounds are fresh; it’s been a couple hours since she was shot by Roman. The men on horseback, who previously offered to get Carol medical assistance, lead the way. Morgan walks alongside the wagon. Carol falls back asleep. She confuses walkers for humans in her hallucinatory state. Weak and distraught, she sneaks away. She comes across a cemetery and approaches the caretaker’s abandoned cottage. An Older Woman beckons her through the window. Several people ride in on horseback, just in time to kill the walkers. Morgan and Carol join their group. Morgan raises the flag on the mailbox. Morgan tells her she’s been asleep for two days. Carol takes in her surroundings: kids play in the streets, residents water gardens. He tells her The Kingdom is run by a man who calls himself King Ezekiel, but hedges on any more specifics. Ezekiel sits on a throne with his tiger, Shiva, chained at his side. Ezekiel dramatically introduces himself to Carol and welcomes her to The Kingdom. Carol, in the meek persona she used with the Alexandrians, pretends to be in awe of The Kingdom. Ezekiel offers her fruit, suggesting she at least take the pomegranate; Carol politely declines and thanks Ezekiel. Morgan refuses to let her venture out on her own. They hunt pigs in a nearby city, corralling them into a building where a tied up walker awaits. The pigs devour the walker. Ezekiel turns to one of his men, Richard, and tells him it’s a job well done. Richard states, “it’s just what we needed.” Morgan asks why they bait the pigs with walkers. Richard says that he wants their bellies “full of rot.”. Walkers approach Ezekiel’s group. Richard instructs Benjamin, a teenage boy, to kill a nearby walker with a machete. Benjamin struggles with the walker; Ezekiel unsheathes his sword and stabs it in the head. Richard asks Morgan to keep the pig hunt a secret from The Kingdommers. Morgan agrees. Music filters in from a nearby choir practice. She distracts a man who’s folding laundry and steals some clothes from the table. Benjamin asks Morgan to loan him his book, The Art of Peace, and Morgan agrees. Ezekiel approaches and asks them to join him. Richard tells Morgan to bring his gun. A group of Saviors arrives. Gavin, the leader, counts the pigs and is pleased to find that they’re bigger than the last shipment. Richard remarks that they fed the pigs well. When Dianne, a Kingdommer, starts explaining to Morgan who the Saviors are, he interjects, “I know who they are.”. As they load up the trucks, a Savior - Jared - picks a fight with Richard. Ezekiel orders his people to lower their weapons and Gavin tells Jared to stop punching Richard. Gavin reminds Ezekiel that the following week is a produce week. He warns Ezekiel that Richard will be the first to die if they deliver less than requested. Benjamin tells Morgan that Ezekiel was close friends with his father, a strong fighter who died while clearing walkers from a building. He explains that Ezekiel is keeping the deal with The Saviors a secret because he’s worried that residents would want to fight, despite being outmatched. He asks if Morgan is against killing, having read the pacifist inscription in The Art of Peace. She adopts her demure persona and Ezekiel tells her not to bullshit a bullshitter.“You’re a joke,” she tells him. He confesses that he’s putting on an act and that Shiva, contrary to heroic stories that residents have told about him, is a tiger that he nursed back to health when he was a zookeeper. He explains that people wanted to ascribe him a leadership role because it’s human nature for them to feel safer when they have someone to follow. Ezekiel encourages her to embrace life and suggests a plan that would allow her to simultaneously “go and not go.”. The next day, Morgan sees Carol to the cemetery. At the caretaker’s cottage, Morgan lowers the flag on the mailbox and rides back to town. She buries her outside, by the graves. There’s a knock at the door; it’s Ezekiel and Shiva. He offers her a pomegranate. In the marketplace, he cuts to the front of the bread line and grabs an entire loaf. He watches Saviors beat up a red- haired man who gets into an argument with a worker. After the man is beaten to death, Dwight raids the man’s living quarters, taking a jar of mustard and another one of pickles, as his pregnant wife and son watch. Dwight, Gordon, and the workers kneel as Negan passes by. He watches two workers wrangle a walker and chain it to the compound’s walker- encrusted outer fence. Daryl eats it. Dwight shuts the door. There’s the distinct sound of the door being locked. Dwight opens the door and gives him another sandwich. Daryl eats it. Dwight leaves; the sound of the door being locked is heard once again. The scene is repeated, only this time, Dwight gives Daryl clothes. Carson’s office, where Dr. Carson has just finished examining Sherry. Sherry recognizes Daryl but Dwight forbids her from talking to him. She tells Dwight that her pregnancy test is negative. As she walks out, she advises Daryl to do whatever he’s told. Carson examines Daryl’s injured shoulder and assures him that Negan will take care of him. A Savior, Fat Joey, guards Daryl at gunpoint. Directly in front of Daryl is an open door; beyond it, he sees an efficiency apartment. Dwight drags him away. They watch as two workers secure a new walker outside - - it’s the red- headed man from the marketplace. Dwight says Daryl will be forced to work in the yard if he doesn’t make the right choices. He shuts the door. The sound of the lock is heard and the music resumes. Dwight politely declines, angering Negan. But then a voice comes over his walkie, notifying him of a runaway worker. Negan tells Dwight to send someone else to take care of the grunt work, but he assures Negan he enjoys doing it. Joey brings him a sandwich. He shuts the door, and this time, the sound of the lock isn’t heard. Daryl waits. A walker falls from the overpass above. Dwight dives out of the way, struggles with a walker and shoots it. Sherry stops him and urges him to go back to his cell or risk getting captured and suffering worse consequences. He ignores her and makes his way outside. He makes a beeline for some parked motorcycles but is stopped by a group of Saviors who anticipated his escape. Negan appears. They all respond, “Negan.” He tells Daryl that he failed his chance to prove he’s ready for the next step. Negan presents three options: Death, working for points, or working for Negan and living like a king. Daryl doesn’t reply. Negan swings Lucille at Daryl, stopping just short of hitting him, but Daryl doesn’t flinch which Negan admired. The Walking Dead Season 7 Finale Recap: . At long last, the war with the Saviors has begun. It's Alexandria, Hilltop and the Kingdom vs. Before the fight, though, we said goodbye to Sasha (Sonequa Martin- Green). The episode begun with a close- up on Sasha's sweaty, pained face in the dark as she listened to music. She was drifting in and out of consciousness and half- remembering, half- imagining her life with Abraham (Michael Cudlitz). She didn't want to fight at that moment, she just wanted to stay home with her man. That was intercut with Sasha's conversation with Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). The ostensibly deleted scene released on Friday wasn't deleted at all, as he came in to Sasha's cell and told her that she was going to help him get things back on track. She was adamant that no one had to die, but Negan has to punish someone. They eventually negotiated that just one person has to die. Sonequa Martin- Green, The Walking Dead. Over at Alexandria, Tara (Alanna Masterson) and Daryl (Norman Reedus) got in Dwight's (Austin Amelio) face as Dwight pleaded to let them help them, explaining about how Sherry saved them all. Daryl finally lowered his knife from Dwight's eye; Rosita (Christian Serratos) finally mentioned that the Saviors have Sasha, and that letting Dwight help may be their only chance to get her back. Dwight warned that Negan's coming tomorrow, and said that he can help slow him down. Dwight has even bigger plans for how to help beyond that, and outlined his plan about how Alexandria could wipe the Saviors out with his help. He said he could convince the rank- and- file laborers at the Sanctuary to join him, and then they could all go outpost to outpost and kill the Saviors at each one. Judith was at the Hilltop for safekeeping. Maggie (Lauren Cohan) explained the situation to Jesus (Tom Payne), who said, . She decided to lead the Hilltop into battle. Morgan (Lennie James) was still having doubts about fighting alongside the Kingdom until King Ezekiel (Khary Payton) gave him a pep talk. The knights - - and the tiger - - rolled out, and we didn't see them until later, when they made a very grand entrance. The Heapsters arrived at Alexandria to pick up the guns, and Jadis (Pollyanna Mc. Intosh) asked Michonne (Danai Gurira) if she'd be alright with the big weirdo having sex with Rick (Andrew Lincoln). The tension was building. The Saviors finally showed up, with Eugene (Josh Mc. Dermitt) passively threatening his old friends, saying, ! Rick gave the signal to set off the truck bomb and it didn't go off. Then the Heapsters turned their guns on the Alexandrians. More traitors! Jadis said they made a better deal with the Saviors. Rick made a mistake trusting someone with a haircut like that. Someone like that has no shame. Negan then presented Rick with a coffin, saying that Sasha was in there, alive and well. He'd give her back in exchange for the guns, Daryl, the pool table and one person of Rick's choosing to be sacrificed to Lucille. Rick asked to see her - - and then it cut back to Sasha's memory. Abraham told her that everything they do, they do for someone else. If they die, it will be in service of something bigger. It's almost verbatim what Sasha told Rosita before they went to the Sanctuary. Back in the recent past, Eugene gave her an i. Pod. Remember how big i. Pods used to be? Remember i. Pods at all? She got in the coffin, put on Donny Hathaway's . In the present, zombified Sasha rushed out of the coffin and jumped on Negan, and everybody started shooting. Carl (Chandler Riggs) shot a Heapster. Rosita took a bullet. Zombie Sasha got pulled off Negan and killed the Savior who gave Enid a grammar lesson a few episodes back. Jadis shot Rick in the hip and kicked him off the wall. She marched him through the Unsafe Zone to where Negan had Carl kneeling. Negan reminded him that he's not someone to f- -- with. He decided Carl - - remember Carl? We haven't seen much of him in 7. B - - had to die. Just then, Rick saw somebody fall from a house. He thought it was Michonne. Negan said he's also going to smash Rick's hands. Rick reiterated what he told Negan when he killed Glenn (Steven Yeun) and Abraham: that's he's going to kill him. Not today, not tomorrow, but someday. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, The Walking Dead. Negan smiled, like ! SHIVA ATE A DUDE'S FACE! The Hilltop arrived at the same moment, and the tide of the battle turned. The Saviors and Heapsters were on the defensive. The Heapsters set off smoke grenades and fled like the cowards they are. The Saviors retreated, too. Rick found the smashed body of a Heapster, then ran upstairs and found Michonne, bloodied but alive. Back at the Sanctuary, Negan asked Eugene how he thought Sasha died. Eugene said she suffocated. But Negan stared for a very long time, and said . Negan stepped out to his kneeling gathered subjects, and said, . Daryl found a lead army man on which . The leaders of each community spoke to their gathered people about what's to come. Over that, Maggie gave a speech about how Glenn's faith and self- sacrifice made this all happen, way back when they all first met. Glenn didn't know you, but he helped you. He put himself in danger for you. And that started it all. From Atlanta, to my daddy's farm, to the prison, to here. To this moment now. Not as strangers; as family. Because Glenn chose to be there for you that day a long time ago, that was the decision that changed everything. It started with both of you, and it just grew. All of this. To sacrifice for each other. To suffer, to stand, to grieve, to give, to love, to live. To fight for each other. Glenn made the decision, Rick. I was just following his lead. Hershel had given that watch to Glenn. The speech ended the season on a hopeful, thankful note, far from the bleakness of where it started. Glenn and Abraham's deaths lingered over the whole season, and the finale made sure that their deaths weren't in vain. They died so the people they loved could live. It was a solid end to an inconsistent season. It was certainly a much more satisfying ending than Season 6's cliff- hanger. It ended a chapter. Season 8 will turn the page. The Walking Dead will return for Season 8 in late 2.
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