Joe, leader of motorcycle gang The Claimers, came to take revenge on him for killing one of their number in an earlier escape. In the season four finale, Rick reached his nadir. It took eight episodes for “Not Too Far Gone” Rick, who desperately pleaded for peace, to turn into a throat-biting beast that once unleashed, was never quite re-caged. “What the hell are you gonna do now, sport?” The Governor, sadly, didn’t agree, and Hershel paid the price. Everybody could walk away from this fight. Things and people weren’t too far gone, he argued. This was a new Rick – neither naïve nor bestial, but a Rick who had suffered, and learned, and was desperate for humanity to survive. He’d healed enough to know that even after so much loss, and so much pain, there was still a chance for a future. This made him even more dangerous and even more hell-bent on destruction and revenge.įurther Reading: The Walking Dead’s 21 Most Shocking Deathsīy this time, and thanks to the ministrations of Hershel Greene and his gardening metaphors, Rick was healing. Penny was already long dead, of course, having fallen victim to the Walker plague, but her execution made The Governor feel her loss anew. The Governor, already a despot with dark appetites, went over the edge when Michonne put her katana through his daughter Penny’s skull. Rick wasn’t the only one unhinged by grief. He pleads with his fantasy callers, “We’re good people here, we just need some help.” That much is clear. He receives four phone calls, one after the other like Scrooge’s ghosts, all from the dead.
Rick doesn’t know what’s real and what’s imagined.
Ah, Daryl.įurther Reading: What Comes After for Rick GrimesĪfter rage comes instability. He gives everybody jobs to do, goes out on a run for baby formula, and swears that the soon-to-be-christened Lil Ass-Kicker, is going to make it. The moment the ground falls out from under Rick’s feet, Daryl is there to start shoveling it back again and prop him up. Warming our hearts just a little from the chill of Lori’s gruesome death is how immediately Rick’s brother-in-arms Daryl steps in to help once it’s clear what’s happened. Even Glenn is in danger from this Rick, who throws him against a wall and holds his arm to his throat when he tries to stop him cutting a furious swathe through the prison’s Walker population. The moment he sees that baby in Maggie’s arms and comprehends what it means, his face freezes to a hollow-eyed stare and he loses everything but his rage, turning into a snarling animal. You’re staying? This isn’t a democracy anymore.” Captain TripsĪfter Lori’s traumatic death at the prison, grief sends Rick temporarily out of his mind. I’ve been doing that all along.”) and finally, he lays down the law: “Get one thing straight. He reminds the ungrateful lot exactly what he’s done for them (“I’m keeping this group together, alive. You can do better? Let’s see how far you get.”). He’s mean, he’s sarcastic (“Go on, there’s the door. Those are the words of a man pushed far, far past his limits.
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Faced with the choice between keeping his moral code and protecting his family, Rick chooses the latter, and who could blame him? The apocalypse is no time for moral absolutism.įurther Reading: The Walking Dead – Rick Grimes Ending ExplainedĪfter all that, Rick’s season two campfire speech makes perfect sense. Two such are Dave and Tony, the men Rick and Hershel encounter in a season two bar, who threaten to track down the farm and take what they want. The groups Rick and company encounter along the way are peopled by the cowardly and the cruel. The world hasn’t been gone for long before selfishness and violence rise up over decency and kindness. Rick sided with good people, dealt with racist dipshit Merle Dixon, kept the peace, and told Daryl in no uncertain terms that “we don’t kill the living.” He might have been, in Glenn’s words, “a dumbass” with a lot to learn about the undead, but he instinctively knew right from wrong. Then he got shot twice, and fell into a coma that made him miss the end of the world.įurther Reading: Why Rick Grimes Will Never DieĮven after the world ended, Officer Friendly, a name he’d sarcastically given to himself, was straight-backed and honorable. While his colleagues were joking around, he reminded them to stay focused on the job. Pre-apocalypse, we met Rick as a devoted officer and a natural leader. Neat uniform, pristine hat, short back and sides, and barely a five o’ clock shadow… that was season one Rick Grimes, a deputy sheriff in a small town, loving husband and father-of-one.
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