5 thoughts recapping Season 8 Episode 5 of 'The Walking Dead'
Gabriel
We spent most of the episode â spoiler alert â inside and around the Sanctuary  the main compound of Neganâs Saviors. We finally got back to Negan  Father Gabriel and their unintended cohabitation in a trailer besieged by walkers.
Meantime  Rick and Daryl were on the road  and  as eventually happens with most people who travel together  there was a disagreement. Plus a chokehold. Plus an explosion. Between these two and Negan and  Gabriel   itâs obviously so hard for men to truly be friends.
So whatâs going to happen inside the Sanctuary? Will Rick and Daryl patch it up? Is it possible that  Gabriel  just has the flu?
3. Negan and Gabriel: Theyâre no Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. Still  although their tense togetherness wasnât buddy-movie material  it made for some pretty good television.
He and  Gabriel   it turned out  really were still in the walker-beset trailer where we left them four episodes ago. And it was looking pretty grim  like they would end up as strange bedfellows  but in a death bed.
Ah  but  Gabriel  had a plan. âI think Iâm here to take your confession â  he  told Negan. So while the latter tried to figure a way out  or wait for his compadres to come try to rescue them   Gabriel  just kept gnawing on the confession bone.
Finally as the zombies were starting to punch through the side of their makeshift fort   Gabriel  confessed to Negan that  he  had locked  his  parishioners outside the church when the plague came and listened to them die.
Negan responded sort of like an actual human. He told  Gabriel  of cheating on  his  first wife before the disease came and then not being able to âput her downâ when she died amid the plague. Itâs not an earth-shattering confession  but as a therapist might say  there was a lot of progress this session.
 Gabriel   meanwhile  was put into a Negan prison cell â âgently â said the big guy  fondly remembering their little interlude. In the last shot   Gabriel  was sweating and obviously very sick. Did  he  get bitten sneaking  then fighting  through the zombies? Or is  he  just wracked with guilt over the several more chances  he  had to kill Negan and didnât take? How can a guy off his whole parish but not the one obviously most potent baddie  he âs met?
First  though  the guy they had to get rid of to get it managed to struggle up to the roadside  mostly so  he  could let the duo know that Ezekiel and Carol lived but almost nobody else from the Kingdom forces. Then  he  conveniently died.
We spent most of the episode â spoiler alert â inside and around the Sanctuary  the main compound of Neganâs Saviors. We finally got back to Negan  Father Gabriel and their unintended cohabitation in a trailer besieged by walkers.
Meantime  Rick and Daryl were on the road  and  as eventually happens with most people who travel together  there was a disagreement. Plus a chokehold. Plus an explosion. Between these two and Negan and  Gabriel   itâs obviously so hard for men to truly be friends.
So whatâs going to happen inside the Sanctuary? Will Rick and Daryl patch it up? Is it possible that   [TGT] just has the flu?
3. Negan and Gabriel: Theyâre no Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. Still  although their tense togetherness wasnât buddy-movie material  it made for some pretty good television.
 [TGT] it turned out  really were still in the walker-beset trailer where we left  [TGT]  four episodes ago. And it was looking pretty grim  like  [TGT]  would end up as strange bedfellows  but in a death bed.
Ah  but   [TGT] had a plan. âI think Iâm here to take your confession â   [TGT]   told Negan. So while the latter tried to figure a way out  or wait for his compadres to come try to rescue them    [TGT] just kept gnawing on the confession bone.
Finally as the zombies were starting to punch through the side of their makeshift fort    [TGT] confessed to Negan that  he  had locked  his  parishioners outside the church when the plague came and listened to them die.
Negan responded sort of like an actual human. He told   [TGT] of cheating on  his  first wife before the disease came and then not being able to âput her downâ when she died amid the plague. Itâs not an earth-shattering confession  but as a therapist might say  there was a lot of progress this session.
  [TGT] meanwhile  was put into a Negan prison cell â âgently â said the big guy  fondly remembering their little interlude. In the last shot    [TGT] was sweating and obviously very sick. Did   [TGT]   get bitten sneaking  then fighting  through the zombies? Or is   [TGT]   just wracked with guilt over the several more chances   [TGT]   had to kill Negan and didnât take? How can a guy off his whole parish but not the one obviously most potent baddie  he âs met?
First  though  the guy they had to get rid of to get it managed to struggle up to the roadside  mostly so  he  could let the duo know that Ezekiel and Carol lived but almost nobody else from the Kingdom forces. Then  he  conveniently died.