The Walking Dead Season 8 Recap: Who Is Old Man Rick ?
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The Walking Dead returned with a bang for its eighth season Sunday night  as Alexandria  the Hilltop and the Kingdom escalated the conflict with Negan and the Saviors to all-out war. Before leading the attack on the Sanctuary   Rick  delivered one of  his  classic impassioned speeches about the meaning of the group's mission.
"We found each other and that bigger world is ours by right "  he  said. "And if we've come together  all of us  it's that much more true. It's ours by right. Any person who would live in peace and fairness  who would find common ground  they're right too. But those who use and take and kill to carve out the world and make it theirs alone  we end them. We don't celebrate it. We don't have shame about it either. There's only one person who has to die and I will kill him  myself . I will."
However  there were also a series of cryptic flash-forwards interspersed with the present-day battle scenes that featured a much older  Rick  waking up in  his  home with Michonne  Carl and Judith followed by a wildly distressed  Rick  alone in an unclear location. "My mercy prevails over my wrath " the tearful  Rick  whispers near the end of the episode.
The old-man Rick sequence was teased in the trailer for the season that premiered at San Diego Comic-Con and led fans to speculate that the show intended to mirror the time-jump that takes place in the Walking Dead comic books following the war with Negan. But judging by the setup of the premiere  it seems more likely that it is only Rick's vision of what could have been if he and his family had been able to live in peace.
The Walking Dead returned with a bang for its eighth season Sunday night  as Alexandria  the Hilltop and the Kingdom escalated the conflict with Negan and the Saviors to all-out war. Before leading the attack on the Sanctuary    [TGT] delivered one of   [TGT]   classic impassioned speeches about the meaning of the group's mission.
"We found each other and that bigger world is ours by right "  he  said. "And if we've come together  all of us  it's that much more true. It's ours by right. Any person who would live in peace and fairness  who would find common ground  they're right too. But those who use and take and kill to carve out the world and make it theirs alone  we end them. We don't celebrate it. We don't have shame about it either. There's only one person who has to die and I will kill him  myself . I will."
However  there were also a series of cryptic flash-forwards interspersed with the present-day battle scenes that featured a much older   [TGT] waking up in   [TGT]   home with Michonne  Carl and Judith followed by a wildly distressed   [TGT] alone in an unclear location. "My mercy prevails over my wrath " the tearful   [TGT] whispers near the end of the episode.
The old-man Rick sequence was teased in the trailer for the season that premiered at San Diego Comic-Con and led fans to speculate that the show intended to mirror the time-jump that takes place in the Walking Dead comic books following the war with Negan. But judging by the setup of the premiere  it seems more likely that it is only Rick's vision of what could have been if he and his family had been able to live in peace.