In many ways, they had truly become 'the walking dead.' It was on the road that they met the clean cut Aaron, who told them of the Alexandria Safe Zone - a sounds-too-good-to-be-true community host to homes and families. to 'fight fire with fire' and cure the plague that had toppled the world.Īs the group made their way towards D.C., they spent the season starved, wandering and worn down. Without a home and with no destination in mind, the future looked uncertain until Eugene dropped the revelation that he was on a mission to D.C. Soon after, the group finally caught up with the missing Beth, who perished after being shot in the head by the leader of a pay-your-way Atlanta hospital. prev nextīy season 5, the logo had become even more weathered, a perfect match for the survivors' journey over the course of the season: Terminus proved to be a slaughterhouse that aimed to make meals of Rick and co., leaving Rick no choice but to utterly annihilate the Termites. Once the group was reunited - sans a kidnapped Beth - the survivors made their way towards Terminus, a supposed safe zone. Along the way, Team Family would add Tara, Abraham, Eugene and Rosita to their ranks, growing stronger with each new addition. The group spent the back half of season 4 mostly separated: on the road, Rick and Carl would reconnect with Michonne, Daryl and Beth would journey together, Maggie would take off in search of Glenn with Sasha and Bob, and Tyreese and Carol would be entrusted with the care of baby Judith and sisters Lizzie and Mika - to disastrous results. With the prison destroyed, Team Family was forced to flee. But the return of the Governor disrupted Rick's peaceful way of life, and the group suffered their biggest blow yet when the one-eyed villain attacked the prison with a tank - decapitating Hershel in the process. His famous Colt Python was buried in dirt, and so too was a part of Rick: he was a father and a farmer, and nothing more. prev nextĬome season 4, Rick had helped establish a council that would participate in making big decisions. With the Governor seemingly defeated, Rick - leaning more into the good-natured side of his humanity - opened the gates of the prison to Woodbury's citizens, blending the two communities together. A mysterious warrior, Michonne, was added to the group's ranks, but they lost yet another of their own: Andrea. Season 3 also saw the rise of the group's first big bad, the Governor, whose seemingly idyllic Woodbury community proved to have an underlying darkness beneath its supposed suburbia wholesomeness. Inside, the survivors came across a group of living prisoners and their self-proclaimed leader, Tomas, didn't believe in playing nicely - leaving Rick no choice but to dispatch him with a merciless machete blow to the head.Īnother prisoner, Andrew, sprung an attack that lead to the deaths of T-Dog and Lori, who died in child birth and had to be put down by Carl. Acting as a cohesive unit, Rick, Daryl, Glenn, Maggie, Carol, T-Dog and more cleared the prison yard of Walkers, claiming the prison as their own. spent the winter going in circles and were nearing starvation when they found respite in the form of a prison that had been abandoned, but not unoccupied. Killing his best friend and former partner gave Rick Grimes his first edge. The relationship between Rick and his wife was strained. Rick gunned down the two men, but Rick saving the life of one of the attackers, Randall, proved to be yet another point of contention in their quickly unraveling relationship.īy season's end, Sophia's loss was a demoralizing blow for the entire group, the Greene farm had been overrun by a massive horde of Walkers, and Rick was forced to kill Shane in self-defense. During their time on the farm, tensions rose between Rick and former police partner Shane, who wished to maintain his patriarchal role in the familial unit he carved out with Rick's wife and son, Lori and Carl, following Rick's supposed death in the hospital.Īs Rick and Shane's relationship deteriorated over the season, the de facto leader of the group was forced to confront his 'we don't kill the living' rule in a small town bar when Rick, Glenn and Hershel were met by some unscrupulous characters.

With the search for Sophia driving the first half of season 2, the survivors took up camp on the Greene farm, adding Hershel, Maggie and Beth to their ranks. Disaster struck in the season 2 opener, where Sophia - young daughter of the recently-widowed Carol - was separated from the group following an influx of Walkers onto a congested freeway.

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