Warning: The next comprises spoilers for the ultimate season premiere of Concern the Strolling Lifeless.
Time flew in Sunday’s eighth and last season premiere of Concern the Strolling Lifeless. One minute, Madison was backing up Morgan in his try and rescue child Mo from PADRE, and the following, their plot had failed, she’d spent seven years (!) as an imprisoned blood financial institution, and he’d turn out to be a kidnapping Collector!
Curiously, though the passage of the higher a part of a decade hadn’t even barely modified Madison, aka “Lark,” it had allowed Mo to develop right into a spunky 8-year-old who cherished to say that she may deal with herself however most undoubtedly couldn’t. Rechristened “Wren” by PADRE, who turned out to be an enigmatic particular person as a lot as a spot, she was too traumatized by her final night time with Morgan and Grace to make the most of her coaching and defend herself towards walkers Carrion. (Do infants actually bear in mind stuff that properly?)
As soon as Mo stumbled upon a suicidal Madison’s cell, the telltale scar on the lady’s wrist tipped off Nick and Alicia’s mother to the kid’s identification. Once more, Madison felt that she had a cause to reside: to get Morgan’s daughter the hell outta there, whether or not she wished to go or not. Being one in all our leads, Madison pulled off this feat with comparatively little problem. Till, that’s, her getaway speedboat reached the shore, and she or he and Mo encountered Morgan. Er, “Nightingale.” (At what level would PADRE run out of cool-ish chook names and must name somebody “Ostrich” or “Whooping Crane”?)
Madison, not seeming to have observed that characters on this present swap motivations no less than twice an episode, was surprised that Morgan wished to return Mo to PADRE. What’s extra, he appeared able to put a bullet in his outdated good friend’s head as a result of PADRE now not had any use for “Lark.” “Severely?” we exclaimed proper alongside together with her.
Regardless of panting on and off like an obscene cellphone caller, Madison succeeded in disarming Morgan and coercing him into main her and Mo into the swamp towards the positioning of the makeshift household’s fateful final stand seven years in the past. Alongside the best way, Morgan revealed that, final he knew, Madison’s outdated ingesting buddy Strand had gone MIA. On the boathouse, embellished with a callback to a extra dramatically resonant period of the franchise (Duane and Jenny’s names painted on an internal wall), Mo discovered a cassette of Grace singing “In Desires.” Immediately, the teenager’s reminiscence returned in full. As a tot, she had been afraid that walkers had been going to drag the boathouse underwater — similar to it appeared that they had been about to now.
Again then, Morgan had radioed PADRE to return get Mo so as to save her. This time, since Madison had chucked their solely walkie-talkie, he and his daughter made their means by means of the water as greatest they may whereas “Lark” did her damnedest to attract walkers to the boathouse. It appeared for a second as if they could get her. (Positive, Jan.) However on the final second, Grace got here zooming up in a speedboat, weapons a-blazing. (What a shock, eh?)
Moved after seeing her dad and mom in motion — and what idea of “dad and mom” would “Wren” even have gotten in PADRE? — Mo now not wished to return. She wished to go ahead together with her people and Madison. Powerful s—t, Morgan and Grace mentioned, principally. “Wren” was returning to PADRE — for her personal good, they reasoned. As for Morgan, he was able to get again to work however was informed that — ruh-roh — PADRE was retiring “Nightingale.” (Surprise what blood sort he is… )
Throughout a debriefing with PADRE, “Wren” promised the group’s mysterious chief that he’d don’t have any extra hassle from her. This was music to his ears, he mentioned, as she was to play an important position of their subsequent steps. No matter these would possibly grow to be, Mo could be prepared, it appeared. In her subsequent try and take out a walker in apply, she beaned the zombie with no hassle in any respect. (After that, it could be like using a motorbike, proper? Using it over the undead’s heads, however nonetheless.)
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