The Walking Dead Recap: Conquer

**If you want or need a refresher on previous seasons of The Walking Dead, check out these great animated recaps.**** Season: 5 / Episode: 16 / AMC Given that I spent Sunday night watching Wrestlemania 31, I missed out on the season 5 finale of AMC’s The Walking Dead. Avoiding spoilers all day reminded me of the episode of How I Met Your Mother where everyone tried to avoid finding out the final results of the Superbowl. Well, I made it. The final episode of season 5 is entitled “Conquer” and was a whopping hour and a half (with commercials) instead of the usual hour. And for good reason, there was a lot of ground to cover. The episode started off with Morgan, the first person Rick met way back in season one, sitting alone in the woods. Then a man with a “W” carved into his forehead approaches him with a pistol. The man lets Morgan know he intends to take everything from him, including his life. Just then, an accomplice of the man that approached Morgan rushes to attack him out of the bushes, but Morgan reveals that he’s deadly with a broomstick and disarms both of them, then leaves them tied up in a car.

Back in Alexandria, Rick wakes up with his face covered in bandages to the sight of Michonne watching over him. He’s told that Jessie and Pete have been put in separate houses and that there’s going to be a meeting held that night concerning his future in Alexandria. He then decides, that if need be, he and his people will take it by force. Rick leaves and visits Jessie, wh…