The Walking Dead Recap: Now

Season 6/ Episode 5/ AMC This week’s episode is when the group starts to become whole again after splitting up to take on the herd of walkers in the quarry. It starts off with Deanna working her way up to the top of the wall to visit her late husband’s memorial and get a bird’s eye view of things. She sees Michonne telling Maggie that Glenn got left behind and spots Rick running towards the gate. He’s being followed by a group of walkers and even throws his body into one that was blocking his way before making a mad dash to the finish line. By this point, there are enough walkers surrounding Alexandria to stack up on the walls 20 deep (in Rick math). He takes it upon himself to motivate the others by saying they’re safe, that this half of the walkers will get lured away like the rest and all the missing people will come back. As he starts to lose the crowd, Aaron interrupts and reminds everyone that the walkers were coming regardless, but Rick got half away. Then he confessed that the Wolves most likely found Alexandria when he got caught in a trap with Daryl at the end of last season and he left his backpack behind. At a loss for words, Deanna walks off from the group. Jessie adds the body of the Wolf that tried to hill her to the growing pile of bodies and starts to dig her a grave until Rick reminds her that they don’t bury murderers inside the walls. She looks around and points out that they don’t really have a choice because they can’t go outside. So Rick suggests they w…