When Walkers manage to get into the community, displaying their defensive vulnerabilities, Rick tells them that they will have to change if they are to survive.
When Reg is killed by an enraged Pete, Rick executes him at Deanna's command. In the days following this incident, Rick takes a greater leadership role in the community as Deanna mourns and deals with her overwhelming grief. Although there is distension, Deanna approves of Rick's plans and gives him her support.
The two grow closer, and she tries to get Rick to realize that the Alexandrians are all his people now, just as his original group is. Following a massive invasion of walkers into the safe-zone, which leads to the death of Deanna, Rick becomes the leader of the safe-zone, and his faith in the abilities of the safe-zone's residents improves dramatically as together they all boldly face the herd and kill every walker, effectively reclaiming the safe-zone.
Rick reveals to his injured son Carl afterwards that he is ready to show him the new world. Following this he seems to have cooled down a bit in his desire to kill human threats as he spares the life of Paul Rovia after the latter attempts to steal a van of supplies claimed by Daryl and Rick which leads them to finding the Hilltop Colony.
His relationship with Michonne has also caused him to show his lighter side more often, as he is seen relaxed and happier than he was before they started their relationship. Over the course of Season 6, Rick's confidence grows with every successful outcome and threat survived. He believes that not only are his people capable of dealing with any threat, but that the Alexandrians themselves now know what it takes to survive. Rick has shown that he has not lost his ruthlessness, as shown by his desire to exact revenge on the Saviors for threatening Daryl, Abraham and Sasha and kill them all in order to obtain much-needed supplies from the Hilltop Colony, and protect Alexandria, even though the Saviors have technically caused no harm to them.
Rick now has a desire to destroy any potential threats before they even happen, showing that he will do just about anything to protect his people from danger very similar to The Governor in the first half of Season 3 , but on a more heroic scale. Rick has demonstrated that he's now indeed a cold-blooded killer as shown during their attack on the Savior outpost and his killing of Primo and Jiro.
He also nearly kills an innocent survivor from the Kingdom, believing him to be a Savior hunting Carol, though Morgan stops him to his visible anger and claims regardless of who he was, he no longer takes chances, showing that he is willing to kill completely innocent survivors. However, his overconfidence and eagerness to destroy the Saviors brings about serious consequences; while on a frantic journey to get a sick Maggie to the Hilltop, he and his group are tricked and ambushed by the Saviors and for the first time in the series, Rick shows extreme fear as he is confronted with an impossible situation over which he has no control.
At the sight of his new enemy, Negan , Rick visibly trembles and appears to be almost numb with terror and is helpless as Negan personally selects a member of the group at random and beats them to death with a baseball bat in revenge for Rick's actions. It is revealed that Negan had selected Abraham and preceded to beat him viciously to death with his baseball bat; Rick watches on in horror.
Glenn is later killed as punishment for Daryl assaulting Negan moments after Abraham's execution. Rick, with Abraham's blood on his face, quietly threatens to kill Negan. Negan inquires to as to what Rick said and Rick is petrified to look at him but gains the courage to repeat his threat while looking him in the eye.
Negan then takes Rick on a "trip" where he continuously mocks Rick for thinking of a prosperous future with his group whilst physically assaulting him. Unsatisfied Rick hasn't submitted to him, Negan returns Rick to his group and threatens that if he doesn't severe Carl's left arm his remaining group members will be executed.
This pushes Rick to his absolute breaking point as he wails, cries, has mucus run out of his nose and even suggest he suffer the amputation. Just as Rick is about to cut off his son's arm, Negan becomes satisfied claiming the terror on Rick's face was the "exact look" he desired. This fear was later subsided after the deaths of Spencer and Olivia, and finally regains his courage to fight Negan and the Saviors. He attempts to recruit the Hilltop and the Kingdom to help fight the Saviors with little success.
Rick's desire to kill other survivors, aside from the Saviors, has subsided as well: this is most likely due to the fallout that came from his attack at the Saviors outpost. Once again, Rick has also shown a reluctance to lead, only wishing to lead Alexandria, not wishing to lead the joint communities once they take out the Saviors.
Rick has demonstrated that he is no longer afraid of Negan as while he is once again at his mercy, he tells him that no matter what he does to him he will make it his mission to kill him and all the Saviors and that nothing will change that. This shows Rick will never be subservient to Negan again and will do whatever it takes to stop him, even at the cost of his own life to ensure a prosperous future for his family, group and allies. During Season 8 , Rick along with Ezekiel and Maggie have stepped up to lead their communities in a war against Negan and the Saviors.
Rick is shown to have complete faith in the abilities of his soldiers and the Militia and claims that they will win the fight at all cost. Rick has displayed his intense ruthlessness and mercilessness again and is prepared to kill any Savior without hesitation as he single-handily slaughters numerous Saviors brutally. He is also shown to not be willing to take chances with strangers again as he chases a lone survivor named Siddiq away with his revolver, much to the anger of his son, but he justifies it by saying he could be a Savior.
In spite of his willingness to kill the Saviors and his threat to Negan in the Season 7 finale , Rick appears to be focused more on just killing his nemesis Negan and ending the conflict without too much bloodshed as he personally offers Negan's lieutenants, including Simon and Eugene , a chance to surrender, while Rick promises he will kill Negan as he has promised him twice, though they all refuse. Throughout the war, Rick has shown remorse for some of his actions, notably killing the father of an infant in a Savior Outpost and also shock at some of his allies' desire for blood, notably Daryl who kills their old ally Morales , despite knowing him and Todd , who Rick promised not to harm, showing that Rick is not completely merciless.
In spite of this, Rick is truly dedicated to free his allies from Negan and the Saviors at all cost and is willing to do whatever it takes, as seen when he recruits the Scavengers to help him fight in spite of their betrayal of him, showing that he is desperate to stop Negan. The war however has taken its toll on Rick and he has suffered one of the most personal losses he will ever face: his own son.
Carl's death absolutely devastates Rick and pushes him to his absolute breaking point. Following this he appears to be more determined then ever to kill Negan as he recklessly attempts to go after him alone and almost gets himself killed in the process. He is shown to still be somewhat hostile towards Siddiq and appears to hold a slight grudge against him due to his involvement in Carl's death as he rejects his words following the Saviors' assault on the Hilltop and is shown to be emotionally distant from others, even Michonne.
Rick has displayed an even colder side as well as he refuses to allow Jadis to return to safety with him and Michonne after learning that the Saviors have massacred her people and shows no remorse for their deaths and blames her for the situation. He is shown to now want to destroy the Saviors entirely again as he mercilessly slaughters more Saviors during the attack on the Hilltop and after he and Morgan are kidnapped by a group of Savior prisoners fleeing from the Hilltop and with a herd approaching, Rick promises not to harm them though even after the Saviors attempt to help him and Morgan fight the Walkers and after one saves Rick from being bitten, the two betray them and brutally slaughter them and Rick even sadistically admits to one before he kills him that he lied all along.
This situation shows that Rick is potentially developing into a bloodthirsty killer very similar to Morgan as both have lost their sons and are now venting their trauma and anger on hostile forces threatening them and their allies and also now sees no chance that the Saviors are capable of redemption and that they best be exterminated.
However, after betraying the Saviors that helped him, seeing what he had become and reading Carl's letter, Rick is reminded of who he once was and has a change of heart about how to deal with the Saviors. After defeating Negan by slicing his throat, instead of letting him die he asks Siddiq to save him, despite Maggie's protests.
He also gives the remaining Saviors a chance to help him and the other communities in creating a new world together. In Season 9 , a year and a half after the war against Negan, Rick has adopted a more peaceful and democratic way of leadership and is seen as a heroic figure among some people.
Despite his decision to spare Negan, he still tries to unite all the communities to accomplish Carl's vision of rebuilding a civilization for the future. In an effort to do this, he unites the communities in rebuilding a bridge that will serve as a connecting point between the communities's trade routes, however, despite his best intentions, several events unfold in the camp which leads to several people abandoning his project and breaking his dreams, to the point of making him cry in sadness.
In the end, Rick, seeing that the bridge supports a herd coming towards the communities, does what he considers is the right thing and in a selfless way, shoots at some dynamite, causing an explosion and destroying the bridge to save all his loved ones.
Despite being rescued, Rick's presumed sacrifice is always remembered as the reason people followed his example and joined together to create a better future, and his legacy will always be carried on by his family and loved ones.
Rick grew up in Georgia , somewhere near Atlanta. As a child, he shared a close relationship with his father whom he described as a 'profound' man who instilled a strong moral code onto him. He grew up alongside his closest friend Shane Walsh , where the two developed a strong bond together to the point where the pair came to regard each other as 'brothers'.
In high school, Rick acted as the more disciplined of the pair and thus experienced very few short-lived relationships with girls, in contrast to Shane whom had many conquests.
As a young adult, Rick later met a woman named Lori , where the two eventually fell in love with each other and became married where together they had a son named Carl. The trio lived together as a typical family in a single-story house located in King County, Georgia, where Shane became a close friend of the family.
Over time however, Rick and Lori's marriage became increasingly strained due to Rick constantly distancing himself from her, as he generally hesitated to express his feeling regarding their marital issues and thus Rick instead opted to absorb himself through his work.
This nature led to various cracks in their relationship, which resulted in harsh words directed from Lori, who once questioned whether Rick cared about his family in the presence of their son. On a deserted Georgia highway, Rick drives his police cruiser past overturned and damaged cars scattered blocking the road, making him stop. He gets out and takes a gas can out of the trunk. He walks past the remains of more wrecked and abandoned cars down a hill towards a gas station.
Various corpses and garbage are spread across the gas station, where a handmade sign hanging reads "NO GAS". Rick searches around, when suddenly, he hears something and ducks down behind a car.
He catches a glimpse of the slippered feet of a little girl on the other side of the car as she picks up a teddy bear on the ground.
He stands up and sees the little girl walking away, so he walks closer to her. Her lips and right cheek have been torn away, exposing raw teeth and muscle. Rick's face falls as she starts walking towards him, growling. She approaches faster as he steps back, draws his Colt Python and shoots her in the head. As her body falls to the floor, Rick lowers his gun.
In a flashback, Rick and his partner and best friend, Shane Walsh are eating hamburgers and fries inside their police cruiser.
They joke about the differences between men and women. When the conversation turns to Rick's wife, Lori , he turns somber. He says that they've been fighting lately, and says that Lori accused him that morning of not caring about his family in front of their son, Carl. I would never say something that cruel to her, especially not in front of Carl," Rick muses.
Suddenly, the cruiser's radio cracks to life reporting a high-speed pursuit in progress involving two armed suspects. Rick and Shane dump their food and rush to the scene. When they arrive, they lay down a spike strip and meet up with their co-workers, Lambert Kendal and Leon Basset. As they all wait for the car, Leon muses about their chances of getting on a police chase reality show. Rick tells him to focus, and worry about having a round in his gun chamber and the safety off.
Leon sheepishly checks his gun while Shane suggests that it would be "kinda cool gettin' on one of them shows. At that moment, the car approaches, pursued by two more cruisers containing the Linden County Sheriff's Department officers. The car, with the suspects inside, speeds over the spike strip, shredding the tires. The driver loses control of the wheel and the vehicle flips off the road, rolling several times before coming to a rough stop upside down in a field.
Rick carefully approaches the overturned car. A man emerges from the vehicle and immediately starts shooting at the officers. Rick yells at him to drop his pistol , but the man shoots directly at Rick and hits him in the chest.
Shane shoots the gunman, killing him as Rick falls to the ground. A second man emerges from the vehicle brandishing a shotgun, but is also shot to death. Shane approaches Rick as he pulls himself off the ground. Meanwhile, a third gunman unnoticed by everyone crawls out of the car and through the grass. The man fires his gun and hits Rick in the side, where his vest does not protect him. He falls to the ground bleeding as Shane shoots and kills the third man before rushing to Rick's aid.
He begs for Rick to stay with him, barking at Leon to call an ambulance, but Rick remains motionless. A while later, Shane delivers flowers to Rick in the hospital, but Rick isn't fully conscious while Shane starts talking to him. Two weeks later, Rick awakens and responds to Shane's presence.
He discovers that Shane is no longer there. The flowers have wilted and died, the beeping of the machines have stopped as has the clock; the room is empty. Weak, dehydrated and alone, Rick pulls himself out of bed, flops onto the floor and calls out for a nurse to help, but no one comes.
After getting no response, he stumbles into the bathroom, guzzling water directly from the tap, while noticing a growing beard, before he heads for the door. He opens the door and notices a gurney is blocking the entrance to his room. He pushes it aside and continues walking in the dark and disheveled hallway.
The hallway's lights flicker and wires hang from the ceiling. He goes to the nurse's station and tries the phone, but it's dead. He finds a set of matches while also looking for anything else worth taking from behind the desk. Suddenly, a flickering light draws his attention, and through a doorway, Rick sees the ravaged body of a nurse missing most of her skin.
His eyes can't believe what he's seeing and he backs away, confused and afraid. Continuing further down the hallway, he sees that the walls are covered in blood with numerous bullet holes. Terrified, Rick stumbles backwards. He tries the elevator but it's dead, so he exits through a heavy door into a dark stairwell that reeks of rotting flesh. He chokes on the smell as he lumbers down the stairs, lighting matches until he finds the exit.
A door opens to the back of the hospital into the loading bay. When Rick's eyes adjust to the bright sunlight, he sees hundreds of decayed, fly-covered bodies wrapped in sheets and arranged in rows and piles.
He leaves the hospital and stumbles up a hill. There's a military helicopter, sandbags, and other signs of a military cordon, but everything has been abandoned. He wanders down the road in his hospital gown, spotting an overturned bicycle in a park. As he reaches for it, the badly decayed body of a mutilated woman , her legs and lips missing, turns and reaches for him, pathetically moaning and growling in. Startled, Rick falls off the bicycle but regains himself a moment later, mounts the bike, and hastily rides away.
Rick bikes over to his home to find the front door open and the house deserted. Sobbing on the floor, he calls out for Lori and Carl, questioning if any of this is real or if he's dreaming. He heads back outside the house and sits on the steps. He spots a a man stumbling down the road and waves his hand to try and get his attention. As he is doing this, a young boy creeps up from behind and hits him with a shovel.
I'm gonna smack him dead! The boy's father, Morgan Jones , approaches the stumbling man Rick was waving to and shoots him in the head. He then proceeds to walk towards Rick and points a revolver in his face. You tell me, or I will kill you," Morgan asks him, cocking the gun at his face.
Before he can answer, Rick passes out. Later that night, Rick wakes up with his arms and legs tied to a bed. The young boy, Duane , stands guard with a baseball bat. Morgan checks his forehead and says if he had "the fever" it would have killed him by now, so he sets him free of the bedposts with a switchblade, but not before telling him that if he tries anything, he will not hesitate to kill him.
He then offers him a seat at their dinner table. Rick recognizes the home that they are in as his neighbors', Fred and Cindy Drake 's house. Morgan tells Rick not to look out the window because they will see the light. He then begins to explain the story of the outbreak and the following days to a confused and disoriented Rick. The sound draws 'em. Now they're all over the street. He adds that they get more active after dark sometimes.
Before they begin eating dinner, Duane insists that his father give a blessing. Bites kill. The fever burns you out.
But then after a while You come back. After dinner, the trio talks about Rick's son, Carl, and Rick satisfies a lingering curiosity shared by Duane and Morgan as to what line of work would put someone in a position to be shot at.
Morgan smiles and says, "Duane thought you were a bank robber. Rick and Morgan peer out to the street through heavy covered windows and boarded up doors. The street is filled with walkers, drawn by the noise of the alarm. When a woman wearing a nightgown appears and walks up to the front door of the house, Duane runs away crying. Morgan comforts his son while Rick stares at the woman through the peephole at the front door. The woman looks around and tries to turn the door handle.
I should have put her down. I just didn't have it in me. She's the mother of my child. The next morning, Rick walks outside in a face shield, carrying a baseball bat. I have to ask," says Rick, approaching a walker sitting near the stoop. Except for something in the brain. That's why it's gotta be the head," Morgan assures him, exiting the house with Duane. Rick approaches the walker and swings the bat repeatedly at his head, beating it down until it stops moving.
He quickly becomes fatigued, most likely from his still-healing gunshot wound. Back at the house, Rick tells Morgan he thinks his wife and son are still alive. He explains he found empty drawers in the bedrooms and the family pictures and photo albums were gone.
My wife, same thing. There I am packing survival gear; she's grabbing photo albums," Morgan laughs, getting emotional over the memory. Duane suggests to Rick that they could be in Atlanta. Morgan explains that the government was telling people to head to a refugee center there with military protection and food, before the broadcasts stopped. He also explains that the C.
Rick, Morgan and Duane head to the King County Sheriff's Department , where they luxuriate in hot showers thanks to a separate propane heating system. As they dress, Morgan tells Rick that his family was headed to Atlanta but he and his son never made it because they got "stuck" after his wife got bit, and after she died they just stayed hunkered down at the Drake's home.
Afterward, Rick packs a duffel bag with guns and changes into his sheriff's uniform and hat. He hands Morgan a rifle and some ammunition. They head outside and start loading the weapons into the trunk of his cruiser. Rick prepares to set off for Atlanta, while Morgan says he'll follow in a few days, once Duane has learned to shoot.
Rick hands Morgan a walkie-talkie and he tells him to turn it on every day at dawn to make contact. Before leaving, Morgan gives Rick a warning: "They may not seem like much one at a time. But in a group, all riled up and hungry? Man, you watch your ass.
Rick admits he didn't think much of the young officer, but he won't leave him like this. He shoots him in the forehead with his revolver, putting him down. Then, he and Morgan drive away from the sheriff's department in opposite directions. Rick returns to the park where he found the legless walker. He follows a blood trail for quite a distance to find her again crawling helplessly.
She reaches for him futilely. In a camp outside the city, a group of survivors receives the transmission. A young blonde girl, Amy , runs to the CB, but can't get a reply. Shane, Lori, and Carl are among the survivors, however, they don't recognize Rick's voice over the garbled transmission. By the time Shane takes over the CB controls and introduces himself, Rick has left the emergency broadcast channel. On the road, Rick's cruiser runs out of fuel, so he abandons his car on the highway and heads out on foot with a gas can and the duffel bag full of guns, making sure to grab the family photo he keeps above his rear-view mirror and stashing it in his jacket pocket.
He approaches a farmhouse looking for gas. He peeks in the window where he makes the grisly discovery that a couple had committed suicide. Rick tries to locate the keys of the pick-up truck parked in their driveway, but finds a horse on their property instead. He saddles up and rides the rest of the way to Atlanta with the bag of guns slung across his shoulder. Rick arrives to Atlanta, but realizes it's nothing like Morgan described. Hundreds of cars trying to leave the city have burned out on the other side of the freeway.
The road into the city is completely deserted. He continues to ride into the city, devastated that he has no other leads on where his wife and son are located. He trots the streets on horseback, finding an overrun military blockade with more burned out vehicles. A few walkers along the way take notice of him, so he and the horse speed up.
He looks back to see many more emerging from buses and alleys. Suddenly, Rick catches the reflection of a helicopter passing by through a skyscraper. He speeds up the horse to try and follow it but unknowingly leads himself into a horde of hundreds of walkers. He fails to escape and topples off to the floor as the walkers start to devour the horse. While the walkers are distracted, he manages to scramble underneath an abandoned tank.
Walkers take notice of him and start to reach under and grab him from both ends of the tank. He shoots several of them, but more and more keep coming.
In desperation, he places the gun to his head. As he is about to pull the trigger, he sees an open hatch on the floor of the tank and crawls inside just before the walkers can get to him.
As he sits in the tank catching his breath, he takes the gun of a zombified soldier and continues to search through his uniform for anything of use. The movement awakens him and as he turns to bite Rick, he freaks and shoots him in the head. A deafening echo reverberates inside the enclosed space of the tank.
Dazed and disoriented, he makes his way to the top of the tank where the top hatch is open. He lifts his head out of the hatch to stop the ringing in his ears. He spots the bag of guns that he dropped, but there are too many walkers.
They begin to take notice of him and climb the tank to get to him. Rick then closes the hatch, sealing himself inside. Rick, unsure of what to do next, holds the soldier's Beretta pistol to his forehead, sweating. Suddenly, the tank's radio crackles.
Hey you, dumbass. You in the tank. Cozy in there? Rick looks up and slowly lowers the gun from his forehead. In Atlanta, sealed inside a military tank, Rick says over the CB radio: "Whoever you are, I don't mind telling you I'm a little concerned in here. Rick collects a grenade from the dead soldier and a shovel from the floor of the tank. He pops through the top hatch and dispatches a walker with his shovel, jumps off of the tank, and runs down a nearby sidewalk toward an alleyway, shooting walkers along the way.
He turns around a corner and is surprised by Glenn , who reveals himself to be the one talking to him earlier over the tank radio. They race up a ladder to the roof, stopping to catch their breath on a platform halfway up. Glenn introduces himself and Rick thanks him for saving his life.
While they walk across the roof, Rick asks Glenn why he stuck his neck out for him back there, to which Glenn replies, "Call it foolish, naive hope that if I'm ever that far up shit creek, somebody would do the same for me.
Guess that makes me an even bigger dumbass than you," leaving him in thought. Glenn leads Rick down a staircase to an alley, which is free of all but four walkers thanks to a bus blockade. Glenn radios his group, prompting T-Dog and Morales , wearing riot gear and brandishing baseball bats, to emerge from the building and beat down the walkers. Rick and Glenn rush into the building, followed by them.
Inside the store, Andrea points a gun in Rick's face, furious at his recklessness. Morales informs Rick that his gunshots have attracted numerous hordes of walkers. The group questions Rick about what he was doing roaming around the streets. Rick tries to explain he was trying to flag down a helicopter.
Jacqui suggests that it was just a hallucination. T-Dog tries to make radio contact with another unknown group, but fails to get a signal, wondering if they might have better luck on higher ground.
Suddenly, muffled gunshots are heard. On the roof, Rick and the group find Merle firing at walkers with a rifle. T-Dog chastises him for wasting bullets and attracting more walkers. Merle beats T-Dog and presses a handgun to his forehead, but Rick intervenes, hitting Merle with the butt of the rifle and handcuffing him to a pipe. There's us and the dead. We survive this by pulling together, not apart. He then finds a stash of cocaine in Merle's shirt pocket and tosses it over the roof, much to Merle's chagrin.
Morales informs Rick there's no refugee center and that they are part of a larger group of survivors staying outside the city, but T-Dog can't reach them on the radio. With the streets no longer safe, Rick suggests they try to escape underground. Jacqui, who formerly worked in the Atlanta zoning office, says that the building might have access to the sewers, prompting Rick and the group to head back downstairs to the basement.
In the basement, Glenn concocts a plan and sends Rick and Andrea to watch the storefront while he and Morales head down the sewer. On the front of the store, Rick and Andrea keep watch. A while later, Andrea spots a necklace with a mermaid pendant. Rick encourages her to take it, insisting shoplifting rules don't apply anymore. Andrea pockets the necklace, when the walkers break through the exterior glass doors and begin pounding on the interior set.
Glenn, Morales, and Jacqui arrive to report that the sewer is not an option. Rick and the group heads to the roof. On the roof, Rick spots a cube van at a nearby construction site.
The group discusses the difficulty of moving past the walkers undetected. We don't. It's pretty distinct. Rick latches onto the concept of scent and how the dead use it to differentiate between themselves and the living.
A while later, Rick and Morales collect a dead walker from the alley. Inside, Rick acknowledges the walker's lost humanity and then begins hacking the dead body to pieces with an axe. Rick and Glenn then smear guts on themselves, disgusting everyone. Before leaving, Rick tosses T-Dog the key to Merle's handcuffs. Outside, Rick and Glenn crawl under the bus blocking the alley. They start to shuffle in to the streets, mixing in to the crowd of walkers unnoticed. Suddenly, a rainstorm passes over them, washing the guts off their jackets.
The walkers detect them as humans, prompting Rick and Glenn to fight them while continuing to run to the construction site. They are able to make it over the fence uninjured. Rick shoots at walkers while Glenn locates the keys. The crowd of walkers knocks down the fence and charges at them, but they speed away in the van just in time. Rick orders Glenn to radio the group to get ready for pick-up, and mentions that they will need a way to lure the walkers away from the department store, eyeing a red Dodge Challenger sports car.
Rick smashes the driver's side window to gain entry, causing the car's alarm to blare loudly. Rick pulls the van up and the group piles in, catching their breath as they drive away from the city. They look around at one another and a guilt-ridden T-Dog admits to the others he dropped the key, leaving Merle trapped on the roof, still handcuffed to a pipe. Andrea then asks Rick, "Where's Glenn? On the road, Morales advises Rick not to dwell on Merle's abandonment.
When the van arrives at the camp, the group embraces with their families while Rick hesitantly stays in the car for a few moments. He later emerges and recognizes Shane. The two trade stunned glances as Carl spots Rick and runs into his open arms. Lori stares at Rick, but she tearfully embraces her husband and son.
Rick turns to smile at Shane, who does manage an honest smile in return. In the night, around a campfire, Rick describes the disorientation he felt waking up alone in the hospital. Lori explains she was told Rick would be brought over to Atlanta, but it never happened. He then expresses immense gratitude to Shane for saving and taking care of his family. He then volunteers to deliver the news to Daryl Dixon about his brother, as does T-Dog, who is wracked with guilt for dropping the key.
Later on, in their tent, Rick says goodnight to Carl and then takes Lori's hand as he crawls into bed with her. He tells her he knew she and Carl were alive because their photo albums were gone when he returned to their house.
Lori smiles and pulls one open. They reflect on their past mistakes and are grateful for the second chance that they have been given. Lori returns Rick's wedding ring, which had been removed when he was in the hospital, and the two discretely have sex.
The next morning, Rick wakes to find a fresh pair of clothes laid out for him inside the tent. He gets up and gets dressed. Outside, he finds Carol ironing his freshly laundered uniform, though she laments how much harder it is without her old Maytag. Rick thanks her for her kindness. Nearby, Glenn mourns as Morales, Dale, and Jim strip the Challenger down for parts, taking gas for the camp's generators.
Rick then tells Lori he keeps thinking about leaving Merle behind and he plans to return to Atlanta. Lori is shocked, but their discussion is interrupted by screams. For Jadis, Rick's only hope of survival was a Civic Republic doctor. Andrew Lincoln hasn't appeared since, but The Walking Dead season 10 at least confirmed Rick survived, somehow. Michonne stumbled across an iPhone etched with an image of her and Judith. As well as proving her beloved was still alive, Michonne's discovery meant Rick, for whatever reason, can't return home to Alexandria, while also hinting toward his escape from the CRM.
Jadis tells Huck that when she left the junkyard and joined the CRM proper, she " gave the Civic Republic something very valuable. For starters, we now know Rick was gratefully received by the CRM. Deception or no, Jadis describing Rick as " valuable " means the Civic Republic deemed their wounded new guest a worthwhile acquisition for one reason or another. Handing over Rick apparently landed Jadis a prestigious job and comfortable life in the Civic Republic. If Rick had stirred up trouble or escaped, Jadis surely would've felt the CRM's wrath, based on the ruthless approach to HR they've shown thus far.
Clues suggest CRM scientists are conducting zombie experiments on survivors with specific traits. Together, they escaped to the outskirts of the city and Glenn took him to his camp, where Rick fortunately found Lori and Carl, as well as his friend Shane , who was looking over them.
However, Rick's return stirred up things with Shane, who saw the opportunity to get close to Lori while Rick was in coma. Shane's jealousy increased after Rick started to doubt Shane's "authority" over the survivor camp, which eventually lead to Shane snapping out and almost killing Rick.
Rick was saved by his son, Carl, who sneaked up around Shane and shot him in the neck. On the road, they met Tyreese and his family, and they became friends rather quickly. There, they met Hershel Green and his family. Hershel saved Carl's life and invited the group to stay in the farm while Carl recovered. However, the relationship with Hershel started to get tense when Rick found out they kept zombies in their barn because they refused to kill them. An incident caused the zombies to break free and kill two members of the Greene family, forcing them to kill the zombies.
Not long after being kicked from the farm, the group encounters what would be their next home: an abandoned prison. They settle in and cohabit with four still alive inmates. In time, Rick even convinced Hershel and his family to move to the prison, after their farm became insecure.
But as months went by and Lori's pregnancy progressed, the group still faced tragedy inside the "safety" of the prison. When Tyresse's daughter committed suicide and came back as a zombie even though she wasn't bitten , Rick decided to go back to the first camp, exhume Shane, and kill the zombified version of his once "friend". Deeming it too dangerous to leave him alive and too inhuman to leave him to die outside, Rick decided to execute him, setting him as an example of the rule "You kill, You die.
This turn of events would only increase Rick's burden, and he snapped when he saw Tyresse making out with Michonne after breaking up with Carol. Instead, they formed a committee with Dale, Rick, Hershel, and Tyresse. Rick accepted the demotion, not before venting all his frustration in front of the group.
Following the trail of a crashed helicopter, Rick, joined by Glenn and Michonne, headed out of the prison looking for possible survivors. But what they found were enemies, because they ended up in Woodbury , a town of survivors ruled by a the sadistic and perverted Governor who fed strangers to the zombies and used them as entertainment. He left the worst kind of first impression on Rick, empathized when he cut off Rick's hand. Rick followed and intercepted him before he could reach Woodbury, killing and leaving him for the zombies on the surrounding area.
Still, Rick urged his group to be prepared for when The Governor attacked. Entering Lori's ninth month of pregnancy, she tried to open up about her time with Shane, but Rick refused to let her talk. He knew of the possibility that the baby could be Shane's, but he just ignores it, taking them as the only family he has left. However, it all fell apart quickly, as The Governor found the prison and started attacking them.
The Governor used Tyrees to try and force Rick to leave the prison and give it to him, but he killed Tyreese when Rick refused to comply. With the prison no longer secure, Rick and his family were forced to escape while the whole group of survivors fighting off Woodbury's army got massacred. Unfortunately, not even Rick's family was safe, and Lori, carrying Judith in her arms, got shot and fell on top of the baby, suffocating her.
The battle ended tragically for both sides: Rick groups got massacred, with only a few surviving and leaving the prison, and The Governor got killed by one of his own men. The remaining Woodbury soldiers took refuge inside the facility, but it was already overrun with zombies. Leaving the prison behind, with no other survivor on sight, Rick and Carl ended alone, surviving in the wilds. They found shelter inside a house, but Rick got sick with a fever, leaving Carl scared and alone while his father recovered.
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