MAJOR SPOILERS!

The Walking Dead Season 3 finale starts with The Governor beating up Milton because he set fire to a walker-pit, that was going to be used for torture, and he tells Milton to kill Andrea in the torture room.

 

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Milton decides to go against the Governor and ends up getting stabbed, and then The Governor said a line that’ll stick with viewers until next season:

“In this life now, you kill or you die… or you die and you kill”

Next we see Rick’s group in the prison packing up all of their belongings, and Carl seems mad about something, and as Glen remarks to Rick: “he’s never been this upset, even about Lori”…

Rick walks over to Michonne who thanks him for changing his mind about handing her over to The Governor, and Rick says that she’s one of them, so he couldn’t.

Then we’re shown the Governor in Woodbury rallying up his troops, getting ready to storm the prison to attack, and Tyrese’s group says that they won’t come to the prison, but they can guard Woodbury while they’re out.

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The Governor checks the prison, but can’t find a trace of Rick’s group… there might be some traps lined up for them, so far we’ve seen some spikes that popped some tires… but not much else.

Andrea is stuck in the torture room, and Milton is slowly turning into a walker, and he tells her she has to free herself with a tool he dropped for her, and then she has to kill him after he’s “come back”

The Governor still searches the prison, hearing strange sounds, and checks around corners to check them out, and we cut to a scene of Tyrese coming back from his watch of the gate, and he says he had to ran into some walkers, but he took care of them.

We cut back to Andrea as she tries to free herself, while Milton slowly turns…

The Governor and his group get ambushed at the prison by Rick’s group and run away to their cars, where their car-guns have been disabled. Glen and Maggie shoot at The Governor’s group, and one of their group runs into the forest.

As one of them gets close to where Hershel and Carl are, in the forest, he surrenders to Carl, but Carl shoots him unexpectedly, showing that Carl has officially gone dark maybe?

Rick and his people regroup in the prison to celebrate the victory, and Hershel confronts Rick saying that Carl slaughtered an unarmed kid.

We cut to The Governor and his group who have fled the prison in cars, and The Governor pulls in front of their cars, and tells them to pull over, and go back to the prison. The Governor’s hearing goes all wonky while his “soldiers” tell him that if he wanted them to kill walkers, that would be fine, but people, not a chance. And… The Governor finally shows his true side and slaughters them all, except for a girl who was hiding under someone else, and his two most trustworthy soldiers Caesar Martinez and Shupert, who join him in the truck and continue back to Woodbury.

 

 

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And we see Andrea trying to get out of the chair, while Milton’s fingers start to move, and he is becoming undead…

Rick confronts Carl about killing the kid, and Carl mentions that if Rick hadn’t killed The Governor, he wouldn’t have killed Merle,

and that if Rick had killed one of the prisoners, he wouldn’t have killed Lori, and that he “did what was necessary”…

 

Rick walks away from Carl to join Daryl to go after The Governor.

Rick, Michonne, and Daryl continue after The Governor and finds the slaughter that he left on the road, and most of the bodies have turned, and are eating the remaining ones, but they find a survivor.

Andrea continues to struggle with the locks, but now Milton is up and coming towards her, the commercial comes before we get to see which one of them survived…

Rick, Michonne and Daryl take the survivor back to Woodbury and run into Tyrese and his friend who are the only ones guarding the city. Rick explains what the survivor told them, and they tell that The Governor killed all his own people on the way back.

They continue in to find Andrea in the room bleeding out a bite wound on her neck, and she asks for a gun so she can finish it, before she turns, and she tells Rick: “I know how the safety works”, a reference to the first season, second episode, where Rick first meets the group and Andrea threatens him, but he tells her: “if you’re going to use that, you should know how to” then turns the safety on her pistol off.

Michonne stays with her, but Rick, Tyrese and Daryl wait outside, while she “finishes it”…

We then cut to a scene of Rick helping a bus-load of Woodbury people in the prison, and Carl says: “What’s this?” and runs away…

What does this mean for the group in the prison? Was moving the surviving Woodbury characters to the prison a smart move? Is Carl too far gone, or is he finally understanding the world they live in?

Let us know in the comments below!!

3/31/2013 – 10:23 pm

by James