Spoilers for last night’s episode of The Walking Dead follow
This week’s Walking Dead showed us the fate of the people outside Alexandria who were trying to lead the herd away from the compound, only to be waylaid by a loud horn. The group got separated, several characters we barely got a chance to know were killed by walkers, and ultimately a fan favorite, who dies in the comics in a different way, was seemingly eaten by walkers. Or was he? It was devastating to watch and I definitely thought that character had been eaten.

Did that character really die?
Glenn (Steven Yeun) and Nicholas found themselves beset on both sides by walkers as they stood on a dumpster, a fence with more walkers behind them. Nicholas kept spacing out and having trouble collecting himself, and he ultimately looked at Glenn said “Thank You” and then shot himself in the head, falling on top of Glenn and pushing him into the sea of zombies. We saw Glenn screaming, his face covered in blood and locked in abject terror, as guts were pulled out and eaten. I assumed the guts were Glenn’s and that he was a goner, but many people are theorizing that the guts were Nicholas’s and that Glenn will be able to escape somehow. Plus Glenn’s death was not included on The Talking Dead’s in memoriam segment last night. Given that Glenn was killed in the comics by people from an opposing, evil group, and that his circumstances are so dire, I think this is how he dies. It would make sense, too, for his kindness to unstable Nicholas to be the character trait that leads to his death.

Will Rick be saved?
Meanwhile Rick ran back to the RV and planned to help lead the herd away from Alexandria, only to be attacked by Wolves who had escaped from the siege. These were the exact same scumbags whom Morgan spared. Rick dispatched with them, killing some by hand and others with a machine gun. He then found a jar of baby food, presumably from Judith, in the pocket of one of their jackets. Rick’s hand is injured and he’s been nursing it, which may be a clue that something we’ve seen in the comics is about to happen.

Daryl, on the CB with Rick and heading toward Alexandria, heard the gunshots over the radio and turned around to rejoin Sasha and Abraham leading the horde. He previously abandoned Sasha and Abraham to go toward the noises in Alexandria, correctly guessing that the settlement wwas being attacked. Rick then tried to start the RV, only to find that it wouldn’t start again, just as the horde approached him. He can presumably by saved someone, if he’s able to call for help. (Note: the first version of this article stated that Daryl had gone to help Rick.)

Michonne, Heath and Scott make it back
The last we saw of Michonne and Heath they were leading a badly hurt Scott into Alexandria, having lost two other injured people in their group to the horde. Heath faced an identity crisis of sorts, weighing his urge for survival with his need to help everyone. In the pet shop, Michonne explained to him clearly that life or death choices needed to be made. “You haven’t had to do it any other way. You haven’t been through it… Have you ever done things that made you feel afraid of yourself afterward? Have you ever been covered in so much blood that you didn’t know if it was yours, or walkers’ or your friends?” Maybe that’s a small hint that Glenn was covered in Nicholas’s blood, not his own, and hopefully we’ll find out soon. It might not be next week, though. In the preview for episode 4, we see Morgan alone, suggesting that this will be a backstory episode and that we’ll have to wait even longer to figure out what happened to Glenn. Damnit. I’ll be watching though no matter what. I always do.

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