The Walking Dead Season 6 Part 1 Recap
Caution: Zombies ahead….I mean spoilers for those who haven’t binged watched this yet on Hulu.
The Walking Dead is obviously one of the biggest television shows on the air nowadays, generating a huge fan base and merchandise that is sold almost everywhere. The Walking Dead is a TV show that adapts the graphic novels of the same name and adds a few things to keep originality, while staying along the main bullet points on the story, and this story is one you don’t want to miss.
TWD knows how to play on every emotion on a lot of episodes and they do it perfectly by tugging on our heart strings. I know there have been a good couple times where I have stood up and said out loud, “What the shit is going on?” TWD also cuts their season into two parts with a mid-season finale and premier. The mid-season premier for the second half airs on February 14th at 9PM Eastern time. What a perfect way to spend Valentine’s Day with your sweetie, right?
This is going to be a recap of what has happened so far in the first half of season 6, dealing with deaths and major plot points. If you are new to the series and want to begin it from the start you can stream all of seasons one through five on Netflix, so if you want to avoid spoilers then stop reading now.
Starting with season six, we find the group still in the town of Alexandria, which is steadily going downhill. Father Gabriel is no longer trusted by the group due to a previous defiance and trying to have the group removed from the town. All the while, Glenn reveals that he was almost murdered by Nikolas after being lured out into the woods by him.
While this is happening, Rick and Morgan take a walk outside of Alexandria and come across a huge quarry, which is filled with thousands of walkers. For now they are trapped but Rick sees that the truck that’s holding them in is soon to fall letting them all loose and it will lead on a direct path to Alexandria.
Rick compiles a plan to use blocked roads and vehicles to almost cattle drive the entire horde twenty miles away from the town then let them loose. This plan seems like it’s going to great until a blaring horn coming from Alexandria which causes half of the horde to break off and start headed right for town. A couple members of the group break off and start running towards town to warn everybody with some of the members of the town but run into some walkers resulting in a few of the town’s members being killed.
While amidst the chaos Glenn, Nikolas, and a few others get separated and come across a nearby town. The horn that was blaring at Alexandria was caused by a wrecked tanker truck driven by a member of the new group, The Wolves; a group dedicated to only preying on others. A whole attack is set upon the town with everyone fighting for their lives. Carol, being a badass, has the best moment of this sequence. While this attack is happening Morgan fights off a few members but refuses to kill them and they escape with a gun.
It is a long and brutal fight but with everyone arming themselves from the armory they eventually take back the town. Morgan gets confronted by the leader of The Wolves and Morgan ends up tying him down in the basement of a local house. This starts the longest and worst episode of the season so far, it giving Morgan’s back story of how he went insane but met a man who taught him that every life is precious and killing will never be a viable punishment. He tells the Wolf this story, causing the Wolf the admit that he has been bitten.
This marks the biggest cliffhanger that I think has happened throughout the series. Glenn and Nikolas go off by themselves to light a fire and draw the horde away, but on the way plans go different and they end up on the run. The get trapped on the top of a dumpster and Nikolas has a mental breakdown resulting in him saying thank you to Glenn and shooting himself in the head, causing himself and Glenn to fall off of the dumpster where we see Glenn’s face screaming and getting covered in blood as walkers start devouring his stomach area.
Before the start of the attack on Alexandria, a girl named Enid leaves the town to go out on her own, and her boyfriend attempts to murder Carl.
Meanwhile, Rick reaches an RV used to lure the walkers and tries to coordinate plans with Daryl, Sasha, and Abraham, as well as Glenn and Tobin, though the latter two do not respond. Rick is ambushed by the Wolves but manages to kill them. As Rick tries to leave, the RV’s engine won’t start, and the RV is surrounded by walkers.
Rick appears at Alexandria slightly ahead of the horde as Alexandria is cleaning up the mess of the attack and we learn here that Maggie is pregnant with Glenn’s baby. The leader of Alexandria is bitten by a walker while trying to fight it off.
Daryl is separated from Sasha and Abraham when they are ambushed by strangers. When he recovers, he is captured by a trio of survivors who suspect he is one of the assailants. Daryl steals their bag (which contains his crossbow and their gear) and escapes. Meanwhile, Abraham and Sasha search for Daryl in a nearby town, and decide to set up camp in an office building. They discuss their past actions, with Sasha concluding that everybody is accountable for their own actions. Abraham goes to scavenge supplies and manages to recover an RPG launcher. When he returns, he tells Sasha he’s found a new purpose for living and begins to flirt with her.
Daryl decides to return the three survivors’ bag when he realizes it contains insulin, and at that point they are confronted by an armed group. Daryl helps the trio hide until the armed group gives up the search and moves on. As Daryl and the survivors continue on, one of the survivors is killed by walkers. Daryl tries to recruit the remaining two survivors, but they betray him, and steal his crossbow and motorcycle. Daryl finds a working truck and manages to reunite with Abraham and Sasha. As they return to Alexandria, Daryl tries to reach Rick on the radio, and an unidentified voice responds: “Help.”
After this we learn of what happened to Glenn. We findout that the walkers were digging into Nikolas’ body that fell on top of him and he manages to crawl under the dumpster the escape the danger. He is there for quite a while when eventually something draws the walkers away allowing him to come back out. Enid is on a roof at this time in the town and throws a bottle of water to him. At this time Glenn takes chase to catch up to her and find her.
At the same time, Carol discovers that Morgan is holding the Wolf leader in the basement of a nearby house and follows him into it and makes a stand, telling him that the Wolf needs to die or he will kill everybody and Morgan fights back saying his life is precious. A fight ensues with Carol trying to kill Morgan to get to the Wolf. During the fight Carol gets knocked unconscious, the Wolf gets free and knocks out Morgan and takes one of the towns members hostage.
After this, Glenn finds Enid and even through her teenage angst Glenn forces her to come back to the town with him after she tells him the town was overrun with the Wolves. They gather up some of the balloons from when they were driving the horde and use them as a signal to the town to let them know they are still alive, Maggie being the one to see this first from on top of a watch tower.
At this time, the walker horde breaks through the hole in the wall, caused by the tanker truck, and makes their way into Alexandria. Everyone is in a fight of their life trying to escape while the Wolf leader takes the town member he had hostage and makes an escape into the horde. Rick gives Deanna a gun to end her own life if she chose but she instead chooses to spend the bullets taking out some walkers.
Rick takes himself, one of the town members, Jessie, whom he is in a sort of relationship with, Carl, and Jessie’s young son and cover themselves in the inside of dead humans to blend in with the walkers. As they leave and enter the horde, Jessie’s young son begins asking for his mom out loud. All know that the walkers can hear him. We learn at this time the “help” that Daryl, Abraham, and Sasha hear is from Eugene, another member of their group, who is in the town at the time of the horde outbreak.
In the post-credit scene we see the three of them get stopped in the middle of the road by a gang of bikers (the same group Daryl escaped from earlier who call themselves The Saviors) who threaten the kill them all if they don’t relinquish their possessions and their vehicle. As they do the biker leader says the last words, “You and all your stuff now belongs to Neegan.”