Rick will always believe that it was his duty to protect everyone, but sometimes he failed, and that’s the way it falls. Hershel was always the moral compass of the show, and to have him, even in spirit, tell Rick that he thinks he did the best he could, and that he doesn’t hold him responsible for anything that happened to Beth or Glenn, and that Maggie’s strong and will be strong for her son, is the assurance that Rick needs. This one is devastating on two levels, Hershel tells Rick that he did his best and that’s enough, and also because this is the last work that Scott Wilson did on The Walking Dead before he passed away last month.
The next hallucination Rick sees is Hershel. It seems like a way to give Rick permission to leave.
Shane’s whole purpose is to show Rick that he’s not the man for the job and also, Judith isn’t actually his blood, so this “family” isn’t the same one he was looking for at the start of the series. The only problem is, Rick isn’t willing to do that anymore. In order for Rick to fix the situations he’s caused, he’s going to have to dig down and find his inner Shane, that asshole, that man who bit out Joe’s throat. He tells Rick that it doesn’t have to be him, that it needs to be Shane. In true Rick form, he tells Shane that he thinks it has to be him who makes the changes in the world, and that’s when Shane stops him.
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I mean, I’m sure others did influence you, but I’d like to take full credit.” I like to take credit for that, actually, Rick, when I think about it. One could argue it’s my family you’re lookin’ for, right? How is my baby girl, by the way? Got my eyes, doesn’t she?” “Oh, is that what you’re doing, looking for your family, huh?” Jon Bernthal being back on the show is incredible, and it’s so great to remember his and Rick’s easy yet contentious relationship. In “What Comes After,” Rick is visited by the ghosts of apocalypse past, and they’re sole purpose is to bring Rick’s story to a close. It’s a franchise, and Rick is too valuable to the franchise to let him go so easily, but if he leaves The Walking Dead, it frees up the storyline a lot, and I get it.
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Unfortunately, The Walking Dead is no longer a series that stands alone. It’s been stated that this was Rick Grimes’ last episode on The Walking Dead, and I should have realized that it didn’t mean his death. “What Comes After” spends forty minutes giving you everything you need to say goodbye to Rick Grimes, and the last five minutes backtracking on the emotional nature of his sacrifice.
Rick’s tenure on The Walking Dead has come to an end, but to get to his future, he must first revisit his past.
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