SPOILER ALERT: Do not keep reading if you have not seen Season 8, Episode 14 of “The Walking Dead,” titled “Still Gotta Mean Something”
“The Walking Dead” slowed things down from the previous two weeks, but still turned in a strong episode that delivered on action and emotions.
The episode begins at the Heaps, where Jadis is holding Negan prisoner. She plans to torture him by first burning Lucille and then letting a captive walker slowly devour him. But more on that later.
At Hilltop, the search is on for Henry, who fled the community after accidentally letting many of the Savior prisoners go free. Ezekiel implores Carol to join the search for the boy, but Carol refuses. Tara and Daryl also engage in another back and forth regarding Dwight, with Tara coming to his defense and Daryl again wanting him dead. Rick then finds Michonne reading the letter that Carl wrote her before his death, reducing her to tears. Rick admits that he has yet to read what Carl wrote to him, instead still busying himself with work.
Morgan plans to venture out of Hilltop as well, but not to look for Henry. Instead, he is going to hunt down the Saviors who escaped and kill them. Carol decides to go with him, more to protect Morgan from himself than anything else. Rick decides he will go hunting for the Saviors as well. He asks Alden, the lead Savior who stayed behind, where the others might go before heading back to the Sanctuary. Alden says some of the others once took him to an abandoned bar a few miles away. That is good enough for Rick, who sets out for blood.
Negan tries to convince Jadis that he did not order Simon to murder he people and that he will do whatever he can to make it right. She doesn’t want to hear it, though, and sets about building a fire with which to burn Lucille. But when she goes to get the walker she plans to use to eat him, he manages to inch his way toward a…
