3 Stars.
Pros: Michonne actually admitting that she has feelings was a first.
Cons: Who will hook up with who this time/Andrea is apparently Wonder Woman and has the uncanny ability to save the lives of everyone at the most conveinent times.
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Aaron and Eric return and Eric's been stabbed but he survives. Aaron goes to tell Douglas that he doesn't want to go on recruiting missions anymore, that he thinks they lucked out with Rick's group but that it's time to close the gates. Douglas is grieving over his wife's death and isn't processing much. Meanwhile the gunshots from the previous volume have drawn a horde of zombies to the gates. Jessie and Ron, the widow and son of Pete, the man that Rick killed, ask to stay with Rick because they just don't feel safe with more zombies outside the gates. Rick and Jessie hook up, predictably and for a few brief moments Rick is happy.
That all changes when the zombie herd intensifies and manages to break down a section of the gate. Morgan is bitten while trying to fend off the zombies and though Michonne cuts off his arm to stop the infection, it doesn't help. He still dies. Before he does though, he tells Carl that he knows that he killed Ben and that someday, he'll be a great leader because he doesn't hesitate to do the things that others can't bring themselves to do. Michonne watches over Morgan's bedside and apologizes for being such a beast to him and that she hopes he knows how much she did care for him. As the zombies wander freely about Alexandria, Morgan dies and Michonne finishes him off with her sword.
Glen, Heath and Spencer (Douglas and Regina's son) have climbed over the horde of zombies on a rope in order to try and get to Andrea who's trapped in the bell tower. They have food and supplies for her but as Spencer tries to cross the rope bridge, it snaps and he's only saved by the timely intervention of Andrea. Glen, Heath, Spencer and Andrea are trapped on a roof across from the town, only able to watch as the zombies swarm into Alexandria.
Michonne goes to bring Denise, the Doctor, back to her house, since she had come to patch up Morgan and try and help. Rick has lured a zombie into the house and is cutting it apart to smear its innards on him, Carl, Jessie and Ron, knowing that if they smell like the zombies, then the undead will most likely leave them be. As they start to go through the crowd, it works but Ron soon becomes too frightened and stops moving. The zombies grab him and Jessie, understandably keeps holding his hand and she too is overwhelmed by zombies.
She was holding onto Carl's other hand and she won't let go, so what does Rick do but cut off her arm in order to save Carl. It doesn't matter much though as Douglas suddenly appears, firing a gun randomly at zombies to try and clear a path for Rick and Carl. All he manages to do is make is make himself a target and also a stray bullet hits Carl, taking out one of his eyes.
Rick manages to get him to the infirmary and returns to try and thin out the zombie horde. Everyone, Abraham, Rosita, Eugene, even Father Gabriel, gather and work together to thin out the zombie horde. And as the night goes on and Rick sits at Carl's bedside, he admits that for the first time in a long time, he's beginning to feel hope. He realizes what they can do, simply by working together and he asks Carl to wake up so that he can show him this new world.
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