'The Walking Dead' Season 5 Episode 14 Spoilers, Plot Recap: Series' Most Horrifying Deaths
"The Walking Dead" is known – and loved – for its disturbingly gory scenes, so to say that a death is horrifyingly gory and tragic at the same time is saying a lot.
Season 5 Episode 14, entitled "Spend" shown last Sunday on AMC delivered what was probably the most disturbingly gory death scene ever in "The Walking Dead" history. Not only was it hard to watch from the gore department but also from the emotional level.
When Rick and his group joined the community in Alexandria, the possibility that they are the bad guys have been raised because they've been out too long and that they might do something that would disrupt the peaceful community. As each episode showed the group integrating and becoming part of the community, viewers waited for the breaking point when all hell would break loose. "Spend" added to the mounting tension.
Rick's group members were shown getting into positions of power, the latest being Abraham being promoted to foreman of the construction crew. The current foreman stepped down with no ill-will.
Father Gabrielle went and approached Deanna and warned her that it was a mistake for her to take in Rick's group. He warned her that they've done evil things and they have Satan in them and that in the end, they will harm Alexandria for their own benefit. Maggie overheard the conversation and Deanna thanked Gabrielle for telling her, but it was not evident on her face whether she took it seriously or not.
In another story arc, Carol discovered that Pete was beating his wife Jessie and possibly even their son, Sam. Sam started bothering Carol, who didn't want to get close to another child, but after some conversation, Carol was able to get the information of the beating out of Sam. Carol, a victim of abuse herself, approached Rick and told him. She then uttered the phrase that didn't bode well for the relationship between Rick's group and the Alexandria residents. She told Rick their only option was to kill Pete. Incidentally, Rick and Jessie seemed to be getting closer as the days went by.
The last story arc was the most disturbing as Glenn, Tara, Eugene and Noah went on a run with Aidan and Nicholas to get parts to get the community's electric grid back up and working. They found themselves in a warehouse housing the parts. There were walkers, but they were contained. Until of course, one walker in full battle gear began approaching Aidan. Aidan shot it several times but he hit the grenades strapped on the armored walker's body, triggering a huge explosion.
The walkers were freed from their containment as a result of the blast. Aidan was impaled on the wall. Tara was hit and fell unconscious with a bleeding head wound. As the team tried to get Tara and escape, they heard Aidan make a sound. He was still alive! Glenn, Noah and Nicholas tried to free him from the impalement, as the walkers drew near. Eugene stayed with Tara. Nicholas balked and left Glenn and Noah to save Aidan. When it was clear that Aidan could not be saved, Glenn and Noah reluctantly left him, to be attacked and eaten alive, his screams reverberating in their ears.
Eugene managed to find courage and carried Tara out while he shot walker after walker. Glenn and Noah met Nicholas and for some freak reason, the three got trapped in a revolving door, Noah and Glenn on one side, Nicholas on another, and the walkers in the others. Eugene drove by and became a diversion so that most of the walkers outside went to follow him. But the walkers inside were still on the other side. Glenn and Noah hatched a plan and asked Nicholas to take part in it. He didn't go along with the plan and opened his side of the door so he could escape outside, leaving a space open on the side of Noah and Glenn's door for walkers to reach in and grab Noah.
Glenn tried to hold on to Noah but the walkers were just too many and strong and the scene ended with the goriest death ever, Noah flattened on the other side of the glass door being ripped apart, literally, by the walkers as he screamed, and Glenn in the protected other side, having to watch Noah die in front of him.
Glenn escaped and hit Nicholas with his fist in frustration and anger. Tara remained unconscious and Eugene rode at the back of the vehicle with her as they went back to Alexandria.
But what would be waiting for them there, when they have to tell Deanna that Aidan was dead? With Gabrielle's words still fresh in her mind, how would Deanna react? And how would Rick deal with the information that Carol gave him about Jessie being physically abused by her husband Pete?
Two more episodes before Season 5 ends and the tension is mounting. How will the season end for Rick's group and will there be more deaths coming?