'The Walking Dead' says goodbye to Rick in one of the best episodes yet

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This article contains spoilers for Season 9, Episode 5 of The Walking Dead.

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Rick Grimes is gone and it looks like The Walking Dead might be better for it.

Despite advertising to the world that Sunday's episode "What Comes After" was going to be lead actor Andrew Lincoln's last hurrah, The Walking Dead managed to produce one of the best episodes in the series' eight-year history that was both heartfelt and refreshingly surprising.

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At the end of Episode 4 of Season 9, Rick rode off on his own to draw away a horde of zombies, until to be reared off his horse and find himself impaled on a piece rebar, jutting up out of his abdomen. "What Comes After" picked up right after with an emotionally charged, suspenseful scene of Rick digging deep and freeing himself just in time to get away. Read more...

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