SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of tonight’s The Walking Dead 11C midseason debut, the first of the final eight episodes of the series. “Okay, this ends now,” exclaims murderous Commonwealth deputy governor Lance Hornsby (Josh Hamilton) in the first of the final eight episodes of The Walking Dead that debuted tonight on AMC.
Of course, this being the zombie apocalypse series careening towards its November 20 series finale and a trio of spinoffs to come, it isn’t really over.
At least not when Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) suddenly has a knife to Hornsby’s neck and ambushes the ambush. Kicking off with new opening credits and cranking up the gore and betrayal volume, the Greg Nicotero directed, and Julia Ruchman penned “Lockdown” picked up not long after the events of April 10’s Acts of God episode.
As Hornsby seeks to unleash destruction of the Survivors’ community, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) sneaks inside the Commonwealth to try to reach General Mercer and stave off a massacre.
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