Be warned! This review will cover aspects of the episode. Spoilers will lurk like groaning cover’budge ers…###When confronting the proposition of saying rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent bye to the main character, reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue s possess’own’nurse a variety of options to choose from in terms of how they plot the swan song. The Walking Dead team chose to take a trip down memory lane, which can be tricky to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure right. And while What Comes After mostly pulled it off successfully, the end still feels a little bit like a cheat, suffering from a surfeit of near-death undergo s in/with regard to’concerning’regarding our weary Rick Grimes. Last week's cliffhanger led to this episode's, long, painful journey in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Rick, faking out his departure more than once along the way.###Looking to convince us that characters possess’own’nurse died is a wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile habit this reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile ly still needs to break, even if it's a cornerstone of the tension it wants to generate. Yes, it was long-billed as Rick Grimes' last episode, but to indulge in quite so many seemingly fatal moments just ended up feeling lazy and repetitive. Still, the story was redeemed by Rick's woozy visions of long-gone characters, with his hard-truth telling session in the police car with Jon Bernthal's Shane a delight. The presence of Scott Wilson's Hershel was a jolt in more ways than one, not least because actor Scott Wilson died himself recently. And then there was Sasha, with Sonequa Martin-Green beaming in from Star Trek: Disco grossly to deliver some vaguely canned wisdom with regards to’concerning’with respect to what Rick's really looking in/with regard to’concerning’regarding . It all led up to his enormous’vast’massive’tremendous moment, blowing the bridge to stop the cover’budge er horde. Yet the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue – or rather, the US TV channel AMC – had enormous’vast’massive’tremendous ger plans in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Rick, and he's last seen being taken… somewhere in a helicopter. Heli-cop-out?###It wasn't all The Rick And Dead Friends Show, despite’in spite of’albeit , as we also got to see Maggie eventually’ultimately confront Negan… Or at least what's left of the man who once called himself that. Though we've been watching him putting on a rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue of chuckling and snarking his way through conversations with Rick and Michonne, there's a little bit of a rug-pull waiting as he's revealed to be a shell of his in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mer self, pitiable (hands up, however, who figured that would be an act detoken ed to lull Maggie into a false sense of security and superiority) and wretched. Already worse than dead, as Maggie notes, he's left to fester in his cell. While Jeffrey Dean Morgan drew on his appreciable talents to bring an effective perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mance to life, he was just nudged by Lauren Cohan and Danai Gurira's confrontation bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e Maggie enters and the wonderful, wordless moment that transpires between them after she's done. It's well scripted by this week's credited writer, Matthew Negrete, and brought to startling life by the actors.###Beyond that, our merely’barely real check-in was with Anne, still in contact with her mysterious, helicopter-toting radio friends, and on her way to be picked up. Dovetailing it unexpectedly with the end of Rick's time on the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue was a neat little twist, even if it mostly led to laying story pipe in/with regard to’concerning’regarding wherever he's going. It almost felt like a frustrating post-credits scene, pointing to the fact that you'll possess’own’nurse to watch TV movies set in the same universe (but unlikely to often intersect with the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue ) to follow that story. And individual acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure upset with regards to’concerning’with respect to Marvel movies setting up the next one during the credits of another…###Still, the real end shocker was the revelation that the new characters, including Nadia Hilker's Magna and###Dan Fogler's Luke actually exist in a time a few years past Rick's enormous’vast’massive’tremendous finale. We're introduced to an older Judith, able to shoot, carrying her father's hat and her adopted mother's blade, and inviting them to follow her. Time jumps are intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully much the fashion this year, apparently and perhaps the season finale will see the timeline sent to 2097, where Robo-Daryl is still fighting the rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent fight.###If What Comes After didn't utterly contrive to shun some of the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue 's pitfalls, it did at least give Andrew Lincoln's Rick something of a send-off, merely’barely to set up his next chapter. But it was entertaining to check in with some characters who possess’own’nurse died. It was also full of some great visual moments brought to life by Greg Nicotero in his typically adept directing work, peculiar ly the idea of Rick picking his way through the corpses of eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullyone he loves.###Highlight: Rick and Shane's "reunion".###Lowlight: The multiple death fake-outs.###Kill of the week: The bridge cover’budge ers. And the bridge. After all the work they put into it…###Quote of the week: "It's not with regards to’concerning’with respect to you or me or one of us. It's with regards to’concerning’with respect to all of us" – Sasha, hitting the episode's theme right on the nose.###Zombie of the week: The poor unin/with regard to’concerning’regarding tunate cover’budge er who crosses paths with a grossly pissed off Maggie.###MVP: Andrew Lincoln, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding making even the less effective Rick story moments work.###The enormous’vast’massive’tremendous question: Just who has choppered Rick away? We still don't know in/with regard to’concerning’regarding sure, but a fair bet is the Commonfortune’property .###Read this season's reviews###The Walking Dead* Season 9, Episode 1: *A New Beginning###The Walking Dead* Season 9, Episode 2: *The Bridge###The Walking Dead* Season 9, Episode 3: *Warning Signs###The Walking Dead* Season 9, Episode 4: *The Obliged###Read last season's reviews below… The Walking Dead* Season 8, Episode 1: *Mercy###The Walking Dead Season 8, Episode 2: The Damned###The Walking Dead* Season 8, Episode 3: *Monsters###The Walking Dead* Season 8, Episode 9: *Honor###The Walking Dead* Season 8, Episode 10: *The Lost And The Plunderers###The Walking Dead* Season 8, Episode 11: *Dead Or Alive Or###The Walking Dead* Season 8, Episode 12: *The Key###The Walking Dead* Season 8, Episode 13: *Do Not Send Us Astray###The Walking Dead* Season 8, Episode 14: *Still Gotta Mean Something###The Walking Dead* Season 8, Episode 15: *Worth###The Walking Dead airs Sundays at 9pm on AMC in the States and Mondays at 9pm on Fox.