The Walking Dead Season 5 ep.12 "Remember" Spoiler

When we last left the group they were upon the gates of Alexandria, their hopeful safe haven.

Our beloved family enters the gates of the community and is promptly instructed by Nicholas to hand over their weapons if they want to stay. Rick says that he doesn't know if they want to stay. Rick notices a walker coming toward the gates and Rick, with a soft but deliberately spoken “Sasha,” shows Nicholas just who Team Grimes is. Sasha calmly raises her gun and shoots it in the head. See the clip here.

After the opening credits Rick is in Deanna’s house (ASZ leader), apparently for some kind of interview. Deanna asks Rick if she can film their conversation. She asks Rick how long they have been “out there” and tells him how the community came to be. At the end of this talk she tells Rick he needs to make a decision on whether to stay or not.

The group is outside handing their guns over. Aaron tells Rick and Carl they can have two houses for the group. After exploring the downstairs of the house Rick takes a steamy shower. (contains butt shot.) Rick then shaves off his glorious beard. After Rick walks downstairs shirtless, he sees some one at the door. The woman introduces herself as Jessie and offers Rick a basket of goodies and a haircut. While cutting Rick’s hair, Jessie talks about her son who is about Carl’s age.

Daryl is briefly interviewed.

Carl hears noises upstairs in the house and, after investigating with knife in hand, finds out it’s just his imagination. He finds old comic books in an empty room.

As the group is settling down for their first night in the ASZ, Deanna drops by to make sure they are all ok.

The next morning Rick goes outside into the street and starts panicking, he runs down the road looking in all directions. He knocks over some scrap metal, which Jessie hears and then comes to his aid. Turns out he is looking for Judith, who is with Carl getting attention from some of the locals.

Carl is introduced to two other boys and a girl who live in the ASZ. Carl is a bit shy and awkward.

Carl, while with Judith, is interviewed by Deanna. Back in his bedroom Carl tells Rick he likes the new community.

Out for a little midnight stroll, Rick briefly meets Jessie's husband sitting on the porch of his house.

Carol is interviewed next morning.

Daryl is playing with his crossbow on the porch of his house. Carol tells him to take a shower or she will hose him down. Carol easily reverts back to her "housewife" lifestyle. He tells Carol she looks “ridiculous” in her new housewife clothes. Her community job is feeding the elderly.

Rick decides to venture outside the ASZ gates and is let out by the gate guards. Meanwhile, Carl spots the girl from the community escaping over a wall. He follows her into the woods but loses her. Rick looks for the gun he stashed in the last episode only to find it's gone. He bumps into Carl, they speak a few words, and then fight a couple of walkers. Just another day in the ZA. One grabs Ricks boot, but Rick lets Carl finish it off even though he could have done it himself.

Noah, Glenn and Tara are shown how to do a run (yeah, like they need to be shown anything) by Deanna’s son and another ASZ member. They are led to some bloody chains by a tree and Deanna and her son are annoyed that the walker they had chained up is gone. They explain how it killed a member of the community a while ago so they were keeping it chained like some sort of punishment. The walker comes out of nowhere and almost gets Tara. She kills it and Deanna’s son gets annoyed.

Each person in the group is given a specific job. Daryl is the only person who doesn't have a job assigned to him and doesn't seem to like the place. He spends a lot of time on the porch. At one point, he skins a possum even though there is plenty of good food to eat.

Back at the ASZ, Deanna’s son takes a swing at Glenn, who knocks him down with one punch. Deanna breaks it up, actually thanking Glenn for teaching her son a lesson. She tells Rick and Michonne that their job is security at the community.

The scene cuts to the interview with Rick from first day. He says to Deanna that everyone has an angle and is looking for something to take, and that she shouldn't have let them in. Deanna responds by saying “Are you already looking out for us?”

Back at the house, Rick puts on his new, spiffy, cop uniform. Carol says that the group will get weak being there but Rick responds by saying he won't allow it. He says, “If they can't make it, we will take this place.”

End of episode.

So what exactly is Alexandria?

Alexandria, also called the Alexandria Safe-Zone, is a few blocks of cleared streets in Alexandria, Virginia, about six miles outside of Washington, D.C. It was started by a man named Alexander Davidson, who was a former security liaison for the White House, and his friend Douglas Monroe who build the walls surrounding it. Davidson was later banished from the community after abusing his power (oh, no sounds like Woodbury all over again) Doulas Monroe then became the leader.

Here are a few key takeaways from this episode:

- We will see the end of Rick's beard and long hair, finally. He will become the "cop" we remember from previous seasons.

- This is Norman Reedus' 50th appearance on the show!

- During the scene when Rick returns to the house where he hid the gun (see above photo) the walker in the scene is Scott Ian from Anthrax!

AMC has confirmed that the season finale with be 90 minutes long! Here is a recap of the rest of the season. Keep in mind there is a rumor that Daryl will be killed in the season finale while he is outside the walls of Alexandira (and meets our next villan). I personally don't think they would be that confident to do that, having said that i'm sure it will end without us knowing his fate.

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