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The Walking Dead season 8 episode 9 'Honour': Carl's pre-death season 3 callback explained
*Spoilers for The Walking Dead's latest episode follow*
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Your support makes all the difference.The latest death to rock The Walking Dead paved the way for a surprising callback to a shocking moment many may have forgotten.
Returning from its midseason break, the AMC series made good on its promise to kill off Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs) who succumbed to a walker bite he suffered in an earlier episode.
The majority of Carl's final episode - our verdict of which you can find here - was dedicated to scenes between Carl, his father Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) with the young boy attempting to impart some hard-earned wisdom to his father before passing on.
One such moment saw Carl recall a moment which occurred in season 3 finale, ‘Welcome to the Tombs’ where he gunned down Jody (Tanner Holland), a member of Woodbury who was surrendering in front of Hershel (Scott Wilson).
“Back in the prison when we got attacked, there was a kid - a little older than me,” a dying Carl tells Rick. “He had a gun. He was starting to put it down and I… I shot him He was giving it up and I just… I shot him. I think about him, what I did to him and how… easy it was to just… kill him.
Carl goes on to tell Rick how his decision to house the people of Woodbury in the prison gave him a moral compass and turned him into the man he became - all in the hope that Rick will do the same thing again: end the war against The Saviours.
“How you stopped fighting was right. It still is - it can be like that again,” he tells Rick before shooting himself in the head.
The Walking Dead season 8 continues on AMC every Sunday with the UK premiere arriving the next evening on FOX as well as being available to stream on NOW TV.
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