AMC is leaving us with two big cliffhangers to be resolved in 2022.
It’s only appropriate that his reign now ends with fire.
But, like the HBO hot pope show says, there’s now a new pope.
Ritchie Coster as Pope and Lynn Collins as Leah in ‘The Walking Dead’ season 11.Josh Stringer/AMC
Leah stabbed Pope through the throat and deemed herself leader of the Reapers.
In doing so, she offered an answer to at least one quandary that’s been bugging me.
Whether or not it’s a good answer is still… eh.
This doesn’t sit well with Leah.
She learns that Pope had suspected Maggie was out there and dispatched Paul with no backup anyway.
Things get complicated for Maggie and the others when the walkers start triggering explosives around the Reapers' walls.
But Pope has a secret weapon.
Daryl wants Leah to come with him and be with the Alexandrians, but the Reapers are her family.
She radios to the remaining Reapers that Daryl killed Pope and lets him run off.
However, now Leah is mad.
The last image we see is the first few exploding arrows flying from the weapon.
The other half of the part 1 finale deals with Alexandria, which is weathering a vicious storm.
They decide to split into three groups to deal with all the problems.
Walkers are trying to push their way inside.
Rosita rushes out to kill as many as she can, but more are on the way.
Before long, they are back bracing the door against more walkers.
They all retreat upstairs except for Judith.
Gracie, however, is missing.
Judith finds her in the basement, which is flooding.
The girls are forced back into the basement.
They lock the door but it won’t hold for very long.
It’s only a matter of time before they will have to fight for their lives.
The resolution to both of these cliffhangers won’t come until Feb. 20 at 9 p.m.
ET, which is when eight more episodes will kick off.
The final season in total will run 24 episodes.
So, it seems it’s being packaged as three parts.
