With The Walking Dead about to return I thought we might need a quick look at the final episode from October of 2020. “A Certain Doom” was directed by Greg Nicotero with a story by James Barnes, Eli Jorne, and Corey Reed with Reed writing the teleplay. This episode had some great performances and action and left plenty on the table that will still need to be wrapped up. With the Whisperer storyline coming to an end, the series is ready for the next – and final – arc. The episode opens with tensions running high as the Whisperers surround the survivors in the old hospital. Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) reassures Gracie (Anabelle Holloway) and RJ (Antony Azor) that they will be fine because their groups form a mighty fist: Alexandria, Hilltop, Oceanside, the Kingdom, and the “others” – the ones who aren’t there…yet, but might find them help or come to help. Daryl (Norman Reedus), Carol (Melissa McBride), and Kelly (Angel Theory) run into the hospital; Yumiko (Eleanor Matsuura), Eugene (Josh McDermitt), Ezekiel (Khary Payton) and Princess (Paola Lazaro) are madly peddling their bikes; Aaron (Ross Marquand) and Alden (Callan McAuliffe) have somehow escaped from their captures at the end of the last episode and are fighting in the woods when a mysterious masked figure shows up; Virgil (Kevin Carroll) is back in Oceanside; and Maggie (Lauren Cohen) has found their note. Beta (Ryan Hurst) tells them to “Begin” the end of the world. While ultimately our heroes win, this episode does mark the beginning of the end of