Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) returned determined to destroy the Civic Republic Military headquarters on Sunday’s explosive season finale episode of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live on AMC.
The final also offered fans a surprise, as Rick reunited with both his children – Judith (Cailey Fleming) and R.J. (Anthony Azor).
‘We have to stop them because we can stop them,’ Michonne said. ‘What sort of world are we making for them if we walk away from something like this.’
‘And this is the sh** we do,’ Rick said.
‘Yes it is,’ Michonne said.
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 2 The final also offered fans a surprise, as Rick reunited with both his children - Judith (Cailey Fleming) and R.J. (Anthony Azor)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100285-0-image-a-75_1711952921667.jpg)
The final also offered fans a surprise, as Rick reunited with both his children – Judith (Cailey Fleming) and R.J. (Anthony Azor)
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 4 Anthony Azor as R.J. from The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100325-0-image-a-76_1711952935564.jpg)
Anthony Azor as R.J. from The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
The spin-off series episode titled The Last Time picked up after Michonne and Rick Grimes decided to return to the Civic Republic Military to get the dossier Jadis Stokes left on them and for Rick to receive the top-secret Echelon briefing and find out what the CRM was really up to.
Rick turned himself in at the gates of the CRM. He l told his friend Commander Sergeant Major Pearl Thorne (Lesley-Ann Brandt) about how he survived after his helicopter had been hit by lighting.
‘I’m glad you made it, Rick,’ Pearl said. ‘You are needed.’
Beale (Terry O’Quinn) the Major General of the Civic Republic Military, C.R.M, was spending time by himself clearing walkers from the gate while Michonne dressed as CRM commando used a key to enter Jadis’s office.
Michonne found the dossier on them hidden inside a sculpture and quickly tore it into pieces. Another commander came looking for Beale, walked into the office, but Michonne brutally killed them.
Beale had Rick meet him in his office. He told Rick to to put his gun on the table and to take off his prosthetic with the blade.
‘I want you to reflect on your life,’ Beale said. ‘All the things you did before this moment. Because after this next moment everything would change.’
Beale then asked him what the worst thing he did to make sure someone he loved survived. Rick said he once killed someone with his teeth.
Beale told him that he had given this Echelon briefing thousands of times. Beale told him about his childhood and how he left home after his father broke his jaw.
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 6 Rick turned himself in at the gates of the CRM](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100445-0-image-a-80_1711953217441.jpg)
Rick turned himself in at the gates of the CRM
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 8 He l told his friend Commander Sergeant Major Pearl Thorne (Lesley-Ann Brandt) about how he survived after his helicopter had been hit by lighting](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100473-0-image-a-82_1711953387744.jpg)
He l told his friend Commander Sergeant Major Pearl Thorne (Lesley-Ann Brandt) about how he survived after his helicopter had been hit by lighting
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 10 Beale (Terry O'Quinn) the Major General of the Civic Republic Military, C.R.M, was spending time by himself clearing walkers from the gate while Michonne dressed as CRM commando used a key to enter Jadis's office](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100487-0-image-a-83_1711953643839.jpg)
Beale (Terry O’Quinn) the Major General of the Civic Republic Military, C.R.M, was spending time by himself clearing walkers from the gate while Michonne dressed as CRM commando used a key to enter Jadis’s office
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 12 Beale had Rick meet him in his office. He told Rick to to put his gun on the table and to take off his prosthetic with the blade](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100523-0-image-a-84_1711953695506.jpg)
Beale had Rick meet him in his office. He told Rick to to put his gun on the table and to take off his prosthetic with the blade
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 14 'I want you to reflect on your life,' Beale said. 'All the things you did before this moment. Because after this next moment everything would change.'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100525-0-image-a-85_1711953701381.jpg)
‘I want you to reflect on your life,’ Beale said. ‘All the things you did before this moment. Because after this next moment everything would change.’
He then told Rick that he made the decision himself to bomb the cities and after he let the dead overwhelm the city.
‘I saved Philadelphia by sacrificing Pittsburgh,’ Beale said. ‘My enemies, my friends, my home. It’s not exactly tearing into a person with your canines but it’s not nothing.’
‘My dad taught me for better or worse that sometimes things have to burn to bring things back,’ Rick said.
‘I killed my past and the whole city so another could live,’ Beale said.
Meanwhile, Michonne made her way through the CRM complex. The loudspeaker called everyone to report for a briefing. She walked into the auditorium and listened to the briefing and was shocked when she listened to the CRM’s planned child evacuation protocol.
Beale told Rick one of the Echelon secrets that people only around 14 years left on the planet due to the masses of the dead.
‘It isn’t just the delts,’ Beale said. ‘It’s starvation.’
Beale told Rick that they were trying to beat the odds.
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 16 He then told Rick that he made the decision himself to bomb the cities and after he let the dead overwhelm the city](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100527-0-image-a-86_1711954070648.jpg)
He then told Rick that he made the decision himself to bomb the cities and after he let the dead overwhelm the city
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 18 'I saved Philadelphia by sacrificing Pittsburgh,' Beale said. 'My enemies, my friends, my home. It's not exactly tearing into a person with your canines but it's not nothing'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100601-0-image-a-87_1711954123375.jpg)
‘I saved Philadelphia by sacrificing Pittsburgh,’ Beale said. ‘My enemies, my friends, my home. It’s not exactly tearing into a person with your canines but it’s not nothing’
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 20 Beale told Rick that they were trying to beat the odds](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100603-0-image-a-88_1711954130671.jpg)
Beale told Rick that they were trying to beat the odds
Michonne learned in her briefing the CRM had operatives in Portland schools to facilitate and evacuate certain children. The briefing said 10 % of the children in the city would be evacuated before the city was gassed and the population would be liquidated.
Beale told Rick the CRM had embeds in city’s across the world. Beale told him that they purposely destroyed Omaha and that in 18 hours they would destroy Portland. Afterwards, Beale said they would declare martial law in the city, do away with freedom and destroy any other group and take their resources.
Rick clutched a knife he had secretly brought in.
Michonne signaled Rick on her walkie and then walked out of the briefing.
Beale told Rick he might be the next leader of the CRM. Beale told him that he could bring everyone he cared for to the CRM and they would be spared. Rick put away his knife.
‘Portland will die and this force will take over the Civil Republic,’ Beale said. ‘We will begin our march on the countryside.’
Beale said they would burn things to bring things back. He then asked Rick to swear on his sword. Rick instead threw his knife at him. Beale screamed as the knife hit him. He then picked up his sword and battled with Rick.
‘You could’ve saved whoever you wanted to, and then saved the world!’ Beale said. ‘Why?’
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 22 Michonne learned in her briefing the CRM had operatives in Portland schools to facilitate and evacuate certain children. The briefing said 10 % of the children in the city would be evacuated before the city was gassed and the population would be liquidated](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100627-0-image-a-89_1711954189892.jpg)
Michonne learned in her briefing the CRM had operatives in Portland schools to facilitate and evacuate certain children. The briefing said 10 % of the children in the city would be evacuated before the city was gassed and the population would be liquidated
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 24 Beale told Rick the CRM had embeds in city's across the world. Beale told him that they purposely destroyed Omaha and that in 18 hours they would destroy Portland. Afterwards, Beale said they would declare martial law in the city, do away with freedom and destroy any other group and take their resources](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100629-0-image-a-90_1711954305553.jpg)
Beale told Rick the CRM had embeds in city’s across the world. Beale told him that they purposely destroyed Omaha and that in 18 hours they would destroy Portland. Afterwards, Beale said they would declare martial law in the city, do away with freedom and destroy any other group and take their resources
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 26 Rick clutched a knife he had secretly brought in](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100647-0-image-a-91_1711954312173.jpg)
Rick clutched a knife he had secretly brought in
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 28 'Portland will die and this force will take over the Civil Republic,' Beale said. 'We will begin our march on the countryside'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100761-13258835-image-a-93_1711954654405.jpg)
‘Portland will die and this force will take over the Civil Republic,’ Beale said. ‘We will begin our march on the countryside’
‘I never lost my son,’ Rick said. ‘He brought me back. My wife brought me back. We’re the sword that kills. We are the sword that gives life. One unstoppable life. We’re not dead.’
Rick then stabbed Beale with his own sword, through his hand and then through his chest killing him.
Rick radioed Pearl and lied and said he got the briefing and that Beale went off to the woods. He said he would meet her later. Rick put Beale into a crate and rolled it into an elevator. Another CRM commando got in with him at the last minute. Blood started to seep out of the crate onto the floor of the elevator.
The other CRM commando noticed the blood when the elevator stopped. Rick and him brutally fought, but Rick eventually killed him.
Michonne met the elevator and told Rick the CRM had an entire tent of bombs and was planning to bomb Portland.
Michonne told him about her plan to rig the bombs to destroy the CRM instead. Pearl went to Beale’s office and realized something was wrong.
Michonne and Rick left the rigged bombs inside a tent outside filled with explosives and surrounded by the CRM troops. They strapped the trigger detonator device to Beale, who was now a walker, and then quickly ran away. Pearl was waiting and held a gun on them and stopped them. Pearl told them to go back inside and undo what they did.
Zombie Beale strapped to the detonator suddenly walked outside triggering a giant explosion. Rick and Michonne survived and they rushed Pearl to get her mask.
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 30 'I never lost my son,' Rick said. 'He brought me back. My wife brought me back. We're the sword that kills. We are the sword that gives life. One unstoppable life. We're not dead'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100637-13258835-image-a-92_1711954576917.jpg)
‘I never lost my son,’ Rick said. ‘He brought me back. My wife brought me back. We’re the sword that kills. We are the sword that gives life. One unstoppable life. We’re not dead’
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 32 Rick then stabbed Beale with his own sword, through his hand and then through his chest killing him](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100771-13258835-image-a-94_1711954696598.jpg)
Rick then stabbed Beale with his own sword, through his hand and then through his chest killing him
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 34 Pearl was waiting and held a gun on them and stopped them](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/08/83100833-13258835-image-a-95_1711955170869.jpg)
Pearl was waiting and held a gun on them and stopped them
‘You destroyed our chance,’ Pearl said. ‘You destroyed our whole world.’
A group of walkers grabbed Rick and he fought back. Michonne fought Pearl and fatally stabbed her.
‘Love doesn’t die,’ Michonne said.
Michonned thought she lost Rick but he used a grenade to kill the walkers around him and then stumbled towards Michonnne. Despite the hordes of walkers around them they somehow were able to crawl on top of a shipping container and escape.
Later an announcement was broadcast that said due to the explosion, the Civic Republic voted for emergency oversight over the remaining forces of the CRM. With the CRC now in charge they ruled that people were not free to move about as they wished and the city will now welcome new citizens.
Michonne and Rick traveled via helicopter and reunited with their children. Rick hugged June.
‘I knew it Dad,’ Judith said. ‘I knew you were still out there.’
‘Michonne then introduced Rick to his son.
You’re the brave man?’ Rick ‘RJ’ Grimes Junior said.
‘I am,’ Rick said.
‘He is,’ Michonne said.
‘But maybe you can call me dad,’ Rick said.
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 36 'You destroyed our chance,' Pearl said. 'You destroyed our whole world'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/08/83100849-13258835-image-a-96_1711955283959.jpg)
‘You destroyed our chance,’ Pearl said. ‘You destroyed our whole world’
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 38 'I knew it Dad,' Judith said. 'I knew you were still out there'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/08/83100861-13258835-image-a-97_1711955335778.jpg)
‘I knew it Dad,’ Judith said. ‘I knew you were still out there’
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 40 You're the brave man?' Rick 'RJ' Grimes Junior said.](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100431-0-image-a-77_1711953023694.jpg)
You’re the brave man?’ Rick ‘RJ’ Grimes Junior said.
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 42 'I believed,' RJ said](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100441-0-image-a-79_1711953149225.jpg)
‘I believed,’ RJ said
![The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Survive Finale- Rick Grimes Reunites with his Children and Takes Down the CRM with Michonne 44 The four of them hugged.](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/01/07/83100443-0-image-a-78_1711953140785.jpg)
The four of them hugged.
‘I knew you would come back,’ RJ said.
‘How?’ Rick said.
‘I believed,’ RJ said.
The four of them hugged.