The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 2, Episode 10 recap

This is it — the final episode of The Walking Dead: World Beyond — and there is a lot to unpack. Episode 10 titled, “The Last Light,” shows victory and defeat on both sides, leaving the series finale on a bit of a cliffhanger while revealing some key information about how the apocalypse started.

The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 2, Episode 10 recap: Huck’s Sacrifice

Jennifer and Dennis wait for Iris, Hope, Elton, and Silas to arrive with the antibiotics and have a heartwarming conversation about their future. While even the audience knows this won’t happen, we can still hope.

Upon receiving the medicine, the group finds out that the C-4 cannot be detonated, and they’ll need to find another way to do so. Silas offers to stay and help Dennis and Jennifer while Iris, Hope, and Elton continue onward to get as far away from the blast zone as possible.

While this is going on, Felix aids Dr. Bennett, and the scientists get to safety against CRM soldiers. Jennifer offers to stay behind and watch the chemical gas supplies so that Dennis and Silas can try to find another option for destroying the gas.

Unfortunately for Jennifer, Jadis arrives and kills her — but not before she reveals some Rick Grimes information (nothing important, more like references) and that Jennifer had a way to detonate the C-4 all along.

She decided to use her father’s watch — which does work, unfortunately — and Jadis manages to escape the explosion. Thus, Jennifer prevented Portland’s demise and died a hero.

As Hope, Iris, and Elton fight their way through the endless group of empties, they see the explosion, and soon after, Indira and Asha arrive to help with gas masks. An empty comes out of nowhere, about to bite Hope until Elton intervenes.

He is taken to a secure location with the rest of The Perimeter, Dr. Bennett, and the other scientists, where he survives with an amputated arm. Dennis and Silas wait for Jennifer, even though Dennis knows she won’t be coming.

As his wound gets worse, the CRM arrives, and he proposes that Silas kill him so that the CRM will view him as a hero and not a traitor. Silas fulfills Dennis’s wish and is taken captive in a rather powerful tear-jerking scene.

He meets Jadis again, who doesn’t believe his lies about being loyal to the CRM. However, she still sees potential in him, and thus, Silas becomes a soldier.

The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 2, Episode 10 recap: Jadis’s Betrayal

Jadis meets with Elizabeth and shares the news of Jennifer’s death. The deep conversation doesn’t last, as Jadis reveals that Elizabeth is under arrest and charged with treason.

Jadis blames her for allowing Hope and her family into the CRM, causing the entire mess that later followed. It seems as though Jadis views her as weak and not loyal enough to the cause.

Elizabeth is rightly outraged but doesn’t have a choice. She is arrested, and her fate is left a mystery by the end of the series.

The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 2, Episode 10 recap: The Future

Not surprisingly, the group does wind up splitting up, as Hope will remain at the new location with all of the scientific research, the scientists, and her father. Iris, Elton, and Asha will be traveling with The Perimeter to Portland.

Felix and Will stay behind together and even get a dog. While Silas is now a CRM soldier, there is no doubt he will be playing the act for as long as he can (hopefully).

But that isn’t the end. The last scene during the credits reveals a French scientist listening to Dr. Jenner’s recording while he was still at the CDC before his wife died.

While she’s listening, an armed man arrives, and the two speak in French. The conversation insinuates that she was one of the doctors responsible for the apocalypse and is promptly killed.

When she turns into an empty, she is violent, loud, and pretty quick on her feet, implying that there is a new breed of walker we haven’t seen yet (conveniently).

What can I say about The Walking Dead: World Beyond series finale?

Well, the new breed of walker stands out the most since it is the last scene of the series. I’m perplexed as to why we are being introduced to this walker now after not seeing one for how long in The Walking Dead Universe?

You could argue the walkers that could turn doorknobs and hop fences from season 1 of The Walking Dead (I have no references for Fear The Walking Dead, as I don’t watch it) is that breed of walker, but let’s be honest, we haven’t seen anything like that since, so why now?

Aside from that, it was no surprise that the CRM was not going to fall. However, it was a relief to see that Portland was saved — at least for now.

While The Walking Dead: World Beyond is over, it doesn’t mean we won’t see these characters in a future spinoff or within the likes of the final season of The Walking Dead or the continuing Fear The Walking Dead. Since the CRM isn’t destroyed, they will have to appear again.

Personally, I’d love to see Iris, Hope, Elton, and Silas again. The Walking Dead: World Beyond left too many things open for questions, and I look forward to finding those answers soon.

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