Conquer

"Conquer" is the sixteenth and final episode of Season 5 of AMC's The Walking Dead. It aired with a 90 minute premiere on March 29, 2015 at 9/8c on AMC, and on March 30, 2015 at 9pm on Fox.

Plot Synopsis
Daryl experiences trouble on a run while Rick and his group continue to feel like outsiders in Alexandria, where trouble is creeping into the gates.

<!--add when ready, several sections missing Morgan wakes up in a car and is busy eating some food when a stranger appears with a gun. The two have a short conversation, and then the stranger demands him and his supplies. Morgan agrees to the giving away his supplies but not him. When the stranger tells him to stay still, and Morgan notices that someone is behind him. He grabs his walking stick and beats the two of them up, and puts them in the car he slept in. He honks the car afterwards to get the attention of nearby walkers, but none appear, so he closes the doors and leaves.

Meanwhile, Aaron and Daryl find a man with a red poncho who is putting on leeks to repel mosquitos. They follow him but lose him along the way, and stop at a packaging warehouse. After luring all the walkers to the fence, the two find some food trucks, and Aaron says even if they haven't found someone, bringing back food is good enough. Daryl breaks the lock, and as the door opens walkers come out and ambush them. The two manage to get into a car while they are surrounded by a herd of walkers.

Back in the car, no help has arrived yet. Daryl tells Aaron that he'll delay the walkers while he makes a run for the fence. Aaron disagrees, and the two decide to get to the fence with a fight. As Aaron prepares to open the door, one of the walkers are killed, and the two open the door. Morgan helps the two fend off the herd and they all manage to escape to the fence and lock it. Aaron tells him that he and Daryl are in a community and he can come, but Morgan politely declines his offer. Before leaving, he asks Daryl to find out where he is on the map, and Daryl looks at it. He then finds a message saying "Sorry for being an asshole. The world needs people like Rick Grimes." Daryl then looks at Morgan.

In Alexandria, Deanna begins the meeting, despite protests from Maggie and Michonne that Rick and Glenn aren't here yet. She asks the people present on how dangerous Rick had become, stealing a gun from the armory and pointing it at the people. Elsewhere in Alexandria, Rick walks along a gate and finds walker blood leading inside, and realizes that walkers have entered the compound and tries to find them. He later finds them and struggles to kill one until a gunshot kills it. Back at the meeting, Rick's people support what he had tried to done, and how so much losses had affected his mind. Rick arrives at the meeting and drops a walker corpse near the fire, shocking most of the people. Rick later explains that the gate was open and that they had snuck in, and that they're going to need protection and training from the dangers outside. Pete later appears with a machete, angrily saying that everything was Rick's fault. Reg tries to stop him, but Pete slits his throat to Deanna's horror. The people later restrain Pete, and Reg dies shortly afterwards. Deanna tells Rick to kill Pete, which he does. Morgan appears with Aaron and Daryl as soon as Rick kills Pete.

Back at the packaging warehouse, the Wolves kill the red poncho man right outside the fence. They later activate the music to get the walkers back into the trucks before they remote-control lock the doors. -->

Co-Stars

 * Jesse C. Boyd as Other Man
 * Corey Brill as Pete
 * Jason Alexander Davis as Red Poncho Man
 * Ted Huckabee as Bruce
 * Dahlia Legault as Francine
 * Mandi Christine Kerr as Mother #1
 * Tiffany Morgan as Erin
 * Jordan Woods-Robinson as Eric
 * David Marshall Silverman as Kent
 * Michael Traynor as Nicholas

Uncredited

 * Charlotte & Clara Ward as Judith Grimes
 * Duane Kicak as Alexandria Resident
 * Lawrence Gilliard Jr. as Bob Stookey (Voice Only)

Deaths

 * Unnamed Man
 * Red Poncho Man
 * Reg Monroe
 * Pete

Trivia

 * First appearance of the The Wolves.
 * First (and last) appearance of Red Poncho Man.
 * Last appearance of Bob Stookey (Voice only).
 * Last appearance of Reg Monroe.
 * Last appearance of Pete.
 * This is the first time Lennie James has been credited under Also Starring since the pilot. He has been credited under Special Guest Star in his other appearances.
 * This is the first season finale to have a 90 minute long premiere and the third episode with a runtime of 90 minutes after "Days Gone Bye" and "What Lies Ahead".
 * The end of the episode is similar to the ending of Issue 77 of the Comic Series.
 * This episode marks the third time Morgan and Rick have met up.
 * Two of the walkers missing their bottom halves and arms and strung up in one of the grocery trailers are the victims that Daryl and Aaron come across in "Try".
 * Several easter eggs were confirmed during the Talking Dead segment of this episode. The titles for the last five episodes were taken from the quote Dale said back in, "Vatos". "I like what the father said to the son when he gave him a watch that had been handed down through generations. He said: 'I give you a mausoleum of all hope and desire which will fit your individual needs, no better than it did mine and my father before me. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you may forget it. For a moment, now and then, and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it.'", a nod to all five titles.
 * Greg Nicotero teased about this episode in one of his interviews, he said that, this episode is gonna be phenomenal, and all the writers, and the actors should get an Emmy recognition for their work in the episode. He also added that, this episode might be the best episode in the entire series. "When we started shooting the episode, the script was long. When I started editing, I kind of said to Scott, 'I want to make sure that we deliver the greatest episode that we can, and the cut's going to come in long. I think that we should just go to the network and propose that we do an hour-and-a-half finale, and see how that idea lands.' Everybody was on board."
 * Norman Reedus performed an interview where he described the season finale. He said "Bring your Kleenex and you'll be screaming at your television." In another interview, Michael Cudlitz stated that the finale will "...piss people off."
 * On Talking Dead, Gale Anne Hurd teased that in the finale, "there will be blood, and not all of it's from walkers."