History Recap / TheWalkingDeadS05E01NoSanctuary

* NonActionGuy: Eugene takes no part in the battle, though it's not likely that Abraham would have let him.

*** When Daryl goes to dispatch one of the dead butcher's brains, Rick stops him and tells him to let them turn.

*** One of the butchers revives as a walker, and when Daryl goes to dispatch it Rick instructs him to let it live.

** After the butchers are dispatched, Daryl goes to knife the head of one, but Rick stops him and tells him to let them turn.

*** One of the butchers revives as a walker, and Rick purposely lets it live.

** The first walker that Carol and Tyreese sees is wearing Andrea's comic attire, complete with blonde hair.

* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** In the comic, Chris was killed along with the rest of the Hunters, but his TV counterpart Gareth's [[NeverFoundTheBody body was never shown after getting shot]].
** [[MythologyGag Parodied]] with Glenn not being beaten by a baseball bat.

In another flashback, Mary gets thrown into a box car while the bandits select another woman to be raped. Gareth tries to comfort Mary and promises they will take back Terminus and mentions their new ideology: "You're either the butcher, or the cattle."

* BadassCrew: All parties minus Beth finally reunite, resulting in a huge, powerful group consisting of [[AntiHero Rick]], [[TheLancer Daryl, Michonne ]], [[LadyOfWar Carol]], [[PintSizedPowerhouse Carl]], [[ActionGirl Maggie, Rosita, Tara, Sasha]], [[CombatMedic Bob]], [[TheSmartGuy Glenn, Eugene]], [[TheBigGuy Tyreese and Abraham]].

** The butchers knock out their victims before slicing their throats, so they won't writhe around.

* {{Gorn}}: The entire episode is much more violent than before, and features multiple people being EatenAlive, tied-up prisoners having their throats slit and left to drain out in a trough, people having their faces eaten in close-up detail and Terminus people getting [[BoomHeadshot sniped in close detail]].

** It's also [[ImpliedTrope implied]] that the people of Terminus had previously averted this trope. When Carol was looking at the collection of things that had been taken from people who had previously arrived at Terminus, several stuffed animals are seen.

** Tyreese ''claims'' that Martin is dead, and he might be, but since his body wasn't shown, it's possible that Tyreese didn't kill him.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the comic, Chris was killed along with the rest of the Hunters, but his TV counterpart Gareth's [[NeverFoundTheBody body was never shown after getting shot]].

Tyreese is keeping watch on Judith in the cabin when he is distracted by walkers outside. Martin uses the opportunity to take hostage and force Tyreese out under threat of killing her, but is ambushed moments later when Tyreese busts his way back in and brutally beats the man to death.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Flashbacks to the early days of Terminus reveal that it once was indeed a sanctuary, until some unscrupulous men took over, and slaughtered and raped the people of Terminus. Mary's group was able to rebel and take over, and eventually Terminus became a trap for travelers, so they could take their belongings and eat them. After their attempt at being decent human beings in the apocalypse brought such suffering on them, they decided to renounce their humanity to any outsiders, fearing another takeover.

* InfantImmortality: Played straight. Judith is put in danger, but is rescued by Tyreese before Martin has a chance to do anything else.

* MythologyGag

* NeverFoundTheBody: Gareth is shot in the shoulder and goes down, but was never shown to have died.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Tyreese delivers a fatal one to Martin when he tries holding Judith hostage.

* InfantImmortality: Played straight. Judith is put in danger, but is rescued by Tyreese before the unnamed Terminus man has a chance to do anything else.

* RedShirt: Rick frees the leader of the rapists (whose identity he is unaware of) from a train car, only to get eaten by a walker moments later.

** The leader of the rapists tries telling Glenn and Daryl that they're NotSoDifferent after they free him from a boxcar, only to be bit by a walker moments later.

** Glenn almost got his head beat by a baseball bat ''twice''. [[spoiler:It is what killed him in the comic, though this doesn't really count as SparedByAdaptation since this isn't the show's Negan arc]].

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The people of Terminus. A random {{mook}} was willing to ''snap Judith's neck'', and the two butchers casually discuss their kill quotas with Gareth in front of the people they're executing.

[[TheStinger Some time later]], a hooded and masked man is walking down the tracks and stoops to read the sign. He turns around and takes off his hood to reveal... '''Morgan''', who begins to follow the spraytags Rick has left in the forest...

** Carol [[{{Kneecapping}} leaves a knee-capped]] Mary to be feasted on by walkers, after the latter had just asked Carol to [[SuicideByCop shoot her]].

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Tyreese delivers a fatal one to the Terminus man holding Judith hostage.

* WouldHurtAChild: A Terminus mook attempted to choke Judith to death. Fortunately, Tyreese is there to cease it.

In another flashback, Mary gets thrown into a box car while the bandits select another woman to be raped. Gareth tries to confort Mary and promises they will take back Terminus and mentiones their new ideology: "You're either the butcher, or the cattle."

[[TheStinger Some time later]], a hooded and masked man is walking down the tracks and stoops to read the sign. He turns around and takes off his hood to reveal... '''Morgan'', who begins to follow the spraytags Rick has left in the forest...

* SpoiledByTheFormat: Andrew West, who plays Gareth, is listed in the opening credits, thus indicating that he didn't die when Rick shot him in the shoulder when escaping.

* BadassCrew: All parties minus Beth finally reunite, resulting in a huge, powerful group consisting of [[AntiHero Rick]], [[TheLancer Daryl]], [[LadyOfWar Carol]], [[PintSizedPowerhouse Carl]], [[ActionGirl Maggie, Rosita, Tara, Sasha]], [[CombatMedic Bob]], [[TheSmartGuy Glenn, Eugene]], [[TheBigGuy Tyreese and Abraham]].

* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the comic, Chris was killed along with the rest of the hunters, but his TV counterpart Gareth's [[NeverFoundTheBody body was never shown after getting shot]].

A group of people from Terminus are seen in flashback discussing how they only wanted to do right. One tells the other that they'll have do what is necessary to survive...

Walking along the tracks, Carol and Tyreese discover a Terminus member holding a conversation with another person over walkie-talkie about a "chick with a sword". The pair take him hostage and tie him up inside a nearby cabin. When she doesn't believe his information after questioning, Carol orders Tyreese to watch him and Judith while she goes on ahead. The Terminus man, Martin, tells her she won't be able to get close, but Carol ignores him and leaves.

Elsewhere, Carol is moving through the base and killing Terminus members while blending on with the herd. She makes her way inside a building and finds the confiscated items from the group, and takes her old watch and Daryl's crossbow, then comes face-to-face with Mary at gunpoint, who orders her to set down her gun. Carol spins and fires before tackling Mary, and eventually grabs her rifle to point at the latter. Mary tells her about Terminus' past, and how they were decent people who were forced to adopt a harsh mentality when their members were raped by another group and they rebelled to take control.

** Carol uses this against the unnamed Terminus member at the shack, just after he finishes speaking to his partner via walkie-talkie.

* WouldHurtAChild: A Terminus mook attempted to choke Judith to death. Fortunately, Tyrese is there to cease it.

He wakes up alongside Bob, Daryl and Glenn alongside four other prisoners, who are all kneeling in front of a trough. A pair of men begin slaughtering the prisoners by knocking them out with a baseball bat and slicing their throats, with their blood pouring into the trough. Just before he knocks out Glenn, Gareth enters and asks for a report on their counts, causing them to pause for a moment. Bob tells Gareth to stop what he's doing, and says that Eugene knows a cure and they need to go to Washington. Bob refuses to listen, and instead asks Rick that the Terminus search party couldn't find the bag of guns he hid in the forest. Rick tells him that it's filled with guns and a machete and says that he's going to kill him. Before anything else can happen, gunfire is heard and a large explosion knocks them down.

Carol and Tyreese are still following the rail tracks in the nearby forest. She asks if he's ready to get back to clearing out walkers, but he tells her that he's not ready yet. Both of them are distracted by a horde, and hide while they pass by. The horde is distracted by gunfire and starts walking towards it. Carol realizes that it may be coming from Terminus, and that they should go investigate.

** Carol {{{{Kneecapping}} leaves a knee-capped]] Mary to be feasted on by walkers, after the latter had just asked Carol to [[SuicideByCop shoot her]].

The fifth season premiere sees Rick and the gang struggling to survive Terminus, while Carol undertakes a dangerous mission.
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* {{Badass}}: [[Film/TheWizardOfOz If ever oh ever a badass there was, Carol is one, because of the wonderful things she does.]]

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The people of Terminus are almost definitely this, considering just a random Mook was willing to ''snap Judith's neck''.
* BackForTheDead: Sam, from "Indifference".

* TheCameo: [[spoiler: Morgan]]
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Flashbacks to the early days of Terminus reveal that it once was indeed a sanctuary, until some unscrupulous men took over, and slaughtered and raped the people of Terminus, including Mary. The Terminites were able to rebel and take over, and eventually Terminus became a trap for travelers, so they could take their belongings and eat them. After their attempt at being decent human beings in the apocalypse brought such suffering on them, they decided to renounce their humanity to any outsiders, fearing another takeover.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: This is what happened to the Terminus residents after they killed their previous invaders.

** Glenn almost got his head beat by a baseball bat ''twice''. [[spoiler:It is what killed him in the comic, though this doesn't really count as SparedByAdaptation since this isn't the show's Negan arc.]]

** Terminus being burned since their comic counterpart, the hunters, were all burned to death.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Gareth took a shot and went down, but was never shown to have died.

* RapeAsBackstory: The Terminus women were raped by some evil group who took over their sanctuary.
* RedShirt: The crazed man who Rick frees from a train car, only to get eaten by a walker moments later.

* TheStinger: [[spoiler: Morgan returns, hooded and masked, and on Rick's trail.]]

* TitleDrop: Illustrated by Rick at the end of the episode.
* WhamEpisode: The prison survivors are back together minus Beth, and are now on the road, while Terminus is burning to the ground, with Gareth's whereabouts unknown. Also, [[spoiler: Morgan returns!]]
* WouldHitAGirl: A Terminus mook attempted to choke Judith (see below).
* WouldHurtAChild: A Terminus mook attempted to choke Judith to death. Fortunately, Tyrese is there to cease it.

* WhamEpisode: The prison survivors are back together minus Beth, and are now on the road, while Terminus is burning to the ground, with Gareth's whereabouts unknown. Also, [[spoiler: Morgan returns!]]

* {{Badass}}: {{Film/TheWizardOfOz If ever oh ever a badass there was, Carol is one, because of the wonderful things she does.]]