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13th episode of the 7th season of The Walking Dead

"Bury Me Hither"

The Walking Expressionless episode

Benjamin is shot as members of The Kingdom, including Rex Ezekiel, Carol and Morgan, rush to his help

Episode no.

Flavour seven
Episode thirteen

Directed by

Alrick Riley

Written by

Scott K. Gimple

Original air appointment

March 12, 2017 (2017-03-12)

Running time

46 minutes

Guest appearances

Khary Payton every bit King Ezekiel
Logan Miller as Benjamin
Karl Makinen as Richard
Cooper Andrews as Jerry
Carlos Navarro as Alvaro
Kerry Cahill as Dianne
Daniel Newman every bit Daniel
Jayson Warner Smith as Gavin
Joshua Mikel as Jared
Macsen Lintz as Henry
Nadine Marissa as Nabila
Jason Burkey as Kevin

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"Coffin Me Here" is the thirteenth episode of the seventh season of the postal service-apocalyptic horror goggle box series The Walking Expressionless, which aired on AMC on March 12, 2017. The episode was written by Scott M. Gimple and directed by Alrick Riley. The episode focuses on The Kingdom delivering appurtenances to the Saviors during a routine supply drop-off, simply things don't go as planned. Information technology too marks the final appearances of Benjamin (Logan Miller) and Richard (Karl Makinen).

Plot [edit]

King Ezekiel (Khary Payton), Morgan (Lennie James), Richard (Karl Makinen), and a group of Kingdommers come across the Saviors for their routine supply drib-off, after making their way by a blocked road with an open up grave nearby. Since they were tardy and merely delivered eleven cantaloupes instead of twelve, the grouping leader, Gavin (Jayson Warner Smith), explains he'south going to teach them a lesson so they understand the stakes and orders Jared (Joshua Mikel) to shoot someone. Jared raises his gun and points it at Richard, who says "Just do it", only Jared shifts his hand at the last second before pulling the trigger and shoots Benjamin (Logan Miller) in the leg. Afterwards being rushed to Carol'southward (Melissa McBride) cottage, Benjamin bleeds out and eventually dies. Dorsum at the urban lot, where they encountered the roadblock, Morgan walks lone and begins to become unhinged, like to his life earlier learning aikido, experiencing flashbacks of his son and wife. He contemplates suicide, but backs out. However, he finds the missing cantaloupe hidden in a crate on the street and realizes that Richard intentionally hid the cantaloupe. Morgan returns to the Kingdom and confronts Richard, who explains that he planned to provoke the Saviors into killing him, as Gavin had promised he'd be the kickoff to dice if anything went wrong. He'd hoped his death over something so petty would motivate Ezekiel to fight the Saviors.

The next mean solar day, Ezekiel and the others return to meet the Saviors for a drop to brand up for the missing cantaloupe. Because Richard has not told Ezekiel the truth yet, Morgan strangles Richard to death and tells anybody that Richard staged the missing cantaloupe in order to incite a war. After exposing Richard'southward plan, Morgan assures Gavin that he knows what's at pale if things went wrong, to which Gavin assents. Morgan drags Richard's corpse to the open grave and buries him there. He then returns to Carol and confesses that Negan and the Saviors killed Abraham, Glenn, Spencer and Olivia. He explains that Rick wants to fight the Saviors and that'southward why he was at the Kingdom. Morgan prepares to go after the Saviors and promises to kill "every terminal ane", just Carol convinces him to stay. Carol returns to the Kingdom and finds Ezekiel, telling him she's moving to the Kingdom. She tells him that they need to fight and prepare for the imminent state of war, to which Ezekiel agrees. Back at the cottage, Morgan sits alone on the porch, seemingly whittling the end of his fighting stick into a sharp bespeak.

Reception [edit]

Disquisitional reception [edit]

"Coffin Me Hither" received positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, it holds an 81% with an average rating of 7.19 out of 10, based on 31 reviews. The site's consensus reads: "Moving performances past Lennie James and Melissa McBride as their characters go their mojo back movement the season's arc forward in "Bury Me Here," though the pacing is slow and their journeys seem relatively implausible."^[one] Many critics noted James' emotional performance, too as McBride'southward as the episode'southward highlights.

Zack Handlen of The A.5. Club graded the episode a B+ and said: "The show has made an endeavour to delineate the tensions between the Kingdom and Saviors in minor merely believable ways, and when violence does happen, it happens in a way neither side entirely expects, only seems entirely inevitable in retrospect".^[two]

Liam Mathews of Boob tube.com also reviewed the episode, saying, "'Bury Me Here' was a frustrating episode of The Walking Expressionless. Everything yous could have expected to happen happened pretty much exactly as you would take expected."^[3]

Ratings [edit]

The episode received a four.ix rating in the key 18-49 demographic, with 10.68 million total viewers.^[4]

References [edit]

^ "Coffin Me Here". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved December fourteen, 2017.
^ Handlen, Zack (March 12, 2017). "The Walking Dead: Coffin Me Here Review". The A.Five. Order . Retrieved March 14, 2017.
^ Mathews, Liam (March xiii, 2017). "The Walking Dead Took a Huge Step Toward All Out War". TV.com. Retrieved March fourteen, 2017.
^ Porter, Rick (March xvi, 2017). "Sunday cable ratings: 'The Walking Expressionless' rebounds a footling, 'Feud' slips". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on March 17, 2017. Retrieved March 16, 2017.