Our favorite moments from The Walking Dead season 5

Tyreese’s Fever Hallucination

Season 5 Episode 9, “What Happened and What’s Going On”

Sara L. says:

This entire episode was incredibly beautiful, and symbolic. The moment it starts you get hints about what is going to happen throughout the episode as a whole. Tyreese is still one of my favorite characters in The Walking Dead universe to this day, and while every time I watch this episode I do still tear up, I can’t help but feel incredibly lucky that he got such an amazing send-off.

Some deaths are short and get no time at all, some leave you feeling angry and upset. This one, however, leaves you feeling vulnerable and broken, teary-eyed and weepy. In his last moments, we get a peek inside the mind of someone who has suffered great loss and knows what the end of the world feels like, and it’s so touching.

Seeing Tyreese have to face his inner demons while also faced with death is so hard to watch but it’s impossible to turn away. We get to see so many people from the show’s past make an appearance. Everyone he felt he wronged or people from events he felt bad for. During his hallucination, we see Beth, Lizzie, Mika, Bob, Martin, and the Governor. While in the room waiting for help it seems that he faces Martin and the Governor as they disappear and during his final car ride we only see folks that were part of our team family.

During this final car ride, we get to see Beth, Lizzie, Mika, and Bob go from beaten and bloody to a more angelic form with no wounds. They truly forgive Tyreese and I’d like to think he also forgives himself. One important note is that Karen, his girlfriend whom Carol killed, did not make an appearance in this scene either. This is something I believe that means Tyreese truly did forgive Carol for what she did, so she was one less demon on his conscience at the very end.

This death and how phenomenally it was written and acted out is something that I wish we could get from all deaths that happen on The Walking Dead. Unfortunately, much like in real life not everyone gets this time, not all deaths are fair. However, if they were I feel deaths would be received just a small amount better because we get closure. I hope Sasha, Tyreese, Bob and Karen are all having a great time in The Walking Dead character afterlife!