The Walking Dead: The best Carol moment from each season

7. Carol’s audience with the King: Episode 702 – “The Well”

When Carol takes flight from Alexandria at the end of season 6, she is at her lowest point, but thanks to intervention by Morgan and the people of the Kingdom she is rescued – in body at least – and restored to health. In “The Well”, we see Carol’s reaction to her new surroundings.

It’s a situation that gives us a chance to see Carol’s skills as an actress and manipulator with a much lighter touch than other scenarios. Here, we know she is safe and protected, so to see her wariness and unease is more entertaining than it has been. Her first scene in front of the King is genuinely a delight, with her wide-eyed “I’ve no idea what’s going on” line more true than Carol would like to admit.

It is refreshing too to see Ezekiel see through Carol’s act, as well as halt her make-believe games with honesty about his own. Carol has met her match, in a completely different way than with Paula. Here is a man who can read people as well as she can, but Ezekiel’s only end goals are for peace and happiness.

The very notion is such a revelation to Carol, it shakes her to the core. We see her waiver on her need to be utterly on her own, as she sees there are still new people out there to meet who are worth taking a chance on.

It’s the first seeds being planted of who Carol would become as she struggles to find a new version of herself once again.