WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 2, Episode 5, “Quatervois,” which aired Sunday on AMC.
In last week’s episode, Huck smuggled Hope out to the CRM facility to see her friends at the Perimeter community. After that meeting, everyone was even more sure that action needed to be taken against the CRM. So, in “Quatervois,” Will and Felix concocted a plan to get Hope and her father, Leo, out of the CRM, but it involved turning themselves in.
As an act of good faith, Huck had told them that Silas was alive and being held at a nearby culling facility. His connection there was the means for their plan. So, Iris, Elton and Percy went to the culling facility and reunited with their friend. That meeting was a lot for Silas, but he did agree to help. He was supposed to find a pretense to take a key card from the culling facility’s manager and a truck. At a prearranged time, he was then to swipe the card and let them out of a place called the Detritus Service Terminal, where biohazard waste is taken out. From there, everyone would make their way to Portland.
Originally, the plan was for the Perimeter people to “turn in” Iris and Felix to the CRM, but Percy weaseled his way into their group and pretended to be Elton. So, after being captured, separated and questioned, Colonel Kublek attempted to make them happy by bringing Leo and Hope in to see Iris and Felix.
For a full season and a half, that was the driving force of the show. Iris and Hope left the Campus Colony to find their dad and make sure that he was safe. So, that moment, where the four of them share an emotional embrace was huge. It was the payoff for the past fifteen episodes. Their reunion, however, should prompt the loaded question of what comes next for the characters and for the show as a whole.
For the characters, the plan was simple. That very day, they were going to escape from the CRM, but that quickly fell through. Just as Leo was going to tell Lyla, his girlfriend, goodbye, he was pulled aside by Huck. Leo was not fond of her and her lies, but he was intrigued by what she had to say. Huck had snuck into her mother’s office and found communications that showed that the testing that the CRM was doing somehow involved the people from Omaha and the Campus Colony. She was determined to find out answers, so she asked for Leo's help. On top of that, Silas was caught by soldiers before he could pick anyone up.
With both of those happenings, it was obvious that the group was going to stay inside of the CRM for a while longer. However, with only five episodes left, the show’s endgame has never been more up in the air. Simply escaping seemed unlikely after this episode, but fighting a war in the series' five remaining episodes would be almost impossible, given The Walking Dead’s story-telling track record. So, perhaps the easiest solution would be that the show will set up a conflict that will have to be resolved later, maybe in the Rick Grimes movies.
To find out what the group does inside of the CRM facility, tune into The Walking Dead: World Beyond. The series airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on AMC and is available to stream early on AMC+.