The Walking Dead/For Blood

For Blood
Season 11, Episode 8
Airdate	October 10, 2021
Written by	Erik Mountain
Directed by	Sharat Raju
Stream
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The Walking Dead — Season Eleven

For Blood is the eighth episode of the eleventh season of The Walking Dead, and the one hundred sixty-first episode overall.

Starring: Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon), Melissa McBride (Carol Peletier), Lauren Cohan (Maggie Rhee), Christian Serratos (Rosita Espinosa), Josh McDermitt (Eugene Porter) (credit only), Seth Gilliam (Gabriel Stokes), Ross Marquand (Aaron), Khary Payton (Ezekiel) (credit only), Cooper Andrews (Jerry) (credit only), Callan McAuliffe (Alden) (credit only)

and Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Negan)

Also Starring: Eleanor Matsuura (Yumiko Okumura) (credit only), Nadia Hilker (Magna), Cailey Fleming (Judith Grimes), Cassady McClincy (Lydia), Lauren Ridloff (Connie), Paola Lázaro (Princess) (credit only), Michael James Shaw (Mercer) (credit only), Lynn Collins (Leah Shaw), Josh Hamilton (Lance Hornsby) (credit only), Margot Bingham (Max) (credit only), Kevin Carroll (Virgil), Ritchie Coster (Pope), Angel Theory (Kelly), Alex Meraz (Brandon Carver), Okea Eme-Akwari (Elijah), Kerry Cahill (Dianne), Nadine Marissa (Nabila), Branton Box (Fisher), Jacob Young (Deaver)

Co-Starring: Mandi Christine Kerr (Barbara), Anabelle Holloway (Gracie), Antony Azor (RJ), Kien Michael Spiller (Hershell Rhee), Zac Zedalis (Boone), Eric LeBlanc (Powell), Robert Hayes (Wells), Lex Lauletta (Austin), Dane Davenport (Ancheta)

Plot Overview

As a storm batters an already beaten Alexandria, Daryl is put in a position to help Maggie's attack without blowing his cover.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• A storm rips a panel of Alexandria's wall off as well as striking the windmill with lightening, causing it to burn. Two groups go out to fix both, respectively. The rest staying behind in one of the houses fend off the walkers who eventually get in. Most escape upstairs, but Judith and Gracie get trapped in the basement, which is already flooding.

• Maggie's attack kills some of the Reapers, but Pope's lack of concern for those getting killed, leads Leah to kill him and take over. They ready to launch a hwacha attack against Maggie's group.

Characters

• Seeing no alternative, Daryl finally admits to Leah that he's with Maggie's group and pleads for her to stop the hwacha attack. She kills Pope, but reports it to the other Reapers as Daryl's doing, explaining that she did it for her people and continues the attack only after pulling the others back. She does not stop Daryl as he escapes.

Trivia

Memorable Moments

• Wells herds the walkers away and begins taking them out, only for Maggie and Negan to deliver swift stabs, catching him off guard and wounding him enough to leave him vulnerable to the walkers who soon overwhelm him.

Goofs

• After Maggie crashes the truck through the gate and the Reapers begins taking out the walkers getting in, there's a quick moment (just before cutting to Daryl) when one stabs a walker in the head, but the walker jerks its head back before it makes contact.

• Hershel's name is spelled "Hershell" in the closing credits.