This week’s mid-season finale was quite intense to say the least.

It started out with the watchtower crashing down the walls of Alexandria and a sea of walkers flooding in. Everyone tries to make a run for it to safety, and you immediately realize that our favorite group of zombie apocalypse survivors might be back at square one pretty soon.

Glenn immediately makes a plan to surpass the walkers and get to the people inside of Alexandria. Enid is too shook up to care, but she trudges along anyway. Just before getting over the fence, Glenn sees Maggie surrounded by walkers on the lookout post. She’s in a compromising situation, but nothing Glenn can’t handle!

Jessie’s son Sam is in shock after noticing that the walkers are within the walls. I mean, the poor kid didn’t even get a chance to get over the Wolves’ attack, and things have gotten bad again already! His slight psychotic break goes to show that security is never guaranteed, and most of the people of Alexandria know that.

Carol may have a mild concussion and winds up stuck with Morgan in the house that he keeps the Wolf prisoner. The new doctor, Denise, is stuck in the locked room with the Wolf, where she has a heart to heart with him. He claims that he freed people and then was just going to use what was left. I think that she’s finally realizing just how disconnected from humanity people become after being out in the new world. She only came over because Morgan said he’ll release the prisoner if he promises not to kill again. Denise tried to convince the Wolf that he wasn’t born this way and that he can change, but her words mean nothing to him.

Back at Jessie’s house, Rick, Michonne, Carl, Jessie and an injured Deanna are holed up. Michonne is checking Deanna’s wounds, only to discover a fresh bite as well. You can see the guilt in Rick’s eyes as he asks Jessie if Deanna knows all about what happens after being bit. I think he now realizes that he’s fully responsible for the people of Alexandria now that their backbone is about to die. This situation is kind of similar to when Hershel died; Rick knows that he’s not the moral compass of the group so he might question his right to lead a group of people. Deanna reflects on her life and says, "I got to do what I wanted, right until the end."

Carl finds Jessie’s eldest son in the garage, where he’s going through a moment of doubt. He tells Carl that his dad is going to get more people killed because, "That’s what he does. That’s who he is. You’re dad’s a killer." Good ol' Carl responds with, "So was yours." Leave it up to Carl to keep it real with any and everyone, at all costs. Carl tries to be optimistic and say that Enid is alive, but Ron is convinced that she’s dead. He then proceeds to try to lock the door and shoot Carl. A glass door is broken in Carl and Ron’s struggle, allowing walkers closer into the house.

After being saved by Rick and Jessie, Ron goes upstairs where Carl now pulled his gun on Ron. Carl says that he understands Ron’s frustration because Rick killed Ron’s dad, but he ends with this: "You need to know something: Your dad was an asshole." Ha! Gotta love this kid!

Rick goes upstairs after he hears Judith crying upstairs to find Deanna slouched over the crib. He almost gave her an ax to the head before realizing that she’s still alive. Rick sets Deanna down on the bed and tells Rick, "They’re yours now." She then asks him if he’ll take care of Spencer like he does his own people. Rick hesitates before Deanna says, "Guess what? They are all your people, Rick." Rick says that they haven’t had a chance to make it that way. Deanna says that she didn’t run over to Rick to help him after the tower collapsed because she liked him, but because she thinks he’s a good man and a good father. "I ran over to help because you’re one of us; that’s the right answer."

Meanwhile, Carol took the opportunity to overpower Morgan and get downstairs to the Wolf he had locked up in the basement. Morgan jumps in between them, protecting the prisoner from Carol, who has every intention of killing this man. Carol says that she doesn’t want to have to kill Morgan to get through to the Wolf, but Morgan says that he won’t let her kill him. Carol and Morgan’s struggle, ending in Carol getting body slammed and Morgan being knocked out by the Wolf; now Denise is at his mercy. She begs him not to kill them and to just let them die, but he has other plans as he takes Denise hostage out into the sea of walkers.

The walkers from Jessie’s garage have gotten into the house, so those within are forced to escape with the walker-camo method. In case you didn’t already know, this is when you cover yourself in walker’s blood so that they can’t smell you as you walk past. Michonne goes to tell Deanna that they have to leave, and Deanna says that she’ll take care of herself with her revolver at the right time. "It’s my luck, start to finish."

She then mumbles some words in Latin, which came to mean, "Someday this pain will be useful to you." Michonne thanks Deanna for believing, and Deanna says that she still does. Her last words to Michonne were, "I cogged it all up, but I figured it out. What do YOU want? Now you figure it out." Once Michonne assures her that she’ll figure it out, Deanna says, "Good. Now give em hell." Deanna gave those walkers a little hell of her own as she used her last bullets to take a few out instead of finishing herself off. A dramatic, yet beautiful exit for a brave woman.

Rick, Jessie, Sam, Ron, Carl, Michonne and Judith are all covered in walkers’ blood as they make their way out of their once home. Will everyone make it out of this difficult predicament? Where are Daryl, Sasha and Abraham? It wouldn’t be a mid-season finale without uncertainty.