The Walking Dead: Every Season 9 Episode Ranked Worst To Best
6. The Obliged
Just before leaving the series, Rick Grimes needed one last threat to face. But in The Obliged, that threat wasn't walkers or some villainous new group, but the threat of losing everything he's worked for.
A dramatic hour of television that represents the very best of what the show has to offer when the writers remember how to create good dialogue, The Obliged pits Rick and Daryl against each other as their philosophies clash. Meanwhile, Maggie races to Alexandria to kill Negan once and for all.
The scenes with Rick and Daryl are exceptional, building on seasons of development between the pair (Lincoln shines, but Reedus steals the show with a speech that makes it clear he's ready to take Rick's place), but the most enduring image of the episode will always be Maggie finding Negan a broken shell of who he was once.