The Walking Dead/Faith

Faith
Season 11, Episode 22
Airdate	November 6, 2022
Written by	Nicole Mirante-Matthews & Magali Lozano
Directed by	Rose Troche
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The Walking Dead — Season Eleven

Faith is the twenty-second episode of the eleventh season of The Walking Dead, and the one hundred seventy-fifth episode overall.

Starring: Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon), Melissa McBride (Carol Peletier), Lauren Cohan (Maggie Rhee), Christian Serratos (Rosita Espinosa), Josh McDermitt (Eugene Porter), Seth Gilliam (Gabriel Stokes), Ross Marquand (Aaron), Khary Payton (Ezekiel), Cooper Andrews (Jerry), Eleanor Matsuura (Yumiko Okumura), Lauren Ridloff (Connie), Cailey Fleming (Judith Grimes (voice)), Nadia Hilker (Magna), Cassady McClincy (Lydia), Angel Theory (Kelly), Paola Lázaro (Princess), Michael James Shaw (Mercer), Josh Hamilton (Lance Hornsby) (credit only), Laila Robins (Pamela Milton)

and Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Negan)

Also Starring: Margot Bingham (Max), Dan Fogler (Luke), Medina Senghore (Annie), Michael Weaver (The Warden), Okea Eme-Akwari (Elijah), Cameron Scott Roberts (Tyler Davis), Nadine Marissa (Nabila), Mahdi Cocci (Trooper Roberts), Elizabeth Becka (Marian George)

Co-Starring: Kien Michael Spiller (Hershel), Alex Sgambati (Jules), Jason Turner (Marcus Colvin (Bureaucrat)), Phil Armijo (Trooper Sanborn)

Uncredited: Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes) (archive footage), Steven Yeun (Glenn Rhee) (archive footage), Michael Cudlitz (Abraham Ford) (archive footage), Hilarie Burton Morgan (Lucille) (archive footage), Jackson Pace (Gage) (archive footage)

Plot Overview

While Eugene's trial is underway, forces plan to take back Alexander as Negan prepares to do what it takes to help inspire an uprising.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Aaron and the others run into Luke and Jules who been tracked by the Commonwealth, bringing attention to them that Oceanside has been taken over. With soldiers closing in, they hide in a hoard. Soldiers happen upon the hoard, scan it closely. During this, Lydia drops her knife, which is picked up by a walker.

• Daryl and the others sneak into Alexandria and take it back. Rosita kills the Warden.

• The trial has galvanised the people on Eugene's side.

Characters

• In Alexandria, Maggie finds Herschel, but Rosita can't find her daughter.

• Princess is revealed to have been taken into the labour camp with the others. Mercer knew this and also refuses to say anything at Eugene's trial.

• Eugene is obviously found guilty, but instead of being led to his execution, he finds Mercer has readied a plan.

Referbacks

• Ezekiel reminds Negan of the death of Henry's brother Benjamin at the hands of one of the Saviors (Bury Me Here)

• Eugene recounts joining the Saviors (Hostiles and Calamities) until he decided to do something about it (Wrath)

Quotes

• Judith: The world is dark and broken, but we're not. Not yet. We stare into the face of death every day... until, one day, that face is our own. How do you come back from that? My dad wanted mercy to prevail over wrath. If we lose that, we lose everything.

• Eugene: The way I see it, I've been living on borrowed time for well past a decade now. By all rights, someone like me should've met my maker on the very first day things started to fall apart. And the thing is, I would've, were it not for the aid of friends. Friends who have not only changed me, but changed the hearts and minds of so many others. I am beyond certain that my fate will not discourage them from keeping that going, from helping others to find the courage to do what's right. I was not always a good man. Some time ago, I fell in with a posse who thrived on... doing some downright unseemly acts on the reg. I looked the other way. I placed value on order and safety above all other things. But I soon realised that, while I wasn't the one swinging the bat, I nevertheless had blood on my hands. I knew what was happening! My inaction made me culpable and I hated myself for that! So I did something. In my own little way, I changed the world. And I learned that one person can do that. And sometimes all it takes is one person... to do that. Thank you. That... That is all.

• Mercer: Time to fuck shit up.