"The Walking Dead" aired its midseason finale on Sunday and, in a surprising turn of events, ends its run for the year with a goodbye to Beth Greene, Entertainment Weekly reported.
"Coda," the eighth episode of the fifth season, follows the previous episode where Bob the cop knocked Sasha unconscious to get away from her, Rick and the group. The episode opens up with Rick chasing after Bob and breaking his neck when he lunged for him. Rick ended up having to shoot Bob.
On the other hand, the troubled Father Gabriel returned to the church after escaping in the previous episode. This time he brought with him a horde of zombies from the nearby school. The gang managed to get through the horde and escape, running into Abraham, Glenn and the group that originally left for Washington.
Now reunited, the team headed for the Grady Memorial Hospital to assist Rick and the others in saving Beth and Carol from Dawn.
Rick, Daryl, Sasha, Tyreese and Noah went ahead with their plan to swap their two cop hostages for Carol and Beth, until Dawn demands Noah in exchange for Beth instead. Noah agreed but Beth did not and stabs Dawn with a pair of scissors in defiance. Dawn ended up shooting Beth, killing her.
However, there wass more to be seen after the credits, according to Comic Book.
Morgan, who was last seen on episode one following the events of Terminus, arrived at the school where Gabriel collected the zombies. He then ended up at the church, where he prayed at an altar after setting it up, laughed loudly and then found the note and map Abraham wrote to Rick.
Emily Kinney, who plays Beth, had an exclusive interview with TV Line and shared her thoughts on the character's passing and leaving the show.
Kinney, who shed tears during the interview, said she knew Beth was going to be killed off after she was told by showrunner Scott Gimple in the later half of August. She said she was very sad to hear the news and initially didn't feel like reading the script.
"I think the writing throughout has been great, but I wasn't ready for it to be over," she said to TV Line. "I did not see it coming at all, especially this season."
Kinney also added that Gimple did not inform her of why Beth was killed, and said it was probably the point. She said, "It's like real-life. Why does that person die as opposed to other people?"
"The Walking Dead" is set to return to AMC and air its remaining eight episodes on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015.
