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In "Whispers to Screams", Rick returns to the Safe Zone and hugs Andrea upon arrival.
In "Whispers to Screams", Rick returns to the Safe Zone and hugs Andrea upon arrival.

=== Television series ===
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====Season 1====
Rick and [[Shane Walsh (The Walking Dead)|Shane]] are described to be best friends since high school, and were employed as deputy sheriffs in King County, Georgia. In the season premiere "[[Days Gone Bye]]", Rick was shot and wounded during a gun battle with a band of escaped convicts, and left in a coma when the outbreak began. After awakening alone in the hospital, he is mistaken for a [[zombie|walker]] and hit over the head with a shovel by Duane Jones. Duane's father [[Morgan Jones (The Walking Dead)|Morgan]] takes Rick in and explains the zombie apocalypse to him. He sets off in search for his wife, [[Lori Grimes|Lori]], and young son, [[Carl Grimes|Carl]], and along the way discovers what has happened to the world. While searching in Atlanta, he is attacked by a horde of walkers and hides in a tank. In the episode "[[Guts (The Walking Dead)|Guts]]", a young man named [[Glenn Rhee|Glenn]] rescues him from the tank and leads him to a group of survivors scavenging for supplies in a building. During an altercation, Rick subdues group member [[Merle Dixon|Merle]] and chains him to a pipe on top of the building. The building is attacked by walkers, and the group flees the city, leaving Merle behind. In the episode "[[Tell It to the Frogs]]", the survivors lead Rick to their campsite where Lori and Carl are, as well as Shane. [[Daryl Dixon|Daryl]] demands that they return to the city to find his brother Merle, which Rick agrees to do as well as recover a bag of guns he dropped. They find that Merle had cut off his own hand to escape. In the episode "[[Vatos]]", they search for Merle, who is nowhere to be seen, and get into an altercation with another survivor group over the bag of guns. They return to the campsite just in time to save the remaining survivors as a group of walkers overruns the camp. In the episode "[[Wildfire (The Walking Dead)|Wildfire]]", the campsite has proven to be insecure as the attack led to a large death toll. Rick's leadership and influence within the group has grown and overpowers the authority Shane once had. Rick struggles with this responsibility however, attempting to weigh being fair and doing what he believes to be right, no matter what the rules of society were like in the past. He also finds himself butting heads with Shane over the various decisions to be made. The group ultimately decides to move beyond the campsite, and move to the CDC in hope of finding a cure. In the episode "[[TS-19]]" the group is hoping for a new home, but unfortunately finds no answers at the organization. The last remaining employee at the CDC reveals that the building will soon self-destruct, and whispers a secret in Rick's ear before the group escapes the doomed facility.

====Season 2====
In the second season premiere "[[What Lies Ahead]]", after moving beyond the CDC following its destruction, Rick and company are trapped on the highway with a horde of walkers. His call for everyone to hide under the abandoned cars ultimately proves costly, as it results in [[Carol Peletier|Carol]]'s daughter [[Sophia Peletier|Sophia]] being chased into the woods by zombies. He attempts to rescue her, but loses her shortly after instructing her to hide leaving her alone to fight off her pursuers. Throughout the girl's absence, he questions his faith in God, and if the survivors can ever truly be safe. While splitting up during the search, Carl is accidentally shot. In the episode "[[Bloodletting (The Walking Dead)|Bloodletting]]", the shooter, [[Otis (The Walking Dead)|Otis]], leads them to a nearby isolated farm. Rick is distraught over his son. The farm's owner [[Hershel Greene|Hershel]], is a veterinarian who works to save Carl's life by using a transfusion of Rick's blood. In the episode "[[Save the Last One]]", Hershel tells Rick and Lori that Carl will need surgery to survive but lacks the needed supplies. Rick fights with the notion of whether humans are better off not living in the world. In the episode "[[Cherokee Rose (The Walking Dead)|Cherokee Rose]]", Carl miraculously pulls through after Shane retrieves supplies, which overjoys Rick. Hershel tells Rick that the group will have to leave once Carl recovers, but Rick asks him to reconsider. In the episode "[[Chupacabra (The Walking Dead)|Chupacabra]]", Rick's perspective of his surroundings continues to alter, to the point where he gives up his sheriff attire and settles into more casual clothing, thus representing a significant transformation in his character. He participates in search missions for Sophia, refusing to believe she is probably dead. He also attempts to reason with Hershel over letting the group stay with his family at the farm. In the episode "[[Secrets (The Walking Dead)|Secrets]]", Rick finds out that Lori is pregnant, and she reveals her affair with Shane to Rick. In the mid-season finale "[[Pretty Much Dead Already]]", the group learns that Herhsel's barn is full of walkers that he believed were still alive and just sick. When Shane finally breaks the barn open, the group shoots the walkers as they file out one by one, but find themselves unable to act when the last walker to come out is revealed to be Sophia; Rick solemnly shoots Sophia in the head to end her undead existence.

In the second half of the season, his character becomes more nuanced after he is confronted with Sophia's death and reanimation, which reminds him of the hopeless and blunt reality of the world they are living in. In the mid-season premiere "[[Nebraska (The Walking Dead)|Nebraska]]", while Rick and Glenn are retrieving Hershel from a bar in town, they encounter two armed men who ask leading questions about Rick and his group. When Rick declines to answer, one of the men tries to shoot Rick. Rick shoots and kills them both. In the episode "[[Triggerfinger (The Walking Dead)|Triggerfinger]]", other members of the group attack Rick and the others in the bar, and ultimately flee. They leave the injured young man [[Randall Culver|Randall]] behind, but Rick and his group save Randall's life and take him prisoner. In the episode "[[18 Miles Out]]", Rick and Shane try to leave Randall 18 miles away from the farm, but the two nearly kill each other in a brutal fight. They flee from a walker horde and they wind up taking him back to the farm. In the episode "[[Judge, Jury, Executioner]]", Rick decides that he must execute Randall to preserve the group's safety, but [[Dale Horvath|Dale]] protests. Rick and Lori take notice to Carl's increasing emotional hardness, and his relationship with Shane heads down a dark path, reaching a boiling point when they are in conflict over the fate of Randall. Rick attempts to shoot Randall, but finds that he is not able to bring himself to do it, courtesy of his son who wanted to watch the execution. Dale is mortally wounded that night when a walker attacks him. In the episode "[[Better Angels (The Walking Dead)|Better Angels]]", Shane prepares to kill Rick hours after Dale's death by killing Randall and during the search leading Rick out into the woods. Rick is able to talk him down; however, at the last second, he kills Shane with a single knife stab to the heart. He is distraught over Shane's death and witnesses his zombified friend get shot in the head and finally finished off by Carl. In the season finale "[[Beside the Dying Fire]]", the shot draws the attention of a nearby walker horde, which overruns the farm. The group is forced to flee the farm, losing a few more members in the process, and meet up with each other again on the road. Rick still shows great pain at the thought of losing Shane, but views his actions as justified, believing Shane was a genuine threat to the group. As the events begin to unravel to the other survivors, Rick confesses a long held secret he kept hidden from the group: that they are all infected (as discovered by Dr. Edwin Jenner of the CDC). Lori initially tries to console him, but then turns her back on him when she learns the horrifying truth of Shane's death. Confronting a group suspicious of his image and his leadership, Rick adopts a dark and tyrannical personality change, bluntly admitting that he killed Shane for good measure and later daring any would-be traitors to abandon the safety of the group.<ref>"[[Beside the Dying Fire]]"</ref>

====Season 3====
In the season premiere "[[Seed (The Walking Dead)|Seed]]", following on nearly 8 months later, Rick is shown to have adapted a more ruthless style of leadership following the death of Shane. Throughout the winter, the group have been going around in a circle. While Rick and Daryl go hunting, they find an over-run prison facility. The group then take the prison's courtyard, and rest for the night. The next day, Rick, Daryl, [[Maggie Greene|Maggie]], Glenn and [[T-Dog (The Walking Dead)|T-Dog]] take the inner prison, and clear out some of the prison, making it a near safe heaven. They later go deeper into the prison, and get chased by walkers. Glenn and Maggie are separated, and while trying to find them, Hershel is bitten on the leg. After taking him to the seemingly abandoned cafeteria, Rick amputates his leg with his hatchet. Afterward, a group of human prisoners appear from behind the shutters. In the episode "[[Sick (The Walking Dead)|Sick]]", the prisoners are hostile at first to the group, and Lori suggests to Rick that she would fully understand and support him if he decided to kill them. Only two of the initial five prisoners ([[Oscar (The Walking Dead)|Oscar]] and [[Axel (The Walking Dead)|Axel]]) supposedly survive during the clearance of a separate cell block for them and Rick seems glad to be rid of them. In the episode "[[Killer Within]]", it is revealed that one other prisoner ([[Andrew (The Walking Dead)|Andrew]]) managed to escape walkers and jeopardized the safety of Rick's group by opening one of the gates to the main area of the group, which results in the death of T-Dog, and Lori's going into premature labor. Lori does not survive a C-section to save the baby, with Carl being the only available and willing person to prevent her reanimation. In the episode "[[Say the Word (The Walking Dead)|Say the Word]]", devastated by the death of his wife, Rick goes berserk and reenters the prison, killing multiple walkers with only an axe and reaching the boiler room where Lori died. He discovers that she has been completely eaten by a nearby walker, which he kills and then begins to try and "dig" his wife's remains out of the creature. Rick then answers a mysterious phone calls from a nearby phone. In the episode "[[Hounded (The Walking Dead)|Hounded]]", Rick answers a series of successive phone calls, each call leading him to believe that there are other survivors. He is shocked when they address him by his name, only to receive one final call from Lori, which helps him realize he is hallucinating and needs to snap back to reality. Rick returns to the prison grounds, reconnecting with his son and the others. It is here when he sees [[Michonne]] walking towards the prison with baby formula. In the episode "[[When the Dead Come Knocking]]", after a brief rescue of an exhausted Michonne, he learns from her that Glenn and Maggie are being held at Woodbury. He gathers Daryl, Oscar and Michonne and leads a party to rescue Glenn and Maggie. Right before he leaves, he shares a moment with Carl, and together, father and son name the newborn baby "Judith," after Carl's third grade teacher. In the mid-season finale "[[Made to Suffer]]", Rick travels to Woodbury with the group, in hopes of reuniting with Glenn and Maggie. Rick and the group attack Woodbury, rescuing Maggie and Glenn; however, Oscar dies during their escape and Daryl is captured.

In the mid-season premiere "[[The Suicide King (The Walking Dead)|The Suicide King]]", upon realizing that Daryl is absent, Rick immediately orchestrates a rescue operation, intercepting both [[Merle Dixon|Merle]] and Daryl, who were being forced to fight to the death by the Governor at the request of the citizens of Woodbury. Merle's presence among the group forms tension, especially among Glenn and Michonne, whom Merle had been ordered to kill. Rick and the group return to the prison a man short, as the threat of the Governor's impending retaliation looms large. Hershel, realizing reinforcements could help the group gain the upperhand, tries to convince Rick to take in Tyreese's group. However, just as it appears that Rick will concede, he begins to be haunted by the image of Lori, at which point he proceeds to have a mental breakdown. Tyreese's group flees the prison as Rick's sanity is called into question. In the episode "[[Home (The Walking Dead)|Home]]", Rick's hallucinations of Lori continue and he begins to chase around the image of Lori both inside and beyond the prison's fences. Hershel, in an effort to restore some sort of stability in Rick's leadership, confronts Rick where he admits to seeing both Lori and Shane despite the fact that he knows they are both dead. Following the conversation between Rick and Hershel, the Governor attacks the prison, killing Axel and setting off dozens of walkers inside the prison in the process. Rick himself is pinned down by three walkers before being saved by both Daryl and Merle. In the episode "[[I Ain't a Judas]]", Andrea, hoping to negotiate a truce between the two groups, visits the prison where she is met with a hostile response, especially from Rick. Rick asks Andrea to help the group sneak into Woodbury so they can kill the Governor themselves, which she refuses to do in part to the large number of innocents. After learning of both Lori's and Shane's deaths, Andrea begins to understand why Rick is only a shadow of the noble, trusting leader he was in the past. Rick supplies Andrea with a car and a weapon on her way back to Woodbury, telling her to be careful.

In the episode "[[Clear (The Walking Dead)|Clear]]", Rick decides to take both Carl and Michonne on a run for weapons and ammunition in preparation for the impending battle. They travel to Rick's old station where they find the armory to be completely removed of all weapons except a single bullet. Rick suggests they check local bars and restaurants as he signed off warrants for the weapons which belonged to the owners of those establishments. The group happens upon a strip of street rigged with booby traps where they are held at gunpoint by an armored gunman on a roof. Rick warns Carl to run back to the car as he opens fire; however, Carl remains and shoots the gunman saving his father's life. The gunman is revealed to be Morgan, the man who saved Rick's life in the pilot episode, who has clearly lost sight of who he was following the death of his son Duane. After attempting to kill Rick, Morgan snaps back into reality asking why Rick never kept his promise to communicate via the radio he had given him. Morgan tells Rick that he failed to kill his reanimated wife and that it was she who was responsible for Duane's death. He tells Rick there is little hope that he can keep Carl safe. Rick fails to convince Morgan to join the group, but he does salvage a bag of weapons. On their way back to the prison, Carl tells Rick that he likes Michonne, much to Rick's surprise. Michonne then confides in Rick, telling him that she knows he sees things and that she can relate to him as she used to talk to her dead boyfriend after the outbreak began.

In the episode "[[Arrow on the Doorpost]]", through the advice of Andrea, Rick attempts to negotiate with The Governor to prevent future violence. He proposes that the prison and Woodbury divide up their territory, which The Governor quickly rejects. The Governor tells Rick that he can prevent future deaths by turning over Michonne, who killed his walker daughter, Penny. When Rick returns to the prison, he tells the group that war is upon them. He secretly informs Hershel of The Governor's offer and asks him if he made the right decision. In the episode "[[Prey (The Walking Dead)|Prey]]", Andrea tries to escape Woodbury and makes it to the prison, but the Governor captures her before Rick can spot her. In the episode "[[This Sorrowful Life]]", Rick turning Michonne over with Merle, who takes it upon himself to do the job when Rick can't make himself do it; Merle ultimately changes his mind and loses his life in a failed assassination attempt of the Governor. In the season finale "[[Welcome to the Tombs]]", after The Governor massacres his army while on the side of the road after failing to take the prison, Rick, Daryl, and Michonne head out to confront The Governor. Along the way, they meet the lone survivor of the massacre, [[Karen (The Walking Dead)|Karen]]. After discovering Andrea locked in a room after being captured by The Governor trying to escape from Woodbury, the group discovers she has been bitten. Andrea explains that she knows how the safety of Rick's revolver works, so the group waits while Andrea commits suicide with Michonne in the room. The next day, Rick brings the rest of the citizens of Woodbury to the prison and Andrea is buried in the front of the prison.

====Season 4====
In the season premiere "[[30 Days Without an Accident]]", 6–7 months have passed since the group last saw the Governor. Rick has given up leadership of the now large group (around 40 survivors), and has taken up farming with Hershel, along with spending more time with Carl and Judith. He has regained much of his old personality, contrasting the cold, ruthless man he was in the third season. In the episode "[[Infected (The Walking Dead)|Infected]]", while Rick and Carl are gardening, they hear gunshots coming from the cell blocks, where Glenn informs them that walkers have invaded Cell Block D. Rick helps and kills many walkers, along with saving fellow survivors. Rick, Daryl, Hershel, former army medic [[Bob Stookey]], and Dr. Caleb Subramanian, examine the body of survivor Patrick, who they believe started a sickness. While burying the bodies with Daryl, Maggie calls to them, telling them the fences are caving in due to the large number of walkers outside. Rick and Daryl use the piglets they have to lure the walkers away from the fences. Afterward, Rick gives Carl his gun back. In the episode "[[Isolation (The Walking Dead)|Isolation]]", Rick is seen with Daryl, Carol, and Tyreese, examining the bodies of Karen and survivor David, who were killed and set on fire. Tyreese turns violent and attacks Rick, and Rick responds by brutally beating Tyreese's face, injuring his hand in the process. Rick begins investigating where Karen and David were killed, noticing a bloody hand-print that is smaller than his. He then sees Carol attempting to clean the water pipe, but she is becoming surrounded by walkers. He saves her, and tells her that it was stupid to go out there alone. He asks her if she killed Karen and David, to which she replies that she did.

In the episode "[[Indifference (The Walking Dead)|Indifference]]", Rick goes on a run with Carol to search for food and medicine. After arriving in a small suburb, they encounter two survivors who help them to search for food. Rick realizes that Carol is not showing remorse for killing two of their own. Later, when they attempt to find the two survivors, they find one dead and the other missing. Rick then banishes Carol from the group, giving her supplies and a car to fend for herself. In the episode "[[Internment (The Walking Dead)|Internment]]", Rick returns to the prison, where he tells Maggie and Hershel what happened with Carol. Rick enlists Carl to help him with the fences. Soon after, though, the fences break and a large number of walkers come through. Rick and Carl work together and dispatch them before they can get too far into the prison. Afterward, Daryl and his group return to the prison with the supplies needed to help the sick. In the mid-season finale "[[Too Far Gone (The Walking Dead)|Too Far Gone]]", Rick next tells Daryl about the banishment of Carol, and together they go to tell Tyreese. Before they can, however, the Governor appears with a large militia and a tank, bent on taking the prison for themselves. The Governor reveals that he has taken Hershel and Michonne hostage, who were out burning walker bodies. Rick attempts to negotiate with the Governor, telling him that they can all live in the prison together in peace. The Governor, however, calls him a liar and decapitates Hershel. A gunfight breaks out immediately, and Rick is shot in the thigh while retreating back to the group. As the militia drives the tank through the fences and into the prison, Rick confronts the Governor and fights him. However, due to his multiple injuries, the Governor gains the upper hand. Just before Rick can be strangled, Michonne appears and stabs the Governor through the chest with her katana. Rick goes to the prison courtyard and is reunited with Carl, and together they find Judith's empty and bloody baby carrier. They both begin to weep, but Rick realizes they must leave the prison. The two are separated from the rest of the group (just as everyone in the group has been separated into multiple smaller groups), and Rick tells Carl not to look back at the destroyed prison behind them.

In the mid-season premiere "[[After (The Walking Dead)|After]]", after the prison attack, Rick and Carl hole up in a house in a neighborhood that they found. Carl begins scolding him saying The Governor knew where they were and all Rick wanted to do was plant vegetables and hide. He goes on to claim that he didn't forget his skills to survive and that he can survive without Rick. Carl later lures two walkers away from the house to kill them somewhere else so he wouldn't attract noise. After a skirmish with more walkers, Carl returns to the house and upon seeing Rick rise from a couch they used to block the door from walkers, thinks Rick is dead and aims Rick's own revolver at him. Now realizing that he needs Rick, he says he is scared. Rick and Carl later talk near the couch the next day and a knock is heard at the door. It is revealed to be Michonne and Rick says it's for Carl. In the episode "[[Claimed]]", while Carl and Michonne are on a supply run, Rick lies in bed upstairs and hears a scavenger group enter the house. Startled, he hides under the bed and watches one member choke another member into unconsciousness after fighting over who gets to use the bed. Rick slowly sneaks into the bathroom and encounters another member who he strangles to death. After leaping from the roof, Rick sees Carl and Michonne return from their supply run and plans to take the leader of the men, Joe, by surprise to prevent him from discovering Carl and Michonne. However, the man he kills in the bathroom earlier reanimates and gunfire erupts, prompting the man to go inside the house. Rick then runs towards Carl and Michonne and they leave the neighborhood. They later see a sign on a train car that describes a place called "Terminus". They head towards "Terminus", as it promises sanctuary. In the episode "[[Us (The Walking Dead)|Us]]", while walking, Carl and Michonne do a dare where they walk on the tracks and the person who loses his/her balance doesn't get the chocolate bar they're having. Carl wins and eats the chocolate bar. He drops the wrapper on the tracks as they continue the walk. The chocolate bar wrapper is later found by the marauders Daryl was with on the way to Terminus.

In the season finale "[[A (The Walking Dead)|A]]", Rick, Michonne, and Carl struggle to find food and shelter. The group of men led by Joe that Daryl has been traveling with find Rick and make known their intent to kill Rick for strangling their friend. They hold Michonne hostage, attempt to sexually assault Carl, and start to beat Daryl for trying to intervene and sacrifice himself. Rick fights off Joe and kills him by gruesomely biting his neck, as well as saving Carl from his attacker by stabbing him repeatedly in front of Carl. The group then make their way to Terminus and are met by the inhabitants after sneaking in. Not long after, a conflict ensues after the survivors notice that the inhabitants are wearing gear and articles of clothing that belonged to Glenn, Maggie, and other survivors they knew. The citizens of Terminus trap the group in a boxcar, where they find their friends, plus some new people, are there. The episode ends with Rick telling the others that the people at Terminus are "screwing with the wrong people."

====Season 5====
[[File:There is No Sanctuary.jpg.png|250px|upright|thumb|Rick Grimes modifies a sign leading to Terminus with dirt to read "No Sanctuary".]]
In the season premiere "[[No Sanctuary (The Walking Dead)|No Sanctuary]]", Rick and the others create makeshift weapons to fight off their captors, but the Terminus guards instead drop a flashbang grenade into Boxcar A, and drag Rick, Daryl, Bob, and Glenn out. They are taken to the slaughterhouse and lined up bending over a pig trough, where Rick recognizes Sam amongst others brought in. He watches as Sam is brutally murdered by the guards, followed by the other three captives Sam was with. Before Glenn can be executed, Gareth comes in and threatens Bob so Rick will tell him what was in the bag he buried before entering Terminus. Rick tells him and adds that he will kill Gareth with the weapons in the bag. Just as the butcher is given the green light to kill Glenn, an explosion caused by Carol distracts the guards and Gareth leaves the area. Rick, having snuck a shiv of wood up his sleeve, uses it to cut his bonds and brutally slaughters the guards before untying the others. He makes the point of ordering them to let the guards turn, and after discovering their cannibalism, Rick orders the group to kill any Terminus resident on sight. The four fight their way back outside, and Glenn insists that Rick unlock a container with a survivor inside. However, the survivor is half-crazed, and eventually stumbles into a walker which promptly eats him. Rick kills a guard and steals his gun, and then uses it to shoot several other people of Terminus, making a point to not kill them and instead let the walkers take them. The four of them return to Boxcar A and free their friends, and the entire group quickly makes its escape as the Terminus residents fire back. A bullet wounds Gareth as the group makes their way out of Terminus. While in the forest outside of Terminus, Rick proposes they finish off the surviving Terminus residents, which many members of the group disagree with. Suddenly, Carol reveals herself to the group. Rick learns she was the one who created the explosion. She leads the group to the cabin where she, Tyreese and Judith were hiding out, and Rick and Carl are happily reunited with Judith. The group moves away from Terminus, and Rick scratches out a Terminus sign, changing the wording to "No Sanctuary".


== Development ==
== Development ==

Revision as of 03:11, 17 January 2015

Rick Grimes
The Walking Dead character
File:Rick Grimes.jpg
Rick Grimes, as portrayed by Andrew Lincoln in the television series.
First appearanceIssue #1 (comics)
"Days Gone Bye" (television)
Created byRobert Kirkman
Tony Moore
Charlie Adlard
Portrayed byAndrew Lincoln
Centric
episode(s)		"Days Gone Bye"
"What Lies Ahead"
"Pretty Much Dead Already"
"Nebraska"
"18 Miles Out"
"Better Angels"
"Beside the Dying Fire
"Sick"
"Killer Within"
"Hounded"
"When the Dead Come Knocking"
"Indifference"
"Claimed"
"A"
"No Sanctuary"
"Four Walls and a Roof"
In-universe information
OccupationCynthiana Sheriff's Deputy (comics)
King County Sheriff's Deputy (TV series)
FamilySon: Carl Grimes
Daughter: Judith Grimes (possibly)

Rick Grimes is a fictional character in the comic book series The Walking Dead and is portrayed by Andrew Lincoln in the television series of the same name. Created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore, the character made his debut in The Walking Dead #1 in 2003. The primary protagonist of both series, Grimes is a small town sheriff's deputy who awakens from a coma to find the world overrun with zombies.[1] The series focus on Grimes' attempts to find and protect his wife Lori and son Carl, and his role as the de facto leader of a group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world. In the comic series, he remains the longest living survivor, followed closely behind by his son Carl Grimes, friend and lover Andrea, Carol's daughter, Sophia, and Sophia's surrogate mother Maggie Greene.

Rick Grimes has been described as an everyman character who emphasizes moral codes and values.[2][3][4] Lincoln obtained the role in April 2010; Kirkman felt he was an "amazing find". In preparation for the role, Lincoln sought inspiration from Gary Cooper in his work in the American western film High Noon (1952), as well as the television drama series Breaking Bad. Lincoln has been well-received for his portrayal of the character, and has been nominated for a Saturn Award for best actor on television.

Appearances

Comic book series

Atlanta

File:Rick (Comics).jpg
Rick Grimes on the cover of The Walking Dead comic book issue #17. Art by Tony Moore.

Before the zombie apocalypse, Rick was a police officer in the small town of Cynthiana, Kentucky. In "Days Gone Bye", while in a shootout against an escaped convict with his partner and best friend, Shane Walsh, Rick is wounded and subsequently awakens from a coma some time later. After being mistaken for a zombie and hit over the head with a shovel by Duane Jones, Duane's father Morgan takes Rick in and informs him about what unfolded during his coma.[5] In search of his wife, Lori, and son, Carl, Rick heads to Atlanta, where it is said people were taken for protection. Rick runs out of gas and stops at a farm. Rick finds the owners inside who have committed suicide. Rick throws up outside and searches their barn where he finds a horse. Upon arrival, Rick is rescued from a large group of zombies by a fellow survivor named Glenn, who takes him to a camp where Rick is reunited with his wife Lori and son Carl, as well as Shane.[6] Tension between Rick and Shane over leadership of the group and Lori's affections boils over in a confrontation which ends with Carl shooting Shane to protect his father.[7] Afterwards, Rick leads the group away from Atlanta, trying to find shelter and safe haven from the undead.[8]

Post-Atlanta

In "Miles Behind Us", after the group leaves the Atlanta survival camp with the deaths of Shane, Andrea's sister, Amy and Jim, the group are forced into the harsh conditions of the winter. Rick's early settlement plan proves to be disastrous, as the abandoned planned community he thought to be safe is ultimately found to be zombie infested, resulting in a death of one of their own.[9] Lori Grimes, Rick's wife, shamefully admits to Rick that she is pregnant (presumably with Shane's baby), but Rick plans to care for it.[10][11] Carl Grimes, Rick's son is later shot in the back by a man named Otis, who escorts Rick and another survivor, Tyreese, a recently joined member of Rick's group to the farm of Hershel Greene and his family.[12] The group stays there for a brief amount of time before Rick is held at gunpoint by Hershel and forced to move out.[13] While on the road again, two other members of the survivors discover a prison, where everyone seeks refuge and settles down.[14]

The Prison

In "Safety Behind Bars", Rick and the group settle into the prison where they meet the former prison inmates who hadn't managed to escape. Rick and Dale soon decide it's best to have as many people as possible at his new settlement, and decides to convince Hershel and his family to leave the farm and join him at the prison, as the farm grows increasingly precarious. The group's concept of the prison being a safe haven quickly diminishes when Rick and Tyreese find Tyreese's daughter, Julie, shot dead in an unsuccessful suicide pact with her boyfriend. Julie surprisingly reanimates as a roamer, which causes the revelation that everyone is infected of the mysterious virus, regardless of being bitten or not.[15] After this event, the inmates try to assimilate with Rick's group with mostly disastrous results. One inmate, Thomas Richards, is revealed to be a psychopath who kills Hershel's twin daughters and scars Andrea's face, trying to kill her too[16] which leads Rick to resort to violence, brutally beating Thomas before he is killed by Maggie Greene out of revenge[17] and subsequently into his first murder, that of the inmate Dexter, during an armed conflict with the other inmates.[18]

In "The Heart's Desire", Rick later becomes conflicted with his second-in-command, Tyreese, over being the cause of his girlfriend's suicide attempt. This leads into a violent confrontation between the two as Tyreese calls Rick a killer, citing the death of Dexter, but Rick retorts, telling him that the inmates threatened to kick them out of the prison and leave them to die. Rick deems Tyreese responsible for Chris' death and Carol's possible death, as he protected her and made her feel safe for a long time before quickly leaving her for Michonne, a new member of the prison group. Rick falls unconscious after finding out Carol has survived.[19] He wakes up 26 hours later, and delivers a speech to the survivors who speculate that he has lost his sanity, declaring that they are the walking dead. The survivors understand Rick's motives to kill and his explanation for who they are now.[20]

In "The Best Defense", Rick, Glenn, and the mysterious, katana-wielding woman Michonne, search for a nearby crashed helicopter[21] which leads them into the town of Woodbury, Georgia.[22] At the town they meet a man called The Governor, who leads Woodbury by extreme manipulation, cunningness, and ruthlessness. Fooled by The Governor's pseudo-hospitality, like most Woodbury inhabitants, Rick ultimately has his right hand severed in an attempt to get him to reveal the location of the prison.[23] When the Governor sees Rick will never give up his family, he decides to torture both Glenn and Michonne instead, but yet again fails to find the location of the prison.[24]

In "This Sorrowful Life", Rick, Glenn and Michonne remain in captivity until they meet new allies, such as Alice Warren, Dr. Stevens and Caesar Martinez. Rick escapes the town with Glenn, Alice, Martinez and Stevens[25] after Michonne tells them to leave her behind to exact her revenge on The Governor for raping her, as she tortures and mutilates him, leaving him for dead.[26] Michonne catches up to the survivors and Rick reunites with his wife, Lori and son, Carl. Alice begins updating Rick's wife, Lori on her pregnancy. Rick learns from Tyreese that Caesar Martinez has not been seen for hours, which Rick realizes is a sign that he is going to inform The Governor of the location of the prison at last.[27] Rick catches up to Martinez and kills him to prevent this, before Martinez implies that Rick is no different from The Governor.[28]

In "The Calm Before", Alice delivers Lori's baby and Rick is now a father to Judith.[29] Sometime later, Rick and Tyreese put Andrea in the watch tower as the group's primary sharpshooter.

In "Made to Suffer", two months have passed since Rick, Glenn, Michonne and Alice's escape from Woodbury. The Governor is revealed to be horribly disfigured, and locates the prison after capturing Tyreese and Michonne.He attacks the prison by manipulating his followers into believing Rick's group are marauders. Despite Rick's wishes for their best able bodied forces to stay, Dale convinces Andrea to leave to protect their adoptive children, and Glenn and Maggie leave with them for safety.[30] During the final assault on the prison, Rick's entire group are massacred and many of the Woodbury soldiers are killed by Rick's group before their deaths or by Andrea, who returns to save Rick and the others. After Tyreese is executed in an act to force the group out of the prison,[31] Billy Greene and Patricia are killed by Woodbury soldiers, and Hershel, Axel and Alice are murdered by The Governor. Finally, the Grimes family escape after Alice sacrificially covers for them to get out, but Lilly shoots Lori in the back, which crushes Judith to death. Horrified by his losses, Rick screams for Carl to keep running to avoid being killed.[32]

Road to DC

In "Here We Remain", Carl is enraged by Rick, claiming him responsible for their losses. Rick also begins hallucinating his wife.[33] The survivors of the prison assault - Rick, Michonne and Carl - return to Hershel's farm where they reunite with Glenn, Maggie, Dale, Ben, Billy and Andrea, who also narrowly escaped. Rick and the remainder of the prison group meet a new group of survivors who are on a mission to Washington, D.C., which consist of Abraham Ford (the leader), Eugene Porter (a man who claims to have knowledge on the cure, requesting to go to DC) and Rosita Espinosa (Abraham's girlfriend).[34] Rick and the prison group survivors decide to join because they are lacking a better idea for survival.[35]

In "What We Become", Rick asks Abraham to take the interstate to his hometown as the best route to DC for supplies and to check up on "old friends". On a three-day trip to Kentucky, Rick, Abraham and Carl are confronted by a group of marauders who hold them at gunpoint. Carl is almost sexually assaulted, as Rick is brutally beaten, trying to stop the incident from occurring. Overcome with rage, Rick bites one of the bandits' jugular vein, which distracts the other bandits. Abraham shoots the bandit holding him at gunpoint at comforts Carl as Rick proceeds to stab the remaining bandit to death.[36] Reaching their destination, Rick reunites with Morgan Jones, who has lost his sanity after the death of his son. Rick decides to take Morgan with them to repay him for saving his life at the beginning of the apocalypse.[37] Rick, Abraham, Carl and Morgan encounter a large horde who follow them back to the survivors' camp. Dale is furious over Rick's decision making, and blames him for their losses.[38]

In "Fear the Hunters", the survivors encounter a priest named Gabriel Stokes. Dale grows depressed, especially after the deaths of his adoptive sons, Ben and Billy, and continues to stigmatize Rick for his actions. Dale secretly gets bitten and disappears, which Andrea alerts Rick of, as well as the other survivors. She claims the group are being watched. Rick speculates that Dale has left the group due to the twins' deaths, but it is later revealed Dale has been captured by a pack of hunters, who have been surviving by killing and eating their victims. Rick confronts Gabriel after Andrea believes he is involved in Dale's disappearance. The survivors confront the hunters and brutally slaughter them. Dale reconciles his relationship with Rick before his death, thanking him for allowing him to survive longer than he ever could, and for his time with Andrea and the twins.

In "Life Among Them", the group is close to Washington. On the way to the capital, they find out that their mission is bogus as Eugene Porter, claiming to be in contact with government scientists, has been lying to them. They decide to still push on to D.C. because of their close proximity, and they find out that the capital is as infested just as the other major cities.[39] However despite these set backs, they are recruited by Aaron to stay in a secluded and secure township on the outskirts of Washington, called the Alexandria Safe-Zone..[40].[41] Each person tries to find a semblance of real life, but Rick doesn't trust the leader of the town, former U.S. Congressman Douglas Monroe.[42]

Alexandria Safe Zone

In "Too Far Gone", Rick becomes the Constable of the Safe Zone, attempting to keep the peace in the town, but is eventually forced to kill Peter Anderson, a man who was abusing his wife and child and soon murdered Regina Monroe, Douglas' wife.[43] Rick having been through so much since the prison, slowly starts resuming more leadership-like roles until finally Rick assumes leadership of the Alexandria Safe-Zone, after Douglas soon finds himself losing his grip on life, and his leadership position exacerbating as a result of this.[44]

In "No Way Out", the town is soon in danger, as a skirmish with a group of bandits attracts a nearby horde of zombies that quickly breach the town's defensive walls. Morgan and Rick's new girlfriend, Jessie, are two of several casualties in the distress of the situation.[45] As the survivors fight for their lives, several people are killed and Rick's son is grievously wounded by a gunshot to the head.[46] Using the combined strength of all of those remaining in the community, the survivors fend off the horde and Rick tends to Carl, whose condition is very dire.[47] Following the attack, however, Rick concludes that the undead can be beaten if the survivors put their differences aside and work together.[volume & issue needed] Rick mentions that this is the first time in a very long time that he has hope for the future.[48]

In "We Find Ourselves", Rick's mindset on survival changes as he reflects that he originally thought that he would be better off alone, remaining wary of larger groups. Now Rick believes "safety in numbers" was what kept him alive in the past. He now recognizes the true potential of the group, and believes that they can accomplish a lot together as a community. Rick opens up to Andrea about the concept of their survival, and firmly believes the Alexandria Safe Zone will work. He holds out hope on Carl waking up from his coma. Later, Carl wakes up, initially with minor amnesia.[49] Rick worries that the son he knew is gone, as he shows no grief over Lori's loss.[50] A small insurrection is formed, but the situation is defused without bloodshed and Rick forgives the transgressors.[51] Rick and Andrea continue to bond and become very close concerning Carl in his coma. Andrea develops feelings for Rick, who resists out of fear of what might happen to him in the event of her death.[52][53]

The Hilltop Colony

In "A Larger World", Paul Monroe, an ambassador from a community of two-hundred survivors called the Hilltop Colony, visits Alexandria to start a trading network with Rick's community.[54][55][56] After some mistrust, Rick agrees to go to the Hilltop Colony and starts the trading network. Reaching the Hilltop Colony, he finds nothing wrong with the place until the leader, Gregory, is almost killed to send a message from their enemies. Rick saves Gregory and kills Ethan, his attacker.[57] Paul Monroe admits that the Hilltop Colony have enemies, and explain of the infamous Negan, who some speculate may not even be a person. The group learn of the Saviours, the Hilltop's rivalling community, who frequently terrorize them and threaten to damage their community if they are not brought half of their supplies. Rick agrees to defuse their conflict and gather to rebuild civilization.[58]

In "Something to Fear", Rick and the others return from the Hilltop Colony back to the Safe Zone. Along the way, Rick's group are ambushed by a group of the Saviors. After threatening the group and subsequently killing them, Rick sends the lone survivor back to Negan with a warning to stop terrorizing the residents of Hilltop. He later calls a meeting with the Safe Zone, suggesting that they can protect the Hilltop Colony in exchange for supplies. After spending the night with Andrea, Rick wakes up and is told that another group of Saviors are outside the walls and have taken Eugene hostage. The residents of the Safe Zone kill many of them. Rick and Andrea then find Abraham's body being eaten by roamers and take it back to the Safe Zone to be buried.[59][60] Rick and several others including Glenn and Maggie decide to go onto the Hilltop Colony where Glenn and Maggie plan to live.[61] However, Negan makes his appearance to the survivors surrounded by his men, taunting the survivors by picking them off to pick who to kill for the deaths of their own. He chooses Glenn, who is brutally beaten to death with Negan's bat. Rick and the others watch on in horror and Maggie later leaves Rick to go to the Hilltop.[62][63] Now realizing the full scale of Negan's army, Rick intentionally gives in, allowing Negan to take all of Alexandria's supplies.[64][65]

In "What Comes After", Rick remains at conflict with Negan and the Saviours. Carl reveals to his father that the Saviours live in a factory. Paul Monroe tells Rick that they should see Ezekiel, the leader of the Kingdom. Ezekiel, residing in a high school, greets Paul Monroe and welcomes Rick to his community. He agrees to work with Rick, and explains that he has another visitor, Dwight, a Saviour secretly working against Negan. Rick, initially angry with Dwight's appearance, eventually forms an alliance with him, but remains wary of whether to trust Dwight or not.[66]

All Out War

In "All Out War", Rick and his squadron focus their attack on one of the more fortified outposts. The fighting goes back and forth which results in numerous casualties on both sides, including Eric. They are eventually able to defeat the Saviours in their attack. They take over the outpost. After returning back to Alexandria, Rick is informed by Michonne that Ezekiel's group was annihilated when they attempted to take another outpost. Alarmed by this, Rick orders a meeting inside the church to discuss this new development. He surmises that Negan must have eliminated all the roamers as well as discovering that Rick's army overtook a Savior outpost, thus sending more troops to the remaining ones as reinforcements. Just then, an explosion occurs nearby. Rick goes outside and sees a house demolished and asks if there was anyone living inside; fortunately, he's told that it was one of the vacant houses. However, he discovers the source of the explosion comes from Negan, who is outside the Safe Zone with grenades. He responds to the attack with bombing the Alexandria Safe Zone. Rick, Andrea, Carl and the residents of the Safe Zone are saved by troops of the Hilltop Colony lead by Maggie Greene, now the de facto leader.

Rick reassesses their resources, manpower and weapons before another attack in a meeting with Ezekiel and Paul Monroe. He remains on watch duty with Andrea, as the two have become more intimate, and less strained as previously implied. He no longer speaks with his wife, Lori on the telephone. Negan arrives at the Hilltop Colony as the Saviours break down the front gates and swarm the community. Rick orders the survivors to open fire, destroying the truck that smashed through, killing several Saviors in the process. During the firefight, Rick takes Nicholas and Aaron to box in the attackers. While they take cover, Rick unknowingly leaves himself vulnerable from behind. Negan, who separates from the other Saviors with Dwight, finds Rick at a close distance and demands that Dwight shoot him with his infected crossbow. Dwight shows some hesitation, but is ultimately forced to shoot Rick. An arrow pierces Rick's side, taking him down, but Dwight's loyalties are revealed to be on Rick's side as he has not succumbed to the infection. He confronts Negan, showing his perspective, and Negan finally understands Rick's view of rebuilding society. In response, Rick slashes Negan's throat before Negan breaks his leg. Negan passes out, before he is saved by a doctor. Rick chooses to imprison Negan, believing the regrowth of civilization is a greater pain than death for him. Dwight takes over as leader of the Saviours, supporting Rick and the war is won.

Post-war

In "A New Beginning", two years later, Rick and the others have rebuilt Alexandria into a thriving sanctuary. He welcomes newcomers, Magna and her group who are initially wary of the safe haven, but eventually come to understand the running of the community. Carl convinces his father to let him relocate to the Hilltop Colony to become a blacksmith apprentice, which Rick agrees on. Rick reunites with Maggie Greene and her adoptive daughter, Sophia as he brings Carl to the Hilltop. Maggie and Rick reminisce on the past, and Rick leaves Carl under Maggie's care.

In "Whispers to Screams", Rick returns to the Safe Zone and hugs Andrea upon arrival.

Development

Casting

Lincoln alluded to several television shows and cinematic works in portraying Rick Grimes, including Gary Cooper's character in the American western film High Noon (1952).

Rick Grimes is portrayed by Andrew Lincoln, who was cast as part of the series in April 2010.[67] Prior to attaining the role, Lincoln had no prior knowledge of the comic book series. "I didn't even get a script the first time —I got sides, because it was so top-secret," he stated. "I was really intrigued and put myself on tape. They got back very quickly from Hollywood and gave me the script." Lincoln approached a bookstore (Mega City Comics) in the London Borough of Camden, where the owner introduced him to the comics. "That's when I went to a comic-book store in Camden, and said 'Have you heard of this comic book?'. The owner showed me this shrine they had to the comic, and said 'This is our most popular and successful comic, and in my opinion, one of the greatest graphic novels of the last ten years'. That's when I got into it."[68]

In preparation for the role, Lincoln sought inspiration from the American drama series Breaking Bad, as well as western film High Noon (1952).[68] Since he felt that The Walking Dead emulated western cinematic works, Lincoln found High Noon to be very useful in projecting a country-like character for Rick Grimes. The performance of Gary Cooper and the moral structure of his character was also cited as an influence; "He's a divided man, between his responsibilities and his marriage. He's not like the Clint Eastwood figure, the loner. It's more complicated than that. He's got a softer heart, so that was definitely an inspiration for me as well."[68] Lincoln avouched that it was difficult to perfect a southern American accent. "I worked really hard on the accent," he stated. "I suppose if you're asked by one of the great channels in America to lead their show, you want to start off getting that right. I worked hard on not just the accent, but also on being American and getting into the feel of that."[68] He traveled to Atlanta three weeks before production of the first season began, and worked with a dialect coach while there.[69] Although weapon training was required, Lincoln had previous experience with weaponry training in the British sextuple-part television series Strike Back (2010).[68]

Executive producer Gale Anne Hurd initially didn't expect Lincoln to portray Grimes. Upon hearing the announcement, Writer Robert Kirkman felt that Lincoln was an "amazing find" and added that he accurately embodied the characteristics of Rick Grimes. "Writing Rick Grimes month after month in the comic series, I had no idea he was an actual living, breathing human being, and yet, here he is. I couldn't be more thrilled with how this show is coming together."[70] Although he was initially shocked upon hearing of the concept of The Walking Dead,[71] Lincoln thought that the script for "Days Gone Bye" was well-written. He stated: "I read it and thought it was well written, and I put myself on tape just for one scene. I didn't know who was involved at this point."[72] The following day, Lincoln's agent called him about the development of the pilot, to which Lincoln called it "kind of like a dream list".[72]

Characterization

Rick is a much more realistic police officer. I always kind of pictured that Rick Grimes was not a police officer that had used his gun very often. He was just one of those guys that basically just walks by the local malt shop and made sure the kids were getting home on time.

—Robert Kirkman[73]

Rick Grimes has been described as a man that emphasizes moral standards. Lincoln summated: "His intentions are good, though his decisions may be bad many times. He's complicated and flawed, which I find fascinating because it makes him human. He sort of erodes over time because of the world he lives in, and there's nothing more satisfying than playing a character that changes irrevocably, so I embrace all of that."[68] Lincoln added that Grimes was a somewhat inflexible leader, which he opined could potentially put Grimes' group in danger. Despite these assertions, he affirmed that the complexities have molded him into a decisive and peculiar character.[74] "I also think Rick's inflexibility is both a part of his character and a reaction to what's happening around him. This situation [...] has brought qualities out in people that are both good and horrible. And certainly, as I was playing him, I felt Rick [consistently] needed to have a mission, otherwise he was just stagnating. You see this in several characters. They have to keep moving. Without a horizon, they flounder. And it was a big call for Rick to go to the CDC [...] in the fifth episode, but he was looking long-term. I find that admirable, because he's looking to the future for his family, for a cure, and for sanctity."[74]

In both mediums, Grimes adopts a more dark and assertive nature as the story progresses. In the comic, he is faced with dealing against a murderous sociopath that claims the life of two group members, as well as an attempted suicide indirectly provoked by his close and trusted friend. Perhaps the most significant moment, he is eventually put under physical and mental torture by The Governor as a result of vulnerability and mistaken trust, ultimately causing the death of many within the group, including his wife and newborn child. The first hand witnessing of the savageness around him leads him to gradually adapt a more primal mindset, becoming less affected by violence and death (at times brutally murdering/mutilating people). Similarly, his perspective becomes increasingly deluded, as his decreased trust in people and decreased tolerance level leads him to take no issue in risking the life of an innocent. This is specifically shown as Rick struggles when eventually being given the chance to return to normalcy. He is however shown to be very protective of those who have suffered alongside him and most protective of his son, Carl, which leads to him being caring and considerate to them one moment and cold and detached the next.

In the second season of The Walking Dead progresses. Kirkman discerned that the second season revolved around Grimes' ability to emerge as a credible leader, proving to the group that he can adequately protect everyone in the group.[75] He continued: "This is one more thing emerging where you see that this is a guy who can gun down people when they're a threat and can definitely handle himself when it comes to zombies but also cares about people. He's going to retain some of that humanity, and that's very important for these characters. It makes Rick stand head and shoulders above other people, like Shane, in this world."[75] The gradual change is largely attributed to the death of Sophia Peletier, whom he shot after she had turned into a walker in "Pretty Much Dead Already." These characteristics become more prominent in "Nebraska", and again in "18 Miles Out". Robert Kirkman felt that "Nebraska" demonstrated that Rick Grimes was not delirious, as Shane accused him of being.

The end of this episode proves to Rick that that's not the case. This entire season has been leading up to the moment where he shot those two men. Shane has been beating it into his head that he isn't fit for this world and needs to be a harder man and be able to make the hard decisions. Over the last two episodes, we've seen Rick be the one that has to step up and shoot Sophia when no one else can. We've seen him in the blink of an eye take out two guys who are a clear threat to him and everyone else that's with him. This is really the beginning of Rick emerging as a clear leader and answering that thing that Shane's been saying all this time.[76]

Reception

Critical response

Critics were generally impressed by Lincoln's portrayal of Rick Grimes.

Lincoln's portrayal of Rick Grimes has been generally well received by television commentators and audiences. "IGN's Eric Goldman stated that Lincoln fit into character very well; "For much of the pilot, he's on his own and exudes a lot of believable, shocked emotion, as Rick tries to process what he is seeing."[77] Although he cited that his accent was "dodgy" in the pilot installment, Leonard Pierce of The A.V. Club observed that Lincoln became more relaxed as the series progressed. "His body language and expression here is totally different now than when we saw him before. He's a fast learner."[78]

As the second season commenced, critics became keen to the character development of Grimes in several episodes, particularly in "Nebraska". Reviewing the episode, Los Angeles Times' Gina McIntyre felt that Rick emulated Justified character Raylan Givens,[79] while Zach Handlen of The A.V. Club observed that Rick was morphing into "something of a badass".[80] Handlen added that it marked a turning point for Grimes, which established his position "as a guy who can do what needs to be done."[80] Scott Meslow of The Atlantic commented that "there's the surprisingly swift, violent dénouement, when Rick guns down Dave and Tony before they can do the same to him. It's a necessary action, given the circumstances, but it also rings in an honest-to-god character change for our hero, who, having dispatched zombie Sophia, seems to have developed a new recognition of the ruthlessness and self-centeredness it may take to survive in this new world order."[81]

The growing tensions between Rick Grimes and Shane Walsh have been well received by television critics. In a review for "Bloodletting", Joe Oesterle of Mania.com commended the performances of Lincoln and Bernthal. Oesterle wrote, "Andrew Lincoln and Jon Bernthal [...] gave a fine bit of acting, and I found it interesting how the character Rick started looking and walking a little bit zombish after giving blood. The scenes between the two men were moving, and if you listened close you could decipher the main differences between these two cowboy cops. Rick is bound and determined to get back to his wife and let her know their son is in mortal danger, without ever doubting his own ability to successfully complete the mission, while Shane on the other hand is not quite as automatically selfless and heroic."[82]

Several critics lauded Grimes' interactions with Walsh in "18 Miles Out". Writing for CNN, Henry Hanks said that "Rick made it clear to Shane that he had to respect his rules from now on."[83] Alex Crumb of The Faster Times evaluated their physical confrontation as "wholly satisfying",[84] while Entertainment Weekly writer Darren Franich appreciated the fight scene involving Grimes and Walsh; "The Shane/Rick fight was great, a brilliantly extended scuffle that started out with an air of boys-will-be-boys pettiness but quickly escalated into something genuinely homicidal."[85] Berriman of SFX summated: "It's shocking when Shane hurls a wrench at Rick’s head, but even more shocking that Rick is prepared to cut and run and leave him for dead. Rick’s change of heart when he looks down at the two dead walkers on the floor and is reminded of the friendship between himself and his former partner is a beautifully played moment, which speaks volumes without a single line of dialogue being uttered. The fact that, come the end, he's willing to trust Shane again after all that has gone on between them is genuinely touching."[86]

Accolades

Rick Grimes was named the 26th Top Comic Book Hero by IGN.[87] Lincoln was nominated for a Saturn Award in the category for Best Actor in Television.[88]

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