The eleventh and final season of The Walking Dead, an American post-apocalyptic horror television series on AMC. The season focuses on the group's encounter with the Commonwealth, a large network of communities that has advanced equipment and almost fifty thousand survivors living in their different settlements.

Split in to three parts of eight episodes each.

In Rick Grimes' final season, the survivors find that ruling is harder than conquering, as they try to build a new world. This season introduces the Whisperers, a group of human survivors that have created skins and masks out of walkers that allows them to move among and manipulate walker hordes. Eighteen months after the defeat of Negan under an alliance of communities spearheaded by Rick Grimes, the season focuses on the united communities as they face obstacles and dangers both outside and inside their alliance, with the threat of the mysterious Whisperers looming.

Rick and his survivors bring "All Out War" to Negan and his forces. The lines are drawn as they launch into a kinetic, action- packed battle for the promise of a brighter future.

In season seven, Rick and his group's world becomes even more brutal due to Negan's deadly example of what happens if they don't live under his rules. Everyone must begin again.

The Walking Dead returns. With no hope of safety in Alexandria, Rick's group is forced to resume their precarious fight for survival; for a chance at normalcy in a world of chaos.

Rick and many from his group have been captured at Terminus and are being held prisoner in a boxcar. They learn that their captors engage in cannibalism and lure survivors to the fortified city to satisfy the practice. While Tyreese stays a safe distance away with Rick's child Judith, Carol launches an attack, enabling them to escape while a horde of walkers descends on Terminus. Rick and the others regroup with Carol and Tyreese, and Rick is elated to see that Judith is still alive. They decide not to chase after Gareth and the rest who have survived from his group. Instead, they make plans to escort Eugene to Washington, D.C. in pursuit of a cure that Eugene says exists there.

They find shelter in a nearby church occupied by Father Gabriel Stokes, who has been struggling to cope with his religious beliefs in wake of the walker outbreak. He is also tormented by an event that occurred shortly after the outbreak in which he barricaded himself inside his church refusing to help others being attacked by walkers outside. Meanwhile, Gareth's men have regrouped and stage attacks against the church. Rick and the others manage to finish off Gareth and his group, losing Bob in the process. Daryl, noticing that Carol has grown distant, follows her to a car that she was planning to flee in. As they were talking, a vehicle with the same cross markings of the one that abducted Beth drives past, and both of them drive off in close pursuit.

Rick attempts to convince the group to fortify the church and wait for Carol and Daryl's return, but with D.C. in mind, Abraham presses them to leave. Glenn defuses the situation by offering to go with Abraham while Rick stays behind to wait. Tara and Maggie decide to join them, and Abraham gives Rick a map of the path they plan to take, along with a handwritten note showing his appreciation of Rick's leadership skills. Not long after leaving, however, they find their route completely engulfed by walkers making passage nearly impossible. Amid an argument between Abraham and Glenn, Eugene reveals that he is not a scientist and fabricated the claim about a cure. Rattled by the revelation, Abraham strikes and severely injures Eugene.

Meanwhile, Daryl and Carol have tracked the car to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Noah, who had escaped from the hospital, tells them that it is run by a group of corrupt police officers led by Dawn. They are using the hospital's scant resources to save as many as they come across, but force those that they save to work as nurses and other laborers in return. In an attempt to save Beth, Carol is run down by a police car and taken to the hospital, where Dawn prohibits Beth from giving her proper care. Daryl and Noah return to the church and enlist the help of the others. Rick and Dawn's groups find themselves in a standoff to exchange Beth for Noah. During the exchange, Beth stabs Dawn, who instinctively reacts by shooting and killing Beth. Dawn is then killed by Daryl and Rick's group solemnly leaves the hospital carrying Beth's body, as Maggie grieves hysterically.

Regrouping at the church, everyone agrees to head north. Noah convinces them to travel to his home community in Virginia that he claims should be well-protected, but when they arrive, they find it has been overrun by walkers. While scavenging the town, Tyreese is killed protecting Noah; Sasha becomes withdrawn after losing her brother. Continuing further down their path, the group encounters a lone traveler by the name of Aaron, who invites them to his home in Alexandria – a walled-off community protected from walkers. Inside they are met by their leader Deanna Monroe, who offers them sanctuary in return for protection. Though the community functions well and benefits from solar power and clean water, they lack the necessary training to survive outside the walls. During a run, one of Deanna's sons, Aiden, is killed and Glenn, Noah and Nicholas are trapped in a revolving door. Though Eugene manages to lead the walkers outside away using the vans radio, Nicholas panics and abandons Glenn and Noah, who is devoured by the walkers. Deanna assigns members of Rick's group to different roles throughout the community and convinces others within her inner circle that Rick's group is critical to their survival. The idea doesn't sit well with some of Alexandria's inhabitants. Rick's group discovers evidence that a savage group of human survivors known as the Wolves are located nearby.

Rick discovers that Jessie Anderson's husband Pete who suffers from alcoholism has been abusing her, and under Deanna's request, kills him during a violent episode in which Pete accidentally kills Deanna's husband. The rest of the community witnesses everything in horror. Meanwhile, Rick's group has been followed by Morgan Jones, the first survivor Rick encountered after waking up from his coma. Morgan, who was hot on Rick's trail earlier, discovered the map that Abraham left at the church and the note addressed to Rick, and has been following them since. He walks up to Rick just as he shoots Pete.

Some months after bringing in the remaining survivors of Woodbury to the prison, Rick has stepped down as leader of the group. A flu-like contagion breaks out in the prison, fatal to many and compounding the problem when those that die reanimate as walkers and attack the others. The infected are isolated as the survivors seek medical help. Carol purposely murders two of the infected and burns their bodies to protect the group, but Rick banishes her for this decision. Eventually, they are able to treat the contagion, though have suffered great losses.

Meanwhile, the Governor is abandoned by his henchmen Martinez and Shumpert following the prison attack. He discovers the Chamblers, consisting of sisters Tara andLilly, Lilly's daughter Meghan who reminds the Governor of his daughter Penny, and their dying father. The Governor adopts a new identity, befriends the family, and helps to deal with their father when he dies and reanimates. When the Governor leaves, the Chamblers decide to stay with him. They eventually come onto a well-armed camp run by Martinez. He kills Martinez, takes over control of the camp, and considers using their armory, including a functional tank, to take back the prison as a place for the Chamblers to stay. As he leaves with other men, Meghan is attacked and killed by a walker much to Lilly's horror.

At the prison, the Governor finds Michonne and Hershel outside the fence and captures them. He uses the two as hostages to demand Rick's group leave the prison, and refuses to accept Rick's offer of co-existence. Lilly runs up with Meghan's body, and the Governor, no longer interested in simply taking the prison, decapitates Hershel and orders a full-on assault of the prison. The battle is bloody, and Rick's group is forced to scatter, with Rick and Carl distraught they cannot find their infant Judith. The Governor's men are killed, Lilly kills the Governor herself, and the prison is overrun with walkers.

Though splintered, the members of Rick's group all start seeing signs directing them to following train tracks to Terminus with the offer of shelter and safety. Rick and Carl reunite with Michonne and have a run in with a group of bandits known as the Claimers, led by a man name Joe. Daryl protects Beth while she helps him to open up about his tragic past and overcome the death of his brother Merle. However, while fighting off walkers, Beth is abducted by men in a car, and Daryl finds himself captured by the same Claimers Rick faced. Daryl and Rick are able to overpower the Claimers by murdering Joe and his entire group. After the massacre, Rick, Daryl, Michonne and Carl continue their journey towards Terminus. Tyreese is shown to have rescued Judith along with young sisters Lizzie and Mika; they come across Carol who joins them. They discover that Lizzie has an unhealthy fascination with the walkers, and when she kills Mika to see her reanimate as one, they are forced to kill her. Glenn has rescued Tara who had hidden herself away during the prison attack, and they join up with Abraham and Rosita who are escorting Eugene, a scientist, to Washington, D.C. as he claims to know how to stop the walkers. Maggie, Sasha, and Bob eventually join them, with Maggie and Glenn elated to find each other again.

The various groups discover Terminus at different times; it appears as a large fortified train yard, its occupants happy to welcome the new visitors. When Rick, Daryl, Michonne, and Carl arrive, Rick is suspicious of the place and secures a stash of weapons outside Terminus before they enter. They are greeted by Gareth, the leader of Terminus, and takes them on a tour of the site. Rick becomes angry when he sees gear belonging to Glenn and Maggie nearby, and Gareth orders them to drop their weapons. They are secured in a boxcar along with Glenn, Maggie, Sasha, Bob, Tara, Abraham, Eugene, and Rosita, and Rick confidently states that they have messed with the wrong people.

Months have passed since the group left Hershel's farm. With Lori in the latter stages of her pregnancy, the group is lucky to find an abandoned prison. They manage to clear it of walkers and take up residence, finding several prisoners, who have locked themselves inside. During a particularly bad walker attack, the group is separated. When Lori goes into labor, Maggie has to perform an emergency C-section, which kills Lori. Carl shoots her to prevent her from coming back from the dead.

Michonne and Andrea find a walled town called Woodbury. A seeming utopia safe from walkers. It's run by a man named The Governor, who initially treats them with mistrust, which is reciprocated in full by Michonne. They also find that Daryl's brother Merle is there, having survived amputating his own hand back in Atlanta.

We learn that Michonne's mistrust of The Governor is well-placed. He kills a group of soldiers for their equipment, keeps his walker daughter leashed to the wall, and has aquariums full of animated walker heads in his den. He hides all of this from Andrea as he pursues a relationship with her. When Michonne escapes, Merle tracks her down but is unable to kill her. She manages to get to a town, where she sees Merle capture Glenn and Maggie. Injured, Michonne gets to the prison and leads a group of them to Woodbury to save Glenn and Maggie.

In the fight that follows, Daryl is captured and Michonne kills The Governors daughter and stabs him in the eye, leaving him emotionally and physically ravaged.

Meanwhile, another group has managed to find the prison. Led by a man named Tyreese they are tired and helpless. A distrusting Carl allows them to stay but keeps them under lock and key until Rick can return.

As the first half of season 3 ends, an enraged Governor forces Daryl and Merle to fight one another for survival.

Escaping the blazing inferno that was the CDC, the group heads out for the nearest military base only to be waylaid by a sea of abandoned cars on the Interstate. When walkers attack, Carol's daughter Sophia runs into the forest. While the group searches for Sophia, Carl is shot by a hunter named Otis. Luckily, Otis's boss is a veterinarian, Hershel. The group moves to Hershel's farm and continues to search for Sophia, led by an impassioned Daryl Dixon.

Tensions between Rick's group and the people living on the farm grow, as Hershel does not want them staying there. Lori finds out she's pregnant, but is unsure if the father is Rick or Shane. Her pregnancy increases Rick's desire to stay on the farm. It all comes to a head when Glenn (who helped Rick escape Atlanta) finds that the barn is full of walkers. After a heated debate between Shane and Hershel, Shane releases the walkers from the barn to be put down. It's here that the group finds Sophia, now a walker herself. Rick does what he has to, and shoots her in the head.

A distraught Hershel (a recovering alcoholic) heads to an abandoned tavern to drink. Glenn (now in a relationship with Hershel's daughter Maggie) and Rick go to retrieve him. It's here they run into an untrustworthy group of scavengers. After a shoot out, they bring a wounded scavenger, Randall, with them back to the farm. As he heals, Dale is attacked by a walker. Daryl is forced to kill him. The group wonders how they can ever trust Randall enough to let him go. Shane settles the issue by taking him into the field and breaking his neck. He hides this fact, and uses Randall's disappearance as a lure to get Rick alone and away from the farm. In the ensuing confrontation Rick stabs Shane to death. When Shane's corpse reanimates, Carl shoots him down.

The gunshot draws in all surrounding walkers, who swarm the farm. The group barely escapes, getting separated from Andrea, who has been with the group since Atlanta. As Andrea struggles to survive on her own, she's rescued by a woman with a samurai sword and two unarmed (literally) walkers on chains. As Rick's group makes camp, Rick reveals that he learned at the CDC that everyone is infected by the virus, they will all become walkers when they die. As the camera pans out, we see a large prison in the distance.

Deputy Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma in an abandoned hospital after surviving a shooting. Outside the hospital the world is a nightmare, the dead have re-animated. Walkers, as they're called, are everywhere. After meeting a man and his son, Rick learns that his wife and son (Lori and Carl) may have fled to Atlanta, where the Center for Disease Control has set up a quarantine zone. He arms himself and sets out for the city.

Rick's best friend has helped Lori and Carl survive, and they are living just outside of Atlanta in a makeshift camp for a handful of survivors. Rick arrives in Atlanta to find it completely overrun by walkers. He's rescued by people from the camp and reunited with Lori, Carl, and Shane. Rick assumes control of the group and following an attack by a horde of walkers, they flee for the CDC.

At the CDC, they find one surviving doctor. He knows a bit about the pathology of the virus, but has no cure. Before long the CDC building activates safety protocols as it runs out of fuel. Rick's group barely manages to escape before the building incinerates.