SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's The Walking Dead Season 8 fall finale. Echoing its mid-season ender tradition of killing off characters, The Walking Dead tonight went for a renewed body count with its Season 8 winter finale, kind of. Revealing a festering walker bite , Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs) was the delayed sacrifice on Sunday in the extended 90-minute and much hyped “How It's Gonna Be” episode.