Walking Dead Finale Recap: Did Rick Get To Stay In Alexandria?

After Rick (Andrew Lincoln) turned lots of heads in Alexandria with his brawl with Pete (Corey Brill) and bloody-faced condemnation of Deanna (Tovah Feldshuh) and her leadership methods in the penultimate episode, the finale's centerpiece involved a town meeting in which the residents of Alexandria decided Rick's fate in the community. Fortunately for Rick, (deadly) unforeseen circumstances actually worked in Rick's favor. [...] let's celebrate the long-awaited return of Morgan (Lennie James), who spent most of this season relegated to post-credit teaser sequences. "The native tribes believed wolves transformed into men," one of the thugs said, explaining his group's name -- The Wolves -- before attacking Morgan, who deftly (and surprisingly) handled his opposition with some skillful use of his walking stick. When Daryl and Aaron went to open what they assumed would be huge truck full of canned goods, instead they unleashed hundreds of walkers. Daryl and Aaron eventually found safety inside a car, but just before they decided to make a (suicidal) break for the fence, Morgan showed up and saved the day, busting enough heads for Aaron and Daryl to escape safely. Elsewhere in the episode, Alexandrian Nicholas (Michael Traynor) and Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) remained the two worst people ever. Father Gabriel went outside completely unarmed with a death wish. [...] when he encountered a walker he might have wished would kill him, he actually stepped up and did some killing of his own. Rick then takes the corpse to the town meeting and throws it at Deanna's feet, basically resting his case about how unprepared and ill-equipped the people of Alexandria are to survive in this world.