Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Sunday's upcoming episode of "The Walking Dead."
Sunday's episode of "The Walking Dead" ended with Rick about to read the letter Carl left him behind after his untimely death.
If you're wondering what it says, you don't have to wait to know.
Fans with an AMC premiere account can watch the opening minutes of next week's episode here and it shows a teary-eyed Rick reading Carl's letter while looking out at the Hilltop. It's bound to make you tear up as well.
This is your last chance to head back before spoilers.
A YouTube user uploaded the opening scene to the video-sharing platform late Sunday night and it's been gaining traction on the "Walking Dead" subreddit ever since.
We won't post the link here, but it's easy enough to find if you're looking.
Unlike Carl's letter to Negan, this one delivers a bit more of an emotional punch.
Rick isn't simply poring over a handwritten letter fans need to decipher. Chandler Riggs returns in a voice-over to read the letter aloud to his father from beyond the grave.
If you were upset over Carl's death on the show, the nearly four-minute scene will get the water works going.
The scene shows glimpses of Carl's written note several times throughout the scene. If you compare the written version to what Carl says aloud, there are a few minor differences.
Here's what Carl's letter to Rick says in full:
"I remember my 8th birthday at the KCC with the giant cake and Aunt Evie showing up on leave surprising all of us. I remember mom. I remember Codger.* I remember school and going to the movies and Friday night pizza and cartoons and grandma and grandpa and church. Those summer barbecues and the kiddie pool you got me — could have used that at the prison.
You told me about the walks we’d take when I was three … you holding my hand around the neighborhood all the way to Ross’ farm. I didn’t know that I remembered them, but I do because I see the sun and the corn and that cow that walked up to the fence and looked me in the eye. And you told me about all that stuff but it isn’t just that stuff. It’s how I felt. Holding your hand, I felt happy and special and I felt safe.
I thought growing up was about getting a job and maybe a family, being an adult. But growing up is making yourself and the people you love safe, as safe as you can because things happen. They happened before. You were shot before things went bad. I kind of felt like things went bad because you were shot. I want to make you feel safe, dad. I want you to feel just like I felt when you held my hand. Just to feel that way for five minutes, I’d give anything to make you feel that way now.
I wanted to kill Negan. I wish I did, maybe it would have been done. I don’t think it’s done now. You went out there again, but I don’t think they surrendered. I don’t think they will surrender. There were workers in there, dad. They’re just regular people — old people, young people, families. You don’t want them to die, dad.
We’re so close to starting everything over and we have friends now. That bigger world Jesus talked about, the Kingdom, the Hilltop, there’s got to be more places, more people out there, a chance for everything to change and keep changing — everyone giving everyone the opportunity to have a life, a real life. So if they won’t end it, you have to. You have to give them a way out.
You have to find peace with Negan. Find a way forward somehow. We don’t have to forget what happened, but you can make it so that it won’t happen again, that nobody has to live this way, that every life is worth something.
Start everything over. Show everyone that they can be safe again without killing. They can feel safe again. That it can go back to being birthdays, and school, and jobs, and even Friday night pizza somehow, and walks with a dad and a three-year-old holding hands. Make that come back, dad. And go on those walks with Judith. She’ll remember them.
I love you.
Carl"
The significance of Carl's letter: Rick needs to put his grudges aside (and maybe hang up the murder coat for good)
Carl references a few significant moments from his childhood. He mentions a few unfamiliar names including, what sounds like Codger. Perhaps this was another relative or maybe a family pet.
But the main takeaway is that Carl wants Rick to see past all of the senseless bloodshed right now to build a better world for everyone.
Maybe Rick should have read this letter before he ruthlessly took out an entire group of Saviors with Morgan. Hopefully, this is the impetus which will help Rick see that he needs to stop this silly fight with Negan. Negan already seemed ready to make peace with Rick when he told him Carl was dead. The two just need to be on the same page to carry through with Carl's wishes.
The next episode of "The Walking Dead," titled "Worth," airs Sunday, April 8 at 9 pm. on AMC.
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