Beware: Spoilers through Season 6 of ‘The Walking Dead’ to follow.

As any fan of “The Walking Dead” knows, the show’s highly anticipated season six midseason finale aired Sunday, Nov. 29. Episode eight, titled “Start to Finish,” picked up where the last one left off — with a horde of walkers entering the group’s once walled and protected community.

While the show has used the threat of zombies many times, this episode highlighted the challenges of this situation when the characters are divided. Rick and his team have only recently joined the Alexandria safe zone, and the division between the two groups is at its peak.

Most notably, Carl and Ron are at odds as they try to defend their respective fathers’ actions, while Deanna and Rick must push aside opposing leadership views to protect the community.

Unfortunately, in the ensuing fight, a walker manages to bite Deanna.

“We are all your people now,” she tells Rick about Alexandria, as she explains why she helped, and concedes any remaining power.

Moral struggles are integral this episode. Morgan and Carol fight, as they have wildly different opinions on whether a mass murderer should die to ensure the group’s safety or be saved as an act of humanity in an inhumane world. And before her death, Deanna points out the internal conflict within everyone’s favorite sword-wielding female, Michonne.

“It’s my life, from start to finish,” Deanna says, reiterating the episode’s title as she describes what she has accomplished and urges the young woman to figure out her own purpose in this broken society.

However, moments of self discovery are put on hold, as walkers storm the house where Rick, Carl, Judith, Michonne, Gabriel, Jessie and her two sons, Ron and Sam, have been hiding.

Using a technique introduced in the first season, Rick takes two zombies’ guts and covers his group with them to camouflage everyone as they try to maneuver through the horde and escape. But when Sam panics and calls out for his mom, the episode closes, leaving the fates of the eight characters in the air.

I thought ending on such a cliffhanger was a bit overdone considering that earlier in the season, they had left the audience wondering for several weeks about the fate of series veteran Glenn.

However, I did think it was a nice break from the show’s regular formula of killing off seasoned characters each midseason. Rick’s strategy for getting his group to safety also gives people something to look forward to when the series returns Feb. 14, 2016.

Rating: 4/5 Not my favorite ending