Last Night's TV: The Walking Dead, Once Upon a Time, Homeland and More (SPOILERS!)

VIEW IN BROWSER THIS ISSUE: The Walking Dead, Once Upon a Time, Homeland, Quantico, Preacher TOP MOMENT OF THE NIGHT Morgan's Going Clear on The Walking Dead AMC BECAUSE: We hope you like Morgan because all 90 minutes of Sunday's episode belonged to explaining how Morgan went from the rabid man we glimpsed in season 3 to the pacifist we know now. There was "clearing" of walkers, there was John Carroll Lynch, there was a goat (RIP, Tabitha), there was aikido -- what more could you want? (Uh, other than some news on Glenn...) READ OUR RECAP Once Upon a Time ABC WHAT HAPPENED: Sunday was really all about the side-character background stories, with Merida getting her time in the sun on Once Upon a Time, as well. But it's also the story of how Dark Emma turned Rumple into a hero -- big mistake, huge (or so he says). In Camelot, Merida enlists Belle's help to prove to the clansmen that she can be queen; she wants to go the "turning into a bear route," but as EW recapper Andrea Towers says, "Like all Disney heroes, all she has to do is believe in herself... isn't that a better way? (10/10 Disney films say yes.)" In Storybrooke, however, Emma has manipulated Merida into threatening Belle so that Rumple will save her, giving him the hero power to remove Excalibur from the stone. Rumple as a hero and Emma going against Merlin's warnings to leave Excalibur be? Might this begin the downfall of Dark Emma? WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: So is Merida seeing some shred of good in Emma? "Absolutely not. No, definitely not. She's a villain!" actress Amy Manson told IGN. And Merida isn't the only new character in Camelot who's onto Dark Emma; Merlin is finally out of that tree and being portrayed by Elliot Knight. Of playing the famous wizard, Knight told The Wrap, "When I watched the final episode of Season 4, that's when it dropped for me ... There's so much pressure." But show creators Eddie Kitsis and Adam Horowitz hand-selected the British actor to play Merlin after seeing him in Sinbad, so we expect he'll handle the pressure just fine. READ OUR RECAP Homeland Showtime WHAT HAPPENED: Aren't reunions just the best? Well, when they're not as a result of your ex nearly getting killed when he was supposed to be killing you. Let EW recapper Shirley Li explain why the gang's back together again on Sunday night: "Carrie, who has a knack for forging questionable alliances when faced with impossible tasks -- remember Hezbollah in the premiere? -- has turned to Quinn, Jonas, Astrid, Laura, and finally Saul." Jonas gives Quinn medical attention, Astrid finds out that the hitman was a Russian national which Carrie realizes is probably because there's something in the documents that were given to Laura Sutton that the Russians don't want her to see, and then she knows: better call Saul. (Sorry.) But, by the end of the episode, it's unclear if Saul can get his old mentee Carrie the documents, just as it's unclear if Allison is the mustache-twirling villain that last week made her out to be. This week finds her spending most of the episode conflicted about if she's making a huge mistake with her Russia dealings, which, technically, is preferable to Carrie having to spend the hour in that terrible wig, but still... WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: So all of this -- the attempted hits, Allison's mysterious dealings, Quinn's escape from Jonas and maybe into the hands of yet another person trying to kill him at the end of Sunday's episode -- comes down to those damn documents. The A.V. Club theorizes that whether or not Homeland's writers entirely mean to make this statement, "The argument of season five appears to be that the Edward Snowdens and Chelsea Mannings of the world are doing more harm than good, and good men and women are dying as a result." We might agree -- it wouldn't kill Laura to tone it down a bit... probably the opposite, in fact. READ OUR RECAP Quantico ABC WHAT HAPPENED: So the whereabouts of each NAT on bombing day is finally taking shape. In fact, the episode is doling out answers to lingering questions like the Quantico tailor doles out perfectly shaped henleys. And the biggest connecting thread of those answers according to EW recapper Dalene Rovestine? "Wow, these people make bad life decisions." Indeed! Everyone is spilling info and making out in public like this week's NAT lesson isn't entirely about how someone is always watching. Alex is watching when Liam starts talking to Ryan about their secret Alex spying; Simon is watching as he casually open's Raina's room to find her with her twin sister Nimah (so they knock him out and lock him in a bathroom, duh); in present day, Alex watches one of the twins in the Grand Central surveillance footage days before the bombing; and in the same footage, Caleb watches Shelby -- his Quantico sexy times partner -- make out with his dad, Clayton Haas, the deputy director of the FBI. Ew. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: So, that's a lot of leads. It's also a lot of sloppiness, and not just of the having-an-affair-with-two-generations-of-Haas-men kind, Shelby. The supposed top FBI recruits in the nation are all over the place, both personally and professionally. TV Line points out that, "If the surveillance exercise in this week's Quantico is any indicator of the future agents' ability to pick up on pertinent details, it's no wonder that Grand Central is a smoking pile of rubble." TV Guide keeps it simple: "At this point, Quantico should just be called Sex, Lies and Videotape." Either title, we're still dying to know who spots who doing what on the next installment. READ OUR RECAP One More Thing... The Gun of a Preacher Man AMC KEEP THE FAITH: AMC just debuted the first full look at Preacher, the network's latest comic book adaptation, that touts Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg as executive producers and Breaking Bad's Sam Caitlin as showrunner. And, well, that is one violent man of the cloth. READ OUR RECAP Also Check Out... Recommended by Copyright © 2015 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved. WANT MORE? To subscribe to any of EW.com's email products, please click here. PRIVACY POLICY Please click here for our privacy policy. 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