The key difference to me with Morgan is that he seems to have self-actualized already. We saw his darkest moment in "Clear". Somewhere between then and "Conquer" Morgan made inroads clearing up his major source of internal conflict: seeing his zombie wife kill his son as a direct result of his inaction.

Lovely post, thanks. I'm also looking forward to next season even though, as you pointed out, the episode moved to stabilize rather than to cast the characters into disarray like the epic set-piece finales of past seasons. The standard is much higher. The show's confidence in theme and continuity is truly on par with…

I hadn't considered that there was sound reasoning behind her decision rather than solely emotion. That would make the disjointedness of the scene even more unsatisfying and the character's pivot feel more severe and forced.

Kind of seemed like that was where they were going with Deanna. Ordering her constable to summarily execute Pete was an interesting choice considering her vehement opposition to murder in favor of banishment earlier in the season.

Lennie James surmised that Morgan honked the horn to make sure no walkers were around, which makes sense if the character has turned so extremely to altruism. May have been effective enough to just have him leave them in the car though.

I have high hopes for Morgan's role next season. The episode set him up as a parallel to Rick in an even more pronounced way than in "Clear": "every life is precious" vs. some die so we may live.