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The final challenge of Total Drama World Tour takes place in sunny Hawaii. Alejandro wins the tiebreaker, pitting him against Heather for the million-dollar prize. Despite being outclassed by Alejandro's strength and speed, Heather refuses to give up, stopping at nothing to secure the money. The season ends with an erupting volcano, and the entire cast's dash to escape the island before the lava reaches them.

• Accidental Public Confession : Heather accidentally admits that she's in love with Alejandro , but he happily reciprocates Heather's feelings.
• All for Nothing : Regardless of who wins, the million dollar case gets destroyed when it falls into the volcano with Ezekiel.
• Appease the Volcano God : Subverted, as throwing the pineapples into the volcano made it angry.
• Artistic License : Even if the physical bills were destroyed, Heather or Alejandro would still be entitled to have the exact amount transferred into their bank accounts.
• Aside Glance : Noah's reaction to Heather seemingly letting slip her true feelings for Alejandro.
• Back for the Finale : All the eliminated contestants from across the first three seasons return here.
• The Bad Guy Wins : Alejandro's ending is the only time in which the season's main villain won. Cody even says this word-for-word in order to motivate Heather.
• Be Careful What You Wish For : In the ending where Alejandro wins. As he makes his way back up the volcano to retrieve his prize money, he sees Chris and Heather run down the mountain. He then stops and demands to get what's coming to him. He's then abruptly trampled by the entire stampeding peanut gallery and Blaineley's dolly cart.
• Because You Were Nice to Me : Cody offers to help Heather. Most of it is because of what Alejandro just did to him, but he does note that Heather was largely nice to him this season.
• The Big Damn Kiss : Alejandro and Heather. Not helped by the fact that Heather had the worst facial expression for the occasion and that everyone was either annoyed or disgusted by it.
• Heather after she found out from Chris that she threw Alejandro's dummy into the volcano in Alejandro's ending.
• Also Alejandro (a la Darth Vader at the end of "Revenge of the Sith"), after he found out that the prize money was destroyed in the volcano. He also does this as he slides down the volcano on an ice block.
• Blatant Lies : Alejandro claims that he let Heather reach the shore first to give her a false sense of confidence. We know that by now, he's seriously crushing on her.
• Bond Villain Stupidity : Despite Alejandro being just a couple of feet from the mouth of the volcano, where he can easily throw his pineapple sacrifice into the lava and win the $1 million, he still chooses to converse with Heather when she catches up to him and calls him out for his actions. This allows Heather to exploit his feelings for her, to the point where they kiss, leading her to kicking him in the groin and is thrown down the slope on an ice cube. Even Chris and Heather told him to just throw his sacrifice in. This especially works best in the ending where she wins.
• Can't You Read the Sign? : The "Do not throw pineapples into the volcano sign". Hawaiian Man: Oh, you didn't throw any pineapples in the volcano, did you? There are signs everywhere. Don't you know what happens when pineapples meet lava?
• Cerebus Retcon : Alejandro’s dislike of Owen for calling him “Al” was played as part of his Small Name, Big Ego throughout World Tour . Here, it’s revealed that his Big Brother Bully called him Al , making Alejandro’s reaction more justified.
• Chekhov's Volcano : The one where Heather and Alejandro have to throw the dummies.
• Crocodile Tears : Heather cannot beat Alejandro per the rules of the finale, so she exploits his weakness for her and gets the waterworks going. With a few well-played (and not entirely insincere) lines, Heather gets him to believe she's crying over the fact he'll leave her when he has the prize money, which makes Alejandro falter long enough for her to get him out of her way.
• Curb-Stomp Battle : After a brief struggle and a well-timed distraction from Heather, Alejandro quickly defeats Cody in the tiebreaker challenge and secures his position as Heather's opponent in the finals.
• Damsel in Distress : Heather in the tiebreaker challenge.
• As the volcano erupts, it sends huge flaming boulders on the contestants below, and an absolutely massive boulder goes straight for Heather in her ending.
• Ezekiel also serves as this to Chris and Chef as they are on their boat. Ezekiel sends that boat sinking.
• Death Glare : Most of the peanut gallery for Alejandro knocking Cody into shark-infested waters. The only exceptions are Courtney and Tyler, though the latter is unconscious and thus missed this.
• Didn't See That Coming : Nobody, least of all Chris, thought that Ezekiel would come back for the million dollars at the very end.
• Didn't Think This Through : The remaining contestants think the peanut gallery will vote to declare the ultimate winner, which makes it rather short-sighted of Alejandro to gleefully knock Cody into shark-infested waters after the guy had already been disarmed. Heather lampshades this.
• Dragon with an Agenda : Courtney's still smitten with Alejandro and is his primary helper in the final challenge, but she takes the time to try and convince him to give her a fifth of the million during Versus , and he promises that he'll pay her back "somehow" for her help, though doesn't elaborate.
• Enemy Mine : Cody and Heather against Alejandro.
• After the tiebreaker between Cody and Alejandro nobody (except Courtney, of course) took well that Alejandro threw Cody into shark-infested waters to win. If it wasn't for Sierra, Cody would have died.
• The tiebreaker selection involves Heather being locked in a glass case and pelted with golf balls. As much as they dislike her, Geoff and Bridgette assert they set this up with ping pong balls so that no one would get hurt. (Unsurprisingly, Chris made the switch.)
• Evil Versus Evil : Or as Harold puts it, "Evil Versus Wicked".
• Flipping the Bird : Every single member of Heather's peanut gallery team has been given no choice, as not one former contestant is willing to be Heather's supporter yet as a finalist she needs a team. While she is tied up during Cody's and Alejandro's fight, Heather asks her team for some support. What she gets is Leshawna giving her the finger.
• Before Cody and Alejandro face off in the tie-breaker, Harold advises him to "Aim for the Kiwis", unfortunately, Cody loses to Alejandro, so Heather delivers the Groin Attack during the kiss near the end of the episode.
• Closing out the episode proper during the eruption, Chris suggests that next season will have an all-new cast instead of the same group.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus : During "Versus", Alejandro sings for Lindsay and Courtney to find him "some giant feet" for his Heather effigy. But looking at the effigy later, you notice: it doesn't have any feet! But Heather's effigy of Alejandro does so... does that mean Alejandro cheated?
• Grand Finale : Of World Tour .
• Groin Attack : Two examples: First, Harold trying to stop Courtney from helping Alejandro, getting Helium Speech in return. The second, much more important one being Heather against Alejandro at the top of the volcano.
• Handicapped Badass : Sierra, in a wheelchair , defeated a shark to rescue Cody.
• "Hell, Yes!" Moment : In Heather's ending, most of the contestants over her kneeing Alejandro in the groin.
• Lack of Empathy : Courtney is the only person not to glare at Alejandro after the latter knocks Cody into the shark-infested water, instead smiling while having no concern for Cody.
• Alejandro gets kneed in the groin and sent packing down the volcano. As everyone escapes the erupting volcano, he ends up getting trampled by the majority of characters (including everyone he manipulated and betrayed throughout the season).
• Presumably as punishments for both being jerks, the money is burned in the lava, with neither Heather nor Alejandro getting to keep it.
• Last Villain Stand : Ezekiel, who's lost his humanity, and become a shell of his former self, tries one last time to steal the million dollar prize. He succeeds but falls into the volcano as a result.
• Lava Adds Awesome : Chris thoroughly believes in this.
• Lesser of Two Evils : Heather gets support from everybody except Courtney, a misguided Lindsay, an unconscious Tyler, and Katie and Sadie . By the end, Courtney's the only one who doesn't cheer for Heather. Heather herself actually seems happy to be considered "the good guy" for a change, even if it is just compared to Alejandro.
• Oh, Crap! : Thinking final victory will be decided by a vote, Alejandro upon realizing that he just endangered Cody's life in front of the peanut gallery.
• Playing with Fire : Chef sends two flaming arrows behind Cody and Alejandro when they participate in the challenge to become one of the final two.
• Post-Climax Confrontation : After the challenge is over and Heather/Alejandro has won the show, Ezekiel appears and jumps Heather/Chris to make one final attempt to claim the prize money. The ensuing altercation sends Ezekiel and the money into the volcano.
• The Power of Friendship : With Cody volunteering to help Heather, Harold signs on out of loyalty to his friend.
• A Rare Sentence : Lampshaded by Cody when he says this: Cody : Plus Heather's been pretty good to me overall. Man, I must the first person to say that.
• The title comes from the drink Hawaiian Punch .
• The name of the final challenge is a reference to the movie, Joe Versus the Volcano .
• Duncan calls Alejandro "La Cucaracha".
• Ezekiel grabs the money and falls into the lava like Gollum . He even looks like Gollum by this point.
• The Stinger has one to Revenge of the Sith . Alejandro is put into the robotic suit just like Darth Vader. The camera angles are pretty accurate to the movie as well.
• Trauma Button : Heather casually saying "No way, José" really triggers Alejandro. It turns out that's the name of his Big Brother Bully .
• Villain Respect : Alejandro is admittedly impressed by Heather carrying the heavy dummy out of sheer persistence.
• "The Villain Sucks" Song : "Versus".
• Threatening Shark : Several in the water that surround Cody and Alejandro in their head-to-head challenge. One swallows Cody until Sierra rescues him.
• Wham Episode : In no particular order: Cody isn't in the final two, Heather and Alejandro confess their love for each other, the million dollar prize is burned along with Ezekiel, Alejandro has to be forced into a robotic suit in order to live, Heather gets support from almost everybody on the Peanut Gallery, and Chris says that they are going to have a new cast for the next season . Oh, and the Boat of Losers ends up getting destroyed and sunk after Ezekiel crash lands into it .
• What Happened to the Mouse? : The fates of Blaineley, Ezekiel and Heather (though in the latter's case, only in her ending) are left explicitly undisclosed by the end of the episode, with Blaineley disappearing after running over Alejandro with her dolly and not being among those swimming away to safety, Zeke is thrown out of the volcano into the Boat of Losers but doesn't emerge after sinking it and, in Heather's ending, the episode ends just as Heather is about to be hit by a flaming rock. Needless to say, the latter two show up alive and well next season and Blaineley is shown alive two seasons later.
• In Cody's case, he makes it to the final three, the farthest he's ever gotten on the show, and has the most support behind him. He loses his shot at the million dollar prize during the tie-breaker after being on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle from Alejandro.
• In Heather's case, she manages to throw the sacrifice, finally be cheered on by the rest of the cast and lauded as the good guy for once. In the end, Ezekiel steals the case from her (or from Chris in Alejandro's ending) then falls into the volcano, burning it. She never gets compensated by Chris or the network for this either.
• In Alejandro's case, he's literally just one throw away from winning the competition, but screws it up by declaring his love for Heather, who kicks him in his kiwis and throws him down the volcano slope. In his ending, thanks to a technicality where Heather throws his sacrifice instead of hers, he's declared winner the by Chris, but never actually gets to claim his prize money because Ezekiel steals it from Chris and accidentally falls into the volcano with it. He then gets trampled by the stampeding Peanut Gallery and covered in lava. And then comes the Drama Machine . At least in Heather's ending, she actually got to hold the prize.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are : When Cody rallies her into action by saying the bad guy's gonna win, Heather excitedly asks, "You mean I'm the good guy?"
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Alejandro : My ladies, Please head straight, That's it, You're doing great! Search through that wood, Tout de suite, Find me some giant feet! Heather: Come on guys, Move it fast! Quick, quick, I won't be last! Grab logs to match his frame , All overbuilt and lame! Alejandro and Heather: I'm gonna win it (Yeah!) And you can't take it (No!) I'm right here in it (Yeah!) But you just fake it! (Oh!) Courtney: Is this thigh fat enough? Alejandro: Uh-huh. Heather: Hey! Harold: Gosh, is this neck thick enough? Bam! Now it's evil versus wicked, Heather's cool but Al is sick and All this aggro for the cheddar, She'll put Al here through the shredder! Alejandro: That's it now, hurry back, I need arms weak and slack, Her butt is scrawny and flat, And she ain't all that! Heather: Get me two knobby knees, and arms like logs of cheese! Bring me a big fat head, move quicker or you're dead! Alejandro and Heather: I'm gonna win it (Yeah!) And you can't take it (No!) I'm right here in it (Yeah!) But you just fake it! (Oh!) Courtney: Arms so right, it's ill! Worth one-fifth of the mil! Alejandro: I'll pay you back somehow! Pineapple-head me now! Alejandro and Heather: I'm gonna win it (Yeah!) And you can't take it (No!) I'm right here in it (Yeah!) But you just fake it! (Oh!) I'm gonna cash it (Yeah!) You'll never hit it (No!) You should trash it (Yeah!) Alejandro: Cause I just did it!

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• Only one helper from each of the final ists ' teams sings in this song.
• The others are " Come Fly With Us ," " Lovin' Time ," " Rowin' Time ," " Before We Die ," " Condor ," and " I'm Gonna Make It ."
• This is the second song sung after someone is eliminated. The first is  Oh My Izzy , and is thus the only one to not be about the eliminated person.

Continuity [ ]

• The first is " I'm Gonna Make It ."
• This is the fo ur th song to use a different style of animation. In this case, Heather and her helpers are colored in red while Alejandro and his helpers are colored in blue.
• The others are " This Is How We Will End It " and " I'm Gonna Make It ."
• This is the s i x t h and final song in a row that contains a reference to the prize money.
• This makes Hawaii the location in which the most songs are sung in.
• This is also the only non- aftermath song that Harold raps in.
• The others are " Rowin' Time ," " Paris in the Springtime ," " Sea Shanty Mix ," " Changing Guard Mix ," " Greek Mix ," " A Chinese Lesson ," " Condor ," " I'm Winning This ," and " I'm Gonna Make It ."
• The others are " Rowin' Time ," " Greek Mix ," " A Chinese Lesson ," and " Condor ."

References [ ]

• This is the second song to reference Greek mythology, with the first being " Greek Mix ." Both Alejandro and Heather have lightning bolts owned by Zeus , the king of gods in Greek mythology. Alejandro and Heather are also wearing laurel headdresses, a common item used to represent Ancient Greece.

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Total Drama World Tour is the third season of Total Drama.

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• 1.6 Slap Slap Revolution [3.07]
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• 1.22 Awwww, Drumheller [3.23]
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The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live finale ending explained

Creators Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, and Scott M. Gimple take us on set for that last scene.

California Dreams was better than Saved by the Bell. There, I said it.

Warning: This article contains spoilers about the season finale episode of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live , titled “The Last.”

The Walking Dead franchise often ends seasons with scenes containing big violent shockers (see Negan’s baseball bat at the end of TWD 's sixth season) or by setting up what is to come next in the universe (the trip to a French lab at the end of World Beyond or the Rick and Michonne reintroduction as the mothership coda scene.) But the final scene of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live ’ s season (and perhaps series? ) finale did something else entirely.

The finale began with Andrew Lincoln’s Rick and Danai Gurira’s Michonne on a mission to take down the CRM from the inside. And that they did. Rick finally got the Echelon Briefing from Major General Beale ( Terry O’Quinn ) and responded by stabbing the CRM leader in the chest. He and Michonne then rigged the toxic gas meant to take out Portland with explosives and detonated it outside of a military briefing, essentially zombifying the entire strike team. Michonne then took out the last remaining obstacle in their path by subduing CRM skeptic-turned-convert Thorne (Lesley-Ann Brandt) while explaining that “love doesn’t die.”

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Audio of a Civic Republic newscast informed us that Beale’s nefarious plans had been made public and there were new levels of oversight installed with free movement established within the Republic and new arrivals welcomed. And then came the reunion everyone had waited for, as Rick and Michonne walked off a chopper and were met by their children Judith (Cailey Fleming) and R.J. (Anthony Azor). It was a tender and moving moment, especially since Rick had not seen his daughter in more than six years and had never met his son.

Why did show creators Scott M. Gimple, Gurira, and Lincoln decide to end the season on such a sweet note? What was it like filming that big reunion? And why did pretty much everyone not named Rick or Michonne die along the way? We spoke to the three executive producers to get the inside story behind the finale and that final scene. (Also make sure to read our article on what they had to say about a possible season 2 .)

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Tell me about deciding on this family reunion as the final scene. From very early on, did you guys knew it was going to end there, or did that develop as you had your discussions? How did you decide that's where you were going to end this story?

SCOTT M. GIMPLE: To my recollection, that was the ending and we were working on the journey to that. But I have horrible working memory and I have two people that were there with me, so I want to get a confirmation on that. I truly believe that that was always the ending and we were moving towards it. I don't think there was ever a world where either one of those characters didn't stay on with the other. I might be wrong.

DANAI GURIRA: It definitely was that we were journeying towards that ending. There was definitely never an idea of like, "Oh, let's let it be a tragic ending." That was not on the table, I don't think at any point. It was always like, how do we get them together? How do we bring Rick his happy ending, and Michonne her happy ending? That's what I recall.

ANDREW LINCOLN: Yeah. I think it would've been a bit of a gut punch if we'd done six episodes, got everybody back, and then killed them both. I mean, that would've been a bit rude.

Well, you guys pretty much killed everyone else. I mean, you guys offed Okafor, Beale, Nat , Thorne, Jadis ….

GIMPLE : Yeah, you're right.

LINCOLN : That is true.

Was that by design, to up the body count? In the last few seasons of The Walking Dead, we didn't see as consistently as big a body count as we saw here on this show.

LINCOLN : I think we sort of backed ourselves into a corner, really. I think the whole gas idea, we just relied on Scott to work out.

GIMPLE : I will say that so many characters died along the way because it was a story about Rick and Michonne, and it was so focused on them, it didn't seem like we could serve them. Further, the deaths of those characters individually affected Rick and Michelle so deeply. So those deaths, they were not for shock value or body count. It was a little bit more aspiring to Joseph Campbell stuff.

LINCOLN : But you also did want an army of the dead.

GIMPLE : As far as the army, the gas was very much about that.

Speaking of people you killed off… Danai, you had your big fight scene with Lesley-Ann Brandt as Thorne. You've talked about how this being a love story was really important to you, so tell me about sort of capping that off with the “love doesn't die” line.

GURIRA : Well, firstly, I was very annoyed with that little poker I had to use versus my sword. That's just a wound I will eternally carry about our finale, so just putting that out there. But Gimple said this the other day, that Lesley-Ann did such a great job as Thorne and that she represented the Shane thing, even though she does come to a redemptive place at the end, which Shane kind of doesn't.

So it's that sort of idea of these very differing perceptions of how the world works, and the idea that no matter what's happened, no matter what we've gone through, no matter what has been experienced, our love, if anything, got stronger. So it doesn't die, it doesn't get diminished by the world's circumstances or by any dilemmas or traumas that come our way. It has stood the test of time. That's her belief system, and it's proven itself to her.

Thorne is a casualty, a fatality of the system. She bought into a system that Rick and Michonne could not and would not, and that's a result of those two very differing ideologies at the end. Consequently, it results also in Thorne's demise and Michonne's getting back to her love. So yeah, it's a crux of the whole ideology that is pairing that shown through.

I thought she was going to be the one to actually make it out alive, but you all killed her like you killed everyone off. I guess maybe Esteban is still out there somewhere, but that's about it.

GIMPLE : I mean, the title is The Ones Who Live .

LINCOLN : We should have just said We're the Only Ones Who Live .

Andy, tell me about filming this big scene with Terry O’Quinn with him giving you the lowdown on their plans and then the fight scene that finishes it off.

LINCOLN : I loved it. The reason why I came across to this country [was] to work alongside and to learn from people like him, and it was just a joy. As you know, he's one of the sweetest, coolest dudes I've ever met. We bonded on Joni Mitchell, randomly. He's got the most beautiful singing voice, and he plays the guitar. He's just one of those dudes, and he walks up with 43 pages of monologue, nails it every time. Then you have a couple of anecdotes in between sets, and off he goes again.

He allowed me to bruise his skin terribly with a fake sword, which I felt really sad about. He had really bad bruising the next day, and I felt terrible. We thought he wasn't going to do that much fighting, and he was absolutely game for all of it. He's a maniac and I love him to bits. I think we couldn't have wished for a better person to be charismatic, conflicting, a pragmatist, but also just a little unhinged. He sort of threaded the needle of all of those so perfectly.

The series is called The Ones Who Live and we know the importance of that line, but I heard another line repeated a few times in this episode, "This is the s--- we do." What's the significance of that line, because it seemed to be play a big role in this episode?

GIMPLE : Both of them do absolutely insane things, and it's an incredibly fun part of these characters. It's also a dark part of these characters. It's also a crazy part of these characters. They do insane things, but nine times out of 10, it's on behalf of others. That is something that both characters individually have always had in common. Then you put them together and they're insane on a grand scale, which they were this episode.

Both of them have very parallel experiences in this episode, but they were faced with the same question, which is, "People are going to die. What are you going to do?" But they both had the exact same answer, because they have the same soul.

I want to get back to the final scene. I know Scott was on strike then so couldn’t be on set, but Andy and Danai, what it was like filming that final scene? Take me on set for that day.

GURIRA : It was a very awesome day. It was also intense. I was very happy for both characters, interestingly, and I thought it was very special. There was something awesome about seeing both Cailey and Anthony. Anthony, he's a lovely young man. He can be very reserved, but he really opened up with Andy, which was really special to see. It was perfect.

For the character of R.J., this guy's been looming around like this absent father. And as an actor, he’s never met him. Anthony was really fascinated by him, and was joking on him and giving him a hard time. There was just a really great rapport they had, which was kind of poetic. I just saw him open up in a way I've never seen, so that was really, really special.

Cailey's always fantastic and just right on the money and she's always so incredible to be around. So it was a really great day. It was an emotional day in the sense that I wanted it to be a great day for our characters and it really turned out to be, so it was an intense day in a good way.

LINCOLN : Yeah, It was wonderful. The last time I saw Cailey, I was high-fiving her in the trailer for The Walking Dead as I was leaving season 9 and she was just joining. Then I see how accomplished an actress she is. She was just, as Danai said, every single take, so grounded, so moving. There's always an expectation of the last scene, the last line, just to make sure that we were focused and enjoying ourselves and quite free — that was really important.

I think Anthony saw through my beard and realized that I was more of a child than he was, and probably that's why we got on quite well. But it was a lovely day after quite an exhausting shoot. It was towards the end. It was one of those wonderful scenes and it's something that we've spoken about for years, that reunion, so it was glorious to finally do it.

We've talked a lot about what it was like coming back to the role after being away for a few years, but what did it feel like after you wrapped these six episodes?

GURIRA : We were so exhausted that it was just about sort of getting your bearings back, a lot of that. But we were so deeply involved almost right away in some degree of post-production. I remember my last day I just had to do some little tiny things, but I wanted to finish with Andy, so I was getting sentimental near the end. Andy's like, "What's the big deal?" I'm like, "No, I want to finish on the same day," so I came back and did some really unnecessary inserts. I mean, they were necessary, but they could have been done another day. Then I was just in the parking lot having a cookout with the crew and smoking cigars, while Andy was stuck.

LINCOLN : I had to f---ing cut my hand off again while you were partying in the trailer with most of the crew.

GIMPLE : Andy was being moved from one intense scene to the other intense scene to the other. It was emotional ping pong.

GURIRA : That was the day they were telling him he had to cry into a letter and he was writing.

LINCOLN : Yeah, that's right. They said, "We want seven tears onto the camera lens now."

GIMPLE : You were cutting off your hand, you were stabbing walkers in a fury building up to an emotional explosion, and then yeah, you were weeping over a letter.

GURIRA : I was literally smoking cigars. It was really funny.

LINCOLN : You were smoking cigars and having drinks.

GURIRA : Eating pizza and champagne. I felt bad for him. I was having a blast.

GIMPLE : I was picketing in New York, so a wild array of experiences.

LINCOLN : It was a wild ride.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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