Spend

"Spend" is the fourteenth episode of the fifth season of AMC's The Walking Dead. It is the sixty-fifth episode of the series overall. It premiered on March 15, 2015. It was written by Matt Negrete and directed by Jennifer Lynch.

Plot
While trying to secure their new home, Rick and his group face many challenges, some life threatening. Is this really the utopia it seems to be?

Co-Stars

 * Corey Brill as Pete Anderson
 * Steve Coulter as Reg Monroe
 * Major Dodson as Sam Anderson
 * Ted Huckabee as Bruce
 * Dahlia Legault as Francine
 * Michael Traynor as Nicholas

Uncredited

 * Duane Kicak as Tommy
 * Robert Morato as Bobby
 * Matthew Lyda, James Frazier and Eric Nordhoff as Walkers

Deaths

 * Aiden Monroe
 * Noah

Trivia

 * First appearance of Bruce.
 * First appearance of Francine.
 * Last appearance of Noah. (Alive)
 * Last appearance of Aiden Monroe.
 * The title of the episode, "Spend", refers to the price everyone has to pay with Noah and Aiden's deaths.
 * While talking to Glenn, Noah reveals it has been one week since the events of "Remember".
 * The van the group uses bears a striking resemblance to the van the group finds on the road in Issue 61. The main similarity being the bird design on the side of the van.
 * The song that plays from the van during the departure to the nearby warehouse scene is "Internet Friends" by Knife Party.
 * Noah's death is foreshadowed in this scene when the lyrics "and now you're going to die" are spoken over a shot of Noah.
 * During the Talking Dead segment, Noah's death was parodied as "Everybody Ate Chris". This references "Everybody Hates Chris" a show based on Chris Rock's life as a teenager, which Tyler James Williams played the main character as.
 * Several easter eggs were confirmed during the Talking Dead segment of this episode. The titles for the last five episodes were taken from the quote Dale said back in "Vatos". "I like what the father said to the son when he gave him a watch that had been handed down through generations. He said: 'I give you a mausoleum of all hope and desire which will fit your individual needs, no better than it did mine and my father before me. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you may forget it. For a moment, now and then, and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it.'" a nod to all five titles.

Comic Parallels

 * Abraham saving Francine's life at the construction site is adapted from a similar scene in Issue 73, where he saves Holly's life instead.
 * Abraham taking leadership of the construction crew is adapted from Issue 74.
 * Gabriel's conversation with Deanna and begging her to exile Rick's group is adapted from Issue 74and Issue 75.