This arc of choosing what matters came to a head at the end of Season 3, when Rick's daughter and Smith family matriarch Beth confronts her dad about passing on the sociopathic, avoidant traits ...

As teased (then seemingly negated) in the prison-break episode, "The Rickshank Redemption," Rick C-137 witnessed his wife Diane and his young daughter Beth die at the hands of a menacing alternate ...