Jeffrey Dean Morgan has lost a lot of weight--he used to be heftier.
The pacing of this season truly sucks; the scenes with Carol, Morgan, and Richard seem disjointed from the rest of the episode, and looks like it's from another show entirely. And are we really supposed to care about Richard, considering the last we saw him was 5 episodes ago?
The last scene looked promising though, it reminded of the last scene in the last few episodes of Person of Interest, when they were all reunited.