RICK TURNS IN HIS BADGE

90-degree September afternoon outside Atlanta, Georgia, and the cast members of are taking turns trying to put into words how it feels to be filming without Andrew Lincoln, ex–sheriff’s deputy and de facto leader Rick Grimes. It’s not easy. “I don’t like goodbyes,” says Melissa McBride (tough Carol Peletier). Fans of the zombie apocalypse drama may even consider the linchpin character’s exit—which is coming up fast—the end of the world, but the show does