Next season Carl is going to be the MC. Rick and the rest of the crew arrive at Terminus only to find out it's a cannibalistic group tricking people by posting those signs and luring them in. It's run by a their leader "Bubba the Butcher." A huge glutenous man with a round belly, bald head and long beard. After a huge battle the gang ends up getting captured. Bubba lines them up and ends up killing Michonne. Bubba wants Rick to suffer, so he cuts off both Ricks hands and stabs out both of Carl's eyes. Rick tackles Bubba and tells Carl to run, so Carl blindly runs away but trips over Michonne's sword that was dropped in the fight from before, picks it up, and keeps running. Episode ends in darkness with Carl breathing heavily and crying.
Mid season the series will do a time skip to a few years later. The few that survived has been moved to a new town called "The Farm" were they're held as prisoners or rather "cattle". At the Farm they are forced to bred and are randomly processed as food. Other than that are they are free to live but Bubba constantly has his gang members patrolling and whatnot. There's a growing resistance being organized. All previous small attempts at rebellion were violently squashed but Bubba finds out about this new more organized resistance lead by Maggie and Glen. He gathers his cannibals to the Farm. He tells them he's disappointed as he's given them shelter, food, and a better life than being "walker food." To teach them a lesson he's going to kill a third of them. Focus cuts to one of Bubba's henchmen, his head is chopped off, other cannibals start dropping like flies. Focus on Bubba, he takes a dramatic 180 see's a familiar face. Surprised he says: "Well

, it's you!!" end episode....
Next few episodes are about how Carl got away. He ran into the forest, cried about how he's going to die, he can't go back or Bubba will kill/eat him. He tries to patch up his eye with his shirt. Fast forward a day, he's still in misery, but he hears Rick calling out for him, they reunite. Rick tells him almost everyone was killed or captured, Rick patches him up. They plan to get revenge on Bubba. Rick helps him sneak back into Terminus at night to get supplies and whatnot. Next few episodes will fast forward several weeks/months/years at a time, Rick has been helping Carl train to get stronger and survive in the wilderness, and they've been planning their attack and revenge on Bubba.
Series finale shifts back to scene with Bubba on The Farm. Bubba's line: "Well

, it's you!! How did you survive all these years?!". Carl: "I am my father's arms, and he is my eyes, and we've come to kill you." Frame shifts to Carl: he's older, more athletic, and has Michonne's sword. Both eyes are bandaged up, and tape has been wrapped around his forehead, holding Rick's phone to his ear. Bubba: "You're father screamed your name as I ripped him from gullet to groin." Carl: "Wait, if you called my father