For weeks, Damian Priest has been needled by Cody Rhodes about who the true leader of The Judgment Day might be, since in Rhodes’ mind, it is anyone but “Señor Money In the Bank.” Tonight, Priest had enough, snapping on Rhodes and his makeshift WarGames teammates, Jey Uso and Sami Zayn, telling them very clearly that he was the leader of the group. And just as he said it, fellow Judgment Dayers Finn Balor and Dominik Mysterio shot Priest a good, old-fashioned side eye.

I think we can all agree — yes, even here in the land of pro wrestling markdom where we usually do everything but all agree! — that it’s time for a new chapter in The Judgment Day’s saga, and this will certainly bring us closer to whatever that might be. I’m not sure it entirely dissolves anytime soon, with all the momentum behind Mysterio and Rhea Ripley serving as Exhibit A for why it shouldn’t. But those two can always go off on their own. Balor and the official new member, JD McDonagh, can do their own thing at some point, maybe even after turning on the rest of the group. And that would leave Priest all on his own, perhaps in a fortuitous spot of timing that would finally allow him to focus on executing a Money In the Bank cash-in.

It’s been a good run overall for The Judgment Day, sending Edge out to pasture (and ultimately the pro wrestling retirement home that AEW has become), drawing nuclear heat for Mysterio, turning Ripley into “Mami,” re-invigorating Balor’s career, putting championship-level shine on Priest and now giving McDonagh instant equity. But it’s about time for the spinoffs.