We start off with Merle and three others walking in woods where they walk into a clearing and find a zombie that has been cut to pieces. One of the guys points out that it's a message, the arms are formed into the letter G, the legs into an O, and then the torso by itself. One of Merle's lackeys points out that it means "Go back". This makes a few if the peons a little nervous, and Merle approaches one and asks him his name, after he tells him that his name is Garguilo, Merle says he is going to keep calling him Neal. It keeps up Merles racist swagger.
Suddenly, a wild Michonne appears!
She drops out of a tree and decapitates Crowley, before stabbing the other guy whose name we never heard and uses him as a shield while Merle fires off several shots at her.
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| You just got... Mich-owned! |
Michonne runs off, leaving Garguilo confused and covered in Crowley's blood. Merle chases her to the clearing, yelling at her if they are having fun.
Back in the boiler room at the prison we hear a woman on phone talking to Rick. They go through a series of questions where she talks about being someplace safe and Rick wanting to take the group there. After Rick breaks down crying on the phone and pleading for help, she says she will discuss it with her people and call back in two hours.
Rick shows back up to the cell block where everyone appears to be eating, and he is magically got a shower in someplace because now he is perfectly clean. Rick says he stopped back to check on Carl after he cleared in the boiler room killing over a dozen walkers. Daryl says Axel is fixing up generator room and they have cleared the bodies from the area. Glenn says that he and Maggie are going to make a run for more supplies. Rick leaves to do the same in the boiler room.
Back in the woods, Merle is arguing with Garguilo, or maybe giving him a pep talk about how "shit is going down". Merle indicates one of the rules is they never let their own turn, he knifes the ones guy we didn't know in the head, and demands Garguilo do the same to Crowley even though he is already decapitated and it makes no fucking sense. Merle gives him approval, and says Michonne is hunting and now they need to hunt too.
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| Crowley has a squishy skull |
In Woodbury we see Andrea approached by the Governor. She brings up the arena fights from the night before, and when she asks if she can ask a question, he shoots her down immediately Andrea voices her concern anyway that the "brutality for fun" isn't a good escape in such a brutal world. Despite this, she claims to get it and has decided she wants to contribute to the community. She offers to take up wall guard duty, and to learn to use a bow.
Rick is back in the boiler room, sitting by phone. It rings and this time it's a guy on other end this time. The man starts quizzing Rick about if he has killed anyone. Rick says he killed four people. After explaining a few of the deaths away, most notably Shane's... The voice asks how he lost his wife. Rick is confused about how the man knew he had a wife, to which the voice responded "you have a son and a small child", but Rick doesn't wanna talk about that, the phone line goes dead. Rick at this point goes into a bit of a rage and does his best Darth Vader being born "NOoOoOoOOOOooooOOO!!!"
Next we find Andrea sitting on the wall of Woodbury talking to a girl about learning to use a bow. The girl tells her that her dad taught her how to use a bow and wanted her to be an olympic champion. She talks about killing her dad for the bow, but Andrea sees through the bullshi and they end up sharing stories about having to kill family members. Just before their idol chatter could get any worse we are spared their intellectual repartee by a walker showing up. Bow girl fires two shots missing terribly Katniss she is not. Andrea jumps the wall rushing the walker and killing it up close. Katmiss (yes, I did that) yells at her for jumping over the wall and breaking the rules.
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| I auditioned for Hunger Games, never got a call back... |
Rick still in boiler room. Hershel shows up and asks to hang around. Rick gets him a chair. Herschel talks about his missing leg and how its like having a ghost while thanking Rick for saving his life. Hershel says Lori was sorry for the things she put Rick through and was planning to talk to him about it, but she never got the chance. Rick tells him about the phone calls. Hershel picks up the phone, puts it back down and gives him a fairly confused look. He offers to stay and wait with Rick, but he says no.
Merle and Carguilo are in the woods, still hunting Michonne. She sneaks up behind them and disables Carguilo with a slice of a sword that sends him stumbling back. Merle disarms her when her sword and his prosthetic get entangled, but during the melee a group of walkers show up. Michonne scrambles to her sword in time to disembowel one that is standing above her, it's guts spill out and cover her upper body. Carguilo kills one by stabbing it in the back of the head while it's trying to to turn Merle into a snack. Merle then does his best street fighter uppercut to put his knife through the last ones skull. All three walkers are down, but Michonne is gone.
Daryl, Carl and Oscar are walking through the hallways, scouting for walkers and supplies. They come across a door with some banging noises on the other side, but Daryl wants to leave them for the way back. Daryl tells Carl a story about how when he was a kid his mom smoked in the bedroom. One day he was playing with all the other kids in the neighborhood who had bikes and he didn't. Says one day they heard fire trucks going, so all the kids on bikes start to chase the fire truck and he raced after them but couldn't keep up. When he caught up to the fire trucks he realized they were at his house, and it had burnt down killing his mom. Daryl says how people told him it was better that way. Carl interrupts to tell Daryl that he shot his mom, before she turned. He says "I ended it, it was real" and says sorry about Daryl's mom, Daryl tells him sorry about his. It was a cute big brother moment for Daryl who is getting more character development so far this season than pretty much everyone else combined.
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| Kid in an adult body, and an adult in a kid body, lets bond! |
Next we see the Governor sketching in his notepad. Andrea comes in and says that she says she liked the fights, and says she didn't like that she liked the fights. He says he knew because she didn't leave when she had the chance. He thinks it's because she likes him.
Back in the woods we see Merle who appears to have lost some of his nerve. Merle says she killed Tim (hey he does have a name!) and Crowley. Merle tells Carguilo they need to leave. However in a sudden burst of manliness, Carguilo wants to keep going after Michonne. Merle says its a waste of time because she is going to die anyway with all the biters out there and that they should live to the Governor about her death. Carguilo says he won't lie to the boss. Merle says "Carguilo... hear that bird" and as soon as he glances at the tree Merle shoots him in the face.
Michonne pulling her pack that she hid in a tree, loads it up on her back and starts to limp away when she sees four walkers headed her way. Right when she is prepping her sword to kill them, she notices they are ignoring her and just wander right past her. She looks down relaxing the spilled walker guts all over her are masking her to them, similar to what Rick and Glenn did in season one.
Rick gets another call, woman this time, same voice as the first call. Rick says he doesn't want to talk about his wife, then the girl says you should talk about it Rick. He suddenly realizes that he never told this person his name, so he asks how she knows it.
Now we find Michonne walking around a building and into a parking lot full of cars. She ducks behind a car as she hears and then sees a truck coming. Out of it pops Maggie and Glenn. After Maggie checks the parking lot briefly, but not very thoroughly, they have a kiss and talk about how nice the weather is. Glenn pops a padlock that was holding a door shut on what appears to be some sort of department store. When he opens the door they are startled by birds flying out of the entry way. Michonne watches then quietly.
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| They didn't, but maybe they should have... |
Outside in what appears to be a garden, Andrea is talking to Governor about his past life joking about what kind of a guy he was. When she runs into a brick wall in her inquiries she says something about him not being proud of anything, but he tells her that he had something he was proud of before, most likely alluding to Penny. He says he likes being where he is right now though and that she should call him Phillip because he is off the clock. Andrea likes that because then she feels less like a lobbyist. He tells her she doesn't have to be ashamed about liking the fights. Tells her that fighting is part of being alive and that liking the fight is what separates the living from the dead. "Eat drink and be merry, tomorrow we die" he tells her. Andrea wants to pass on the dying part. They share a pretty intense kiss.
Glenn finds a bunch of baby formula and other supplies which he is carrying in a basket back out to the truck. He is talking to Maggie about how it's not far back to the prison and how they need to get back. Merle shows up with a gun drawn on them. Glenn and Maggie both pull pistols and we get a nice little standoff. Merle recognizing Glenn drops his gun and approaches. He asks about his brother Daryl. Merle wants to know if he is alive and if he can be taken to him. Says if they take him to Daryl then all the old drama of being left on the roof will be forgiven. Glenn says he should wait there and he will go get Daryl and bring him back. Merle being the irrational douchebag he is decides he doesn't like Glenn's plan. He gets the drop on Maggie and has her pinned down at gunpoint. He uses her as leverage to make Glenn get in car and start driving them away. Michonne watches this all happen.
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| Ninja Michonne |
Daryl, Carl, and Oscar are all still searching cells. Oscar runs into a cell really excited by finding some slippers Daryl is confused by this, but Oscar says that he needs them to relax. While all three are in the cell a walker pops up in the entryway they came through and all three unload on it, winning this weeks award for most overkill on a walking corpse, grats guys! Daryl notices something odd on the corpses neck when he walks out of the cell. He grabs a handle from it's neck and pulls, finding a knife deeply imbedded in the walker. Daryl inspects it, realizing it's Carol's and now he is left wondering what happened to her.
The phone is ringing again, rick waits a few rings and then he answers. He asks the voice on the other end how they knew his name. A familiar voice responds with "because we know you... because we know you and you know them". Rick realizes he is hearing Lori's voice. She says she knows the people he talked too naming off people who have been part of the group and died such as Amy, Jacqui, and Jim. Lori asks him what happened. Rick starts breaking down again, saying he loved her repeatedly. He is sorry he "couldn't pull it back together". He tells Lori that he made a deal with himself to keep her alive. He found a place to keep them all alive. Lori says "Rick you have a baby, our baby and Carl... I love you..." she tries to say more, but the phone starts cutting out.
We then jump from one form of mental instability to another, as we see the Governor and Andrea getting their freak on. Poor Andrea just can't pick the right guy in this world, even though the population is diminished you think she would be able to do better. There is a knock on the door, and he tells her he lied about being off the clock, that it's a 24/7 job. He goes to the door in his robe, its Merle. Merle says that Michonne killed the other three guys he was with. The Governor asks about the trophies he wanted from her (head, probably for another aquarium, and sword). Merle tells him that he lost the trophies when they were overran by a herd, but he has something else for him. Merle leaves and he goes back into Andrea. They start kissing again.
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| Hi I'm Andrea, and I sleep with all the nutjobs, next up Merle! |
Rick shows back up to cellblock with everyone. Hershel is there holding his daughter, and for the first time Rick goes to see her. Rick holds his still unnamed daughter (unless you count Daryl's suggestion of Lil Kick Ass), smiles, and then kisses her on the head.
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| Awwwwwwwwwwww |
Next we see Daryl is playing with the knife he pulled from a walkers neck, clearly distraught. Across from him a door keeps trying to open, while banging into a huge zombie corpse. Daryl is about to snap, he gets up angrily and rage yanks the corpse away from the door. It opens revealing Carol, who has been hiding here for days, he picks her up and starts to carry her back to the group. Carol wins TWD hide and seek championship!
Merle is in a room with Glenn tied up, asking for info on his bother, it cuts away before we see anything really happen other than Glenn looking a bit beat up.
Rick, Carl and a few others are walking outside. Rick gives baby to Carl,, and heads out to gate where he has spotted something. In the middle of a group of walkers on the fence, is Michonne with a basket full of supplies. Rick and Michonne stare each other down.
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| How you doin??? |
This weeks corpse count!
Michonne - (4) 1 walker offscreen who was neatly formed into a message for Merle & company, 1 walker via disembowelment, Crowley via decapitation, Tim via the pointy end of the sword
Merle - (2) - 1 walker, Carguilo shot in the face
Carguilo - (1) 1 walker
Daryl/Carl/Oscar - (1) 1 shared combo kill on a walker
Michonne leads for the second week in a row.
Possibly storyline spoilers and theorycrafting... Consider yourself warned!
In the comic Michonne doesn't escape from Woodbury like this, in fact the entire Woodbury plotline is a bit different in set up and execution. She actually goes through a few days stuck in what can only be called brutal-rape-dungeon-torture which is where we can assume might end up getting redirected toward Maggie at this point. It would be a shocking and drastic departure from the comics. Glenn being stuck in a room next to Maggie and hearing it happen would drastically alter these characters from their original versions. Not sure how I feel about this possible change, or if AMC is even willing to possibly portray the brutality that Michonne (and now maybe Maggie) is about to go through.
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