The Recap
We get started with Glenn sitting in a room with his hands taped to a chair, Merle approaching him for questioning.
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| Glenn is so hardcore |
Merle asks about the group, telling Glenn he is still an asshole just like he was back on the rooftop in Atlanta. He finds out that the spear chucker (his adorable racist nickname for T-Dog) is dead, and taunts Glenn about how he hopes it went slow. He uses Maggie as a threat against Glenn to get the info on Daryl. Then talks about how Glenn must have toughened up surviving this long, but uses his knife hand pinning it against glenn's nose from behind as a threat. Glenn ends up headbutting him. Merle then beats him and we see Maggie in another room able to hear what's happening, crying...
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| Sadface! |
At the prison rick is staring at michonne through the fence. The zombies around her start to figure out that she's different and slowly turn on her, so she backpedals taking out two walkers, one by stabbing it through the head and the other by decapitation.
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| Sweet! - Carl |
Before she can swing her sword again she blacks out from the wound she got last week. While Rick watches her about to be taken, Carl busts a few caps in zombie asses and saves her, this springs Rick into action killing 5 walkers of his own while Carl picks off another. They drag her back into the prison.
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| BOOM HEADSHOT! |
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| Deadliest pistolier since Wild Bill they say... |
Rick drops her off in a cell, telling others to get supplies. Rick asks her name... but she isn't answering. Rick grabs her wounded leg and michonne gets pissed.Daryl interrupts telling rick he has something he needs to see. The lock Michonne up keeping her sword, and Daryl brings Rick to see Carol in another cell. They embrace and Carol meets Lil Kick Ass for the first time. She also realizes that Lori isn't around, and breaks down with Rick. Carl cries.
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| #truestory |
In Woodbury, Milton shows up at the Governor's door and says that Mr. Colton is ready while Andrea gets dressed in the other room.
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| Dat ass |
Michonne is still in her cell, with Rick. He offers to have Hershel patch up her up. He asks why she was carrying baby supplies, and she tells them about Glenn and Maggie getting snacthed by Merle. She explains woodbury, but doesn't mention anything about Andrea to them, instead only describing the Governor in detail as a Jim Jones type.
Next we see Glenn, face beaten to a pulp. Merle is lecturing him, and Glenn tells him that the whole group will be coming for him. Merle offers to bake them a cake. Glenn starts naming everyone, and when he gets to Andrea, Merle stops him and laughing "Really"? Glenn gets a look that makes him realize maybe Merle knows more than he has let on.
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| I know something you don't know... |
Hershel patches up Michonne's leg with Carl standing guard. She thanks him. Meanwhile Rick, Daryl, Oscar and others are debating on who is going to this town to get Glenn and Maggie. Everyone wants to go, but Rick narrows it down to him, Daryl, Oscar and Michonne. While loading the car Daryl reassures Carl that he will look out for Rick. Michonne talks to Beth asking how they cleared the prison, she was shocked such a small group could do it.
Rick pulls Carl to the side and they have a chat about being responsible while Rick is gone and what to do if something happens. Carl tells Rick about Daryl's pet name for the new baby, Rick thinks its funny and asks what Carl wanted to name her. He decides that he wants to name her after his 3rd grade teacher, Ms. Mueller. So he picks the name Judith. As they finish packing up Daryl tells Carol to stay safe, and Hershel sternly demands Rick bring them back. Axel opens the gate and lets them out in their sponsored vehicle that is impeccably clean.
Next we find the Governor bringing Andrea into a room where some music is playing. We see Milton sitting with a very old man in a bed. Governor asks Milton to bring Andrea up to speed before leaning over to Mr Coleman and telling him he is doing them a great service. He leaves and Milton asks Andrea to queue up the record again. He uses a series of audible and visual tests on Mr. Coleman one the record starts. After he finishes the routine Mr. Coleman grabs Miltons hand and asks him to keep the record playing while he passes.
Elsewhere Glenn is trying to yank his arms free, but Merle brings in a biter on a leash letting him loose on a tied up Glenn. Glenn leans back in the chair and kicks the walker with two feet giving himself room to scramble. He uses some of the spare furniture to barricade himself from the zombie, eventually using a table to knock it over. He then breaks the chair against the wall behind him and uses the broken arm of the chair and duct tape to prevent himself from getting bit before stabs the walker in the chin.
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| Certified badass |
Milton goes over the plans of the tests on Mr. Coleman with Andrea. She finds out that Mr. Coleman has untreatable prostate cancer. Milton's goal is to test a zombies mind before and after the turn to see if they keep any of their humanity. Andrea says there is no unconscious mind when they turn.. She realizes Milton has been sheltered from the walkers and never seen anyone turn. He tells her a bit about his boring pre-outbreak life that we really didn't need to hear. In the meantime, Mr. Coleman stops breathing and they put on his restraints.
Outside Merle and another guy are talking to the Governor about Glenn. He asks why Merle tried to kill Glenn, and the other guy talks about how it only took him a minute to take the walker apart. Merle says he is going to question Maggie, but the Governor says he will do it.
Governor enters Maggie's room which is a little more bare than the one Glenn was in. He pulls out his knife, walking around to her. He uses the knife to cut the tape that has her hands bound. He pulls up a chair across from the table and asks to take a seat. Maggie asks to talk to Glenn, but he won't let her with the excuse they are dangerous because of what they did to Merle. Maggie obviously knows nothing about that. He tells her that he will bring her people here if she just says where they are. She refuses, so he says lets try something else, asking her to stand up. Once she does, he tells her to take her shirt off, she says no, and he asks again saying that if she does not comply he will bring her Glenn's hand. She removes her shirt getting the governor's attention...
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| Keeping it classy in Woodbury |
Left standing there in her just her bra, He tells her to "Go on" and she reluctantly undoes her bra, throwing it to the side and covering herself with her hands. He stands up, undoes his belt... walks around the table slowly. He touches her hair, sniffing it, then suddenly grabs the back of her head and slams her face first onto the table. She looks back up at him telling him to "Do whatever your gonna do" adding that she wasn't going to talk and he can "Go to hell". He stands behind her, thinking about it... and then walks away.
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| Go to hell indeed... |
Next we see the spotless sponsor vehicle of the zombie apocalypse pull off to the side of the road. Oscar, Michonne, Daryl & Rick hop out and start pulling supplies out the back. Michonne mentions how Woodbury has patrols and that they need to sneak up from here, which is somewhere between a mile or two out. They take off into the woods as a few walkers start heading their way. Rick takes a second during this to thank Daryl for all he was doing while he lost his mind for a minute. Naturally, they run into a group of walkers, Rick calls for them to go into formation and not use guns. Rick stabs one, they Daryl puts an arrow through another's head, and Oscar beats on silly with a pipe. Daryl says there are too many, and they start backing up, but realize walkers have followed them from the car. Rick knifes another one, then points in a direction and indicates they need to get the hell out of there.
They run into what appears to be an abandoned shack, kicking the door in while Michonne closes it behind them. Daryl notices something smells terrible and they hear a buzzing noise. They start to search the little shack and find a dead dog on the ground with flies around it's corpse. Suddenly the zombies show up beating on the door and sides of the home. We get a shot of outside the house showing a while wall that is covered with walkers.
Inside they notice a bed with what appears to be blankets covering a body. They surround it and pull the blankets off, revealing a man who jumps out of bed screaming. He threatens them and says he will call the cops, Rick says he is one. He puts down his gun and reaches for his badge. In the process, Rick disarms him, but the man breaks for the front door where the walkers are. Michonne stabs him in the back stopping him.
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| Should have treated the puppy better |
Meanwhile Oscar checks the back door saying it's clear. Daryl asks Rick if he remembers the Alamo while picking up the body of the crazy hermit. Michonne opens the door as Rick and Daryl throw him out to the walkers who start fighting over lunch. They use the distraction to sneak out the back and we get some awesome product advertisement as the zombies rip apart the remains of the hermit.
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| Nom Nom Nom! |
Mack in Milton's office, Mr Coleman turns finally. Milton starts running his tests as Mr. Coleman tries to bite him. One of the tests require him to raise his hand, but due to the restraints Milton thinks he can't respond properly. He tells Andrea to remove the restraint because it might be tethering his consciousness. Andrea, thinking this is as dumb as it sounds, rejects the idea, but Milton goes forward with his plan. Andrea reacts like you would expect... (which also happens to be everyone's reaction to her sleeping with the Governor)
When he sets the arm free he gets grabbed, and as Mr. Coleman is pulling Milton in for the bite Andrea knives him through the skull. Milton backs up shocked, and says he needs to record his findings.
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| Yes, Milton peed his pants |
Merle and the other guy from before come into Glenn's room where he is ready for a fight, but before he can do anything the Gov brings in a topless Maggie. The Gov pulls a pistol and says one of them is going to tell them the location of the group. Glenn has stiffened up, he knows he is facing death. Gov points the gun at him and Maggie finally breaks giving up the location of the prison. Gov walks back to Maggie, sniffing her hair and touching her just to piss off Glenn before shoving her toward him. They lock them in the room.
The Governor is pissed at Merle, asking how a small group could take the prison when he was told by Merle it wasn't possible. Outside, Rick and his group close in Woodbury. Back inside the Gov questions Merle's loyalty to which he states he is loyal. Andrea is walking around outside, and comes back into the governor's room. He mentions that she kept her word about coming back. She walks over and pours herself a drink
and says Mr. Coleman died. He asks if Milton got the info he was looking for, and gives her a hug.
This week's kill count...
Rick - (7) - All walkers, mostly via gunshot but 2 quality head stabbings also.
Carl - (3) - All walkers - 2 shot on screen saving Michonne, another shot killing one off screen
Michonne - (3) Two walkers (head stab & decapitation) one person (stabbed in back)
Daryl - (1) - Walker, headshot with a crossbow
Oscar - (1)- Walker, laid some pipe
Andrea - (1) - Knife to Mr. Coleman's skull
Spoilers and speculation...
So it appears we avoided the rape dungeon, though I have seen some people speculating that it was just done off camera. I'm not really buying into that, I think the TV version of the Governor is differing slightly and this is the most obvious example.
It looks like next week we will get the inevitable Merle/Daryl showdown, and it's really anyone's guess how that is going to go. Neither are characters from the comics so the writers have complete freedom to spin this story any way they want without getting the comic fans upset. However Daryl has grown quite the popular character and has been getting more screen time giving him some more depth. We know what happened to T-Dog when he started talking more.
Rumor has it next week we might get to see the introduction of another favorite of the comics. A while ago it was reported that Chad Coleman (The Wire) would be playing the role of Tyreese. He really looks the part, and was an excellent small character (Cutty) on The Wire. The question now is... will Oscar have a shorter shelf life as the groups token black guy than T-Dog did.
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