The car lies on its side; Lori’s inside bleeding and unconscious. 
A zombie is trying desperately to get at her; she comes to to find it shoving its face through a hole in the windshield. Ugh, what a crappy thing to wake up to. In the bar, Glenn, Doc, and Rick stand over dead Dave and Tony. Rick asks the other two if they’re ok. Glenn wheezes out a gaspy “Yes.” Doc takes longer to answer. Because Rick’s asking him something different. Doc was so anti-violent he was keeping zombs alive, but Rick just had to kill two people. So … is he ok with this? After a long pause, Doc nods. Damn right he nods. Dave and Tony had it coming. Plus, Doc ain’t the same guy he was pre-barn massacre. They’re about to head back to the farm when a truck pulls up. Dave and Tony’s three friends, looking for them. Dave and Tony’s three well-armed friends. Uh oh. Rick, Glenn, and Doc hide. 
Windshield zomb wriggles an arm through and grabs Lori; she snatches up a screwdriver and spears him through the eye. Nice. She gets out of the car and is instantly attacked by the zomb she hit with the car. She clocks him with a hubcap (Remember, everyone. When you’re gunless, ANYTHING handy can be a weapon.), then gets her gun and blows him away. This is pretty much the most badassful we’ve ever seen Lori be. *applauding* Back at the farmhouse, it’s dinner time. Everyone’s worried that Rick et al. aren’t back from town. They realize Lori’s missing and begin looking for her.In town, the men search for several minutes. Oh, whaddya know! One of them is black. Then one says, “We’re looking for Dave and Tony; no one checks the damn bar?!??” LOL. The door starts to open; Glenn shoves it closed. I’ll summarize the ensuing convo:
- Men: Who’s in there? We’re just looking for our friends.
- Rick: I sent them to hell. But they made me do it, sorry. No go away.
- Men: Wtf?
- Rick: Really, guys. They made me. You know, a wise man once said—
BAM! The shooting starts.
Carol goes to check with Daryl about Lori. He says Lori asked him to go get Rick et al. but he said no, so she probably went after them herself. Carol reports this to the group; Shane hops in a car (How many cars does Doc have??????) and tears off after her. He finds the wrecked car, no Lori.
In the bar, Rick tells Doc to cover Glenn while Glenn makes a run for the car, then bemoans the fact that Doc didn’t participate in any of the gun training. Doc’s all, “I can shoot; I just don’t like to.” Gosh, he’s a closet drinker, a closet gunslinger—why, we hardly know ye, Hershel. Glenn starts to sneak out the back. BAM! The black guy shoots at him; he goes down. (OH MY GOD NO IS HE DEAD DON’T DO THIS TO ME I LOVE GLENN NO NO NOOOOOOO!) BAM! Doc shoots; the black guy goes down, wounded and yelling in pain. Glenn isn’t moving. I feel like I can’t breathe. Rick runs out to check on him; FINALLY we see that Glenn’s ok. WHEW! He just temporarily froze. 
Rick pep talks him back into action; they start for the car. BAM! One of the guys is on the roof across the way, shooting at them. Just then, the third guy comes speeding up in the truck, yells up to Roof Guy that there are too many zombs about and they have to leave now. “What about Sean?” Roof Guy asks. Truck Guy says Sean got shot; it can’t be helped; we gotta go; jump! Personally, I would have told Truck Guy he darn well can wait seven seconds while I safely climb down, but Roof Guy foolishly decides to go for it. He jumps—and lands with his lower leg impaled on an iron fence post. OUCH. Truck Guy is all, “I gotta go! I’m sorry!” and speeds away. (Time out. Damn! That was cold. I’m not knocking Truck Guy’s sense of self preservation. But I like to think that I, since at that second there weren’t any zombs around, would have helped my wounded friends in the truck or, if they were beyond helping, at least been kind enough to shoot them in the head, not leave them to be eaten alive. Time back in.)
Zombs fall upon Sean and begin to devour him as he screams. 
Well, there you have it, people. Definitive proof that no minorities are allowed on this show other than Glenn and Theodore, LOL. (Fingers crossed, though, that that applied only to males, and a tough hot black chick will be introduced for Theodore. Heh heh.) Glenn and Doc want to leave, but Rick wants to save Roof Guy who, it turns out, is just a kid. Glenn, mad cuz he was shooting at them, wants to leave him; Doc says he can’t be saved and proposes "putting him down." Spoken like a true veterinarian, lol. Rick wants Doc to amputate the leg below the knee so they can take him with them. Doc begrudgingly agrees and tries to get started, but there are simply too many zombs approaching too fast. Rick grabs the kid’s impaled leg and tears it off the post. OUCH.
Shane finds Lori walking toward town. He tries to get her to go back to the farm; she refuses. She wants to go get Rick. Shane tells her a whopper and says that Rick et al. made it back safely. Relieved to hear this, Lori gets in the car with him. Though she should have known that wasn’t true because it would have been Rick who came after her. Carol goes to check on Daryl. 
“I’m not going to let you pull away,” she tells him. And she means it, too. Despite the harsh stuff he screams at her, she simply stands there and lets him rant and rave. She doesn’t even back down when he acts like he’s going to hit her. #1 Because she’s quite used to getting beatings, thanks to her thankfully now-deceased husband, and #2 because she knows Daryl’s not a woman beater; he’s just really, really hurt about Sophia. (Was I the only one who totally wanted them to start making out?) 
Shane and Lori arrive, and of course she finds out within two seconds that he lied. He says he did it to protect her and the baby. Everyone’s stunned to hear that last bit. “You’re having a baby?” asks an incredulous Carl. Then he’s confused cuz he doesn’t know where babies come from, and looks at Dale. “Don’t look at me; that’s your father’s job,” Dale says. LOL. Then Carl’s excited at the prospect of being a big brother. Then he wants to know if the baby’s a girl can they name her Sophia. (Um, no.) 
Shane asks to talk to Lori alone, tells her again he had to lie to get her back to the farm. She’s mad cuz he lied about this and still mad that he told her Rick had died. (In Shane’s defense, the chances that Rick had survived were like one in a million billion trillion, so I’m going to give him a pass on that.) She asks him what happened with Otis. He says what happened happened because he loves her and Carl. She says she told Rick that she and Shane were getting it on while they thought he was dead, but it was a mistake. He says it was NOT a mistake, dammit, and it was real.The next morning, Maggie and Andrea share a tender moment over a still-in-shock Beth; then Andrea, Theodore, Shane, and Daryl start to load up to go into town to look for Rick, Glenn, and Doc. Daryl? I guess Carol’s efforts worked. Dale tries to dissuade Andrea from going because Shane can’t be trusted; she says Shane’s done more to keep the group alive than Rick; Dale begs to differ. Instead of dropping the occasional hint to this person and that person, Dale needs to create a Powerpoint presentation of why Shane is a dastardly and shady character, sit the group down, and make them watch it.
Rick et al. return just then. YAY! Lori and Carl run to Rick as Shane watches jealously. Maggie runs to her father—no wait, to Glenn, LOL, and bearhugs him. But he’s distant and pushes her away. There’s a meeting later over whether or not they should have brought the kid, Randall, back with them. Rick says it wouldn’t have been right to leave him, and once his leg has healed they’ll take him back to town and let him rejoin his people. 
Andrea says he might lead his people back to the farm. Rick says he was blindfolded the whole way and wouldn’t know how to get back. Shane expreses his opposition with customary obnoxious grandstanding and sarcasm; Doc tells Shane he wanted him gone after the barn massacre but Rick talked him out of it, but if Shane’s going to stay, he better stfu. Shane storms off. Carol approaches Daryl; he storms off. 
Maggie asks Glenn can they talk; you know he’s wishing he were enough of an asshole to just storm off. She asks him what’s wrong. He said that back in town when he was getting shot at, all he could think about was how sad she’d be if he got killed, so he hid to stay alive. She tries to hug him, but he’s all, no, that’s a bad thing because Rick and Doc needed him but all he could think about was himself. And then he walks away. Awwww, poor Glenn. Dude just does not know how to handle love. Sucks that he has to figure it out during the zombie apocalypse. Maybe Rick can give him some pointers. Doc gives Beth a sedative. Maggie yells at him cuz he was out drinking. “That was the least of my worries,” he says, and I totally LOL, because, um, yeah. Elsewhere, Shane gives Andrea some badly needed advice, telling him he sometimes might want to think about softening his approach. Saying they should stop looking for Sophia, killing the barn zombs, lying to Lori—all the right things to do, it’s just that he went about them in entirely too douchebag a manner. Shane just growls that he should’ve left with her when he had the chance. I wish he’d just go, but I guess he’s not going anywhere now since Lori’s having his baby.
In their tent, Lori tells Rick that Shane thinks the baby’s his, but “No matter what,
it’s yours.” I guess that means that it’s Shane’s, but she prefers it to be Rick’s, so she’s just going to pronounce it Rick’s. Which is stupid and unfair, but whatever. Rick says Shane will accept that, but Lori says no he won’t and Rick’s going to have to make him accept it because he won’t listen to her. She tells Rick that Shane killed Otis. And not just to save Carl, either, but because he loves her. She says Shane thinks she and the baby belong to him, that Rick can’t protect them, that Shane is dangerous. The look on Rick’s face is … intense.
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