In the boiler
room, Rick chats on the phone with a female. She can’t believe someone picked
up, she can’t tell him where her group is, they’re somewhere safe, away from
the zombies. Personally I’d’ve been like, “What exactly was the point of this
call???” and hung up in her face, but Rick asks if she’d be willing to take in
more people. She says she’ll call back in two hours. Rick gets cleaned up and
rejoins the group. Doesn’t tell them about the phone call, says he killed all
the zombies in the boiler room area. Daryl tells him they’re cleaning out the
generator room area later. Glenn tells him he (Glenn) and Maggie are making a
run later for ammo and formula. Rick says he’s busy cleaning out bodies, then
hurries off. I notice that, though he mentioned his newborn daughter when
pleading with Telephone Lady, he does not ask to see her.
It is,
as always, a beautiful day in Woodbury. Andrea tells Guv she didn’t enjoy the
fighting-for-entertainment, but she likes it here and wants to stay, and to
contribute. He starts to suggest a position in food distribution (Sexist
much?), but Andrea interrupts him and says she’s a good shot and wants to help
defend the place.
In the
boiler room, Rick waits impatiently. The phone rings. It’s a guy this time. He
wants to know how many people has Rick killed? Who where they? How’d Rick lose
wife? Rick refuses to answer the last question, and Telephone Guy hangs up. “NO!”
Rick screams in fury.
Atop
the Woodbury wall, Andrea talks killing zombied family members with Bow and
Arrow Girl. A zombie approaches. BAG shoots twice, but the zombie is lurching and pitching;
she misses. Andrea jumps down, rushes over, knocks him to the ground, stabs him
through the skull. BAG is pissed.
Hershel
crutches into the boiler room to talk to Rick. He tells Rick that Lori told him
(Hershel) she was sorry for how bad things got, that Rick did everything he
could to keep the group safe, that he got them to the prison. Rick says the
prison’s not safe enough. Hershel says there isn’t anywhere else to go. Rick
says he got a phone call from a woman who said she was with a group in a safe
place. Hershel picks up the phone and listens. I was sure he’d say, “Rick. There’s no
dial tone,” and we’d realize that the calls aren't real. But Hershel just asks
if the lady said where she was, so I guess they are? Rick says
wherever they are, he’ll find a way to get them there. But don’t tell the
others yet. Hershel offers to sit with Rick; Rick declines, wants to be alone.
In the generator room area, Oscar, Daryl, and Carl prowl around, hunting
zombies. Daryl tells Carl about when he (Daryl) was kid and lost his mother in
a fire, how much it hurt when she was just suddenly gone. Carl tells him about
how he (Carl) had to shoot Lori in the head. “I’m sorry about your mom,” Carl
says. “I’m sorry about yours,” Daryl replies. Awwwww. Male
bonding with a substitute father figure.
Guv
sits writing at his desk. Andrea enters, says, she knows she wasn’t supposed to
go over the wall, but she just wanted some practice. Guv says fair enough, but
she won’t be working the wall. Andrea accepts this, then admits that she liked
the fights. Guv says he figured as much because she stayed and watched them … and
he suspects she likes him, too. Andrea smiles. (Oh, gag me. Look, I get that Andrea
was not only physically very sick but also mentally and emotionally exhausted
after eight or so months out there in the zombie apocalypse, but dammit, she’s too
willing to accept the Woodbury mirage of perfection, ignoring zombies kept in
cages for fights and the fact that Michonne had a bad feeling about the place.
Hope she doesn’t come to her senses too late.)
Neal
and Merle run through the woods. Michonne attacks, but the fight is interrupted
by zombies. Michonne slices one’s stomach open; his bloody guts spill all over her.
She kills him and runs off. Neal kills another that’s trying to eat Merle, who
kills the last one. Merle says they can stop hunting Michonne; she’s off in the
head, wounded, and headed for the red zone. She’s as good as dead, so they can
tell Guv they killed her. Neal says he’s going to keep looking, and he won’t
lie to Guv. So Merle shoots him in the face. Elsewhere, a limping Michonne draws
her sword as zombies approach … and is astounded when they walk right past her.
She looks down, realizes she’s covered in zombie blood and guts, and the stench
is masking her.
In his garden, Guv and Andrea sit chatting and sipping whiskey. *eye roll* They kiss. Gross. In the boiler room, the
phone rings. The woman addresses Rick by name, tells him to tell the man about
Lori. “How do you know my name?” Rick asks. She hangs up. Ok, WTF. Hallucinations or not?????????
In a
parking lot, limping Michonne ducks down as she hears a car approach. It’s Maggie
and Glenn, out looking for supplies. They kiss. Awww. Their search of a store
is fruitful; they find food and formula, discuss the quickest route back to the
prison. They’re about to load the truck up with when Merle pops out, gun drawn.
They draw their weapons. Glenn recognizes him. “Merle?!” he asks, astounded.
Merle recognizes him, laughs, puts his gun down. Asks if Daryl’s alive; Glenn
says yes. Merle says if they’ll take him to Daryl, he’ll forget and forgive the
past. Glenn says no, wait here; they’ll go get Daryl. Merle draws his other
gun, grabs Maggie, puts it to her head, forces Glenn to get in the car and
drive them back to Woodbury. Damn that bullet wound! I’ve been wanting Merle dead for three seasons
now. Had Michonne not been injured, she could’ve sneaked up behind Merle and
made my dreams come true.
Oscar,
Daryl, and Carl kill a zombie. Daryl recognizes that the knife sticking out of
its throat is Carol’s.
The
phone rings. Ok, I was right. RICK IS CRAZY. The woman on the phone is ... Lori. (So
Hershel didn’t hear a dial tone. Guess he realized what was going on, and
decided to just let the grief-induced crazy run its course.) Rick tells Not-Real
Lori he’s sorry he couldn’t keep her safe, that he thought there would be time
later to try to patch things up. Not-Real Lori tells him to take care of Carl
and the baby. Cut to:
Guv and Andrea getting it on. *eye roll* Merle knocks. Guv dons a robe, steps
into the hall. Merle reports that Michonne and zombies killed the three guys he
was with, and he couldn’t bring back her head and sword because zombies
attacked, but he brought back two hostages, people from that Atlanta group. Guv
asks if they know Andrea; Merle says yes.
Rick joins
Carl, Beth, and Hershel, who’s holding the baby. Rick takes her, holds her,
cries. Let us hope this symbolizes an acknowledgment of responsibility and return
to sanity. Elsewhere, DARYL FINDS CAROL! DARYL FINDS CAROL!!!!!!!!!!!! In the
prison yard, Carl, Beth, Hershel, and Rick, whose holding the baby (Name her
already!), go for a stroll. Rick sees something, hands the baby to Carl, draws
his gun, goes for a closer look. It’s blood-and-guts-covered Michonne, standing
amongst the zombies outside the fence, holding the left-behind food and
formula. Yay!
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