We open with Guv mercilessly
beating the crap out of … Andrea???? Oh. No. Milton, for burning the walkers in
the pit. A very bloodied Milton asks what would Guv’s daughter think? Guv
replies that if he’d been tough all along, his daughter would still be alive. He
takes Milton into the room where Andrea’s tied up, tells him to get the torture
instruments on the table. Milton accidentally knocks some to the floor, and intentionally
leaves one near Andrea. Guv hands him a knife, orders him to kill Andrea.
Milton takes the knife … and attacks Guv. Nice try, but it’s not much of a
physical contest; Guv guts Milton, then leaves him to die, come back as a
walker, and eat Andrea. <<sad sigh>> Darn it Milton. You shoulda
let Andrea blow Guv’s brains out.
At the prison, everyone’s
packing up to leave. Carl looks a long time at his family
photo, then at Rick’s sheriff’s star. Then he storms outside, ignores Rick, throws
his stuff in a car, ignores Beth, and storms off. He’s in quite a mood. Glenn
tells Rick Carl’s never been like this, not even after Lori died. I guess he
doesn’t want to leave the prison? Rick looks up, sees Ghost Lori, shakes it
off, goes inside. Daryl and Carol chat about Merle; Carol says his actions gave
them all a fighting chance. Inside, Michonne tells Rick she understands that he
had to consider Guv’s offer to trade her, then thanks him for taking her in
when she first showed up. They’re all up in each other’s personal space, smiling.
Hmmmm. Flirting?
At Woodbury, Guv is getting
the troops all riled up to go kill the outsiders at the prison. Tyrese, Sasha
at his side, tells Guv that they’re not going. This isn’t their fight; they’ll
stay at Woodbury and watch over the children. Guv hands Tyrese a big ass gun
and thanks him; then Guv et al. head out. They get to the prison, shoot the
walkers outside the gates, crash through the gates, enter … and find the cell
block deserted. They begin search the tombs. In the torture chamber, a dying
Milton tells Andrea he left a pair of pliers behind her chair. As she tries to
reach them, he asks her why she stayed in Woodbury after finding out her
friends were at the prison. She says cuz she was trying to solve everything
without anyone having to die. His voice getting weaker, he tells her she needs
to hurry.
Guv and peeps quietly
creep along. Until somebody drops a flash bomb/smoke grenade thingy, freaking
everybody out. Shots are fired, people are screaming, smoke fills the air, walkers
attack. Guv et al. run outside—and Glenn, Rick, Carol, Daryl, and Maggie open
fire from hiding. Oh snap! They didn’t leave! Several people are killed.
Disoriented and terrified, the Woodburyians run away or hop onto/into their
trucks and drive off. Out in the woods, Carl, Hershel, and Beth, holding
Judith, are hiding. A fleeing teenage boy crosses their path. Hershel and Carl
point guns at him. Hershel orders him to give up his weapon. He slowly starts to
hand it to Carl—and Carl shoots him. In the prison, everyone regroups; Glenn,
Rick, Carol, Daryl, and Maggie celebrate their victory and decide to go to
Woodbury to once and for all finish this shit. Carl tells Rick he (Carl) wants
to go. Rick says no. Carl says he can handle it; he killed one of Guv’s soldiers.
Hershel says that wasn’t a soldier; that was a frightened boy who was handing over
his gun. Carl’s all, whatever, and storms off. Hershel tells Rick that Carl
gunned that boy down for no reason.
Out on the road, Guv
pulls his truck in front of the other vehicles, makes them stop. He orders
everyone to go back to the prison. Martinez, Random Black Guy, and Ben are on
Guv’s side; everyone else is with Karen, who says they don’t want to do this
anymore, that was a slaughter, they’ll kill biters but not people, blah blah
bla—Guv opens fire on them. Whoa! Yep. He simply guns them all down. A shocked Martinez and RBG, wisely, do nothing.
Ben, stupidly, aims his rifle at Guv, but he’s too chickenshit to actually
follow through, and Guv shoots him, too. Then Guv walks around, shooting
everyone in the head. (I wonder if he’s at least got conscience enough to make
sure they don’t turn … or if he just doesn’t feel like being bothered with any more
undead right now … or if he’s just so pissed off that he wants the murderous joy
of killing them twice.) As Guv goes
around second-killing, he doesn’t realize that Karen is alive and unharmed,
lying motionless underneath a dead body. Guv, Martinez, and RBG get in the
truck, drive off. Well played, Karen.
At the prison, Rick asks
Carl if the boy was handing his gun over. Carl admits that he killed the boy
just to be safe. He did it, Carl explains, because that walker he didn’t kill then
killed Dale, and Rick didn’t kill Guv who killed Merle, and, worst of all, Rick
didn’t kill Andrew, that prisoner who let the walkers into the prison,
resulting in Lori’s death. (And T Dog’s, Carl. Don’t forget T Dog.) Ok, I gotta
defend Rick on that last one: he chased Andrew outside into a yard full of
walkers. He tried to kill him; the
squirrelly bastard just got lucky. Anyhoo, Carl’s explanation relieves me. I
was afraid he was turning into a cold blooded killer, but his justification
makes sense. In his experience, bad things happen when you don’t
preemptively kill. So he’s Team When In Doubt, Take Them Out. Plus, he totally
apologized to Morgan for shooting him, so I don’t think Carl is entirely
heartless. Carl tells Rick to go kill Guv so Guv doesn’t kill any more of them,
and storms off, deliberately dropping Rick’s star as he goes … but he’s still
wearing Rick’s hat. Maggie and Glenn say they’ll stay and protect the prison in
case Guv returns; Michonne, Rick, and Daryl head out. Out on the highway, they
come across the deserted vehicles and walkers chowing down on the fresh kills.
They kill the walkers, find Karen hiding.
In the torture room,
Andrea gets free just as Zombie Milton rises up and approaches.
Night has fallen. Michonne,
Rick, Daryl, and Karen sneak toward the Woodbury wall. Tyrese and Sasha see
them, open fire. Karen yells at them to stop shooting, Guv went apeshit crazy
and killed the others, Rick et al. saved her. Tyrese lets them in. Rick says
Andrea never made it to the prison; they go looking for her. They find her with
Zombie Milton. He’s dead, yay! But she’s been bitten. MOTHER %$&@!!!!!
Andrea asks if the others are ok, then asks for a gun to kill herself. “I just
didn’t want anyone to die,” she says. “I tried.” “You did,” Rick says. Michonne,
crying, stays with Andrea. Rick, Tyrese, and Daryl wait outside. After a few
moments, they hear a gunshot.
Morning. Daryl’s on his
motorcycle, Michonne and Rick are in the truck, Tyrese and Sasha are in a bus.
They arrive at the prison and start unloading stuff they got from Woodbury: a
bunch of supplies and all the remaining residents. (Hence, the episode title.) Rick
looks up … and does not see Ghost Lori. Here’s hoping she’s finally stopped
haunting him (because he and Michonne are a future couple!!!!!). A-now-even-more-furious
Carl demands to know wtf is up with all the new people; Rick says they will be
staying with them from now on. Carl—of course—storms off.
Y'all. Guv is still out there. <<afraid>>
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| RIP. |
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