An
unidentified someone, likely that person who watched Carol practice
C-section-ing on a zombie carcass, opens gates and leaves delicious dead deer
parts lying around to attract zombies into the upper prison yard. As we see a hand
place the deer heart on the ground, I notice it’s a black guy. Hmmm … I’m still
clueless about who it is.
Theodore,
Rick, Carol, Daryl, Glenn, and Maggie get started moving cars inside the outer
gate and piling up zombie carcasses to be burned. Well, Glenn and Maggie join
the others after being called down from the guard tower, pulling on clothes,
as the others laugh. (Maggie BETTER NOT get preggo. One zombie apocalypse baby is all I can
stand.) Those two prisoners, Wyatt Earp and LL Cool J, I mean Axle and Oscar,
approach, make an impassioned plea to Rick to let them join the group. They
can’t stand living in that blood-smeared cell block full of the ghosts of their
murdered friends. The group discusses it. Only Theodore is Team Let Them In. Rick
says either they stay in their cellblock, or they leave.
It’s a
beautiful day in Woodbury. Folks casually stroll the streets. Michonne
prowls around, examining the military vehicles driven back after Governor n
Gang executed those hapless soldiers. She finds blood on a gun deck, jumps down, bumps into the Governor, who’s heard she and Andrea are leaving
today and tries to convince her to stay. She doesn’t even try to pretend she
believes his bullshit story, and questions why not one soldier managed
to drive away, and points out the bullet holes in the vehicles. Guv says the
soldiers were heroes who wouldn’t leave a man behind, and suggests the soldiers
must’ve run into armed bandits at some point. She asks about Wells, the soldier
pilot dude (whose head is among Guv’s macabre Heads in Fish Tank collection);
Guv says the doc couldn’t revive him, Merle killed him, he was cremated with no
funeral; that was easiest since no one knew him, thank God. Michonne stalks off
after repeating “Thank God” in a tone that clearly says, “You. Are. Lying.”
Back at
the prison, they’re about to move the cars inside the inner gate. Rick
assures Theodore that Axle and Oscar will be given a week’s worth of food before
being sent away. Daryl cranks up his bike; Axle says it sounds like it needs
some work, and he (Axle) knows his bikes. Daryl drives off; Oscar tells
Axle to quit trying. (But heck, I’d be doing that, too. Maybe if the group
realizes you’re useful; they’d let you stay.) Inside, Beth (who gives Carl a
big smile) and Lori enter Hershel’s cell with crutches for him to try out. He
teeters and totters a bit, then gets the hang of it and suggests going for a
stroll. Heh.
Andrea
and Michonne sit on a bed looking at maps. Michonne’s discussing heading for
the coast, Andrea says what if it’s not safe, Michonne says she’d rather take
her chances than stay in Woodbury. Her gut tells her there’s something
off about Guv.
Glenn
gives Axle and Oscar food, says they’ll be released when he, Rick, and Daryl get
back. The three of them head outside the gates to get firewood to burn the
bodies. (“I don’t want to be planting crops in walker-rotted soil,” Rick says.
Good call.) Glenn sees a walker in the distance and wants to shoot it, Rick
says no; the armory was picked clean so they can’t spare the ammo. Carol,
Daryl, and Theodore drive their vehicles inside just as Lori, Hershel, Beth and
Carl make their way outside. Glenn, Rick, and Daryl come back through the fence
opening with armloads of firewood just in time to see Hershel up and around.
There’s a really chill, peaceful moment; Rick even smiles at Lori. YAY! But
then, zombies come swarming in from the upper yard. Aaaaaaarrrrrgggghhhh! “NO!”
Rick yells. He, Glenn, and Daryl take off running, leaving the fence
opening open. But, thank baby Jesus, Glenn remembers and goes back to close it.
Lori, Maggie, Carol, and Carl open fire. Beth and Hershel make it to an
observation deck and lock themselves in. On the way, Hershel takes out a zombie
with his crutch. Nice! Glenn finishes with the fence, takes off after Daryl and
Rick, throws them the keys to unlock the outer gate. Lori, Carl, and Maggie make it to their cell block, find zombies
everywhere. They head inside the prison. Glenn, Daryl, and Rick enter
Axle and Oscar’s gate. In the yard, as Theodore and Carol shoot their way through the
zombie-filled yard; he notices the open inner gate. He gets it closed and locked—then a zombie bites
him on the shoulder. :( He and Carol
hurry inside.
Good
timing with the commercial break, cuz my heart’s about to pound out of my
chest.
Andrea
gives Meryl a map, tells him she circled where he can find the farm where she
stayed with Daryl. He asks if she wants to come with him to see if the others might
be there; she just looks irritated; he deduces she’s a wee bit mad at Rick et
al. She asks if he’s ever wanted to leave Woodbury, if Guv’s a good guy. He
says nope, and yep.
Glenn
and his gun and machete, Daryl and his knife and crossbow, and Rick and his gun
finally make it into the zombie-filled yard, take out zombies, ask Hershel and
Beth where the others went, tell them to stay put. Glenn says somebody had to
have cut the chains off the inner gate. Just then, the alarm starts blaring,
bringing even more zombies from the surrounding woods. Rick and Glenn shoot out
loudspeakers, but it continues. Rick rushes over to Axle and Oscar, gun out,
demanding to know wtf is up with the alarm. Oscar, who worked with it for a few
days, explains that it has to be the back-up generator, cuz the guards shut the
alarm off when the prison was overrun. The five of them head inside. Elsewhere,
a bleeding, stumbling Theodore is explaining to Carol how to get back to their
cell block, says whatever happens to him is God’s plan. She refuses to leave him. In another part of the prison, Lori, Maggie, and Carl are
wandering around and OF COURSE, Lori starts having birthin’ pains, announces
the baby’s coming. (I repeat: Maggie better not get preggo. And Carl and Beth,
stop smiling at each other.) A horde approaches. They turn back. A second
horde. They go into a boiler room. The door won’t close completely, but thankfully, the
zombies shuffle past it. Lori grits her teeth against the
birthin’ pains.
As Guv
hits golf balls atop the Woobdury wall, Merle approaches, asks if he can take a
couple guys and go to the farm to look for Daryl. Guv says someone might get
hurt, and Andrea last saw Daryl eight months ago. Merle says ok, he’ll go
alone. Guv says Merle’s needed at Woodbury. Merle says, “It’s my brother.” Guv
says if Merle gets more concrete evidence that Daryl’s alive, he'll go with Merle
himself. I’m wondering just how the hell Merle’s supposed to do that, but he agrees.
Glenn,
Daryl, Rick, Axle, and Oscar check the cell block, find only zombies. They split up to go look for Lori et
al. and to shut off the alarm. In the boiler room, Maggie helps Lori lie on the
floor, tells Carl he’s going to have to help deliver his little brother or
sister. He nods, looking like he’d rather go play with the zombies. Maggie
strips off Lori’s pants, checks to see if she’s dilated. Hershel’d explained a
few things to Maggie, but she’s never actually done this before; she can’t tell
if Lori’s dilated. Lori’s like, screw this; I gotta push. She stands and starts
pushing. I’m freaking out cuz I thought Lori had to deliver via C-sec? If
she delivers via vagina, will it kill her? (Omg, I so want the unidentified
asshole who let the zombies in to die terribly. VERY. Terribly.) Maggie
says stop, don’t push! Suddenly, there's
blood everywhere. Elsewhere, a bleeding, stumbling Theodore and Carol are almost back to
the cell block; two zombies approach. Carol fires, but she’s out of bullets.
Theodore tackles the zombies and holds them at bay long enough for Carol to
make it. His
throat is bitten out. Omg. *moment of silence* RIP, T Dog. :(
Oscar, you have very big only-black-guy-on-the-show shoes to fill.
At Woodbury, Guv and Andrea share a farewell drink. He tells her Merle
will escort her and Michonne out and give them their weapons, and that his name
is Phillip. They make googly eyes at each other. *eye roll* Andrea goes back to Michonne
and announces that she (Andrea) wants to stay a couple more days. *eye roll* A pissed-off
Michonne stalks off. Right there with you, Michonne. (I'm so wondering, will they leave? Or will something catastrophic happen and Woodbury gets overrun? The latter seems unlikely because, unlike Hershel's farm, the place is protected by high walls and armed guards, but still. You never know.)
Daryl,
Rick, and Oscar, zombies in hot pursuit, make it to the generator room. Daryl
holds the door closed while Rick and Oscar try to shut off the alarm—and then
that prisoner, the little black one that Rick locked outside in the
zombie-filled yard then left to die, jumps out. OMG, him??? I thought he was
zombie food! He swings an axe, knocking Oscar down, then tries to bury it in
Rick’s skull. They fight. Rick drops his gun. Oscar picks it up, points it at
both of them. Little One encourages him to shoot Rick so the two of them can
take back the prison. Oscar, who probably 1. knows he’s way better off with Rick’s
group than with Little One and 2. is mad about getting bashed in the head with
an axe, blows Little One’s brains out. I CHEER. Then he calmly hands Rick the
gun. Rick nods his thanks, shuts off the alarm. In the boiler room, Maggie lays
Lori on the floor, says they have to get back to Hershel. Lori says she won’t
make it, use Carl’s knife to cut the baby out. Maggie says no. Lori pleads,
says this is what she wants. She and Carl say an emotional goodbye. Maggie
cuts the baby out, gets it breathing. Lori dies. Omg. *moment of silence* RIP, Lori. :( Maggie says they need to shoot Lori; Carl
says he’ll do it. He does it. :(
Daryl,
Rick, and Oscar bump into Glenn and Axle. They find the zombies eating
Theodore’s body, kill them, find Carol’s head scarf. Outside, they announce to
Hershel and Beth that Theodore and Carol are dead, ask about the others.
Hershel and Beth haven’t seen them. Carl and Maggie, holding the baby, approach
just then. Rick realizes Lori’s dead and collapses to the ground, weeping.
(Dammit. Where the
hell is Carol.)
