Sunday, February 9, 2014

4.9: After



When we left the prison had been overrun with Walkers after the Governer’s failed attempt to take over.  We lost poor Herschel, the ruthless Governer, and possibly even Little Ass Kicker aka Judith.  (I don’t think she’s dead.)  We don’t know where anyone is or how they will find each other, be we know eventually, they will.

Michonne sees the prison burning and wonders about her friends.  After making two more slave boys out of walkers, she locks the rest within the prison fence.  She comes upon Herschel’s zombie head and has to stab it.  She takes a moment, as she knows everything has now changed.  She ends up on the same dirt road that Rick and Carl took and she sees Rick’s boot prints, but she doesn’t follow them.

Rick and Carl are wandering down a gravel road.  Rick is half dead trying to keep up with him.  Rick knows they need to find somewhere to bunker down, but the stress has gotten to Carl (who I think is a sociopath) and he doesn’t want to talk, he wants to kill.  They find a biker bar and decide to check it out.  They find one huge walker.  Carl just wants to shoot him, but Rick thinks he can draw him out.  (I mean, c’mon Carl, there’s a shitload of walker’s around, let’s not call attention to ourselves…)  The walker comes toward Rick who goes to hit him with a hatchet, but Carl’s itchy trigger finger gets to him and he shoots the walker in the head.  Rick chastises him for wasting a bullet, especially when they don’t have many.  They check for supplies and move on to some houses.  Carl finds a teenage boys room complete with TV and videogames.  In another life…  He takes the cable and ties the door shut.  Rick wants to barricade it, but Carl says Shane taught him how to tie the knot and asks if Rick even remembers him.  Rick says he thinks about him every day and asks if there is something Carl wants to say to him.  He keeps his mouth shut and helps Rick barricade the door.  Rick goes to the bathroom to clean up.  He’s wheezing badly and his side is bruised pretty badly.  Not to mention that one of his eyes is swollen shut.

OMG, we get a Michonne flashback!  Or is it a dream…  Alas, it is the latter, but with a whiff of truth about it.  She is talking with two men (one of whom is her “lover”) as she is cutting food.  She goes to wipe the knife and it’s her katana sword.  Then a toddler comes running in, whom she grabs and calls “peanut”.  She takes the food to the two men who are now in ragged clothes and fighting about whether they should stay where they are or go join a camp.  Next the men have no arms and look like the two guys she showed up by Herschel’s farm with.  The child is gone.  She wakes up in a car.

Carl wakes up and Rick is still sleeping.  Rick doesn’t look any better than he did last night.  Carl makes cereal and hangs out in the “teenage” room.  When he comes back downstairs to check on Rick he can’t wake him.  Carl starts freaking out and yelling at him.  Eventually walkers hear and come to the front door.  Carl sneaks out the back and only sees two of them.  He leads them away from the house and out into the street.  He’s surprised by a walker he didn’t see.  He’s surrounded and falls to the ground and ends up having to use his bullets.  He crawls out from under them and throws up.  Luckily there seem to be no more Walkers around.  When he’s back at the house,  Carl tells an unconscious Rick that he doesn’t need him anymore.  He couldn’t protect anyone else.  So he basically blames him for everything.  He tells him he’s nothing and he’d be fine if Rick died. 

Carl leaves Rick to go find supplies.  He tries to break down a door, but when he runs into it he falls on his ass.  (That’s what you get!)  He finally breaks in and finds canned goods then checks out the rest of the house.  He opens one door and finds a Walker who breaks through.  Carl tries to shoot him, but wastes two bullets.  He finally gets a shot in, but it wasn’t a kill shot.  Now, he’s out of bullets.  He gets into another bedroom, but can’t get the door closed.  He goes for the window, but can’t get it open far enough to get out.  The walker almost bites his leg, but Carl gets away and shuts him in the room.  He finds a piece of chalk and writes “Walker inside, got my shoe didn’t get me”.  He eats a can of pudding on the roof of the house.

Michonne falls in with a heard of Walkers.  They start to figure out she’s not human so she has to start chopping heads right and left including her own two walkers.  She turns around and goes back to the road with Rick’s footprints to follow them.  Michonne finds the dead walker in the biker bar.  She starts talking to her lover Mike.  She says, “I know the answer, I know why”.  (My guess is Mike killed himself and their son too.)

Back with Rick and Carl, Rick starts to wake up.  He reaches out and sounds like a Walker.  Carl is ready to shoot him, but starts crying and decides he can’t.  He says what he said earlier was wrong.  Rick calls out his name and tells him to stay safe and passes out.  Carl admits he’s scared.  Rick wakes up later and tells Carl he shouldn’t have risked going outside, but he’s glad he found more food.  Rick says he hung on to being a farmer for Carl and Judith and he’s sorry.  Carl tells him he doesn’t need to be. 

Michonne gets to the neighborhood and sees Rick and Carl through a window.  She knocks on the door.  Rick looks out the peephole and laughs and tells Carl it’s for him.

End credits…




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