Sunday, March 16, 2014

Ep 4.14 "The Grove"



Carol has watch duty for the evening while they hunker down under a bridge and Lizzie joins her.  Lizzie asks if there will be kids at Terminus and Carol says there may be if there were people there to take care of them like Tyrese took care of the girls.  Lizzie explains that she actually saved Tyrese.  People were shooting at him so she shot them.  Lizzie asks Carol if she had kids and Carol tells her about Sophia and how sweet she was.  Lizzie asks if Carol misses her daughter and Carol says she does everyday.  Lizzie asks if Carol would miss her, but Carol says she won’t have a chance too and insists that Lizzie go get some sleep.

The next day Carol tends to Tyrese’s wounded arm.  He talks about how tough Lizzie is and Carol tells him she is confused about the walkers and what they are.  They walk along the train tracks and they smell a fire, but aren’t sure where its coming from.  They stop to rest and Carol goes off to get water.  Of course while they are waiting a walker comes stumbling down the tracks.  The walker is half starved and falls.  Tyrese goes to smash its head with a hammer, but Lizzie stops him.  She says they don’t always have to kill the walkers.

Carol takes Mika with her to look for water and uses the opportunity to tell Mika she needs to toughen up,.  Mika says she doesn’t need to be able to kill people because she can run, but Carol says that’s not enough.  Mika says she’s not like Lizzie, she’s not “messed up”, she can kill walkers, but she can’t kill people.  Carol asks her why she wouldn’t kill the people that attacked the prison and Mika says she feels sorry for them because they probably weren’t that way before.  Talk about sisters being polar opposites.  There has to be some good in the world with the bad.  I’m glad Mica is the way she is. 

They find a house and go retrieve Tyrese and Lizzie.  There is a pecan grove.  They decide to stay a day or two and get their strength back.  Once they get closer to the house they start to see smoke from the fire they smelled earlier, but still don’t know where it is or what it’s for.  Perhaps the cabin that Daryl and Beth burned down…    Tyrese and Carol knock on the door of the house and tell the girls to stay outside until they come get them.  Lizzie gets upset while they are alone outside and tells Mika it’s because she knows if the adults find walkers they are going to kill them.  Mika tells her sister that walkers are dead and bad, but Lizzie argues.  Then a walker comes out and falls over the railing coming towards them.  Mica has the gun and shoots the walker while Lizzie screams and holds Judith.  Carol and Tyrese come back outside.  Lizzie starts crying and they think it’s because she was scared, but she says it’s because they killed the walker.  (Time to cut the creepy kid loose man.)  They relax in the house like a cute little family.  Carol asks Lizzie if she’s still upset and Lizzie says she’s trying to understand “m’am”.

In the morning Carol see’s Lizzie running around with a walker.  She goes outside to kill it but Lizzie tries to stop her.  Carol stabs the walker in the head and Lizzie goes into a rage saying the walker was her friend and was playing with her.  The walker wasn’t doing anything wrong. .  She says Carol was wrong for killing the lady walker and grabs her head and repeats, “you don’t understand” several times.  Carol and Mika go deer hunting.  Carol tells Mika that she is smarter than Lizzie and she needs to watch out for her sister because she doesn’t understand.  They come across a deer and Carol tells Mika to shoot it, but she can’t. 

Tyrese tells Carol he agrees with Mika and thinks they should stay at the house.  He knows Carol and trusts her, and they could have a quiet life there.  Mika catches Lizzie feeding a mouse to the walker they left on the train tracks.  Mika tells her sister the walkers are bad, but Lizzie says she can hear them.  They just want her to change and be like them.  She holds her hand out to the walker, but then a half a dozen more burning walkers come out of the woods so they run.  They get to Carol and Tyrese who arm them and they all shoot the walkers, even Lizzie. 

Afterwards, Carol asks Lizzie if she understands that walkers are bad now and Lizzie tells Carol she knows what she has to do now.  Mika says she doesn’t want to hurt anyone or be mean, but Lizzie says sometimes they have to be mean.  Carol and Tyrese decide it’s a good idea to stay at the grove for a while.  They can go to Terminus someday, but he isn’t ready to be around people yet.  Tyrese tells Carol he sees Karen in his dreams and sometimes he sees someone killing her.  Carol gets upset and almost admits that she killed Karen, but instead she and Tyrese hug. 

They come back to the house and find Lizzie covered in blood.  Judith is lying on a blanket and Mika is behind her.  Lizzie tells them it’s okay, Mika will come back because she didn’t hurt her brain.  When Carol goes to take the knife away Lizzie pulls a gun on her.  She tells Carol she has to wait for Mika to turn so Carol will see that Lizzie is right and they are not bad.  Carol gets the gun from Lizzie by telling her they can wait.  She wants Tyrese and Lizzie to take Judith back to the house though.  Lizzie says she was just about to turn Judith too, but Carol tells her it’s not the right time because Judith can’t even walk yet.  If I were Tyrese right now I’d be saying “you’re fucking crazy if you think I’m walking anywhere alone with this crazy bitch!” 

Carol says she’ll tie Mika up so she doesn’t run away if Lizzie will go back to the house with Tyrese.  He takes Lizzie and Judith.  Once they are out of sight Carol breaks down and cries.  (Yeah, you should’ve done something sooner.)  When Carol gets back to the house Tyrese tells her he cleared out Lizzie’s room to make sure she didn’t have any knives, but she had a shoebox full of mice.  Lizzie confessed that she was the one who was feeding the walkers at the prison.  He thinks maybe she killed Karen and David, but doesn’t understand how she could have dragged them away.  Tyrese asks what they should do and Carol says she will take her because her and Judith can’t be under the same roof.  Tyrese thinks they can both help her, but Carol says it’s too late.  Lizzie is the way she is and she won’t change.  Carol is upset that she didn’t see it before and that Lizzie can’t be around other people.

Carol takes Lizzie out to pick some wildflowers for Mika.  They see the smoke from the fire is white so it has gone out.  Lizzie thinks Carol is mad at her and apologizes.  Carol tells Lizzie she loves her and for her to look at the flowers and she shoots Lizzie while Tyrese watches from the window.  They bury the girls.  Later that night Carol gives Tyrese her gun and tells him that she killed Karen to protect the other people.  It wasn’t Lizzie or a stranger.  She tells him to do what he has to do.  He asks if Karen knew what was happening or if she was scared, but Carol says it was quick.  He grabs the table and the gun, but after a moment he lets it go and says he is going to forgive her but he will never forget.  He knows she feels the weight of it every day so he will forgive her.  They decide they should go to Terminus.

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Wow, I knew Lizzie was crazy all along, but OMG I can't believe she killed Mika.  Thank god she didn't get to Judith.  Only two more episodes left how much crazier can it get?

#thewalkingdead

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