Ep 503 "Four Walls and a Roof"

QUICKLOOK:  Bob's gone, Daryl's back and so is Michonne's sword.

 

Gareth and the Termites are still enjoying their “ka-bob”.  Gareth tells him the Termites left the marks on the trees so “they could find their way back after”.  I’m assuming back to their old life.  He says they were giving people a choice as to whether or not they could be the butcher or the cattle.  They also apparently think women taste better because they have an extra layer of fat for child-bearing.  He tells Bob they are going to kill and eat all of his group.  Bob cries so hard he starts to laugh.  He calls them idiots and tells them he’s been bitten so he is tainted meat.  They freak out, but Gareth tells them they’re fine because they cooked the meat.

At the church, Sasha is worried about Bob, but Rick and Tyrese think he may be with Carol and Daryl.  She knows they are being watched.  She interrogates Gabriel who swears he has nothing to do with their missing friends.  Rick asks Gabriel what he did to the woman at the food bank and why he will “burn for this”.  As theorized, he locked the doors and didn’t let people from his congregation in once shit started hitting the fan.  He wouldn’t open the doors because there were so many of them so he stayed in the church and heard them being attacked.  They hear whistling outside and find Bob lying in the grass.  They bring him in the church and fend off the walkers.  There is a bloody “A” marked on the church which is the same as the train car the group was kept in at Terminus.  Bob’s still alive and he tells them Gareth took him and ate his leg.  He also tells them that Carol and Daryl drove off in a car.  He shows them the bite he got at the food bank.  Sasha asks why he didn’t tell her before.  He says it would have become all about the end and he was enjoying the middle.  Abraham wants to leave for DC right away. However Rick says they can’t leave yet without Carol and Daryl.  Abraham is afraid of the clear threat to Eugene.  He and Rick fight over the bus, but Glenn intervenes and says they need each other.  Tara says she will go to DC tomorrow if Daryl and Carol aren’t back, but Abraham wants Glenn and Maggie as well.  Glenn says if they stay and help them then he and Maggie will go as well.  Sasha wants to go attack the Termites with Rick.  Tyrese tries to talk her out of it, but she wants revenge and she wants Tyrese to put Bob down once he dies.

Viewing note:  Here’s the thing, they just left all of the other people unguarded, so now the Termites could attack the church.  Plus, the Termites have all those walkers locked up.  What are they going to do with them?  Hopefully Rick and his team turn back.

As Rick’s group leaves, we see Gareth and the others arrive at the church.  Gareth tries to lure what’s left of the group out, but they are not budging.  He has a choice between two doors, but before he does anything Judith starts to cry.  Martin starts to shoot at the door hinges, until a shot comes from behind them.  Rick is back and he shoots off part of Gareth’s hand.  The Termites surrender and Gareth tries his hardest to charm Rick into sparing him saying they will never cross paths again, but Rick says he’ll cross somebody’s path and try to do the same thing to them.  Then he pulls out the machete with the red handle and reminds Gareth he made a promise he’s about to carry out. He kills him with the machete while the rest of the group kills the others.  And, Michonne gets her sword back!  Gabriel comes out and is a bit disturbed at what happened.  He says this is the Lord’s house, but Maggie says, “No, it’s just four walls and a roof.”

The next day, everyone says their goodbyes to Bob.  He asks for Rick to stay with Judith for a few minute and thanks Rick for taking him in and showing him there were still good people out there.  He also reiterates to Rick he still believes what he said the day before.  “Nightmares end, but they shouldn’t end who you are.”  Sasha comes back in the room with him.  He is dreaming and smiling.  He wakes up and she asks him why he is smiling.  He says he dreamed of her and she was smiling at him.  She asks him “what is the good that comes from this bad”, but he’s gone.  She grabs the knife to finish him off until Tyrese opens the door and asks her to give him the knife and leave.  He does what he has to do.  Abraham and the others prepare to leave.  He gives Rick a map with the route they plan to take to DC and they all promise to meet up again.  After they leave Rick looks at the map, which says “Sorry I was an asshole.  Come to Washington.  The new world’s gonna need Rick Grimes”.

Rick helps Tyrese dig Bob’s grave and asks what happened to him on the way to Terminus.  Tyrese says it killed him, but Rick says it didn’t.  At the end of the episode, Michonne is outside talking to Father Gabriel about how the voices of his congregation will never stop.  She hears something in the trees and when she goes to look Daryl comes stumbling out.  She asks where Carol is and he tells someone to come out as the screen goes to the credits. 

End credits…

I guess we’ll find out who he’s with next week.  He seems a little out of sorts, so I wonder where they were and what they saw.  I’m a little sad that the Termites are dead.  They were definitely creepy bad guys, especially since they were cannibals.  And I’m glad Michonne got her sword back and Rick got to keep his promise with the machete.

Until next week!

Ep 5.2 “Strangers”

QUICKLOOK:  Father Gabriel’s hiding something, Daryl and Carol may have a lead on Beth and if Gareth eats you, it’s not personal.

Terminus is still burning.  While Glenn and Maggie take a moment to hug each other, Rick talks to Tara.  He says he knows she didn’t want to be there with the Governor, which is why he tried to talk to her.  He says Glenn told him how she saved his life.  She says he saved hers and Rick says “that’s what we do”.  They fist bump, so I guess everything is cool.

Tyrese tells Carol that some of the others knew what Carol did at the prison and they have accepted it.  Tyrese will tell the others and get them to accept it as well, but Carol says they don’t have to.  Tyrese tells her they do.  He then says they don’t need to tell the others about the girls.  She asks why and he says he just needs to forget it.

As they walk down the tracks a walker approaches and Michonne says she’ll take care of it.  She reaches for her sword and laughs because of course it is gone.  She takes the butt of the gun and smashes the walker’s head in.  Abraham walks by Rosita and tells her “that right there is why we’re waiting for our moment.”  (Hmm, what does he need to say other than they need to get to Washington?  Is there some other secret we don’t know about?)

Rick and Carol have a heart to heart.  He tells her he owes her everything.  She gives Rick his watch back and he tells her he saw them kill the kid.  He tells her he sent her away to this because of what she did and now they are joining her.  He asks if she will have them and she says yes.  Daryl and Carol sit in quietness until Carol says she can’t talk about it.  She just needs to forget.  He says okay.  Daryl hears something, but then thinks it was nothing.  It was someone though because the audience sees the shadow of someone.  The next morning Daryl goes to look for tracks and doesn’t find any.  He has shared his suspicions with Rick.  He knows someone is following them and watching them.

Bob and Sasha seem to be exclusive now.  They even have their own little game.  Abraham talks to Rick about getting a car and heading back North towards DC.  Rick is telling everyone to keep close, but not the reason why.  All of a sudden they hear screams.  Rick is hesitant, but Carl pushes him to go help whoever it is.  They come upon a priest who is up on a rock trying to not get eaten by walkers.  Once the walkers are killed they get him down.  After he tosses his cookies he thanks them and tells them he is Gabriel.  They want to know if he has weapons on him and he says he doesn’t need them.  God is his weapon.  He says he called for help and it came.  He asks if they have a camp and he says he has a church.  Rick tells him to hold up his hands while he frisks him and asks him the three important questions you must answer to be a part of the group.  He says he hasn’t killed any walkers or people because the Lord abhors violence.  Rick asks what he’s done because he knows everyone’s done something.  Gabriel says he is a sinner, but he only confesses them to God. 

As they head to the church Rick asks if he had been watching them.  Gabriel says he keeps to himself because people are dangerous, but he hasn’t been watching them.  The church is Saint Sarah’s Episcopal Church.  Rick wants to look around first instead of blindly walking in with Gabriel.  Gabriel seems to be copying the bible.  He has run out of the canned food that he has.  (There are choir robes, can they please all put them on and sing?)  After Rick and a few others check out the church they let everyone else know it’s safe.  Abraham says there is a short bus out back that doesn’t run, but he can fix it and Father Gabriel says he doesn’t want it.  He asks Rick if he knows what’s at stake and as Rick looks at Judith he says he does.  Michonne says they need to take a breath and get supplies.  As they all file into the church they tell Abraham that they want to go, but they’re not going anywhere until Rick does.

Rick wants to know how Gabriel managed to stay there so long and have so much food.  They had a food drive right before everything happened.  There is only one place nearby that he hadn’t scavenged from because there are walkers.  Rick decides to go.  They leave Judith with Tyrese.  She and Tyrese have bonded and he says he will do anything for her.  (Aww…)  Rick thanks him for it and then tells Gabriel that he will be going with them as well.  He’s not to keen on it, but Rick doesn’t care.  Rick tells Carl he doesn’t trust Gabriel.  Carl doesn’t understand why.  Rick says he could have friends so he and Tyrese need to stay alert.  Rick tells Carl he is not safe, no matter how many people are around or if they think the area is clear, it takes one second and it’s over so never let your guard down.  Carl says that they are still strong and they can still help people, they don’t have to hide.  Rick says Gabriel is definitely hiding something.

Bob talks to Rick and Rick tells him he’s not sure if they are going to Washington.  Bob tells him he understands, but Abraham will get there and the real world will come back.  He can’t let himself get too crazy or he can’t go back.  Rick tells him this is the real world, but Bob says it’s a nightmare and they end.  Washington will happen. 

Carol and Daryl get water.  He says he knows she doesn’t want to talk about it, but wants to know if she is okay.  He says she can start over.  She saved them.  They see a car and Carol checks it out.  It won’t start, but it has jumper cables in the trunk so Carol says they should keep it there for backup.

Tara and Maggie keep watch outside a gun store while Glenn checks inside.  They hear something and he comes out.  They ask if he ran into a walker, but he just fell.  He tells them he found three silencers.  The rest of the group gets to a food bank.  Gabriel says that’s the last place left with supplies.  They go inside and like Gabriel said there are walkers stuck in a hole if the floor in three feet of water.  The water came in through holes in the ceiling.  They have to get by the walkers so they decide to use shelves to barricade them into a corner.  Gabriel is freaking out, but Rick says he’s coming with them all the way.  They corner the walkers and start taking them out.  Gabriel watches and starts crying and runs away, but can’t get out.  Rick sees him and tells the others they have to get him.  They push the shelves down on the ones that are left and kill the last few that they can.  One almost gets to Gabriel, but Rick saves him. 

A walker grabs Bob from under the water, but Sasha helps him kill it.  Gabriel tells Rick he’s sorry he panicked.  Rick says he thinks Gabe knew the woman when she was alive.  They clean out the food bank.  On the way back, Rick asks Michonne if she misses her sword.  She says it wasn’t really hers in the first place.  She just found it somewhere and practiced with it.  She says she misses Andrea and Herschel, but she doesn’t miss the sword or what her life was before.  When they get back to the church Rick finds Carl outside looking at something.  He found knife marks by one of the windows as if someone was trying to get in.  Then he shows Rick where someone etched in the words “You’ll burn for this.” 

That night they enjoy a good meal.  Abraham proposes a toast to the group and calls them survivors.  Then asks if that’s all they want to be or do they want to take back the world.  Eugene tells them there is an infrastructure that will get them through pandemics where they can be safe and start over.  Rick says they’re in.  (What about Beth?)

Tara tells Maggie that she was at the prison with the Governor.  She didn’t know who he was or who they were and she didn’t want to lie to Maggie.  Maggie hugs her and tells her she’s one of them now.  Rick talks to Gabriel and thanks him for his hospitality.  Rick tells him he knows he’s hiding something and he doesn’t care what it is, but these people are his family and if what he’s hiding hurts them he will kill Gabriel. 

Carol goes back to the car and runs into a walker.  Daryl followed her and asks what she’s doing.  He goes to take her back, but the car that took Beth rides by so they get in the car and go after them.  Bob is standing outside of the church listening to the group be happy for a moment.  He starts to cry and someone hits him.  He wakes up later to see Gareth.  He tells him he’s not dead “yet”.  Gareth says they didn’t want to hurt them before, but they had to.  They took away their home though, so now they have to hunt.  He tells Bob that nothing that is about to happen to him is personal.  Bob looks down to see that his leg is gone and Gareth puts a piece of cooked meat in his mouth.  He tells him he tastes much better than they thought he would.  And we see Bob’s leg and foot cooking on the fire.  And the guy that Tyrese thought he killed last week, still alive…

It also looks like the lady in the food bank may have been Gabriels wife.

End credits…

Ep. 5.01 “No Sanctuary”

We're baaaccckkk!

 

QUICKLOOK:  The Termites are cannibals, Rick and Carl reunite with Judith and Carol is one badass motherfucker!

We open with a flashback of the termites.  They are locked in a dark room listening to screams of their companions.  One man (I think his name is Alex) says they never should’ve put up the signs telling people to come to Terminus because they led the bad people there.  Gareth pops out of the corner and says they were trying to do a good thing.  Alex asks if those are the bad guys outside “what are we then Gareth?”

Cut to Now:  After they catch everyone up on how they got there, our crew get busy in the train car ripping things apart to use as weapons and trying to devise a plan when the Termites come to the car and tell them to stand up against the wall.  Rick and crew get ready to attack, but are caught by surprise when the top opens and they throw in a can of gas to knock them out.  This obviously isn’t the Termites first rodeo.

Through Rick’s hazy vision as he’s being dragged off, we see some Termites cutting up a dead man and 3 bins marked, feed, clean and dump.  Rick, Darryl, Bob and Glenn have been grabbed along with four other unknown men.  They are placed before a long silver trough with their hands zip tied together and their mouths gagged.   The two termites cutting up the man stop and come over with a bat and a big knife.  The batter swings a couple of times, working on his aim.  The first man at the trough is the blonde hippie guy that Carol and Rick met when he banished her.  He looks at Rick with desperation, but there is nothing Rick can do at that moment.  Finally the batter steps up, hits him in the head to stun him and the other guy slits his throat pushing him back over the trough to bleed out.  They move on to the next and the next, finishing them off all the way until Glenn, who is lined up first from our group.  Glenn watches the blood flowing down the trough into the drain and probably needs to change his pants right about now. 

Just as the batter goes to stun him Gareth walks in.  He needs to know the two guys shell counts from the round up.  See, Terminus (as we’ve seen) looks all cozy and welcoming, until you figure out what they are.  That’s when the gunfire starts and you get thrown in a train car.  They have to keep up appearances though, so they can’t have shells lying around.  The first guy gives his count, but the second doesn’t remember because it was his first round up.  Gareth tells them they have time to be messy now, but they need to dial it in by sundown. 

Bob tries to talk through his gag and get Gareth’s attention.  Gareth removes it and Bob tells him they don’t need to do this.  They have someone who knows how to stop the virus they just have to get him to Washington.  Gareth tells him they can’t go back and re-gags him.  Then Gareth decides to ask Rick why he took a bag into the woods and didn’t come back with it.  He’d like to know what was in it.  Rick says they should go out together and he’ll show him.  After Gareth puts a knife to Bob’s eye Rick confesses that the bag is full of guns and a machete with a red handle, which he will “use to kill” Gareth.  (Kind of looking forward to that moment.)  While all of this is going on, Rick has taken a piece of sharp wood from inside his sleeve and has been working on getting free from his ties.  As Gareth re-gags him we hear gunfire and then what seems like a bomb that makes the whole place shake.

Carol, Tyrese and Judith are getting close to Terminus.  She says she will get both of them there, but she won’t stay.  Some walkers come up and Tyrese asks Carol to kill them.  He just can’t do it yet.  She tells him he will have to be able to.  She kills the one, but a whole herd is coming.  They start to run, but hear gunshots so they stay hidden.  Because of the gunshots the walkers seem to fall in line and walk on the train tracks, straight to Terminus. Tyrese isn’t so sure about Terminus any more since they don’t know where the gunshots came from, but Carol says it will be okay. 

Some guy is setting off fireworks and talking on a walkie. He tells the woman on the other end that he knew the chick with the sword was going to be a big deal and he wants the kids hat once they bleed him out.  He gets a gun to the head from Carol who tells him they are friends of the chick with the sword and the kid and they aren’t buying his bullshit.  He tries to tell them Michonne and Carl attacked them and that they are the only ones who showed up to Terminus.  Carol doesn’t by it.  The guy says they set up the fireworks to lead the walkers away, but Carol tells him he fucked up and a whole heard is heading to Terminus. 

Carol leaves Tyrese and Judith to watch the Termite and she leaves with a plan to go see what Terminus really is.  She covers herself with zombie guts.  The Termite asks Tyrese if the baby is his and if the woman is his friend.  He tells Tyrese he’s a good guy and that’s why he will die today.  It could all be okay though because Tyrese could take the baby and the car and just leave.

Carol gets to Terminus in time to see the Termites rounding up Rick, Darryl, Bob and Glenn.  She pulls out a gun, but sees a herd of walkers so she blows up one of the tanks.  Which is the bomb that interrupts Gareth from killing Rick et al.  Burning walkers attack the Termites and Carol strides in with them.  Gareth goes to see what’s wrong while Rick cuts free and kills the two butchers.  They enter the drying room with cut up bodies hanging and getting prepared to serve.  They grab what weapons they can find.  They need to get by the walkers, but Glenn says they need to let the people in the other train car go.  They do, but they free some crazy guy that ends up getting attacked by a walker and killed by Darryl. 

Carol walks into a room where all of the unlucky peoples possessions are kept.  She finds Ricks watch and Darryl’s crossbow.  Unfortunately, we did not see Michonne’s sword.  She then enters the candle room and comes across Mary.  Mary has a gun pointed at her and Carol acts like she will surrender, but uses her gun to shoot Mary instead.  Mary tells Carol that this place used to be a sanctuary, but people came and raped and killed them and laughed.  So they fought back because you can be the butcher or the cattle.  Carol asks where her friends are and leaves Maggie to get eaten.  Outside, Rick gets a hold of the machine gun and lays some Termites down for dinner. 

Back at the cabin, Tyrese gets distracted and the guy gets hold of Judith and threatens to snap her neck.  He makes Tyrese go outside with the walkers.  We hear all kinds of noise and more and more walkers until suddenly it gets deadly quiet.  Tyrese barrels in and kicks the Termites ass until he’s dead.

While they are still trapped in the train car, Sasha asks Eugene what the cure is and he says it’s classified.  He says he was part of a team that used diseases to fight diseases and he knows how to kill everyone on the planet, so he wants to use that knowledge to kill the walkers instead.  Rick frees them and they go to the woods to retrieve the bag of guns.  Carol walks up.  She and Darryl hug, then Rick asks if she did all of that and hugs her.  She tells him to come with her because she has Judith.  They decide to go away from Terminus although at first Rick wants to go back and finish them off.

We see another Termite flashback where the men are taking women and Gareth decides they are either the butcher or the cattle, and they won’t be the cattle any more.

Rick wipes outs the sanctuary sign so that others won’t go there.   

End credits...

After the credits role, we see our old friend Morgan from seasons 1 and 3.  He follows the marks Darryl left to where the guns were buried and follows it.  Hmm, what’s he up too?  And doesn’t he look more sane than we last left him?

BTW, Mary is Gareth’s mom and Alex was his brother.  Alex was the poor guy on the table when Rick and the others were taken into the butcher room.  What could’ve happened for him to end up on that table?

Until next week!