Ep 508 “Coda”: Mid-season finale

Bob is running from walkers and trying to get the restraints off his hands.  Rick catches up to him and asks him to stop, but he won’t so Rick runs him over.  Bob asks for help and tells Rick he’s crazy.  He says he couldn’t stop because he didn’t really know Rick and that he would like Rick to take him back to the hospital because he thinks his back is broken.  Rick says it’s too late, he can’t turn back now and he shoots him in the head.

 Father Gabriel decides he must go to the elementary school to see if the Termites really did cook Bob’s leg and eat it.  He finds a bible with the name Mary B in it, then gets upset and throws the make-shift grill with Bob’s rotting foot on it.  The walkers inside break through the glass doors and go after him so of course he runs back to the church, but the walkers are hot on his tail so he can’t sneak back in.  He has to call for help.  Michonne chops through the barricade on the door and lets him in, but the church also gets overrun with walkers so they run to his office and get out through Father Gabriels hole in the floor.  As more walkers pour into the church, we get a close-up of the quote at the altar, “He who eats my flesh will have eternal life.”  They barricade the walkers in the church from outside.

Rick and Daryl discuss their next move and talk to the two cops they have left.  The woman (Shepherd) says she will lie for them about Bob’s death and will help them get their people back.  Meanwhile, Dawn is trying to reach them because she heard the gunfire from Rick shooting Bob, but of course isn’t getting an answer.  Dawn has a heart to heart with Beth over what happened with Hanson and says she did what she had to do for everyone there to survive.

At the church, the barricade they put up is about to be busted by the walkers, when all of a sudden a bright red firetruck appears carrying Abraham’s group.  Glenn tells Michonne that Eugene lied about he cure and Michonne tells them that Beth is alive in a hospital in Atlanta and that Rick and the others went to go get her so they decide to go help Rick. 

Dawn tells Beth she is a cop killer, but she protected her from the others by lying about what happened with Gorman.  Unfortunately, one of the other officers overhears and lets them know he is there.  He threatens Dawn and says its time to make a change.  She pulls her gun and tells Beth to leave.  She says they are there to protect people, but all he does is beat old men and laugh about raping girls.  He knocks the gun out of her hand and they fight.  Beth tries to help, but he knocks her back.  Finally Dawn gets the advantage and pushes him back and Beth pushes him down the elevator shaft.  Later Dawn finds Beth in Carol’s room and brings her some food.  Beth says she knows Dawn used her to get rid of Gorman and the other cops.  Beth says she will get away like Noah did.  Dawn says he’ll be back, but Beth says he won’t.  Dawn tells her she knows that Beth knows Carol and they can be a part of what they are doing there.  Carol wakes up.

Sasha and Tyrese are on a rooftop.  She is mad at herself for believing Bob.  Tyrese confesses that when he was alone with Martin he didn’t kill him like he said he did.

Rick stops another cop car and tells them he wants to exchange two cops he has for Beth and Carol.  They ask if Noah is with them and he says yes.  They ask where the other people in Rick’s group are.  As a walker approaches Sasha shoots it with her sniper rifle and Rick says “close”.  They make the exchange, but then Dawn asks for Noah back.  Rick and Daryl say no, but Noah says he’ll stay.  Beth hugs him and Dawn says she knew he’d be back.  Which pisses Beth off so she stabs Dawn (yay!), but Dawn shoots her in the head and then Daryl shoots Dawn in the head.  It almost turns into an all out gunfight until Shepherd gets everyone to stand down.  She says it should be over because Dawn is dead.  (Dammit, they just told Maggie Beth was alive.)  They offer to let the group stay at the hospital, but Rick says there is no way and that he’s taking anyone else who doesn’t want to stay there.  As they are leaving, Abraham and the others arrive.  They are exiting the hospital and Maggie is crushed when she sees Daryl carrying Beth’s lifeless body.

End credits…

After the credits we also get another glimpse of Morgan.  He arrives at the elementary school and then the church.  After he prays at the altar for a minute he finds the map to DC that Abraham gave Rick with the name “Rick Grimes” written on it.

Damn, I was yelling at the TV scream for Beth to stab Dawn, but I was not expecting Beth to get shot in the head.  Poor Maggie!  It will be a long wait until February.  I have no idea where the show is going to go now.

Until February!  Unless I can’t wait and start theorizing before then.

Ep 507 "Crossed"

 

This episode is a perfect foundation for the mid-season finale next week.  We got to see where all 3 of our groups are.  Beth tries to help Carol, Rick gets a plan together to save Beth and Carol and Father Gabriel struggles with the loss of his church.

Noah and Daryl obviously made it back to the church and tells everyone what has happened to Beth and Carol.  When Rick talks with Michonne he has hesitations about leaving Judith and Carl to save the two women she tells him he can stay and she will go.  He says he owes Carol too much though and he has to do this.  They tear up the church from the pews to the pipes from the organ to fortify the church while Father Gabriel looks on in horror.  Rick, Tyrese, Sasha, Daryl and Noah leave on the rescue mission while Michonne and Carl stay behind with Judith and Father Gabriel.  After the rescuers leave Father Gabriel looks around at the remnants of the inside of his church.  He notices the blood soaked into the wood floor from the slaughter of the Termites just a few nights before.  He tries to remove it in a Lady Macbeth “out damned spot” kind of way.  Carl gives him a choice of weapons because he tells Father Gabriel he has to learn to defend himself.  He picks the machete, but then gags and says he needs to go to his office to lie down.  After a while Michonne checks on him and tells him she knows how it feels having all of this horror on his doorstep, but they will make it through.  He tells her he is fine. He closes the door and we see that he is plying the wood floor up in his office.  Once he gets a few boards up he crawls under the church and out the side.  Unfortunately he gets a nail caught in his foot, but pulls it out.  He gets to the woods and is attacked by a walker.  He pushes her down and is going to smash her head in with a rock, but notices she is wearing a cross so he wusses out and runs off.

At the hospital, Beth overhears one of the male officers asking Dawn why they are wasting resources on the woman they brought in the other day that they hit with the car.  Beth gets mad and points out that the man wastes energy charging his dvd player every day.  Dawn tells the man to pull Carol off the machines and see if she makes it on her own.  Once he’s gone, Dawn tells her she killed the woman.  She should’ve kept her mouth shut.  Then she gives Beth the key to the medicine cabinet and tells her she needs to find a way to save the woman.  Beth consults Edwards on what drugs she should give Carol to help her out and he guesses that Dawn gave her the key.  She doesn’t confirm and he finally tells her to give Carol epinephrine.  She devises a plan with an older orderly who pretends to choke while she grabs the drugs.  She sneaks in to see Carol later, gives her the drugs and tells her she’s there with her.

Eugene is still out cold and Abraham is still on is knees.  Glenn, Tara and Rosita go to get water from a stream and Maggie stays behind to watch the boys.  She creates a tent for Eugene so he is protected from the sun and talks with Abraham.  She asks if he wants to die now and he said he thought he did, but now realizes he doesn’t.  We hear grumbles from Eugene.  We don’t get to see him, but Maggie tells him not to move and that he will be okay.  She doesn’t start screaming so I guess he doesn’t try to eat her and may still be human.

Glenn and the girls get to the stream only to find that it is murky and dirty.  Rosita shows them how to filter it, a trick Eugene taught her.  Glenn notices that the water is rippling and says there are fish living in the stream.  They locate some netting from a jacket and catch some fish while Tara finds a yo yo in a leather backpack.  Tara thinks they shouldn’t be mad with Eugene for using the once skill he had to stay alive during the apocalypse.  Glenn doesn’t care why he did it, but seems to come around once they catch the fish and head back to Maggie and the others.

Rick and the others in Atlanta spring a trap by having Noah shoot a gun and letting the cops think he is by himself.  They spring the trap and catch two cops, but another car shows up.  They shoot out the tires of the other car and run to find it abandoned around the corner.  There are also burned up zombies stuck to the asphault from when the government blew up the city in a last ditch effort to stop the zombie takeover.  Daryl sweeps for the last guy who surprises him and knocks him to the ground.  Daryl grabs a walkers head, pulls it from his body and uses it against the cop.  Rick comes up then and puts a gun on the cop and looks like he might shoot him until Daryl snaps it out of him.  They take their 3 prisoners to an abandoned warehouse.  One of the cops tries to tell the group that there is dissension in the ranks at the hospital.  They do not like Dawn and she knows it so she will not trade for them.  She keeps arguing until one of the guys says Rick is right and if they play it right Dawn will bargain for them.  He and Rick have a long conversation about Dawn and how she thinks.  While Sasha is nearby he reveals that his name is Bob (yup, something ain’t right there I can feel it.)  Rick, Tyrese and Daryl leave with the other two cops while Sasha stays with the new Bob.  When they are alone he seems upset.  She checks on him and he tells her he saw a guy he used to know out there.  Dawn trusted the guy (Tyler) and sent him out to help evacuate the people from the hospital.  Bob says he wished it had been him, but after seeing Tyler burned into the ground he realizes he was lucky and wishes he could do something to put him out of his misery.  Sasha says she can help him and asks where the guy is.  Bob says he can point out the guy if they go outside, but Sasha says there is no need for that because she can shoot him for the window.  They go in another room and Bob points him out from a window.  He stands behind her while she goes to the window to shoot.  (I really don’t trust this, it just seems too coincidental and she’s so vulnerable right now!)  Once she aims to shoot, he rams her and runs as she falls to the ground.

I’m really not surprised that happened.   I just had a feeling about that guy.  What will Rick do now, especially if new Bob gets there and tips Dawn off about them?  Looks like the final standoff is next week.  Will we get a conclusion or be left hanging until February?

Until next week!

Episode 506 "Consumed"

TWD Ep 506 “Consumed”

QUICKLOOK:  Daryl finds out where Beth is, gets Carol out of her funk and into a gurney and makes a new friend.

Carol and Daryl are after the car with the cross.  Daryl thinks they should tail them and see if they are a group and how strong they are.  After they get into the city they run out of gas and lose sight of the vehicle so they find somewhere bunk for the night.  They know the people must have a camp in the city somewhere close.  They are staying in a shelter that Carol once stayed in with Sophia for a day and a half.  The next morning Carol wakes up to find Daryl burning some walkers that were outside the night before.  With the new day they head through the city to see if they can find where the group is that has Beth.  They go through a parking deck to a sky bridge, but someone is following them.  Noah perhaps?  Carols asks why Daryl hasn’t asked her what happened after she met up with Tyrese and the girls after the prison.  He says they are starting over because that’s what they have to do.   They see a van with the same kind of crosses on it.  When they go to leave, Noah gets Carols gun once she pushes is through the chained door. He uses it against them and takes Daryl’s crossbow as well.  He apologizes as he leaves and unleashes walkers on them.  Carol shoots at him with a pistol, but Daryl stops her.  They run after him, but they are locked in.  Daryl drops his bag to see if he can find a way out.  He gets the door open and Carol picks up his bag.  A book about surviving child abuse falls out that he had taken from the shelter.  He grabs it from her and puts it back in his bag with nothing said about it.  Once they find a way out they make it to the van they saw earlier with the same crosses on it.  They go inside to check things out even though the van is hanging half way off the bridge.  A bunch of walkers surround them.  Before they get out to fight Daryl sees GMH written on a gurney.  Carol says it might be Grady Memorial Hospital.  They try to fight the walkers, but are overwhelmed and have to climb back and lock themselves in.  They get stuck in the ambulance so they buckle up before the walkers push them off the bridge.  They make it down okay as all of the walkers that were after them plummet down as well.  Carol is pretty beat up and Daryl is upset with himself for getting them in the situation.  Carol tells him they are three blocks from Grady so Daryl thinks they should find a place to scope it out.  Somehow they run into Noah again who is fighting his way out of a walker situation.  Daryl knocks him under a bookshelf and gets back their weapons.  Noah begs for his life, but Daryl wants to leave him there to the walkers.  Carol decides to save him.  I’m thinking this was Daryl’s plan all along to show her they can save lives.  They get him out from under the bookshelf and Noah says he has to go because they will be looking for him.  They ask if he’s seen a blonde and he asks if it’s Beth they are looking for.  They run to the next building,

but Noah falls.  Carol runs ahead outside and the car with the crosses on it hits her.  Daryl tries to go after them, but Noah says they can help Carol because they have equipment and medicine.  He says they can save Carol and Beth later.  Daryl asks what it will take and Noah says a lot because they have guns.  Daryl says, “so do we”.  They get a truck to take out of the city.   End credits…

There were also a lot of flashbacks tonight for Carol.  One to when Rick banished her and the next day when she saw the prison burning.  Then one where she burned Karen and the other guy that were sick with the flu at the prison.  And the last where she and Tyrese buried Lizzie and Meekah where Carol noticed the smoke coming from the prison was no longer black, but was now white.

End credits...

So I’m thinking next week we see Daryl come back to the church with Noah and get help from Rick and the gang to get Carol and Beth out of Grady.  Hopefully another action packed episode where Michonne can use her sword and kick some ass.  Grady’s going down!

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Ep 505 "Self Help"

QUICKLOOK:  Abraham walks a fine line between reality and craziness, Eugene’s hairstyle is a big topic of conversation and he reveals a big secret.

The trip on the bus doesn’t last long.  Something bursts or explodes and the bus goes air born landing on its side with plenty of walkers around.  The group decides to fight their way out because the engine is on fire and it won’t be long before the bus goes up in flames.  Eugene can’t take the violence and guts around him until one walker almost gets Tara.  Once the walkers are dead, Maggie tries to retrieve the first aid kit from the bus, but it is already engulfed in fire.  Abraham is insistent that they continue the mission and after a brief talk with the group they decide to walk until they find new transportation.  They hole up in a bookstore for the night and Abraham thanks Glenn for sticking by him after the bus crashed.  Abraham decides to go to bed, but gets some booty from Rosita before going to sleep.  Tara catches Eugene watching them having sex.  She thanks Eugene for having her back earlier and he confesses to sabotaging the bus by putting glass in the fuel line.  She gets upset because he almost killed everyone, but decides to keep his secret after he reveals that he believes he’d be dead if he didn’t know about a cure.  That is his only value to any group because he has no other skills.  Tara tells him it’s not true and that he definitely shouldn’t tell any one else what he did to the bus and she makes him promise to never do it again.  The next morning Rosita and Abraham argue.  She thinks they should stay at the bookstore until they heal and rest up a bit, but he won’t have it, so they go back out.  They find a fire truck that has some trouble starting because human remains are stuck in the engine.  It also happens to be holding a door closed to keep in a slew of walkers.  As the others stab the attacking walkers in the head, Eugene heads to the top of the truck and uses the hose to kill them.  They start off again and after a few miles the fire truck gives out and they must continue on foot.  They come to a field covered in walkers.  Everyone thinks they should find a detour because there is no way they will make it through, but as usual Abraham wants to press on.  At this point even Rosita isn’t on his side.  He flips and grabs Eugene while Glenn and the others try to stop him.  Finally Eugene admits he lied and he is not a scientist.  (I had this inkling he would be a fraud!  Especially since he told Tara that was his only value as a member of the group.)  He says he believed DC would be the best place to survive so he manipulated people into getting him there.  Abraham is pissed and punches Eugene three times until Eugene passes out.  The others stop him and Rosita threatens to pull her gun.  Finally, Abraham walks off while the others try to revive Eugene.  I don’t think he’s going to make it because Abraham did a number on him.  His brain has to be mush.

We also got some backstory on Abraham in this episode.  He had a wife and kids and after the outbreak happened he was taking care of them in the back of a store.  He kills some men (not sure if they were walkers or if they were alive) with canned goods.  Full of adrenaline he calls for his wife Ellen.  He finds her and the kids and they are horrified by his appearance and scared of him.  He is covered in blood and has been in soldier mode which they have never seen before.  The next morning he wakes up to find his family gone.  Ellen left him a note asking him not to look for them.  He eventually finds Ellen and the kid’s dead and half eaten.  He decides to shoot himself in the head until he hears a man yelling for help.  It is Eugene.  Abraham kills the walkers and then continues to carry out killing himself, but Eugene tells him he knows how to get a cure and needs to get to DC.

End credits…

Only 3 episodes left until the winter break!  And next week we get to see what Carol and Daryl are up too.  It seems like they are planning how to infiltrate the Grady group instead of going in with guns blasting.   I wonder if we will get to see where Rick and the other part of the group are and how they are fairing.

Until next week!

Ep 504 "Slabtown"

QUICKLOOK:  Beth's downtown at Grady Memorial and is indebted to some strange people.  Maybe Terminus wasn't so bad, at least Gareth was cute. 

We finally get to see where Beth has been taken.  She is in Grady Memorial hospital in Atlanta with a group of officers, one doctor and some people they have managed to save.  Their leader is a woman police officer named Dawn.  They tell Beth she was alone when they saved her and she owes them a debt.  She is to pay off the debt by assisting the doctor.  She meets the officer who “saved her.  His name is Gorman and he is creepy.  We also find out that you must pay for everything you use there including the food you eat.  She brings the Dr. Edwards his dinner and talks to him for a while.  He seems like a nice guy.  She also meets a young man named Noah who is sort of like Dawn’s personal assistant.  She befriends him and he shares his story of how he got there.  He was brought in with his father, who didn’t make it.  He tells her his dad was strong and would’ve fought against the people there.  He believes they think he is weak, but he says he is not and he plans to escape.  A multitude of injured people get brought in the hospital throughout the episode.  One was a man who had jumped out of an apartment building to escape walkers.  Dawn is insistent that Dr. Edwards must save him after one of the officer’s whispers something in her ear.  Dr. Edwards does a sonogram and finds out the man has a punctured lung.  He stabs him to let some of the blood and fluid out and stabilizes him, but the man has internal bleeding and may not be able to be saved.  Then a woman that was already there received a bite mark from a walker somehow.  She’s wheeled to the room by Dawn and Gorman who tell the doc they will need to amputate her arm or she will turn.  Beth freaks out a little, but they tell her they need her to hold Joan down.  They saw off her arm and after they get her cleaned up, Dr. Edwards takes her down to the bottom floor of the building to she Beth walkers are always outside.  Then he takes her to the top for some air and to tell her his story.  He was a doctor there and when the crisis broke out Dawn was charged with helping him evacuate the patients.  They are safe and taken care of there and everyone contributes and it’s better than being alone outside in the city.  He tells Beth to call it a day after she gives the man Trevor 200mg of Clozapine.  She grounds up the meds and mixes with water and collects it in a syringe.  She gives the man the dose and Noah comes in to check on her.  Then the man goes into a seizure and dies.  Dawn comes in and starts demanding an explanation.  Noah covers for Beth and tells her he was cleaning and accidentally hit a chord.  They take him from the room and beat him up.  Beth tells Dr. Edwards she gave the man the right medicine and he just seized and she’s not sure why.  She tells the doctor she gave him clozapine just like he said, but he says that’s not the medicine he told her to give the man.  It was because I re-watched the earlier scene three times to be sure.  Beth gets upset for having had something to do with the man dying and Noah getting beat up.  Afterwards Dawn comes to visit Beth and tries to encourage her to eat so she will be strong.  Beth tells her she didn’t want to owe them and more than she already did.  Dawn tells her if she doesn’t eat she will become weaker and need more medical help and will never get to leave.  Dawn also confides in Beth that she thinks the nightmare won’t last forever and that things will go back to the way they were so everyone has to do their part around there.  Beth is in her room and looks for the lollipop Noah gave her.  It’s gone, but Gorman comes in licking it.  He forces her to taste it, but fortunately the doctor comes in.  He tells Gorman to leave her alone.  Gorman says she should be his.  The doctor tells him she isn’t his and he won’t get Joan back either.  He says he will because Dawn won’t stop him.  Immediately after this, Beth tells Noah she wants to go with him.  He works to keep Dawn distracted while Beth looks for an elevator key in her office.  When she looks for the key she finds Joan dead in a pile of blood with scissors in her hands.  She finds the key, but Gorman walks in.  He says he won’t tell on her if she has sex with him.  She concedes at first, but hits him with a bowl of lollipops knocking him to the ground for a freshly turned Joan to feast on.  She leaves the office, but is stopped by Dawn who asks if everything is okay.  Beth says she saw Joan and Gorman going into her office looking for her.  Noah and Beth open the elevator shaft and Noah lowers Beth down with sheets tied together, then he goes to climb down.  He gets grabbed by a walker through one of the elevator doors and falls to the bottom in the pit of bodies so Beth jumps down to him.  They make their way through the dark basement, but are attacked by a few walkers.  Beth shoots them and they get to the door.  Once they get out into the sunlight Beth is overrun with walkers.  Noah keeps running and gets away, but Beth is caught by one of the officers.  Dawn asks Beth who she thinks she is and Beth tells her no one is coming for them and that Dawn has done all of this for nothing.  Dawn knocks her out.  Doctor Edwards is tending to her wounds and she tells him she knows Trevor was a doctor and she knows that’s why he had her kill him.  He admits to it and says they would’ve kicked him out or possibly killed him so he did what he had to too stay alive.  Later she takes some scissors to kill the doctor, but some officers come in with a victim on a stretcher and Beth sees that it is Carol.

End credits…   

So is there really something wrong with Carol or have they just become smarter now than to blindly walk into a situation again like they did at Terminus?

See you next week!