Sunday, November 2, 2014

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!

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