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!