Last week the group needed
to remember what it was like to live a semi-normal life with showers and
haircuts and without guns. This
week they need to forget, but after the last two years is it possible for our
group to forget? Some seem to find
it easier than others.
Sasha definitely seems to be
the most reserved. She takes her
gun outside the walls for some target practice. She listens as if she keeps hearing something like a walker
or a person sneaking up on her, but no one is there. What she hears is in her head and once she’s done with
practice she sits on the stump and says, “Come and get me.” She’s definitely got some PTSD going on
and why wouldn’t she? I’d be
worried about anyone in Rick’s group who wasn’t struggling with some issue
after what they have been through.
Too bad there isn’t a therapist in Alexandra because he or she would be
doing some heavy pro-bono work.
Rick, Carol and Daryl also
go outside the walls to meet at the white cabin and discuss their gun situation. They want to get their guns from the
armory quickly before the Alexandrians start to watch and worry about what the
group might be doing. With Carol’s
deep undercover work on the Junior League she has noticed a whole locker of
guns the others don’t use and wouldn’t miss. Rick asks that they keep this meeting between the three of
them because he does want everyone to try and make it work there. On their way back Daryl notices a
corpse with a W carved into it.
Michonne checks out her new
uniform in the mirror. She and
Rick are still curious as to why Deanna would give complete strangers an
authoritative position. Michonne
wants to believe it is to integrate them into the Alexandria group. They meet with Deanna and Maggie to
discuss their new jobs. She wants
to build a working government and wants Maggie’s help. They walk out to look at the wall and
Rick persuades Deanna to make some more fortifications to the wall or someone
will eventually get through. He
also brings up his strong belief that they should have guns on them, but Deanna
will not back down on that issue.
Sasha walks up and volunteers to be the lookout on the watchtower, but
Deanna says no one ever mans the tower because it’s not necessary. Rick flips out and says someone should
be there because to see who is coming from every side and eventually someone
will come. Can these people have
been lucky enough for no group of crazies to find and ravage their camp? If so, I want to go to Vegas with them
because they are one lucky bunch.
Deanna agrees to the watchtower guard, but she wants her hottie son
Spencer to maintain it for now until they make a schedule. Then Sasha can get on the roster. For doing this, Deanna expects them all
to come to a dinner party she is hosting that night.
Daryl is out walking and
catches Aaron near him. Daryl
accuses Aaron of following him, but Aaron says he is just out hunting
rabbits. Aaron asks if he can join
Daryl and Daryl begrudgingly agrees, warning Aaron to keep up and be quiet. They come upon a horse that Aaron has
seen before. He tells Daryl he’s
tracked the horse for months and his name is Buttons, but every time he gets
close the horse runs off. Daryl
thinks he may be able to catch the horse and he gets close, but some walkers
get there and the horse runs away.
Aaron and Daryl kick some walker ass and go back after Buttons. When they find him he is being taken
down by 5-6 walkers and can’t get away, so this beautiful, majestic creature is
finally consumed by the world around him.
They kill the walkers that have already started eating from the horse
and then give him as peaceful a death as they can, by Aaron shooting Buttons in
the head. I hope this isn’t a
foreshadowing for our brave group who was out in the wild and has now been
reigned in. On their way back to town,
Aaron reveals to Daryl he knows what it feels like to be an outsider because of
his relationship with Eric. He
says people try to be nice, but there is still this feeling there. So he knows how Daryl feels, but he
thinks Daryl should try his best to make it to the dinner party.
As Carol is trading recipes
with some of the Stepford wives she see’s Rick and tells him the armory will be
unmanned that night due to the dinner party. When Carol goes to get her ration of chocolate for her
cookies, she unlocks a window to get in later that night.
The dinner party begins and
we get to meet Deanna’s husband Reg, who is impressed by Rick. Jessie introduces her husband Pete to
Rick, who doesn’t mention anything about their middle of the night smoke on the
porch meeting from the last episode.
Pete acts charming in this meeting even offering to check out Rick’s
health since he’s a surgeon. Um,
no thanks creepy porchdick. Pete
and Sam, Jessie’s other son, go to talk with some others. Jessie hangs back and points out to
Rick that the dinner party isn’t so bad and the apocalypse helped the world in
one way. Everyone there is from a
different background and might have never met if it wasn’t for the apocalypse. Sam comes back and wants to stamp
Rick’s hand so he’s part of the group.
Rick lets him and it’s an A.
Hmm, A’s haven’t necessarily been a good thing for our group in the
past. We see Abraham and Michonne
talk on the porch and Sasha stops by.
She meets Deanna’s son Spencer, but shortly after she goes ballistic
when a woman wants to cook her dinner and says “she worry’s” she’ll cook the
wrong thing. Sasha blurts out that
she can’t believe that is what she worry’s about and leaves. Rick bumps into Jessie again and she
has Judith. When she hands him
Judith he kisses Jessie on the cheek.
Carol is at the armory
collecting the guns while everyone’s at the dinner party. She get’s caught by Sam, Jessie’s
youngest son. He asks what she is
doing and says he followed her because he thought she might be making more
cookies. She says she will make
more if he will not tell what he saw.
When he wavers and says he has to tell his mother Carol goes full on
creepy and tells him if he doesn’t keep his mouth shut he may wake up to find
himself out in the woods surrounded by walkers and screaming where no one can
hear him. I think he’s keeping his
mouth shut.
Daryl does clean up and gets
to the outside of the party, but doesn’t go in. He’s heading back to his house when Aaron see’s him and
invites him to dinner. Daryl asks
why he isn’t at the dinner party and Aaron says he luckily got out of it due to
Eric’s sprained ankle. Daryl comes
in and eats spaghetti with them and afterwards Aaron gives Daryl a bike and says
he has a job for him. He wants
Daryl to come out and be his sidekick recruiter. Aaron says Daryl can tell if someone is good or bad and he
can’t. Daryl says he’ll take the
bike and help Aaron because he has “nothing else to do”.
The next morning Deanna
opens the gate for Sasha and gives her the gun and ammo. Deanna tells her she understands
something is going on, but they need to figure out what to do about it. Sasha tells Deanna that Alexandria
isn’t real, but Deanna tells Sasha that comment is bullshit. Out in the woods Carol hands out guns
to Rick and Daryl. Daryl no longer
wants one to carry. He thinks it’s
good they have them, but he is comfortable walking around without a gun. Rick hesitates for a moment, but still
takes one and stuffs it in the back of his pants. Michonne also decides to retire her katana sword to the
mantle in their house.
End Credits…
#porchdick #RIPButtons #twd
#scarol
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