Ep 515 "Try"

Alexandria isn’t so welcoming to our group anymore. Deanna and her family are taking the loss of Aiden very hard. Nicholas isn’t helping matters because he is lying about what really happened to save his own skin. Deanna tapes him as she does all interviews and he paints himself as a hero and everyone else the bad guy.  He says Glenn got Aiden hurt and then wanted to leave him there to die, but Nicholas wouldn’t do it. And poor Nicholas had to push Noah through the door otherwise Glenn would’ve pushed him out to be eaten by walkers. What a piece of work. Deanna is thankfully still cautious and decides that neither Nicholas nor Glenn will be allowed to have weapons or go outside the walls for the time being until she can investigate. Carol makes Deanna’s family a tuna casserole and leaves it on the doorstep with a note, but Deanna leaves the casserole and burns the note.

Glenn is taking Noah’s loss hard.  He confronts Nicholas and tells him Noah’s death and the deaths of the others he’s gotten killed before are on his hands. He knows what kind of person he is and from now on he doesn’t touch weapons and he doesn’t leave Alexandria. Rick tells Glenn the people there will never understand what it’s really like out there and they don’t have to abide by Deanna’s rules. Glenn says things have to work out, for Noah, because he believed in Alexandria. Later we see Nicholas outside the walls digging up a coffee can and I think that’s Ricks gun hidden in it.

Carl and Enid grow closer. He follows her outside the walls and she calls him on it. He asks what happened to her before she came to Alexandria, but she doesn’t really say. They run around for a minute until a group of walkers comes upon them and they hide inside a hollowed out tree.  She confesses that he scares her.  He starts to touch her hand, but pulls back and she says she must scare him too.  Yay, Carl’s gonna get some!

Rick and Carol talk some more about Pete. Carol got more intel from Sam including that Jessie put a lock on the inside of Sam’s closet and sometimes she tells Sam to lock himself in and not come out. One morning he found Jessie lying on the floor bleeding and Pete was just sitting on the porch as if nothing had happened. At night Rick is outside and has his gun out when Pete walks by. Pete says hi and tries to talk with Rick, but Rick gives him a look and tells him to keep walking, which he does. The next day Rick checks on Deanna and lets her know that Pete is a big problem. Of course she already knows what is going on, which horrifies Rick. He cannot believe that she hasn’t done anything to stop it. She wants to know what could possibly be done and Rick says to separate them and if that doesn’t work, kill Pete. She proclaims they don’t kill people, they may exile them, but they never execute. If Pete is exiled though, he could come back and he knows everything about the town.

Daryl and Aaron come across some zombies and see a fire one night. The next day they find random body parts strewn around and come upon a woman tied to a tree who was eaten alive. She has a W carved into her forehead and wakes up as a zombie until Daryl puts a knife through her head. Looks like we’re catching up to whomever likes to dismember bodies and carve W’s into heads.

Rosita enlists Michonne with helping her find Sasha who never returned from her watchtower duty the night before. They follow a trail of dead zombies through the woods and come upon Sasha just as a hoard approaches. Sasha tells them to leave because she doesn’t need their help, but they tag team the walkers and then Sasha breaks down. I don’t think she’s going to make it too much longer.

Rick decides to talk with Jessie about the Pete situation. As all battered women normally do, she defends Pete and says he’s had a hard life, but she’s helped him before.  Rick tells her if she doesn’t do something about it Pete will kill her and he can’t let that happen. She says she can take care of herself and tells him to leave while she goes in the back door and closes the garage. He walks around front and decides to confront her again walking through her front door. He lets her know Sam asked for a gun to protect her. She finally concedes for Rick to take action when Pete walks in on his high horse. He tells Rick he should leave but Jessie says Pete should leave. Pete goes bonkers and he and Rick start to fight and they end up on the street after they fly through the front window. Everyone in the community is watching as both Rick and Pete are bloodied up and neither will back down. Carl tries pulling Rick off while Jessie pulls at Pete, but then Deanna comes out and puts her foot down. This pushes Rick over the edge. He pulls out his gun and tells them they just don’t get it. Their way of doing things will get them killed and they have to start living in the real world. Deanna says she realizes that now more than ever and Rick is stunned that she would consider shutting him out. Suddenly in the middle of his rant Michonne knocks him out.

End credits…

There is a 90 minute season finale next week and it looks like we will be enjoying those extra 30 minutes. I’m really hoping Rick doesn’t get exiled, because even though he’s channeling crazy-Rick he’s right. I also hope the group doesn’t get torn apart over this with anyone siding against Rick. They should know he wouldn’t take the risk unless it was important. I’m curious to know what the numbers were when Alexandria began as opposed to now. We know they lost people. Did they never question why?