Summary:
JSS
She is scared and alone, lost in the woods. She keeps writing “JSS” wherever she can. She traces it in the dirt, she writes it in the dust on a window, and even with the bones of a turtle dinner.
Her name is Enid – and we just learned the origin of Carl’s “love interest”. Poor girl saw her family get eaten before she found Alexandria. Now we just have to find out what JSS means.
Carol continues to play the “nice girl” while also being brutally honest when no adults are looking. I’m so loving her character right now. She gets to cooking, and is looking out the window just in time to see her neighbor get cut down by a man with a machete. Raiders have found Alexandria.
Which brings us almost to the merge point of Episode 1. The raiders hit Alexandria just as the major group of fighters (Rick etc) is out trying to guide the horde around the town. Young Enid comes to tell Carl goodbye but he tells her she has to stay and help him protect Edith.
Outside Wolves are slaughtering town’s people and making “W”s on them. It’s time for Carol to go on the offensive. She goes on the attack but is too slow to save her friend from being gutted.
We then find out what the horn from Episode 1 is. One of the W Raiders tries to ram a truck into the walls. When the lookout opens up full auto the semi veers and hits the wall – but doesn’t break through. It does however have its horn blowing full blast after it crashes.
The sniper in the guard eventually makes it down to the truck, but Morgan beats him to the horn and kills the noise. 
Morgan looks the sniper right in the eyes and tells him to hide. Morgan is mad at Carol because she killed a man in front of her. She has a plan. They have to get to the armory before the raiders do – but Morgan appears to believe that human lives should be spared.
At House Grimes Carl saves Ron – but Ron sees his girl and runs – maybe jealous that she is with Carl.
Meanwhile at house Anderson Jessie is forced to kill a raider with a pair of scissors just in time for her son Ron to see her savagely killing the woman.
Morgan saves Father Gabriel and begins to tie up his captive. The man gets out a few simple words before Carol shows up and kills him. The captive tries to tell Morgan “people don’t belong here anymore”. Carol gives Gabriel and Morgan weapons only to have Morgan give his to the priest.
We then get to see Morgan take apart a group of five or six raiders with his staff before scaring them off by telling them they’ll get shot if they don’t run. They run.
After things quiet down Carol goes to her neighbor, sad that the woman is dead – and maybe feeling guilty that she told her not to smoke in the house anymore -which put her outside when the raiders came.
We then see a horrible truth. One of the raiders had black and white pics from inside the walls of Alexandria. The raiders had someone on the inside before they hit. (Dum Dum Dum)
At house Grimes Carl goes to find Enid only to find she left him a note. “Just Survive Somehow”. What a sat way to say goodbye.
Lots of others are going through emotional issues during this episode:
- Jessie’s (Rick’s) would be love interest is struggling with her kids. We see a hint that she still likes Rick when she kind of defends him to her oldest.
- Deanna is still morning her husband but gets some constructive help from Maggie who is trying to get Deanna to work her sorrows out by farming/gardening.
- Gabriel realizes (or at least says he does) that he was wrong. He needs to learn how to fight. Carl agrees to teach him. Machete practice is at 3pm.
- The new town doctor struggles with her new responsibility. She was going to be a doctor before going into psychology.
Things I loved about this episode…
- The way she leaves her initials everywhere she goes.
- Carol telling it like it it. Sometimes you have to face the horrible truth.
- Carol going totally BA on the raiders. She puts on a hoodie, pretends to be one of them, and proceeds to kick ass.
Things that I didn’t like about this episode…
- I don’t think that turtles are that bloody.
- Long hair is bad in the ZA – and this is just bad anyway you cut it.
- Morgan turning out to be a pacifist, human loving, gun hating, warrior. Come on, just let him be bad ass like Carol.
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