Summary:
The timeline is finally back in the Here and Now
The attack on the town is over. The survivors are cleaning up.
At least until Rick comes running up the street with a massive horde pressing in behind him. It’s time to find out if Alexandria’s walls were built to withstand the horde. Rick gives the survivors a pep talk that rapidly turns dark. The survivors aren’t used to having walkers at their gates.
The townspeople aren’t as hard as Rick’s people. Some of them raid the town larder – ready to eat their fill and damn the long term consequences. Thankfully one of their own shames the others into putting the food down.
When we come back from commercial Maggie is packing up, getting ready to go find Glenn. Aaron sees her getting ready and knows what she is going to do. He confronts her to tell her knows a safer way out than her fence noise makers – and he’ll help her. He takes her to a sewer that leads out of town. Aaron and Maggie pull down a ladder only to be attacked by mud walkers. And Aaron got a gash on his head in the process. Maggie wants him to go back but he won’t. They reach the end of the tunnel only to find they are still too close to the outside wall and the horde. Aaron wants to try and run for it but Maggie won’t let him. She’s pregnant and feels guilty that she let Glenn go by himself. Maybe she could have changed what happened. She realizes she might never know for sure what happened.
At the same time Carl realizes that Enid is gone. He thinks she went over the fence before the horde showed up, and is not stuck out there. They kind of leave this hanging – we don’t yet know what happened to Enid.
Back in the medical suite the nervous doctor is freaking out – struggling with the responsibility that has been thrust on her.
Tara tells her to keep her chin up – and I think we see the start of a love affair? Maybe Tara’s pep talk did some good. She read something and then pulls some puss from her patient, and his vitals appear to improve.
One of the last things we see is Rick & Jessie talking. At first I thought Jessie was going to shoot him down again but then it ends up in a kiss. I’m glad she finally gave in to Rick’s hotness.
The episode ends with Deanna at the fence, banging on it. As she walks away we see what might be a gap in the wall? I’m not sure what it was but they panned over it like it was important – so I’m thinking we’ll see it again.
Things I loved about this episode…
- The way Jessie drags the body out of her house so nonchalantly and goes to bury it, at least until Rick stops her. (They don’t bury murderers inside the fence.)
- Tara gets kissed. It was very sweet. I’m happy Tara found someone.
Things that I didn’t like about this episode…
- Glenn didn’t show up at the gates with Rick. He can’t be dead dead can he?
- Jessie turning her back to the door after she kills the Suicide Walker in the house. Really? There could be others in there.
- There appears to be a lot of overweight people in Alexandria? Wouldn’t the loss of fast food and plentiful sugar have changed that?
- Maggie deciding not to go looking for Glenn. To me this means Glenn is dead for real.
Firsts…
- The first time the residents of Alexandria actually have to face an undead horde at their gates.
- The first time we find out that Maggie and Glenn didn’t use protection – she’s pregnant.
- Deanna’s first zombie kill.
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