Summary:
The previews for Twice As Far
The opening scenes show life going on in an almost normal way before we get to Morgan who has finished his basement prison just in time for Rick to stop by.
Rick asks Morgan why, and Morgan tells him it will give them choices next time. Rick walks away without saying anything.
Carol and her new “friend” share a kiss on her porch before he heads off to to his duties. Everyone is doing their thing. 
When we get to Daryl he is going over his bike and finds the soldier he’d kept there just as Carol stops by to talk. She’s clearly carrying the weight of what went down when the Saviors captured her and Maggie while Daryl is realizing that Dwight, the guy who stole his bike must have been a Savior – and that if he wasn’t at either of the two Savior bases he must still be out there?
When we get back from commercial Denise is asking Daryl & Rosita to take her to an apothecary she’d seen before she found Alexandria. Daryl & Rosita give in and they are off, at least until the road is blocked by a tree. At this point Team Daryl breaks off into two smaller groups. Daryl and Denise follow the road while Rosita follows the tracks. I guess she didn’t experience Terminus the same way?
When we get from the second commercial break Abraham and Eugene are walking through an alley in the pouring rain, talking philosophy and survival. Eugene thinks he’s adapting, that he’s a survivor, which makes me think he’s dying this episode.
Abraham and Eugene have come to their destination, a foundry or machine shop. Eugene has plans to make bullets. There is a brief struggle with a walker before Abraham and Eugene have words which leaves Eugene alone after telling Abraham he doesn’t need him for protection anymore.
Daryl and Denise find Rosita, who beat them to the town by taking the more direct path the railroad tracks provided. The strip mall is covered in bloody handprints. Daryl opens the door with his crowbar and team heads inside. Denise isn’t used to being out in the wild and almost hurls from the smell (which should have been a warning that something was rotting inside?) Inside the strop mall there is another metal gate which Daryl goes to town on with his crow bar. Daryl & Rosita jump inside to take the drugs before they hear something moving. Denise thinks she hears whatever is making the noise and decides to go investigate. She finds the source of the noise and seems surprised that it is creepy as hell before running. On the way back Denise continues her stupid streak when she decides to risk her life to get a cooler from inside a car.
She gets the cooler, but not before almost getting bit after a fight with the car zombie. Inside the cooler she finds the soda that Tara likes. Rosita gets mad and asks Denise if she’s stupid, which kicks off a monologue about how Daryl and Rosita are so strong – right up to the point where Denise gets an arrow in the head.
Denise continues to talk for a moment longer before a mass of gunman come out of the trees – dragging Eugene along with them. Daryl & Rosita pull their guns up but there are a lot of Saviors on them. Is it better to go down in a blaze of glory or hope you can talk your way out of things? Is that even a possibility given the fact that they just killed two Savior outposts. The lead Savior in the group is Dwight. Daryl tells him he should have killed him. The crossbow that Dwight used to kill Denise was Daryl’s – he stole it when he stole the bike. Eugene is on his knees, and he can see Abraham hiding not far off. Eugene then tells Dwight that the Saviors should kill Abraham first because he’s a first class A hole.
The moment the Saviors are distracted Eugene takes some initiative and bites Dwight in the Johnson. This gives Abraham a moment of surprise to open fire and allow Daryl & Rosita time to fight back. All hell breaks loose, bullets are flying. Eugene takes a bullet before the Saviors run for it.
Team Daryl makes it back to Alexandria. Eugene took a bullet to his side but it was just a flesh wound. When Eugene wakes up he tells Abraham he wasn’t trying to get him killed. Abraham tells him he knows, and he didn’t have to “Bite a dick” to prove he was capable of defending himself.
The episode ends with Carol’s new boyfriend reading her goodbye letter. She’s tired of killing and she knows that if she stays she will be forced to. She can’t let herself love anyone because she will have to defend them. She asks them not to come after her, she’s leaving. In the background we see two people taking the armory away, but we don’t know where before it fades to black.
Things I loved about this episode…
- Daryl taking the tracks back to their car after they ransack the apothecary.
- Eugene biting Dwight in the Johnson and giving everyone else a chance to fight.
- Sasha telling Abraham to come inside.
- Abraham telling Eugene he didn’t have to “Bite a dick,” to prove he was a survivor.
Things that I didn’t like about this episode…
- Was Daryl having problems with the trucks transmission? Come on he rides a bike so he must understand a clutch right?
- Come on!!! Rosita is not going to split up and go a separate way than Daryl. What good is a partner if they are going to run off on their own?
- Eugene suddenly thinks he is a walker killer? I’m not so sure he’d be dumb enough to send Abraham away.
- Denise decides to go investigate the noise in the dark? When did she become brave?
- Carol got weak? She decides to flee? She was so hard? Was she brittle as well?
Firsts…
- The first time we see Abraham admit to Sasha how much he likes her.
- The first time we see someone get an arrow through the head and continue to talk. (However sad it was.)
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