The Deepest Cut begins with Huck talking to her mother, Elizabeth. Huck tells Elizabeth to keep the faith. Huck has given a lot to prove herself to her current companions. All she needs is more time.
Back with Hope and Iris, Huck is behind the wheel of their truck, motoring along in the dark. At least until she purposefully steers into an obstacle on the road, presumably to slow down their journey.
With the truck disabled, the group sets out on foot. This gives Felix a moment to remember when he first met Huck at her security interview. He’s brough back to the hear and now by a horde. The horde is tangled in barbed wire, dragging it along with them. The group makes it through, but Felix is hurt in the process. He gets a nice cut across the back of his ankle.
Elton & Silas
Meanwhile Elton is still trying to find Silas. After tearing into one of his books in a rage, he chases it into the rain and wind. His rage turns to worry as he picks up a page covered in blood. At the end of the blood trail Elton doesn’t find Silas though. Instead he finds Percy who is weak from blood loss or injury. It’s not quite clear yet. After Elton drags Percy across a river Percy stands up and asks Elton why he’s trying to help. Percy is going to die. Why? Was he bit? We don’t know yet. Then we find out that Elton is imagining his conversation with Percy. Elton’s subconscious was afraid it was a wrench wound, but it wasn’t. Percy has been shot.
Team Iris
When we come back from commercial Team Iris has found what looks like an old folks community center. Iris ends up with Huck as the team splits up to find something to fix their truck. As Iris and Huck explore, Huck uses psychological warfare, telling Iris how much faster she is than Hope. She is trying to plant the seed that maybe Iris’s dad isn’t in bad shape. Maybe Iris is just overthinking things.
As Felix unwraps his barbed wire injury he flashes back to the past and better times. He’s thinking about his boyfriend Bill.
When we come back from our next commercial break Felix rolls his ankle, hurting his wound further. As the team stops to let him rest he flashes back to a dinner with Bill and the girl’s father. Its revealed that Bill his going with the girls father, Leopold.
As Elton is trying to deal with Percy’s wound by applying a poultice, he’s faced with multiple walkers hungry for a quick snack. While Elton’s subconscious tells him its okay to leave Percy behind, Elton struggles with the reality of the situation. Subconscious Percy tells Elton that humanity has a fighting chance, like his mother knew was true, and to leave him behind. This is about when Elton goes Rambo, using Silas’s wrench to destroy some walkers in a purposely slow mo scene. Sadly, I think they shot it as an action scene but had to blue it up to make it more believable. Who is going to buy the kid in the mustard suit turning bad*ss? Right?
Huck’s Mission
After a short bit of soul searching Irish and team leave Felix behind so they can continue unhindered by his injury. As Felix is hugging Huck we see a flashback as she uses the blade of her spear to wound Felix during the fight with the walkers. Huck has achieved her goal of separating the girls from Felix, who might protect them from what is too come.
Iris is suspicious, but when she goes to talk to Hope, Hope doesn’t trust Iris’s gut. Later in the night Hope and Huck discuss the next steps. The next morning Huck has convinced Iris to set out on their own.
As the rain falls Elton is using the walkie he found on Percy to call to Felix. Huck answers his call. Elton is about to tell Huck where they are when Percy wakes up and slaps the walkie out of Elton’s hand. Percy tells him it was Huck who shot him.
Somewhere along the walk Hope has figured out the cipher they’ve intercepted and learns that there is an agent among them. Who exactly is Huck?
The Deepest Cut
The Deepest Cut scored a 55/100 as it struggled to generate a lot of suspense. All the backstabbing and intrigue was written on the walls. Please leave something for us to figure out or find out.
| Season | Episode | Episode Name | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Brave | 70 |
| 1 | 2 | The Blaze Of Glory | 50 |
| 1 | 3 | The Tyger and the Lamb | 65 |
| 1 | 4 | The Wrong End of a Telescope | 71 |
| 1 | 5 | Madman Across the Water | 60 |
| 1 | 6 | Shadow Puppets | 60 |
| 1 | 7 | Truth Or Dare | 60 |
| 1 | 8 | The Sky Is a Graveyard | 62 |
| 1 | 9 | The Deepest Cut | 55 |
| 1 | 10 | In This Life | 50 |
| Season | Episode | Episode Name | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Human Flow | 85 |
| 1 | 2 | Drive | 80 |
| 1 | 3 | Summer School | 70 |
| 1 | 4 | Alone | 82 |
| 1 | 5 | Diner | 86 |
| 1 | 6 | Heist | 90 |
| 1 | 7 | The Tunnel | 83 |
| 1 | 8 | The Stadium | 91 |
| 2 | 1 | The Cold | 95 |
| 2 | 2 | Prelude | 80 |
| 2 | 3 | Card Game | 91 |
| 2 | 4 | Cold War | 83 |
| 2 | 5 | White Horse | 88 |
| 2 | 6 | Currency | 69 |
| 2 | 7 | The Lodge | 75 |
| 2 | 8 | The Plane | 99 |
