If you have not read my review for episode 5, you may do so here: http://cinemakingdom.com/?p=282
This episode had a really cool intro. It shows why Shane left Rick behind at the hospital after Rick was shot in the first episode. I won’t go into all of the details but it is nice to see what happened, and it makes what is happening between them now even more tragic.
After that intro, we cut back to the present where Jenner has opened the doors for the survivors. The price for coming in is a blood test, no one refuses the offer. Inside our survivors find food, shelter and perhaps most importantly, complete safety from the walkers. After some celebrating they ask Jenner where everyone else is and what caused the outbreak? None of the answers are very encouraging.
Apparently everyone in the CDC either left to go be with their families or they committed suicide. Jenner doesn’t know what caused the outbreak or how to stop it, but he does show everyone a video of what happens to a body when it dies and is reanimated into a walker. We later find out that this video is of his wife. We also find out that when the fuel runs out, which happens in an hour, the building will be decontaminated…the air will be set on fire and everyone will die. Jenner types in a code and seals the doors to the room they are in.
Shane doesn’t take this news very well and starts going nuts (he also went crazy earlier in the episode when he was drunk and tried to rape Lori). Rick finally talks Jenner into opening the doors he had sealed (though Jenner has no control over the main doors). Two of the group members decide to stay behind and die because it will be easier than facing the world overran by walkers again. Dale tells Andrea (one of the two staying behind) that if she is staying he is as well.
Topside, everyone is trying to find a way out of the CDC. The glass walls can withstand the force of blunt weapons and even bullets. It seems like all is lost when Carol gives Rick the grenade he had picked up inside of the tank in the first and second episodes. Rick uses the grenade and it works, blowing out one panel of glass. They make it to the vehicles when they see Dale and Andrea coming out of the building. The CDC explodes and our survivors drive off into the unknown.
This is the last episode of the season. It was a good season overall and a creative show. Even though it takes place in a zombie apocalypse, it’s actually a show about the characters, not the zombies. I look forward to reviewing season 2.
I give this episode 3 out of 4 stars
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