The Walking Dead Season 3 E3: Walk With Me (Part 2)

If you have not read the first part of this review, you may do so here: The Walking Dead Season 3 E3: Walk With Me (Part 1)

The Governor questions the pilot of the helicopter that crashed.  He was the only survivor.  Through analysis of the two walkers who were with Michonne, the Governor and his men figure out the walkers were used for camouflage and they do starve, but very slowly.  It’s interesting to see them studying the walkers, perhaps even looking for a cure?

Andrea and Michonne have breakfast with the Governor.  Conversation includes everyone’s roles in the town and daily operations.  In Woodbury, people have jobs, school, and most importantly, hope.  The people of this town are building a real life, not just living in constant fear every second of everyday.

Andrea and Michonne talk outside.  Michonne doesn’t trust the Governor.  Andrea wants a couple more days to check things out.  This town seems like too good of a deal to pass up so it’s worth a shot.  The safety and security of Woodbury is something the survivors aren’t going to find in too many other places.  Andrea tells Michonne she has been with her for months but knows next to nothing about her.

Elsewhere we see a group of military men out in an open space.  A car drives up to them and the Governor steps out, tells them he found their helicopter pilot.  He was just lowering their guard through conversation; it’s a trap!  The Governor has men surrounding them and they open fire, killing all of the soldiers.  This is how the Governor has so many supplies and weapons, he kills innocent people and takes them.

Back at Woodbury, the Governor gives a speech and lies to the people, saying walkers got to the soldiers first, but their sacrifice would keep them safe.  At least we know it’s not the entire town that’s bad, just the Governor and some of his men.  Andrea asks the Governor his real name but he says he never tells that.  Back in his room, drinking and looking at a picture of his family, he opens a secret area filled with the heads of zombies (at least some of them are still alive).  Okay, so at this point we know the Governor is completely nuts.

The Walking Dead Season 3 E3: Walk With Me (Part 1)

If you have not read my review of episode two, you may do so here: The Walking Dead Season 3 E2: Sick (Part 2)

This episode has an interesting beginning.  We see a military helicopter under attack (or simply damaged).  It goes down and crashes.  Andrea and Michonne witness the crash and go to check it out.  While at the crash site, some vehicles show up.  A group of men check out the wreckage and take out some walkers while they are at it.  The men hear the noise coming from Michonne’s walkers so she cuts their heads off.

As the men start to leave, someone walks up behind Andrea and Michonne.  It’s Merle!  He hasn’t been seen since the first season (except for in a hallucination), no one even knew if he was alive or not.  It looks like the reunion might be cut short as there is a walker coming up behind him.  The camera zooms out to reveal that he stabbed it in the head with his knife hand.  Looks like he found a way to make his arm useful after losing his hand.  Andrea passes out.

We catch a glimpse of Andrea in a vehicle, in and out of consciousness.  We also catch glimpses of Merle, a city, armed guards.  Wherever she is, they treat her with medicine and nurse her back to good health.  Merle tells her how the city people found him and in return Andrea explains what became of everyone in the group.  Merle is fishing for a “thank you” for the shelter and medicine.  When Andrea doesn’t catch on he start to get angry and aggressive.

Andrea thanks Merle, which calms him down.  Merle then goes and talks to the Governor about something but we can’t hear it.  Though everyone here seems to be helping these total strangers, something doesn’t feel right.  Plus they did take Merle in as a permanent member of the town, so their morals are probably questionable at best.  The Governor speaks with Andrea and Michonne, he says they are free to leave in the morning if they wish.  They aren’t prisoners, merely guests.  Somehow, I don’t believe that.

The Governor shows Andrea and Michonne around the town of Woodbury.  The city is gated, protected by armed men at all times.  We find out there are over 70 people in town.  This society works because the Governor has strict rules and everyone obeys them.  No one is allowed out after dark, noise has to be kept down.  In a world like this one would have to have strict rules in order to survive.  One person doing something stupid could get everyone killed.

It will be interesting to see how this town really functions from day to day when they aren’t trying to impress guests.  I would also like to know what happens if someone does disobey the Governor.

The Walking Dead Season 3 E2: Sick (Part 2)

If you have not read part 1, you may do so here: The Walking Dead Season 3 E2: Sick (Part 1)

The prisoners end up being idiots.  They completely ignore everything Rick had told them and just rush the walkers.  Not only do they waste tons of energy attacking them to the body and blindly rushing in, they also break formation, leaving them all vulnerable.  At least Rick may not have to kill these guys, they will get themselves killed at this rate.  Back in his cell, Hershel is still out.  Carl went off on his own and gathered much needed medical supplies, even though it just got him in trouble with his mom.

Rick and the gang are still out killing zombies.  He once again tells them you have to destroy the brain and they have to stay in a tight formation, no more prison riot crap.  Everyone does much better this time, except for “Tiny” who runs off by himself and gets bit by a walker.  They tell him there is nothing they can do, he will turn into a walker now.  While everyone is debating on how to deal with this situation, the leader of the prison gang murders Tiny.  There is no way they can be safe with this guy around, he just killed someone he lived with for 10 months without any concern.

While walking through the hallway, Rick and Daryl talk about having to kill the prisoner’s leader if he makes one wrong move.  They come to the next section of the prison and Rick tells their leader to open one of the doors so they can funnel the zombies through and take them out.  He opens both doors anyway, creating total chaos.  During the fight with the zombies, the prisoner’s leader not only takes a swing at Rick with his knife (while also swinging at a walker) but he pushes a walker on Rick as well.  Daryl kills the walker and helps Rick up, giving him a nod.

The prisoner’s leader makes an excuse, though it’s obvious he meant to do it.  Rick takes his machete and slams it down on his head, killing him instantly.  Rick doesn’t play around anymore.  The other prisoner who worked with the one who just died comes at Rick but he stops him with a sidekick.  He runs off but Rick chases him down.  The prisoner makes it outside but the area is filled with zombies.  Rick shuts the gate on him and tells him that he better run.  Rick walks away and all we hear are screams.

Rick goes back to where he left everyone else at and decides to kill the remaining two prisoners, but one of them begs for his life.  He says he isn’t like those other guys.  Rick has mercy and takes them to their own cell block, where they can live in safety.  Meanwhile, Lori saves Hershel’s life giving him CPR.  Rick and the rest come back and find Hershel waking up.  It looks like Hershel is going to make it.

The episode ends with Carol practicing a C section on a walker while Rick and Lori have talk.  Rick says he doesn’t think Lori is a bad Mother (but he didn’t say she was a good wife).  Lori makes a joke about hiring a lawyer and getting a divorce.  Rick is starting to get to a point to where he can forgive her it seems.  He puts his hand on her shoulder and says everyone is grateful for what she did (saving Hershel), then walks off without looking at her.  Lori puts her head on her own shoulder, touching where Rick had touched her.  It was a very small moment but apparently it’s the most he has given her in a long time.

The Walking Dead Season 3 E2: Sick (Part 1)

If you have not read my review for the last episode, you may do so here: The Walking Dead Season 3 E1: Seed (Part 2)

This episode begins exactly where the last one ended.  Hershel’s leg has just been chopped off and the prisoners have been spotted.  Rick and the gang really don’t even have time to deal with the prisoners because they are still trying to save Hershel’s life.  After a very brief standoff, they open the door and kill the walker on the other side, rolling Hershel out on a table.  It will be interesting to see how these prisoners come into play.  They are obviously criminals or they wouldn’t be there in the first place, but can they help the group or are they just another enemy?

As our survivors make their way through the dark prison hallways, they take out some walkers and then hear something coming up from behind them.  The prisoners have left their room and are following them.  Still trying to save Hershel, they get him back to C block while Daryl stays outside of the block to confront the prisoners.  Hershel is bleeding badly and they are doing everything they can to stop the bleeding.

Outside the cell block, things are not going well between Daryl and the prisoners.  T-Dog also shows up for backup.  The prisoners have no idea what is going on.  They don’t know the world as they knew it has ended.  Everything is explained to them but the leader of the prisoners wants the prison for himself.  After taking them outside to show them what they said about the walkers is true they come to an agreement.

Things are tense but in exchange for half of the food the prisoners have, Rick and his gang will help the prisoners clear out a cell block for themselves. With how standoffish this prisoner leader is, it doesn’t sound like this will go well at all.  The guy reaches for his gun every time voices are raised.  Rick isn’t playing around anymore though, he tells him straight out, if he sees him out in the courtyard, anywhere near his people, he will kill him.

The small amount of food the prisoners have ends up being a very large amount of food.  The prisoners try to change the deal and just give them a little bit of food but Rick isn’t having any of it.  Rick tells them again, the deal is for half the food.  Back at C block the women continue to work on Hershel.  Maggie doesn’t think he will make it but Glenn comforts her.  Rick and T-Dog brings some food back to C block and tells Glenn to take his handcuffs and cuff Hershel (he is stable, but if he dies he will become a walker).

Rick talks to Lori about the situation.  He says this deal with the prisoners may not work, and if it doesn’t he will have to kill them.  Lori agrees but Rick says this is what she did last time (referring to what happened with Shane).  Lori admits she is a bad wife and mother but tells Rick to do what he has to in order to keep the group safe.  Rick gives close combat weapons to the prisoners and explains that guns make too much loud noise, which attracts the walkers .  He also explains that you have to take out their brains if you want to kill them.

Maggie wants to talk to Hershel alone.  She tells him he doesn’t have to fight anymore, that they will be okay.  Hershel isn’t awake but she doesn’t know if she will ever be able to talk to him again, so this might be her only chance to thank him for all he has done.

The Walking Dead Season 2 E12: Better Angels (Part 2)

If you have not read my review of episode 12 (Part 1) from this season, you may do so here: The Walking Dead Season 2 E12: Better Angels (Part 1)

Picking up where we left off, everyone is trying to figure out what happened.  Shane comes out of the woods and lies to everyone about what happened.  Shane, Rick, Daryl and Glenn form a search party to hunt down Randall.  Daryl questions Shane’s story, things just aren’t adding up.  To make things quicker they divide up into groups of two: Shane with Rick and Daryl with Glenn.

Daryl finds some tracks and continues to discover just how off Shane’s story was.  There was obviously a struggle between Shane and Randall.  They hear and see a walker out in the woods and it attacks them.  Glenn manages to kill him only to discover this walker used to be Randall.  The odd things is, there aren’t any bites on his body, his broken neck is the only injury he has.  They don’t understand how he turned.

Meanwhile, Shane leads Rick through the woods.  Rick seems suspicious of Shane and after a while lets him know that he knows what he is planning.  They talk about this murder, about Lori and Carl.  Shane says that Rick’s family is broke, and he has no idea how to fix it.  Rick moves closer and closer to Shane, slowly pulling out his gun, handle first, to give it to Shane.  Rick attempts to talk Shane out of this but the look on Shane’s face says it all.  While Shane is distracted grabbing Ricks gun, Rick stabs him with a knife he had been pulling out with his free hand.  Yelling at Shane about making him do this, his friend’s life pours out and Shane dies in front of him.

Rick killing Shane is one of the best scenes in the entire series.  If you remember back to the first scene ever on the show, of Rick and Shane talking, you remember just how close these guys used to be.  Shane even risked his own life to save Rick once and now it has come to this.  With two seasons worth of build up, it’s a tense moment that probably took most people by surprise (as it did Shane).

We see a flash of zombies (Shane’s perspective).  Rick thinks about what just happened as Shane’s body starts to reanimate without him knowing it.  Carl shows up and draws his gun on Rick.  Rick thinks Carl wants to kill him for murdering Shane.  Actually zombie Shane was walking towards Rick and Carl kills him.  This scene was a reference to the comics where Carl kills Shane.  Rick checks Shane’s body while the camera pans out to show a herd of walkers heading their way.   The walkers had been out in the woods and heard the gun shots.

The Walking Dead Season 2 E12: Better Angels (Part 1)

If you have not read my review of episode 11 from this season, you may do so here: The Walking Dead Season 2 E11: Judge, Jury, Executioner

This episode has a great opening.  We see Dale’s funeral spliced with scenes of the group pulling together and hunting down walkers.  The survivors are finally securing the farm and being aggressive.  Shane and Rick get into it over releasing Randall but it doesn’t last long, Rick tells Shane how it’s going to be.  Hershel and Rick ask Andrea to keep an eye on Shane for them, to make sure things don’t get out of control.

Carl goes to Shane to talk.  He tells Shane about the gun he stole from Daryl, the walker he saw and how it’s the walker that killed Dale.  Hershel allows everyone to move into the house for safety reasons and because winter is coming.  Lori makes an odd decision to talk to Shane, thanking him for all he has done for her.  She even tells him the baby could be his and that she did have feelings for him also.  Considering she had just tried to talk Rick into killing him, I’m not sure what she is doing.

Shane goes to Rick to discuss the walker that Carl saw.  Shane gets mad at Rick because he won’t deal with it.  He feels Rick is more concerned with setting Randall free than being a Father to Carl.  Shane may be unstable, but he has been right about Rick to a large degree.  Rick makes a lot of weird decisions, like saving Randall in town, that put not only everyone freeing Randall at risk, but everyone at the farm as well.  And Carl does need his Dad and discipline.

Glenn and Andrea have a heart to heart about Dale and his final moments.  Both of them were close to him in different ways.  Both let him down at times as well.  Rick decides to take Shane’s advice, he talks to his son, man to man.  Rick gives Carl a gun.  In this world, you have to be ready to defend yourself at all times.  It’s hard enough as a man, but as a child or woman, you have even less of a chance of making it.

Shane starts acting crazy in the barn in front of Randall.  T-Dog comes to get Randall and set him free but he is gone.  We cut to Shane out in the woods with Randall.  Shane asks Randall where his camp is.  He says he wants to join their group because this one is done.  They walk off camera and Shane breaks Randall’s neck.  To make it look like he was jumped, he slams his own nose into a tree.  Again, Shane’s action are out of control but letting Randall go was a terrible decision.  They never should have saved him in the first place considering the group of guys he traveled with.

The Walking Dead Season 2 E11: Judge, Jury, Executioner

If you have not read my review of episode 10 from this season, you may do so here: The Walking Dead Season 2 E10: 18 Miles Out

We open on Daryl beating the crap out of Randall.  Daryl is torturing Randall for information about his group.  It works but the news isn’t good.  Randall’s group is made up of about 30 people, armed to the teeth, who love to murder and rape.  This certainly doesn’t make Randall look very good since he does live with these guys.

Rick decides the best thing to do is execute Randall.  He is a threat to the farm since he can lead everyone back to them.  Dale wants to talk about things with everyone.  He talks Andrea into guarding Randall so Shane can’t kill him before everyone has made a final decision.  Shane comes by and has a talk with Andrea.  He says the group won’t go through with it and tells her his plans for taking over the group.

Things are getting interesting now.  We have this unknown group of people Randall was with and we have Shane as a threat from the inside.  The walkers may not even be the biggest threat anymore at this point!  Carl sneaks into the barn where he is spotted by Randall.  While Randall is trying to manipulate him, Shane comes in and tells Carl to stay away from here.  Randall is dangerous.

Dale travels around the farm and does his best to rally support for Randall to have a trial, without much luck.  Carl, becoming increasingly annoying all of the time, is rude to Carol.  After getting a chewing out from Rick he wanders over to Daryl’s part of the farm and steals his gun.  Seriously, what is up with this kid?!  He walks out into the woods, by himself, and stumbles upon a walker stuck in the mud. Instead of running away like an intelligent person, he is an idiot like always and starts throwing rocks at the zombie.  Of course the walkers starts to get free and comes after Carl but he escapes, losing Daryl’s gun in the process.

Dale and Shane have another confrontation, which actually ends somewhat peacefully.  Shane agrees to do what the group says.  Hershel and Glenn also have a heart to heart about Maggie and Hershel gives Glenn a watch that is important to him.  Later on, everyone gathers in the house and has a big debate about if they should kill Randall or not.  Dale argues that the group is losing their humanity.  Andrea, surprisingly, agrees with Dale.  Almost everyone wants to stay out of it and let Rick handle it.

Daryl, Rick and Shane take Randall to the barn to execute him.  Rick is ready to shoot him while Randall begs for his life.  Carls walks in and says to shoot him.  Rick, feeling guilty, decides to simply hold Randall prisoner for now and decide what to do with him later.  Rick tells Lori he couldn’t go through with it because Carl wanted to watch, he has become hardened.

Big Spoilers…..

Dale is walking in a field by himself and hears a cow making noise.  He sees that the cow has been ripped open and when he turns around a walker is there.  The walker takes him down and rips open his stomach with his boney fingers.  Everyone else, hearing the noise, comes to help him but it’s too late to save him.  After killing the walker, Daryl puts a gun to Dale’s head and pulls the trigger to put him out of his misery.  The walker who killed Dale was the very one Carl had been throwing rocks at.  Carl was the one who lead him in the direction of the farm.  I can’t stand this kid, it would have been nice if they had killed him off instead of Dale!

The Walking Dead Season 2 E10: 18 Miles Out

If you have not read my review for episode 9 from this season, you may do so here: The Walking Dead Season 2 E9: Triggerfinger

We open on Rick and Shane, beat up and running from walkers.  What in the world is going on?!  Guess we will have to wait and see because after the credits it flashes back to before this incident.  We pick up on Rick and Shane driving to a place to drop off Randall, they stop to talk about Lori, Otis and how things are going to be.  Shane apologizes to Rick.

Lori and Maggie have a conversation about Glenn and how men will blame the little lady for their problems.  Lori thinks Glenn needs to man up.  Still driving, Rick and Shane talk about using knives instead of guns, because it draws less attention.  Shane sits gazing out the window and spots a lone walker in a field.  He relates to it, as he now feels alone, having lost Lori and been (in his mind anyway) rejected by the group.

Arriving at what looks to be a good drop off spot for Randall, our heroes kill some walkers using their new method.  I don’t think this makes much sense, they cut their hands to wipe blood on something so the walkers are drawn to it.  The thing is, walkers always come after them anyway so why cut your hand?  Also if they keep cutting their hands with the knives they already used to stab walkers, wouldn’t that infect them?  Guess not!  Shane sees two dead police officers who appear to not have any bite marks on them, assumes it must be due to scratches.

Beth (Hershel’s daughter) has a talk with Lori and attempts to steal a knife from her tray of food, to kill herself, but Lori puts two and two together after their conversation.  Back at the drop off spot, they start to leave Randall when he mentions he knows Maggie, they went to school together.  He knows where the farm is.  Just some more consequences of Rick’s really dumb decision to take this guy back to camp with them in the first place.  Rick knew this guy’s group had tried to kill them multiple times and that they rape and murder people, why would you bring him to the camp with your wife, child and friends?!

As unstable as Shane is, he is usually more right than Rick.  He doesn’t go about it in the right way, and he can’t be trusted because he will kill innocent people to carry out his own plans.  Once again Shane is a hot head and wants to kill Randall right on the spot.  Rick wants the night to think it over.  Shane tells Rick that he can’t keep his family safe which leads to a big brawl between them.  Shane throws a giant wrench at Rick but he dodges it, spending it crashing through a window…which was filled with walkers they didn’t know about!

Walkers start coming out through the broken window while Randall uses this opportunity to try and make an escape.  At the farm, we see a few disagreements.  Andrea and Lori bicker over suicide and job placement, while Maggie and Beth have a similar suicide conversation.  Shane makes it to a bus for cover, where the episode began.  He is doing his best to fight off the walkers but there are so many of them he can’t keep it up all day.  Things go from bad to worse when he spots Rick and Randall leave while all the walkers are attempting to get into the bus to get him.

Andrea takes watch of Beth from her sister Maggie.  Leaving the female version of Shane, who constantly does stupid things and thinks suicide is great probably isn’t the best choice here!  Andrea leaves Beth alone to do whatever she wants.  Beth attempts suicide but changes her mind after already injuring herself.  She now wants to live.  Maggie finds out what happened and tells Andrea to never come into the house again.

Rick is on his way out of there when he sees those two dead police officers from earlier.  It reminds him of his old life where him and Shane worked together and were best friends.  Shane loses his knife while fighting off the walkers and all seems lost when Rick and Randall come out of nowhere in a vehicle and take out the zombies to save Shane.  Randall thinks he is part of the group now but they put him back in the trunk and have another conversation.  On the way back to the farm, Shane sees the lone walker in the field once again…

The Walking Dead Season 2 E9: Triggerfinger

If you have not read my review for episode 8 from this season, you may do so here: The Walking Dead Season 2 E8: Nebraska

We open with Lori in a wrecked car, upside down, with a zombie trying to get through the windshield to get to her.  Why this PREGNANT woman with zero fighting or self-defense skills would attempt to go save her husband (when she doesn’t even know if he is in danger or not) makes very little sense.  I’m rooting for this zombie to make it through the windshield because Lori is incredibly annoying.  Oops, Lori wins.  She manages to kill the zombie while he is breaking through the glass and escapes the car, only to be attacked by another walker.

Back at the bar, where Rick had just gunned down two bad guys, more people show up outside.  Dave and Tony were apparently not there alone.  The people outside don’t take things very well when Rick tells them he killed their friends and they have a shoot out through the walls of the bar.  Meanwhile, at the farm, people start to notice that Lori is missing.  Shane goes out to look for her and discovers her flipped over car on the side of the road.

Hershel and Glenn attempt to escape out the back but run into some gun fire.  Hershel shoots one of them, only wounding him.  It would have been better if the bullet had killed him since since he gets brutally eaten by a pack of walkers while he is down.  During the strangers escape, one of them jumps off of a building in an attempt to make it to his friend’s truck, only to impale his leg on a fence post.  Surrounded by hordes of walkers, Rick makes the really awful decision of trying to save this guy, putting everyone’s life in danger.  Pressed for time they decide to cut his leg off but in the end they end up simply pulling it out of the fence post.

Shane find Lori wandering out in the middle of the road.  She still wants to save Rick so Shane lies to her and says Rick already made it back to camp.  Things at the farm are a mess.  Daryl yells at Carol when she wants to talk to him about pulling away from everyone.  Lori gets mad at Shane for lying to her.  It comes out that Lori is pregnant and Shane admits to Lori that he did kill Otis.  Shane says what he and Lori had was real and Lori tells him that Rick knows about them.

Dale warns Andrea about what a bad guy Shane is but she doesn’t listen.  She is about to head out with Shane to look for Rick and the gang when they pull up the driveway.  We find out everyone made it out, including Randall, the guy with his leg stuck in the fence.  This sets off a heated exchange between Rick and Shane over bringing this guy back to the farm.  He is a threat to everyone but Hershel tells Shane to shut up.

We next see several conversations between characters.  Maggie and Glenn talk about how Glenn froze up in the firefight.  Shane and Andrea talk, Maggie yells at Hershel and so on.  The most important conversation is when Lori manipulates Rick by telling him that Shane thinks the baby is his and he can do a better job protecting her than Rick can.  She basically trys to talk Rick into killing Shane.  We end on Rick not looking very happy with the situation.

The Walking Dead Season 2 E8: Nebraska

If you have not read my review for episode 7 from this season, you may do so here:  The Walking Dead Season 2 E7: Pretty Much Dead Already

This episode opens immediately where the last one left off.  Rick lowers his gun and looks at what was once Sophia’s body.  Beth runs over to see the body of her mother and is attacked by her.  Beth is saved by the group and an argument breaks out between Shane and Hershel.  Shane thinks Hershel knew Sophia was in the barn all along.  Hershel says Otis was the one who put her in the barn and he knew nothing about it.  Hershel says he wants everyone off of his land which causes Shane and Rick to get into it over how all of this was handled.

Glenn and Maggie have a conversation about the group moving on.  Glenn doesn’t seem to really understand why Maggie is so upset.  Carl tells Lori that Rick did the right thing by shooting Sophia.  His environment is hardening him.  The survivors decide to bury the walkers who used to be loved ones and burn the rest since there are so many of them.  Rick starts to question the decisions he has made.  He risked everyone’s lives out looking for Sophia when she was there on the farm all along (though he can’t be blamed for that since no one knew).

Shane argues and mocks Dale while Dale simply stands there and says nothing in return.  Dale doesn’t even have to say anything, Shane just keeps justifying himself like he already knows what Dale would have said anyway.  Carol gets a little time to go through her feelings.  She knows that Sophia died right away and didn’t suffer out in the woods.  She didn’t starve or spend nights alone being scared.  Maggie attempts to talk to Glenn again about staying if they group leaves just as her sister Beth collapses on the floor.  Needing medical attention, they try to locate Hershel but he is no where to be found.

Putting two and two together, they figure out Hershel is probably at the town bar.  Lori doesn’t want Rick out solving everyone else’s problems but he tells her they need Hershel for the baby.  Rick and Glenn head out and on the way to town they discuss Glenn’s relationship with Maggie.  Meanwhile, Dale tells Lori just how dangerous Shane can be and how he is a ticking time bomb.  Lori attempts to get Daryl to go to town and find Rick but he says it’s not his problem.

Rick and Glenn arrive in town to find Hershel exactly where they figured he would be.  Hershel feels like a fool because he thought the walkers were still alive.  Rick tells him there is nothing wrong with having hope and they discuss life and what kind of future their loved ones can have in this world.  Lori, being stupid as always, decides to go to town and find Rick…because if he is in a bad situation he can’t handle, somehow she will be able to save him having zero fighting ability or skills.  While not paying attention, she hits a walker and flips her car over.  I won’t make any jokes about female drivers here lol

Back at the bar, two men come inside (Dave & Tony).  They seem pretty untrustworthy after a short conversation.  They want Rick to take them back to the farm but he isn’t having any of it.  They end up having a shootout and Rick kills both of them before they have a chance to shoot him.  This is one of the coolest scenes in the show so far and shows just how dangerous Rick can be if he is pushed.  This episode ends back at the farm with several of the survivors burning walker bodies.