The Walking Dead Season 3 E4: Killer Within (Part 3)

If you have not read the second part of this review, you may do so here:  The Walking Dead Season 3 E4: Killer Within (Part 2)

Rick manages to shut the generators down but is immediately attacked by Andrew.  Andrew is the prisoner from a couple of episodes ago that Rick chased outside.  We last saw Andrew surrounded by walkers and heard him screwing so we assumed he died, apparently he managed to escape and has been running around the prison by himself all this time.  I’m not a big fan of this plot line as it seems pretty far fetched and also opens the door for everyone still being alive unless you literally see them die with your own eyes.

After a scuffle between Rick and Andrew, Oscar ends up with Rick’s gun.  He has the option to shoot either one of them, this is his chance to decide who’s side he is really on.  Oscar shoots and kills Andrew.  Elsewhere in the prison, Maggie had to cut Lori open to save the baby.  Lori gives a speech to Carl about doing what is right in life.  She doesn’t want him making all the wrong choices like she did.

Spoiler alert…

Lori dies delivering her baby.  Maggie and Carl both know that Lori will turn into a walker after some time so (off screen) Carl shoots Lori in the brain.  Like with Andrew, since this wasn’t actually shown, I have to wonder if Carl really did what he was supposed to here?  Are we going to be confronted with a zombie Lori in a few episodes?  I guess we will have to wait and find out.

Most everyone meets up in the prison.  They find T-Dog’s dead body.  After going outside to see if everyone made it back and meeting up with Hershel and Beth they hear a baby crying.  Rick sees the baby but not Lori.  He looks at Carl and knows that Lori is dead.  In a moment of pure grief, Rick collapses on the ground crying.  Rick seemed to have taken Lori’s death harder than Carl did, perhaps because Carl is already so hardened from the life he has been living.

This was a pretty crazy episode.  Three new characters have been added to the group and we lost (at least) two characters that had been there from the beginning.  We still don’t know what happened to Carol.  This seemed more like a mid season finale or a season finale, not just a random episode.  At least it does break up the formula, so we now know it’s possible to lose important characters at anytime.  It will be interesting to see how Rick deals with Lori being dead and how adding a baby to the group will change things.

The Walking Dead Season 3 E4: Killer Within (Part 2)

If you have not read the first part of this review, you may do so here:  The Walking Dead Season 3 E4: Killer Within (Part 1)

Andrea and Merle have a talk.  She gives him a map showing where the farmhouse (or what’s left of it) is located.  Even though they never got along before (who did get along with Merle anyway?!), Andrea knows what it’s like to lose family.  On that level at least, she relates to Merle.  She asks Merle if the Governor is a good man and he says yes.  She knows what kind of guy Merle is, I’m not sure why she would take his word on anything.

Back at the prison, Rick and the rest regroup.  After finding out who is missing, they check the fences and discover the chain has been broken with an ax.  This was no accident.  Someone is trying to get them killed.  Rick immediately looks to Axel and Oscar.  He is about to deal with them when the prison alarm system starts going off.  This immediately attracts walks from outside the prison.  Oscar says he knows where the alarm can be turned off at.

We catch of glimpse of T-Dog and Carol in the prison.  They are still trying to get to a safe place.  Lori also goes into labor while running from some walkers.  Talk about bad timing!  Having a baby is bad enough, having a baby while running from walkers is crazy.  Merle talks to the Governor about leaving to find Daryl but the Governor doesn’t think it’s a good idea.  Merle doesn’t seem very happy about this decision.  It will be interesting to see if they are setting up a conflict between them that could end with Merle saving the others from the Governor down the line.

Rick and everyone else split up into small groups to find the generator and shut it down.  The longer the alarm is on, the more walkers it attracts.  Lori starts to have the baby but something is wrong, she is bleeding heavily.  T-Dog, who is going to turn into a walker anyway, gives his life to save Carol.  T-Dog is brutally eaten by walkers but Carol does manage to escape.  T-Dog never did a whole lot in the show but at least he went out a hero.

Andrea speaks with the Governor over some drinks.  They talk about life and how things have changed, how they are the same.  He says he lost his daughter and reveals his real name, Philip.  The Governor says she is always welcome in Woodbury if she wants to return.  Andrea talks to Michonne, she wants to stay in Woodbury longer, give it a chance.  Andrea should realize by now that she is an idiot and all of her decisions are terrible.  I don’t know why she never learns.

The Walking Dead Season 3 E4: Killer Within (Part 1)

If you have not read my review of the last episode, you may do so here:  The Walking Dead Season 3 E3: Walk With Me (Part 2)

We open on a mysterious person in the prison, breaking the chains on the fence and leaving pieces of animal meat around to lure zombies into the secured areas.  Rick and the survivors are moving vehicles when they see Axel and Oscar (the two prisoners they let have a cell block) come into the area Rick told them to stay out of.  They plead to be let into group.  They claim they aren’t like the other prisoners were and would be a benefit to them.

After locking the prisoners up temporarily, Rick and the others talk over what they should do.  No one trusts these guys or wants to give them a chance, except T-Dog.  Rick tells everyone a story about some guy who murdered his girlfriend and got off after pretending to be sorry for it, then he turned around and murdered another girl two weeks later.  Rick and the others (except T-Dog) decide the prisoners need to go.

At Woodbury, Michonne is searching the vehicles from the soldiers the Governor killed.  She finds fresh blood on it and bullet holes.  She questions the Governor but he comes up with lies for everything.  Michonne obviously knows something is up.  The Governor trys to talk her into staying, saying they could use a good soldier like her in town.  She wants no part of it though.  I wonder how long it will be before the Governor gets tired of her rejection and his true self comes out?

Back at the prison, Rick says they will give the prisoners a weeks worth of food and T-Dog continues to debate about this decision.  Axel attempts to talk to Daryl but he has none of it and rides off on his motorcycle.  Inside, Lori and Beth bring some crutches to Hershel as he attempts to stand up for the first time in his current situation.  Michonne talks with Andrea about leaving Woodbury but she doesn’t want to leave.  Rick wants the bodies in the prison moved outside the fence and burned so they don’t have to plant crops in walker rotted soil.

Hershel comes outside for a walk.  Everyone is in different sections of the prison but they can all see each other.  They all stop and look at each other, feeling secure and relaxed for the first time since they got there.  That feeling doesn’t last long.  Carl turns around to see several walkers coming at them.  Unfortunately, most of the people in that section are the weakest ones.  Hershel and Beth lock themselves behind a gate, everyone else runs to find a place to hide.

Spoiler warning….

T-Dog rushes over to the gate that had been opened and puts a new chain on it to stop more walkers from coming in.  While he is doing this a walker comes up from behind and bites him on the shoulder.  Not one to give up, he finishes chaining the gate together,then turns around and kills the walker.  He then runs into the building that Carol had just went in.  Looks like we have seen the end of T-Dog, which is unfortunate as he never really did a whole lot during the show.