Because splitting up always works so well on The Walking Dead (remember when, right
after learning a lesson about splitting up, Hershel left to go drinking, Rick
split up from the group to find him, Lori went to find them and got into a car
accident, and then Shane went out to find her?), they decide to split up again
and look for stray people. Darryl wants revenge for Denise’s death and goes
out, with Glenn and Tiffani/Bobbi Jo/Clarissa trailing him. Rick and Morgan go
looking for Carol and her spiked car.
I understand Darryl looking for Dwight but I don’t really
get Rick and Morgan looking for Carol. Yes, she’s a great asset to the team and
they want her to stay, but she did clearly leave of her own free will. What
were they going to do when they found her? Hasn’t years of living in the zombie
apocalypse taught everyone that no good comes of everyone splitting off and
going on separate missions? The only thing lying ahead is trouble. I did like
Rick and Morgan talking about that Wolf he let go free and the examination of
the chain of events because talking about “If X hadn’t done Y, Z wouldn’t have
happened” is something the viewers do.
I did like Carol’s panic attack and how it appeared to be
genuine. I also liked how the confrontation with those guys on the road wasn’t
that clean: a few people died but a few were injured and still posed a threat.
Morgan does not have the investigative skills of Marge Gunderson. He looked at
the bloody spike and figured Carol’s blood sprayed on it, without noticing the
zombie on the ground with a spike-sized hole in his chest. The clearest
explanation for a spike with blood on it is that somebody got impaled.
Darryl apparently got shot but not fatally, given the “You’ll
be alright” tacked onto the end. I guess this will be the Zapruder film until
the season finale next week.
Meanwhile, Maggie gets a cute haircut and apparently is
having some sort of miscarriage or big problem with her pregnancy (she did get
knocked around a few weeks ago, with nasty bruises on her hips and back).
Either she or Glenn or both are very dead next week. The erotic/angsty shower
scene could only be foreshadowing something awful.
And so we await Negan.
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