Hey there trash bags! Thanks for stopping by. This week’s episode was somewhat pointless, but we did get a pretty hilarious Carl/Ron fight and a lesbian makeout sesh. Plus, we got to see my favorite little sociopath, Sam. Let’s see what happened, love bugs.
We open in Alexandria, where the townspeople are clearing the dead bodies from the Wolf attack. Michonne is explaining to Maggie and Rosita what happened to Glenn and Nicolas. Deanna is eavesdropping from the sniper tower. They hear Rick scream out “Open the gate”. He is booking back into town with a million zombs closely behind him. Dude has had one hell of a cardio workout these last few eps. They let him in and shut the gate on the herd.
♫ I’m older now but still runnin’ against the wind ♫
Rick explains to the terrified Alexandrians that half of the quarry herd has followed him back and they are surrounding the community 20 deep. He tells them that the wall will hold, and that he expects the rest of the Grimes gang to return safely. He screams at the townspeople that they need to be as quiet as possible, so the herd will move on.
SERIOUSLY GUYS! WE NEED TO USE OUR INSIDE VOICES!!!!
Aaron jumps in to explain that Rick’s plan DID work. Daryl, Sasha, and Abe drew half of the herd away. He admits that the Wolves found his misplaced backpack and followed him and Daryl back to Alexandria.
Later, Jessie is preparing to bury the woman that she killed in her house, along with the other dead Wolves. Rick stops her, citing that they don’t bury killers inside the walls.
They should just leave them there, as a monument to Carol
The Alexandrians have been told to ration food, considering that no one knows how long it will be before they can get outside the walls to go on another run. Some of them are super pissed about it and are looting the pantry. One douche tells Olivia that he can’t spend whatever time he has left watching his family starve. Okay, it has been literally 5 seconds since they got attacked and stuck behind the walls. They basically have a Sam’s Club worth of food in there. These people need to calm the fuck down, for reals. Deanna’s cute son, Spencer, walks in and starts fat shaming them. Douchey guy tells Spencer to go and make sure the gate is closed. BURN!! Spencer admits that he did leave the gate open, but he also took out the driver of the semi-truck, stopping it from toppling the wall. He then points out that the douchey guy was hiding like a bitch when the Wolves attacked. REVERSE BURN! Spencer says that doing this will start them down a road where nothing matters. Kind of like this whole episode.
Foreshadowing!
His little speech works and the people put the food back. I hope you enjoyed that, because this episode is filled with monologues. It seems that every Alexandrian feels the need to philosophize about the way the world is now. But the question is – Do we care? No. No, we don’t.
Aaron notices Maggie gearing up to head out and look for Glenn. Good idea! Aaron offers to go with her, and he also knows a safer way to get out of the community. Awww, I love Aaron.
Deanna is at the end of her rapidly fraying rope. She’s at home, seemingly in shock. All of a sudden, inspiration strikes! She pulls out a blueprint of the town and begins frantically scribbling on it. She draws in areas for crops such as barley, alfalfa, and wheat. Hell yeah! Bitch is trying to get a brewery up in that mother. She also scribbles out plans for education, a mill, and exploration. Finally, she writes a Latin quote at the bottom, which a Google search identifies as “Someday this pain will be useful to you”.
But WHEN, show? WHEN?
Deanna’s antics are interrupted by a drunk Spencer. She seems appalled by the fact that he is wasted. I’m sorry, but I can’t think of a better time to get blasted than the zombie apocalypse. Spencer says its “one final celebration”, because he feels that they are all gonna die soon. He gets all up in his mom’s grill and starts screaming at her, just as Rick modeled for him in the “Be quiet” speech. He says that this is all her fault for allowing the community to remain ignorant to the realities of life now. He even puts Reg and Aiden’s deaths on her. DAAAAAMN!
Carl finds Ron, and asks him if he has seen Enid anywhere. He should be asking if Jessie has time to cut that fugly ass hair. I seriously can’t take it anymore. Unsurprisingly, Ron responds like the douche canoe that he is, reminding Carl that the last time he saw HIS girlfriend was at the Grimes’ house. Carl says that he is going to go find Enid. Ron gets very hostile about it and says that he will tell Rick if Carl tries to go. Carl starts to walk away and Ron pushes him. What ensues is a hilariously lame “fight” between the two, in which they spastically wave their arms at each other until Ron falls down. I’m not even joking, this was my favorite part of the episode.
I wish Ron would slap that haircut off his head
Tara goes to check on Denise, the quasi-doctor, who is tending to the hurt man who returned with Michonne and Heath. His leg is infected and he won’t wake up. He’s probably as bored as I am by this episode. Denise is still very pessimistic about her doctoring skills, and Tara tries to encourage her by saying that at least she’s brave enough to try.
This was the storyboard for this scene
Jessie goes to check on a neighboring woman, but the lady has slit her own wrists and is now a zombie. Jessie slowly opens the door and apathetically stabs the woman in her brain as horrified townspeople look on. Jessie turns to them and gives a little speech about how they can no longer remain oblivious to the way the world is. She says they have to fight or die.