Walking Dead
Walking Dead

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M. Giant: A | 561 USERS: A-
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While the cars are being moved around by T-Dogg, Maggie and Glenn, Hershel comes outside on his crutches, surrounded by Lori, Beth and Carl. Hershel is glad to see the bodies already gone and the place looking like somewhere they can live. Rick and Glenn step inside the outer fence with Daryl armloads of firewood, and Glenn happily calls out encouragement to Hershel, only to attract a few walkers outside the fence. "Can't we just have one good day?" Glenn sighs. You don't know the half of it, buddy. Carol, T-Dogg and Maggie pause in moving the cars to watch Hershel up and about. So the ten of them are scattered around the grounds, in distant groups of three and four, all looking happily at each other across the yard. Even Rick and Lori share a smile, probably their first in months. Enjoy this special moment, everyone, because it's all going to go to shit in three... two... one...

Right on cue, a crowd of walkers wanders into view between the buildings behind Carl, Lori, Hershel and Beth, the most vulnerable of the three groups. But Carl and Lori seem up to the task of shooting down the attackers until Maggie gets there and joins in. Rick and Daryl sprint for the gate in the inner fence while Glenn rushes to reclose the outer one. Beth leads Hershel to safety in yet another small, fenced-off area and it turns out he's already able to use his crutches not only to walk, but beat back a couple of walkers along the way. Rick, Daryl and Glenn are locked inside the dog run, and there's some fumbling with the keys while Carol and T-Dogg join the fight in the central courtyard and start taking down walkers. Maggie, Carl and Lori make it safely inside, only to encounter numerous walkers inside Cell Block C, too, so they duck behind a grate into the corridors beyond. Outside, T-Dogg manages to get an open gate closed, but not without a stray walker coming up from behind him and taking a big, meaty bite out of his shoulder. He shoots it, and then follows Carol past more walkers towards safety, like it's not moot for him now. That'll learn him to argue in favor of the prisoners.

In Woodbury, Andrea gives Merle a map circling where the farm was. Merle seems fascinated with their progress and suddenly also with Andrea's boobs. "How come we never hooked up?" he suddenly asks out of nowhere. "You called me a whore and a rug-muncher," Andrea reminds him, as though otherwise she totally would have. Merle asks why she's doing this and she says she'd want the same if it were her family. I'm still waiting for her to mention to Merle that she shot his brother in the head once. Merle wonders if she wants to come with and look up the old gang, but quickly reads that she got ditched too. "Ain't that a big ol' pig-sack," he marvels colorfully. He says they got left behind by the same people, "and saved by another." She asks if he ever thought about leaving, but Merle maintains that the Governor's a good man. "I wasn't in the best of shape when he found me. He should have just kept on going." And if you can't trust Merle Dixon as a judge of character, whom can you trust?

Walking Dead

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