We last left off with Rick trapped in a tank surrounded by zombies. His trusty steed has been turned into a zombie buffet. The last thing that Rick hears is a voice over the radio calling him a dumb ass. That voice offers to help Risk escape the tank. He wants Rick to make a run for it. He tells him when to leave and where to go. Rick follows the voice's instructions and runs into Glenn. A twenty-something Korean kid who leads him out of imminent danger to a department store where his group of survivors are currently looking for a safe way back to their camp. The department store entrance is surrounded by zombies trying to push their way in to eat the survivors.
Lets meet the gang
We are now introduced to part of the Glenn's group. We have Merle Dixon. The archetype southern, racist, sexist redneck. T-Dog, an African-American man who is at odds with Merle (not to mention getting beat up by Merle). Andrea, a blonde woman in her 40s who doesn't appreciate Merle calling her Sugar Tits and has a younger sister waiting for her back at camp. Jackie, a middle-aged African-American woman that used to work for city planning in Atlanta. A Latino man whose name I have already forgotten. Merle is causing a ruckus. He has beat up T-Dog and made himself the leader. That lasted all of two minutes. Rick gets there and handcuffs him to a pipe for being a douche (and a racist).
Lets make like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Glenn comes up with an escape plan. They will travel under the zombies by escaping through the sewers. Jackie mentions that a building that old will have a tunnel to the sewers. Glenn takes charge (for the moment) and goes down the tunnel with another guy whose name I have already forgotten. They get down there and find that the tunnel is barred. It will take a blow torch and half a day to get through and the zombies will have made it past the glass store doors before then. To make the decision final they also find a zombie in the sewage tunnel behind the barred entrance. So much for a zombie free zone. Nice try Glenn.
No guts, no glory
Rick takes the reigns back from Glenn and creates a new plan. This plan involves hacking up a dead zombie and covering himself and Glenn with its insides. But before the dismemberment can begin Rick gives a little farewell to the fallen zombie. We find out his name is Wayne and he had a picture of a pretty girl in his wallet. He was also an organ donor.
Congratulations Wayne, your organs will now get to help some people survive one more day in a zombiepocalypse. I bet you weren't thinking of that situation when you signed up to be an organ donor. Rick and Glenn step outside all decked out in guts, feet, hands and blood. The plan seems to work. They slowly make their way to a parking lot for escape vehicles. (Aside: I had to laugh when Glenn stopped talking when a zombie starting giving him a closer look. He started moaning like a zombie. It reminded me of the scene in "Shaun of the Dead" when they pretend to be zombies to get past a horde of them.) Unfortunately, it starts to rain before they can get to the lot and the zombie smell starts to wash off. This sets the zombies on the two who start running and shooting. They make it to the cars. They find Glenn another car and set off the alarm so he can attract the zombies' attention away from the department store so that Rick can swing by and pick up the others. This could not come any sooner since the zombies have made their way into the department store. The gang sees the truck coming and book it. However, Merle is still handcuffed to the pipe. Everyone starts to leave but T-Dog turns back to unlock Merle. As he is pulling out the key he trips and the key falls down the drainpipe. He can't do anything so he leaves Merle behind. Before he leaves he chains up and locks the door to the roof so the zombies can't get to Merle. T-Dog has shown that the zombiepocalypse is no place to hold a grudge. The group escapes and makes it safely to camp.Camp zombiepocalypse
Earlier in the episode we learn that Shane and Rick's wife and son are part of the group. They all think Rick is dead and have no idea he was the person on the radio in the pilot episode. We come to find that Shane and Lori (Rick's wife) are having themselves a little fling. Lori must feel a sense of guilt for what she is doing because she removes her wedding ring before getting nasty. This will cause quite the ordeal when Rick arrives at the camp with the others.
Reunited and it feels so good
When the survivors arrive at the camp everyone is happy to see them alive. Family and friends hug and welcome them home.
They all say that they are back safe and sound because of the new guy, a cop just like Shane. Enter Rick, his son turns around and runs for him screaming Dad. This reunion scene was very touching. It reminded me of the scenes they show on the news of soldiers returning home from war being greeted by their families. Lori joins in the family reunion and looks shocked to see that Rick is alive. Shane is also very surprised to see his "best friend" back from the dead and reunited with his family. Shane is back to being on the outside looking in. Maybe he should've waited a little longer before starting to screw his best friend's widow.
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