Poor Glenn, he has become the secret keeper for the group and can't take the pressure. He promised Maggie that he wouldn't tell anyone about the walkers in the barn. If he wants to keep his sex partner happy he has to keep his mouth shut. If he wants to keep the group happy he needs to tell someone. Glenn can keep a secret for about five minutes. He ends up confessing to Dale that there are walkers in the barn and that Lori is pregnant. Dale goes to Hershel to find out why this is so. Hershel tells him he believes the walkers are just sick. Given enough time a cure will be found. He compares the zombie virus to AIDS. He wants to wait for a cure for his family members now residing in the barn. This is the first bit of insight into Hershel's mind. He is a little crazy and out of touch with reality. The isolation of the farm is partly to blame. They haven't seen many walkers there and so they don't see them as much of a threat. They find one, they catch it, and it goes in the barn with the rest. They even feed them live chickens. This explains Maggie's reaction to the death of the well walker. This attitude towards the walkers is very dangerous. Any hesitation to kill a walker puts everyone at risk.
Glenn and Maggie take another trip to the pharmacy. Before they leave Lori asks Glenn to get her something and to keep it a secret. We find out that she wants a box of morning after pills (more on that topic later). As they are rummaging through the pharmacy Maggie is attacked by a walker. Glenn jumps to the rescue and uses a shelf to almost decapitate it. He finishes off the walker with his handy hatchet/knife thing. When Maggie gets back from the pharmacy she is still very upset and unleashes her anger on Lori. She yells at her for having to go back again to get "abortion pills." She tells Glenn that she thinks he is great but severely under appreciated by the group. She says they use his as walker bait. Ouch.
Wasting valuable ammunition, I mean learning how to shoot
The gang decides that they all need to learn how to shoot the guns they have. It's a very good skill to have in a zombiepocalypse. Unfortunately, it also wastes a lot of bullets that should be used to kill zombies, not tin cans. What did that tin can ever do to you? Andrea turns out to be the best of the class so Shane gives her private lessons. He wants to teach her to shoot at moving targets. He yells at her that she is too emotional and that she needs to pretend that the swinging log is the walker that killed her sister. That was going too far and Andrea walks off in a huff. Shane later apologizes and takes Andrea on a hunt for Sophia in the burbs. They don't find Sophia, but they do find some burned bodies and some walkers. As they go to leave they are surrounded. Shane turns this into a teaching moment and had Andrea shoot the walkers. She keeps missing and he encourages her to focus and shoot. And she sure does. She shoots walker after walker after walker. On the way back they stop in the middle of the road, Andrea grabs Shane' crotch, and we here the horn honk as the car start arockin'.
Shane vs. Dale
We all know by now that Shane has lost his moral compass, heck, he threw it out the window when he killed Otis. But now we come to find that other's suspect this change. Dale confronts Shane and tells him he knows that Shane lied about Otis. He also knows that Shane almost shot Rick back in Season 1. He tells Shane that it's time for him to leave. Shane's reply is really cold and calculated. He's not leaving. He is one of the best shooters (and I'm sure in his mind, survivor) of the group. He barely hesitated about shooting Rick, he killed Otis, do you think he would hesitate to kill Dale a man he doesn't even like? The look of horror on Dale's face says it all. This man is dangerous. No one is safe around him.
Secret #2 revealed
Lori decides to down the entire box of morning after pills. She doesn't discuss this with Rick (even though Glenn suggests she shouldn't be making this decision on her own). She changes her mind and runs out into the fields and forces herself to throw them up. Rick walks into their tent and sees the empty box. He goes out searching for Lori. When he finds her they finally have the conversation they have been needing to have all season long. Out comes the truth about the pregnancy and the affair. Lori doesn't want to give birth out in a ditch but she also couldn't kill her unborn child. Rick is incredibly calm throughout the conversation. He says he understands why Lori slept with Shane. She thought he was dead. A huge weight is lifted off of Lori's shoulders. Now they can deal with the pregnancy together. This brings up a big issue. Should she have the baby? There are arguments for both sides. In a world with few survivors every new life is precious and needed to repopulate the world. How will a baby or a pregnant woman survive in a zombiepocalypse? Eventually Lori is going to need more food and she will get bigger and slower. Babies cry all the time and don't know how to control that when zombies are around. These two things put all of the survivors in danger. We'll see how the show decides to deal with this issue.
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