The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 4: Indiferrence

Rick is wrapping his injured hand.  Carol is holding a knife.  Lizzie approaches Carol and speaks to her through a window.  Rick is gassing up a car with what little gas they have left.  They are going to get food.  Lizzie says no one has died yet but she says she is glad they get to come back.  Carol tells her that when they come back they are different.  Lizzie replies that it is no different to her than when she gets older and is still herself but a different person.  She is not weak but strong.  Carol tells her that if she is in danger she needs to run until she is safe and she can't be afraid to kill.  Rick imagines Carol killing Karen (literally stabbing her in the back).  Lizzie calls Carol mom and Carol tells her not to do that.  Lizzie says she is not afraid to kill just afraid.  Carol tells her to fight the fear and not give up because one day she will change, they all change. 

Carol tells her she is going on a run with Rick. 

Tyreese is washing his shirt.  Daryl tells him it is time to go.  Bob tells Tyreese that there is a town a few miles away and that it helps to keep moving.  Tyreese says it doesn't.  Daryl picks up a rock, a piece of jasper that someone back at the prison asked him to keep a look out for on their trip.  Michonne flirts with him and says it is his color.  Daryl and the gang come upon an old gas station where the numbers for the price spell out the word hell.  Daryl finds a car and tries to hotwire the car but the battery is dead.  Zombies pop up at the window to the station.  They start to clear the plants.  Tyreese starts to attack the plants and Daryl tells him to go easy.  Tyreese accidentally opens up the door with his machete and zombies start  coming out.  Daryl kills his zombie and Michonne helps Bob.  Tyreese won't let go of the zombie so Daryl pulls it off of him and Bob shoots it.  Michonne asks Tyreese why he didn't let go but he doesn't respond.

Daryl and Bob are inside the gas station and they find a battery.  The cells look dry but some distilled water will fix that.  Michonne asks Tyreese if he wants to die.  Does he even know what he wants to do?  Anger makes you stupid and stupid gets you killed.  If the Governor were there she would kill him but she is no longer angry.  He asks why she still goes looking for him and she says she doesn't know.  They find another zombie trapped under some rubble.  Bob looks at some photographs of the people the zombies once were.  He then stabs the zombie in the head with the key to the bathroom.  Daryl asks Bob about the group he was with before them.  Bob says he was the last man standing in two groups and was tired of being the witness.  He almost walked away and didn't join the prison group.  He would drink himself to sleep every night.  He tells Daryl about picking up the bottle at the Big Spot and says it was his fault that Zach died.  Daryl tells him that's crap.  Daryl tells Bob that he and Sasha picked that spot and no one could have known what would have happened.  Bob is no longer alone.

Daryl and group arrive at the veterinary school.  They start grabbing supplies.  Bob finds a bed with some books on it.  Was someone living their?  What did he grab?  Bob tells Michonne to grab anything that ends with cillin.  

They have everything they need so they start to make their way out.  Daryl spots some zombies and they start running.  They make their way to some dark room where the door won't close.  Tyreese helps Bob close it as zombies start pounding on it.  A zombie attacks Tyreese and he kills it.  They try to unlock the stairs but a bunch of zombies are behind it.  The other zombies start coming through the door but Bob won't let them kill those because they are infected with the virus.  They open the door to the stairwell, kill those zombies, and make their way upstairs.  Daryl and the gang are being followed by the virus infected zombies.  Tyreese breaks a window and they climb out.  Bob almost falls but some zombies are holding on to his bag full of medicine.  He won't let it go.  He pulls it out and a bottle of liquor comes out.  Daryl tells him he should have kept walking that day.  He goes to throw the bottle and Bob says don't and makes a play for his gun.  Daryl gets in his face and takes away his gun.  Tyreese tells him Bob has made his choice.  Bob said it was just for when it gets quiet.  Daryl threatens to beat his ass if he takes one sip before everyone at the prison gets the medicine.  Bob is pretty much dead to Daryl.  Daryl knows what it is like to live with drunks and drug addicts.  In the car Daryl is looking at the rock he picked up.  Michonne says he was right about the trail going cold for the Governor.  She doesn't need to go out anymore.  He says good.  Silent car ride back to the prison.

Awkward time in the car between Carol and Rick.  She mentions that Maggie wanted to come.  Rick says he needed someone to look after things while they are gone.  Carol says he means he wanted someone he could trust to stay behind.  She tells Rick that Karen and David would have drowned in their own blood and she made their deaths quick.  She had to stop the spread of the disease.  Somebody had to.  Rick just says maybe.  Rick and Carol arrive in some neighborhood.  They look inside a car that has a clean windshield.  It couldn't be there more than a day.  They are going to search the medicine cabinets. 

Rick and Carol carefully enter a house.  Rick makes his way to the bathroom and starts pulling things out of the medicine cabinet as Carol keeps a lookout.  A zombie falls down the stairs.  Carol just stares at it and Rick pulls her out of the way.  She stabs it in the head.  Another door opens and a young couple come out of another room and throw them some fruit.  They are not zombies but Rick still points his gun at them.  The couple are named Sam and Ana.  They met while trying to help feed people.  Ana has a bad leg.  It was trampled on and didn't heal right.  Sam has a hurt shoulder and says he cut it on a greenhouse where they got the fruit.  Then zombies showed up and they had to hide.  His shoulder is dislocated and Carol pops it back into place.   Rick looks amazed.  After the greenhouse they hid in the house for two days.  They didn't use their gun because they are terrible shots and they sound surprised  when Carol asks why they didn't use their knives.  They ask about where Carol and Rick live and Rick begins asking them the three questions.

Sam asks Rick if they passed the test.  Rick tells them about the prison and the virus.  He can't guarantee their safety.  Sam and Ana want to help gather supplies.  Rick says they will double back for them.  Carol tells them they should help search the houses.  Rick isn't sure but they want to help.  He gives them each a gun and tells them if they fire a shot they will come running.  He gives them his watch so they know when when to meet up in two hours.  Carol complains the medication has expired but Rick says that should be up to Hershel to decide if it is of use or not.  He asks if she thinks it is right that they asked them to come back with them. 

She says if they can help them survive than it was the right call.  She says it was about facing reality so they can live.  You can be a farmer but not just a farmer.  He was a good leader more than she gave them credit for.  She mentions that he killed Shane because he was going to kill him.  She did the same thing with Karen and David.  They were going to kill them all.  Rick grabs some tomatoes growing outside.  He asks how she learned to fix a dislocated shoulder.  She says the internet. She needed to learn because of her ex-husband.  She didn't think she could be strong, but she already was.  He asks why she doesn't say Sophia's name.  She says because she is dead.  That was another life.  He tells her some morning he still expects Lori to be there when he wakes.  He reminisces about the awful pancakes Lori used to make every Sunday.  They continue around the houses and find peaches and a basket strewn on the flood.  They follow a trail of blood and find Ana's leg.  They keep looking and see two zombies eating Ana.  Carol tells them they should head back.

Rick and Carol are waiting for the dude but he is late.  Rick wants to wait.  Carol says he might be fine but it doesn't matter.  The kid is not there and they have to go. 

Rick and Carol have the car all loaded up.  He says that Karen and David might have lived.  It wasn' her decision.  When Tyreese finds out he will kill her.  If the others don't make it back he won't have her there with Judith and Carl.  He is kicking her out of the group.  She said he was done making decisions.  She did something instead of pretending everything was going to be fine.  He said she didn't need to.  She wants to leave with Mika and Lizzie but he won't let her.  She will survive out there.  He takes out her backpack.  Rick helps Carol load up a car.  She gives Rick a watch that her ex gave her on an anniversary.  She should have given it away a long time ago.  She drives off.   Rick driving by himself.  What is he going to tell everyone?  He keeps looking in the rear view mirror.  Is he doubting his decision?

Final Thoughts
- How is everyone at the prison going to react to Carol's banishment?  What will the council say to Rick making a decision when he is no longer a decision maker for the group?
- How is Daryl going to react to Carol's banishment.  Will he no longer be Rick's second in command?
- What is going to happen to Bob?  Will he drink or sober up completely?  Will his curse as the last man standing affect the prison group?  Is his story of being the final witness a foreshadowing of things to come?
- What happened to Sam?  Will we see him again?
- I agree with Chris Jericho's comments on the Talking Dead.  This episode was about letting go.  Michonne let go of her anger and search for the Governor.  Daryl let go of Bob's friendship.  Michonne tried to help Tyreese let go of his anger over the loss of Karen and the possible loss of Sasha.  Rick let Carol go from the group.  And I think he also let go of "Farmer Rick."