The Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 6 "Consumed"

"Everything now consumes you." 

Flashback of what happened to Carol after Rick told her she had to leave the group back in season 4. She sits in her car crying. She yells at a zombie to go away and then drives off. She holes up in an old police station and lights a candle. She looks out the window and sees smoke. She drives to the prison and sees the destruction the Governor left. Now we see Carol and Tyreese burying Lizzie and Mika. Carol burning Karen and Dave's bodies at the prison. Now we see Carol as she leaves Terminus after helping Rick and the gang escape. She is walking away through the woods alone. She wipes off the zombie blood and grabs her things as smoke billows through the trees.

Daryl and Carol are in the car following the car with the crosses on the back windshield. Daryl tells Carol about what happened to Beth the night she was taken. Daryl wants to follow the other car and see what kind of people they are. They are heading north on I-85 towards Atlanta. They drive down the same highway that Rick rode his horse through in the pilot. The car stops, someone gets out (they are wearing a police uniform) they grab what looks like a bicycle and some other object. The man looks over to Daryl's car because a zombie is banging on the window. He gets back into his car and they drive away. Daryl's car is out of gas. Carol says she knows a place where they can stay until sun up. They break into the building as zombies make their way towards them.

They push furniture against the door and use the keys they got off of a dead body to make their way deeper into the building. Carol tells Daryl the place is temporary housing. We see a book titled "Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse" on a desk. Carol came with Sophia but never stayed. She offers to keep first watch while Daryl sleeps. He says the place is locked up tight so they can both sleep. She brings up the conversation they had a couple of episodes back where Daryl says they get to start over. She asks if he has started over. He says he is trying. He asks her what's on her mind and she says that they don't get to save people anymore. Then why is she here? She's trying. He asks her what she would have done if he hadn't shown up (when she was getting ready to leave two episodes back). They hear a noise and go to investigate. They see two zombies, one is a child, scratching at a door. Carol goes to kill them but Daryl tells her she doesn't have to. The next morning Carol wakes up to see smoke outside of the window. She goes outside and sees that Daryl is burning the bodies of the two zombies they found the previous night. He carries the child's wrapped body and places it in the fire. Carol thanks him.

Carol is packing her bag and we see she is still carrying the copy of Tom Sawyer that she was reading with Lizzie and Mika. They decide to find a tall building to see who is out there. Daryl sets a legal pad on fire to distract the zombies. They run up a parking garage into the building. We see someone in the garage following them. They stumble upon a camp site in the building. Walkers are trapped in their sleeping bags and tents. Daryl kills the walkers in sleeping bags but leave the tent walkers alone. They are still being followed by someone. They find an empty office. They look out the window into a desolate waste land that is now Atlanta. Carol asks, "How did we get here?" Daryl's response, "We just did." Carol wonders why he never asked her about what happened to the girls. He says he knows what happened, they're not there (it's obvious to him they died). Carol says it was worse than that. He looks at her and tells her, "The reason I said we needed to start over is because we gotta." He spots something out the window. He uses the scope on the rifle to look out and we see a van with the same crosses on the windows on a bridge. They are going to investigate it since it is their only lead. As they leave they encounter Noah who has Carol's gun (since she decided to push it out the door before she walks backwards out of it, rookie move, Carol). He tells Daryl to give him his crossbow. He orders them to back up and then takes their weapons, apologizes to them for stealing their stuff, rationalizes his actions by saying they look tough, and then slices open a zombie filled tent so he can get away. Daryl and Carol kill the zombies. Carol aims her hand gun at Noah but Daryl stops her from shooting. She says she was not going to kill Noah but rather was aiming for his leg. He says that Noah was just a kid and they can find more weapons. Carol says that she doesn't want to see him die, or Beth, or anyone at the church but she can't stand by and watch it happen. That is why she left. Daryl gets mad and says, "You ain't somewhere else. You're here. Tryin'." Carol responds, "You're not who you were and neither am I." She grabs his bag and the book about childhood abuse falls out of it.

They arrive at the van on the bridge. It looks like it's been there for awhile. They climb in the back to investigate. Zombies slowly make their way towards them. They look through papers trying to get clues as more zombies come towards them. Daryl finds the letters GH on a gurney and Carol says it might be Grady Memorial Hospital. As they get out of the van they are overrun by zombies. They climb back in, get in the seats, and fasten the seat belts. They lean forward and cause the van to go over the edge. They survive the fall. Several zombies fall on the top of the van. I guess they tried to follow their food source over the edge. Carol's arm is injured. They walk back towards the city.

Carol shows him her injury and says she has had worse. He says that was stupid. She mentions they are only three blocks away from the hospital. They are going to find a place nearby to see what they can see. They walk into a building and Daryl takes a machete from a zombie and uses it to kill it. They look out the window to the hospital. He says that earlier she mentioned that he is different now than how he was before. He asks her, "How was I?" She says, "It's like you were a kid. Now you are a man." He asks, "What about you?" She says that she and Sophia stayed at that shelter but went back home after a day and a half. She kept praying for something to happen. But she didn't do anything. Who she was with Ed got burned away (the image of fire used again in this episode) and she was happy about it. At the prison she got to be who she always wanted to be and should have been but that person was also burnt away. "Everything now consumes you." "Well hey, we ain't ashes" responds Daryl. They hear a sound and go to investigate. They find a zombie with one of Daryl's arrow through its throat. They find Noah pushing a large bookcase against a door. Daryl run at him and they fall. The bookcase falls on Noah. A zombie starts to make its way out of the door Noah was trying to barricade. Noah tells them he was trying to protects himself and that he wasn't following them. Daryl grabs a pack of cigarettes and lights one. Noah begs for their help but Daryl says they already helped him once so they won't be helping him again. Daryl walks away but Carol wants to help. Daryl says they almost died because of him and walks away. The zombie makes it through the door and is on top of Noah when an arrow slices through its head. Daryl wasn't going to let Noah died. He just wanted Carol to decide that she wanted to help. The arrow was already making its way to the zombie as Carol turned one last time to get Daryl to help Noah.

Daryl and Carol lift the bookcase off of Noah and he thanks them. Daryl asks if Carol is okay and she says, "I'm still here." Noah keeps saying they are going to come. He says the people at the hospital are going to come looking for him. Daryl asks if he has seen a blond girl and Noah tells him he knows Beth and that she helped him escape but she is still at the hospital. Carol says they are coming. Noah leads them to another wing. Carol walks out the door and is hit by a car driven by the hospital police. Daryl wants to get her but Noah stops him. He tells him that the hospital has a doctor and medicine and that they can help her. Noah says they can get her back. Daryl asks what is it going to take. Noah responds they have a lot of guns and people. Daryl says, "So do we." Daryl starts another fire to distract some zombies. The two of them make their way to a large truck and drive away back to the church. So now we know for sure that Noah is the one in the woods with Daryl.

Compare how much Atlanta has deteriorated since the pilot. Welcome to Deadlanta.

Final thoughts
- A lot of fire/smoke in this episode. The imagery is used several times throughout. Yvette Nicole Brown mentioned on the Talking Dead how Carol sees a lot of the fire and Daryl lights a lot of fires. Fire at the shelter, the legal pad, and the cigarette. Carol keeps mentioning that several versions of herself have burnt away. Daryl says that they are not ashes.
- Even now Daryl is still trying to deal with the abuse from his childhood. I think it is a good thing that he took that book. Maybe it will help him heal.
- "What are you waiting for and what are you fighting for? These real world challenges and mental challenges still exist. They always will in that world. I especially like the teetering of the van. I took that as very symbolic of the teetering of the mental states of these characters sort of teetering." from an interview with Melissa McBride for Entertainment Weekly.

The Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 5 "Self Help"

Abraham and his group are on the bus on their way to DC. Tara teases Eugene about his mullet. She asks him what's wrong. He says he was thinking about what Gabriel did.  Maggie is hopeful that Rick and the gang are making their way to DC. Maggie and Glenn ask Eugene the cure and how long it will take. He gives them a vague explanation. Still claiming it is classified. Glenn asks Eugene why he has that particular hairstyle. Eugene simply replies that he likes it. As they pass a group of zombies on the road something goes wrong with the bus and it flips to the side. The zombies approach the bus.

Back at the bus everyone is getting up and getting ready to fight the zombies before the bus catches fire. Tara is tasked to stay with Eugene and come out when it's clear. Tara tells Eugene he has to be brave and gives him a knife. Eugene looks terrified and just stands there looking at everyone killing zombies. A zombie comes up behind Tara. Eugene stabs it in the back and Tara finishes it off. Abraham's hand is bleeding. An old cut opened up. Just as Maggie is about to get the first aid kit from the bus it catches on fire. Eugene suggests that they go back to the church. Abraham replies angrily that they don't go back. Glenn tries to calm him down and make sure he is okay (because Abraham is acting cray cray). Tara suggest they find some bikes since bikes don't burn. Eugene walks over to the zombie he stabbed and spits on it.

The group breaks into a bookstore and secure it for the night. Abraham hums the entire time. Rosita sews up Abraham's hand. Abraham thanks Glenn for showing up. Glenn says they made a deal. As Abraham looks out a window at the zombies outside he says, "Gotten to the point where everyone alive is strong now. We have to be.You're either strong and they can help you so you can help them or you're strong and they can kill ya. So you gotta kill them . . . It's the easiest thing in the world now." Glenn asks if the world is going to change and Abraham replies it is.

Abraham and Rosita are having sex. Rosita sees that Eugene is spying on them again. He is standing in the self help section. Tara pulls Eugene away and thanks him for having her back when they were fighting the zombies by the bus. He saved her life. He confesses to her that he caused the bus crash. He put crushed glass in the fuel line. He meant to stop the bus before it even left the church. She asks why he did it. He tells her he can't survive on his own. If he can't save the world than he has no value. He says they wouldn't keep him around if he was of no value to them. Tara says they would because they are friends. They have each other's backs. She tells him not to tell anyone else about what he did to the bus. She will keep his secret. He says he doesn't know why he told her. She replies, "I do. Welcome to the human race, asshole," Then they fist bump. Apparently Tara really likes to fist bump. Glenn asks Maggie if she is thinking about Rick and the others.  She feels guilty. He tells her they get to have little vacations. She says, "It feels really good having this because it is not about what was. Not last night. It's all about what's gonna be." Glenn tells her not to feel guilty about that. Abraham stands at a window looking out at the zombies roaming outside.

Rosita wants to stay at the bookstore for the day so they can rest. Abraham doesn't want to. He accuses her of wanting them to sit around. Maggie says the store would make a good base. They could stay one more day and sweep for supplies. Rosita changes her tune and says they will continue, like they always do. Abraham says they have a vehicle that has 500 gallons of water on it. He looks out the window at a fire truck. The truck starts and Abraham is happy things are finally going their way. They go a few feet when the engine stops. The door at the fire station opens. A tire rolls out of the door. Zombies start pouring out of the station. The group start killing the zombies. Eugene starts spraying the zombies from a hose on the roof of the truck. The zombies go down one at a time. Abraham climbs on the truck and begins to laugh. On the floor next to the truck is written, "Sick inside. Let them die."

The truck is now broken down on a road. Abraham hums as he tries to fix it. Eugene is reading an H. G. Wells book. Maggie says she know why he has the haircut. She thinks he likes if for a reason. "You're not the person people think you are. You want 'em to know who you are." She says he is not like everyone else. Others at the lab would have given up. He is not like Samson (Tara compared him to Samson earlier on the bus). She tells him the story of Samson. How the riddle Samson tells was only something in his head. There was no way anyone could have known the answer. Glenn calls out about the smell. Farther up the road they see a lot of zombies in the fields. That is the source of the smell. Abraham says he will not back down or abandon ship. Abraham wants to keep going down the road but no one else does. He keeps saying he won't go back. Glenn only wants to go south a few miles. Abraham insists they can get through. Rosita says no. She agrees with everyone else. She doesn't agree this time with Abraham. Abraham grabs Eugene by the arm and starts leading him down the road. Glenn tries to stop him and Abraham pushes him away. Eugene screams that he is not a scientist. He lied. He doesn't know how to stop the zombiepocalypse.

Everyone stares at Eugene. Rosita says she has seen the hings that he can do. He says he knows things. He is smarter than most people and knows he needs to get to DC. He wanted to survive and that it was justifiable to trick people to get him there since they would be safe there too. Rosita mentions that people died to get him there. He knows. He lists all of their names. He lost his nerve as they got closer and the risk of exposing the truth made him do things like sabotage bus. He mentions that he is smarter than them and Abraham starts punching him. Eugene falls to the floor. Abraham goes to hit him again but Rosita puts her hand on her gun. Abraham looks at his bloody hand and walks away. He falls to his knees. A soldier without a mission, without a reason to go on. Eugene's face is covered in blood and he is unresponsive.

Flashback to the early days of the zombiepocalypse. Abraham is beating a man to death with a can. He calls out to someone called Ellen. He finds a woman (Ellen) and two children. As he approaches Ellen the children hide behind her. He is covered in blood. He tells them they are safe now, he stopped them. They don't have to be scared now. But Ellen and the children look terrified. He notices that he is covered in blood. Abraham wakes up from troubled sleep and calls out to Ellen and the kids. He finds a note that reads, "Don't follow us." Abraham goes outside and find his family dead. Eaten by zombies. He grabs his gun and puts it in his mouth. He is stopped by screams from Eugene asking for help. He tells him to get them and thanks Abraham. He tells Abraham he can't leave because he has a very important mission.

Final Thoughts
- I figured Eugene wasn't a scientist. He kept saying that everything was classified and that seemed like a red flag. There was no reason for him to be so secretive.
- According to the actor that plays Abraham. The people that Abraham killed in the flashback were his neighbors that had raped his wife and children.
- Abraham followed Eugene because as a military man he needed a mission. With his family dead the mission to DC gave him something to live for.
- According to the actor who plays Eugene back in season 4 when Eugene shot the military truck it wasn't an accident. He was also trying to delay arriving in DC and having to face the truth.

The Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 4 "Slabtown"

No one's comin'.

Beth wakes up in a hospital room. She walks to the window and we see a decimated Atlanta. She bangs on the door and we can hear someone coming. A doctor and a police officer come in. Dr. Edwards and Officer Dawn Lerner. Dr. Edwards tells her she is in Grady Memorial hospital in Atlanta. Some of their officers found her on the side of the road surrounded by zombies. They rescued her and brought her to the hospital. She asks about Daryl but she was found alone. Officer Dawn tells her that she now owes them for her rescue.

Dr. Edwards shows her around. He allows a patient to die on Dawn's orders since he didn't show enough signs of improvement. Beth helps take the body to be disposed. They throw the body down an elevator shaft where it will be consumed by zombies that overran the basement. Beth meets another officer in the cafeteria. He tells her that he was one of the officers that rescued her. His name is Gorman. He wants her to thank him for the rescue and threatens to write down all of the food she is taking. Everything here has a price. Beth stops serving herself food and walks out.

Dr. Edwards complains that he no longer has any research to do. Beth's response, "If you feel safe enough to be bored. You're lucky." He offers her some of his food, guinea pig. Dr. Edwards has a Caravaggio painting. He tells her, "Art isn't about survival. It's about transcendence. Being more than animals. Rising above." They are interrupted by a new arrival. Gorman whispers something to Dawn and she orders Dr. Edwards to save the man even if it wastes their resources (which he mentions she doesn't like to do). Dawn asks if the man will survive. Dr, Edwards angrily replies that he can't save the man and it was a waste of resources. Dawn slaps Beth.

As Dr. Edwards finishes cleaning up Beth's wound she asks if Dawn is always like that. Yes. She also likes things neat so a clean shirt has been brought for Beth to change into. Beth finds a green lollipop inside the new shirt. A girl with a bite on her arm is brought in. She doesn't want them to help her. She kicks at Gorman. Dawn makes Beth help hold the girl down as they cut off her arm. The girl, Joan, yells at Dawn that she can't control them.

Beth goes to drop off her newly bloodied shirt and meets Noah. He does the laundry. He is also the one who left her the lollipop. She asks how long he has been there. A year. No one has been able to work off their debt yet. He was with this dad when he was rescued. They left his dad behind because he was bigger and stronger and posed a threat. Dawn's barely in charge. He is planning his escape. "They think I'm scrawny. They think I'm weak. They don't know shit about what I am, about what you are."

As Beth is working on cleaning Dawn brings her a tray of food. Beth has no intention on staying any longer than they make her. Dawn tells her this isn't a sentence. Food, shelter, and protection have never been free. Beth says she never asked for their help. Dawn wants Beth to look at the good they are doing. She believes that the life they had before is not over and that when they get rescued they will need to rebuild. "We all have to contribute. If we take we give back. It's only fair." She tells Beth she has to eat or she'll get weak and won't be able to do her job. Beth takes a bite of food.

Beth hums as she cleans the blood from Joan's room. Joan tells her she likes the humming. Joan says that Dawn can control them (the other officers) but chooses not to because it is easier. Beth asks what Gorman did to her but Joan refuses to answer. "I guess it's easier making a deal with the devil when you are not the one paying the price." Why doesn't Beth ask her any questions? She should try to find out why Joan was so desperate to leave.

Beth looks under her bed for the lollipop but it is missing. Gorman comes in and pulls the lollipop out of his pocket. He puts it in his mouth and tells her she should have a taste. She says she doesn't want it but he basically shoves it in her mouth. Pervert. Dr. Edwards comes in and puts a stop to the creepiness. Gorman's response to Dr. Edwards interference is, "The girl should have been mine." He's going to get Joan back. Dawn won't stop him. Dr. Edwards says he will stop him. He threatens to withhold medical care. Beth asks Dr. Edwards why he stays. He takes her to the ground floor. He tells her there is not way out. He bangs on the grated door and zombies come at the door. He then takes her to the roof. He tells her that when it all started Dawn was supposed to evacuate the hospital. Then

they heard the bombs. Everyone they evacuated died. They stayed their until food ran out. Then they started to go on runs. They would pass people that needed help and ignored them. One day he couldn't ignore those in need anymore so he struck a deal with Dawn. They would help those in need and the people would pay them back by working. Dawn took over after her boss cracked. She kept them alive. "As bad as it gets it's still better than down there." He tells her to check on the new patient and give him some medicine. Beth mixes the medicine and injects the man. Noah comes in the room. The patient begins to seize and then he dies. Dawn acuses Beth but Noah says he accidentally unplugged the machines. Beth tells Dr. Edwards that the man started seizing after she injected him. He tells her that she gave him the wrong medicine but Beth knows that is a lie. Dawn takes Noah to his office and beats him.

Dawn tells Beth she knows that it was Beth's fault. She says she had to beat Noah. A good man's mistake almost destroyed everything (he former boss) and she won't let that happen again. "Every sacrifice we make needs to be for the greater good." She tells Beth she is not the greater good. She is not strong enough. The wards (those rescued) keep her officers happy and that helps them keep going so they will protect them. There have been compromises and after the rescue they will help build the world anew. Outside of the hospital she is nothing. Either dead or someone else's burden. "Some people are not made for this life and that is okay. As long as they don't take advantage of the ones who are." Dawn is cray cray.

Noah tells Beth he is okay. He tells her he knows that Dawn needed the patient for something and that is why she reacted like that. He says she is trapped too. Beth tells Noah she is going with him when he escapes. He tells her the best way out is through the basement. He will keep Dawn occupied while Beth steals the key to the elevator from her office. Beth looks through filing cabinets and finds someone's wallet. She looks around the desk and finds Joan dead. She killed herself. She continues to look for the key and finds it in a drawer. As she is getting ready to leave Gorman walks in. She lies that Dawn asked her for a key. He calls her out on her lie and tells her he won't say anything if they can work something out. Beth notices Joan is starting to come back as a zombie so she lets him grope her. Then she hits him over the head an pushes him to the ground where zombie Joan gets her revenge by munching on his neck. Beth grabs his gun and leaves.

Beth walks down the hall and runs into Dawn and Noah. She tells Dawn that Joan was looking for her in her office. She and Noah walk to the elevator. Screaming can be heard down the hall. Noah has a rope of towels that he uses to lower Beth down the elevator shaft. As he climbs down a zombie reaches out from another elevator door and he falls into the basement. Beth jumps in after him. They make their way through the zombie filled basement. Beth shoots as many as she can. She makes a headshot every time. She has gotten good with the gun. They make it outside and run past several cars (with the crosses on the back windshield). Zombies come towards them. Beth looks back at a limping Noah. She goes ahead and starts shooting zombies Noah runs past her to the gate. She gets surrounded but the officers shoot the zombies. An officer tackles Beth to the ground. She smiles as she sees Noah escape.

Dawn gets mad at Beth for Gorman's death. Beth tells her that he attacked her just like he attacked Joan and that she (Dawn) let it happen. Dawn's excuse is so they can make it. Beth tells her, "No one's comin'. We are all going to die and you let this happen for nothing." Dawn grabs a picture frame and hits Beth with it.

Dr. Edwards patches Beth up. She asks him how he knew the patient was a doctor and that's why he told her to give him the wrong medicine. He knew the other doctor. They would have kicked him out and Gorman would have killed him. He compares himself with Peter denying Christ. He didn't have a choice just like Peter didn't have a choice. Beth grabs some scissors from his office. She walks with them in her hand towards Dr. Edwards. They wheel in a new rescue. It's Carol!!

Final Thoughts
- Why didn't Beth and Noah try to steal a car?
- For a moment there I thought Beth was going to pull a Shane and leave Noah as zombie bait.
- Beth is finally ready to fight. She is having none of this hospital from hell crap. And now she has Carol. I can't wait to see how those two work together to escape.
- The Caravaggio painting in Dr. Edwards office is "The Denial of Peter"
- I new not to trust Dr. Edwards. He was too nice from the get go.
- I think Noah is the person in the woods with Daryl. Hopefully the gang will be able to help Beth and Carol escape rape hospital.

The Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 3 "Four Walls and a Roof"

Nightmares end. They shouldn't end who you are.

Juxtaposition of zombies clawing at a wall and the Terminans eating Bob's leg. Gareth talks to Bob. They marked their way to their present location from Terminus so they could go back. He explains that he was going to give the gang a choice, "Join us or feed us." He talks about how bears eat their young when they are starving. He says that one of them saw Daryl and Carol leave. He really wants to eat Carol. His brother had a theory that women tasted better because of the extra layer of fat. Bob starts to cry. Gareth gets mad at him.  He says, "I am being human here. I'm talking to you." Bob starts to laugh. Bob calls them idiots and tells them he was bitten by a zombie and that he is tainted meat. Maniacal laugh. Maniacal laugh.  The Terminans start throwing up and freaking out about eating Bob's tainted meat.  Gareth says they'll be fine because they cooked the meat well.

Sasha is alone in the woods with a rifle with night vision scope looking for Bob.  The tree closes to her has the mark the Terminans left. Tyreese and Rick come up behind her. Rick mentions that Daryl and Carol are also missing. Inside the church Maggie looks down at a Bible and sets it next to her on the pew. Sasha comes in and gets angry at Gabriel. She keeps asking what he is doing.  She says it is all connected. He shows up and all of a sudden they are being watched and three of their group are missing. He insists he has nothing to do with it. Gabriel insists he is alone. Rick asks what he did. What is he going to burn for? Gabriel answers that he always locked the doors at night. One night shortly after the zombiepocalypse began his congregation came to the church looking for a safe place but the doors were still locked. It was his choice (open the door or keep them locked). The people made so much noise trying to come in that they attracted zombies. They called his name and damned him to hell as they were eaten by the zombies. He says the Lord sent Rick and his group to punish him.  He is damned. He repeats, "I always lock the doors." and then cries. Glenn notices someone lying on the grass outside. They run out their and find Bob.  They carry him inside wondering what happened to his leg. As the camera pans on the church we see a giant red A painted on the side.  The Terminans left a little gift and message for train car A. They are still in that prison and the Terminans are still in charge.

Bob is awake and explains that he woke up at a school with Gareth and a few others eating his leg. Rick asks if they had Daryl and Carol but Bob says that Gareth told him he saw Daryl and Carol drive away. Bob refuses any pain medicine because it is too late for him. He shows them the zombie bite from the food bank. Everyone looks so sad. Gabriel offers the sofa in his office for Bob to rest. Rick asks if Gabriel knows where the school is that Bob mentioned. Gabriel tells him where it is. Abraham tells them that they all need to leave for DC right now before anything happens to Eugene. Rick wants to wait for Daryl and Carol but Abraham won't budge. He wants to leave on the bus right now. They start to fight and Glenn intercedes. Glenn is the voice of reason. He says they need each other and they can get through all of this together. Tara steps in and says that if Abraham stays one more day she will go to DC with him no matter what. She looks at Maggie (for permission?). Abraham wants Glenn and Maggie to come too. Eugene doesn't want to go but does what Abraham says. Rick tells him they are not taking the bus. Abraham says try to stop me. Rick goes to fight but Glenn steps in again and he agrees that he and Maggie will go to DC. Abraham agrees to stay half a day. Maggie agrees.

Bob talks to Sasha as he lies on the sofa with an art work of the last supper above him. He tries to be optimistic but Sasha doesn't want to play that game anymore. He says he didn't tell her that he was bitten because then their relationship would become all about the end and he really likes the middle.

Rick is getting the group ready. They know where the Terminans are and it would be best to attack now. He asks Tyreese if he is up for this fight. Sasha wants to go even though Tyreese says she should stay. He tells her he knows how she feels. She can't throw away the little bit of time she has left with Bob. She reminds him that he wanted to kill whomever killed Karen. He tells her she should forgive the Terminans. She thinks there is something wrong with him for wanting her to forgive them. He says she has the choice to forgive. She hands him a knife and tells him to kill Bob once he dies.

Rick and the group leave the church. Gabriel locks the door. Tyreese, Carl, Judith, Bob, Eugene, Rosita, and Gabriel wait inside the church. As Rick's group walks into the woods we see the Terminans make their way to the church. They break through the front door. Carl raises his gun. Gareth calls out into the church. "I guess you know we are here and we know you are here. We are armed and their is no point in hiding any more. We've been watching you. We know whose here." He goes on to list all the people in the church. The Terminans slowly make their way into the church. Gareth says it can all stop now. He knows they are behind one of two doors. He talks to Gabriel. If Gabriel helps they will let him leave with Judith. Judith begins to cry. Carl tries to shush her but it is too late. They know behind which door they are hiding.

As they are about to break down the door two of the Terminans fall dead from silenced gunshots. Rick orders them to put down their guns. Rick shoots Gareth's hand. He orders them to put their guns on the floor and kneel. Martin doesn't want to but finally does it when Abraham and the other come towards him out of the dark. Gareth kneels on the floor whimpering in pain. He says there is no point in begging. He says that Rick could have killed them all when they came in but didn't. There must be a reason for that. Rick's response, "We didn't want to waste the bullets." Ouch. Gareth says how they used to help and save people but then things changed when the rapists came. He tells Rick he doesn't know what it is like to be hungry. They can walk away and he promises they will never cross paths again. Rick says they will cross someone else's path. He days beside I already made you a promise. He pulls out a machete and kills Gareth. Sasha stabs Martin over and over again. Tyreese, Maggie, Tara, and Glenn look on horrified as their gang kills the rest of the Terminans. Michonne finds her katana among their belonging. Rick says, "It could have been us." Sasha agrees. Gabriel comes out and looks shocked at the scene. He says, "This is the Lord's house." Maggie replies, "No. It's just four walls and a roof." Maggie lost her faith when Hershel died,

The next morning everyone says goodbye to Bob. Bob thanks Rick for being good people and taking him in because Rick took people in. "Nightmares end. They shouldn't end who you are. And that is just this dead man's opinion." Those are great final words, Bob. He tells Rick to look at Judith and tell him that the world isn't going to end. Sasha now sits with Bob. He is smiling because in his dream Sasha was looking at him smiling. He dies. Sasha cries. She pulls out her knife. Tyreese walks into the room and asks for the knife. She hands it to him, kisses Bob's hand and walks out. Tyreese takes the knife and plunges it into Bob's head making sure Bob will rest in peace.

Sasha is making a marker for Bob's grave. She is now wearing Bob's jacket. Abraham gives Rick a map of their route so they can find them. Michonne and Rick promise they will be there to see Eugene fix the world. Abraham and his group board the bus. I hate to see the group split up like this. Especially after all they've been through to get back together. Rick opens up the map and sees that Abraham has written, "Sorry, I was an asshole. Come to Washington. The new world's gonna need Rick Grimes." Rick walks over to Tyreese who is digging a hole to bury the Terminans. Rick picks up a shovel and starts digging. He asks how it was for Tyreese to get to Terminus. Tyreese says it killed him. Rick says it didn't They continue to dig in silence. That night Michonne sits outside as a lookout. Gabriel walks outside. He can't sleep. The quiet bothers him. Telling his secret out loud he relives what happened before. Michonne says that won't stop but it won't be all the time.  They hear a rustling sound.  Michonne goes to explore. Daryl walks out of the woods. She smiles and asks where is Carol. He looks down and calls behind him, "Come on out." I don't think he was talking to Carol. Who is with him? Morgan? Someone else?

R.I.P. Bob

Final Thoughts

- It was interesting to see how Gareth tried to talk his way out of his situation with Rick all the way to the end. Gareth's power of persuasion aided him so far in surviving the zombiepocalypse. I guess he thought he would try one last time to convince Rick to see things his way. He tries to humanize Terminus by telling him that it started out by helping people but then things were changed by the other group. So they adapted to the world where the law of the land is eat or be eaten. There is a twisted logic to that rule. He also mentions that Rick doesn't know what it is like to be hungry. I'm not sure that's true. They almost ate dog food before they found the prison (Season 3 episode 1). But maybe that hunger coupled with the abuse at the hands of the rapists was just too much for Gareth to handle.

- What happened to Daryl and Carol? Where is Carol? Something bad must have happened because Daryl looked really sad when Michonne asked about Carol. I think he and Carol helped rescue someone from the car that kidnapped Beth and that person is who Daryl was telling to come out of the woods. I hope Carol isn't dead.

- I don't like the group splitting up. It took so long for everyone to find each other. I didn't think Glenn would agree to go with Abraham without the rest of the group.

- I was actually surprised that the show eliminated the Terminus group so early in the season. I think it would have been interesting to have Rick and the gang have to deal with being hunted by zombies and the Terminans.