The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 13: Arrow on the Doorpost

The Summit begins

Daryl on his not so subtle bike, Hershel and Rick in their car pull up to what look like water towers.  Rick and Daryl look around while Hershel keeps and eye out in the car.  Hershel has a gun strapped to his leg.  Rick and Daryl make their way to a building and stumble upon a recently killed zombie.  Rick enters a wooden building and cocks his gun.  He cautiously makes his way in toward an area with a table and two chairs.  He hears a noise behind him and turns around.  It is the Governor.  the Governor approaches Rick and puts his hands up as a sign of appeasement and says they have a lot to talk about.  Rick thinks  things are pretty clear, the Governor attacked them.  The Governor says he could have killed them but chose not to.  He will remove his weapon as a sign of good faith and wants Rick to do the same.  Daryl looks in through a window.  Rick holsters his gun but continues to glare at the Governor.  The Governor sits down and we can see there is a gun taped to the table right where he sat down.  Daryl doesn't feel right about the situation.  The Governor was already there.  A car with the Martinez, Milton, and Andrea pulls up.  Andrea is surprised that the Governor is already here.  Andrea walks into the meeting and tells the two leaders she wants to end this feud and save the bullets for the zombies (one of the smartest things Andrea has said all season).  Rick accuses the Governor of all the things he's done including Maggie (even though he says that was Merle, Rick says he knows better).  Daryl calls Milton the Governor's butler.  Milton calls Daryl a henchman.  Hershel puts a kibosh on things.


You have to buy me a drink first

The Governor cuts Andrea's speech short.  Rick sets out a boundary for each group.  The Governor says Andrea is in no position to settle anything.  The Governor wants Rick to surrender.   The Governor kicks Andrea out and she goes off in a huff per usual.  Rick sits down across from the Governor and Martinez shuts the door.  Rick tells the Governor that the Governor is beholden to his people.  The Governor keeps blaming Merle for Maggie and Glenn.  Rick wants the Governor to take responsibility for what happened.  Rick calls him the town drunk who ripped up his fence and his yard.  The Governor brings up the fact that the baby might be Shane's and that Rick failed to see the Devil beside him.  Rick says he sees the Devil alright.  Daryl paces back and forth.  Milton wants to discuss the issues amongst themselves.  Milton called the situation a battle and recorded it as part of their history.  He is interrupted by the sound of zombies.  Daryl says "after you" to Martinez but Martinez insists Daryl go first.  Andrea has had enough and walks past them to kill the fist the zombie.  Martinez and Daryl start to show off as they each kill zombies.  Daryl gives him a nod of respect.  Daryl finds a pack of cigarettes and offers one to Martinez who declines.  They start to talk about how zombies suck.  Martinez says they will not work anything out, they will fight it out some day.  Daryl says he knows. This was a bonding moment between two opposing soldiers.  They know the only way to end this will be an eventual fight to the death.  Neither leader will accept surrender and their good soldiers accept their own possible deaths and they accept that fate.  Hershel reads through the history that Milton wrote.  Milton and Hershel discuss how Hershel lost his leg.  Milton is very interested about the procedure.  Hershel denies that they have a doctor (good call Hershel).  Milton wants to see the stump but Hershel won't until Milton buys him a drink.  They laugh.

Drink with me to days gone by

The Governor doesn't like looking weak after Rick and the group attacked Woodbury.  They are here because of the choices they've made.  The people they love will suffer.  The Governor shares a story about his life before: he got a call about his wife dieing in an accident.  He never go the chance to return her phone call and now he wonders why she called.  What did she want?  Rick seems moved; he's probably thinking about Lori (including his own phone call with his dead wife, what does ghost Lori want?).  They both drink the whiskey that the Governor brought.  I don't think it is good for Rick to be drinking.  He is already cray cray and the Governor is pouring the manipulation on really thick. I'm not sure if this story about his wife is even true.  The Governor knows more about Rick than Rick knows about the Governor (thanks a lot Andrea).

Good thing we found this sex garage

Back at the prison Glenn is arming everyone.  Merle wants to take the weapons and use them on the Governor and kill him.  Carl says his dad can take care of himself but Merle says Rick will be dead soon.  Glenn says this is not the time and his decision is final.  Zombies mill around that fence at the prison.  Glenn is out there with a blow torch fixing part of an outer door.  Merle is packing some things to go be with Daryl.  Glenn won't let him leave.  They begin to fight.  Maggie gets behind Merle and Michonne helps her.  Beth fires a gun into the air and the fighting stops.  Way to be proactive Beth.  Merle tells Michonne she knows he is right.  Rick's group is full of fighters but not killers.  She says Rick, Maggie, and Carl are killers.  Merle invites her to come with him to kill the Governor.  She asks about Andrea.  He says Andrea will have to choose.  She tells him he is on his own.  Glenn stares at the zombies by the gate.  Maggie comes out with a gun to take her turn watching the perimeter.  He tells her it was a hell of a choke hold she had Merle in.  Glenn says that when they got back from Woodbury he didn't give her the space she needed, he made it all about him.  She says she is always with him.  He apologizes and she says she knows and they hug.  He tells her he loves her and they kiss.  Glenn can't make out in front of the audience of zombies.  They go off to a garage to have sex.  Not the time to be having sex with no one watching the gate.

Prepare for war

Hershel goes to talk to Andrea to find out what happened inside.  She asks Hershel what happened to Maggie.  Hershel says the Governor is a sick man.  She doesn't know what to do.  She can't go back there.  Hershel calls her family and invites her back and it's settled (she can never go back to Woodbury).  The Governor says he never wanted to be in charge (liar!).  He says he knows Rick brought back a stash of guns but the Governor has more.  The fight will go down to the last man.  He wants to end it today.  They can walk away.  Rick has something the Governor wants.  Rick won't give up the prison.  The Governor says he doesn't want it.  He wants Michonne (an eye for an eye).  He asks Rick if one woman is worth all the lives of Rick's group.  Rick says he doesn't get it.  The Governor obviously has a plan to bring civilization back why risk it all on a vendetta?  Good point, Rick.  Killing Michonne is beneath him.  The Governor says Rick can save his son, his daughter, and everyone he knows.  It's all up to Rick.  How does Rick know the Governor will keep his word after he gets Michonne?  The Governor says Rick can have whatever he wants because the Governor doesn't care about Rick.  He gives Rick two days to decide then walks away.  Everyone stares at each other as they get into their perspective vehicles.  Hershel looks at Andrea.  Andrea chooses to return with the Governor.  She better slit his throat tonight.  The Governor returns to Woodbury.  The Governor tells Martinez to keep watch.  When Rick returns to the meeting in two days with Michonne he wants Martinez to keep her alive but kill the others to avoid a slaughter.  Milton calls it a slaughter.  The Governor says not on their end.  He says they were going to have to eliminate Rick sooner or later.  He thanks Andrea for setting up the meeting.  He tells her they have come to terms and will meet again in two days.  He doesn't tell her the terms.
 
Rick tells the group he met the Governor, just the two of them.  Merle thinks he should have killed him when they had a chance.  Rick tells them he wants the prison and all of them dead for what they did in Woodbury.  They are going to war.  It's about freaking time.  Rick is out where he last spoke to Lori.  Hershel comes out.  Merle and Michonne want to hit the Governor first.  Hershel and Carol want to take their chances on the road but they will do whatever Rick decides.  Rick tells Hershel the Governor gave him a way out if he gives them Michonne.  Hershel says the Governor will kill Michonne.  What if this is the answer?  Hershel wants to know why he didn't tell everyone else.  Rick says they need to be scared because that's the only way they'll accept it.  Michonne has earned her place (she saved Hershel and Carl told them about Glenn and Maggie's kidnapping).  Is he willing to sacrifice his daughter's lives for her?  Rick is telling Hershel so that Hershel will talk him out of it. Michonne has definitely earned her place, more so than Andrea.  They even accepted Merle who is a loose cannon.  Rick is going to have to go into stealth mode, invade Woodbury, and kill the Governor.  Maybe make it look like zombies did it.  Slit the Governor's throat but leave a couple of zombies in the room to eat the evidence of murder.