The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 6: Live Bait

The Governor sitting in front of a camp fire.  Three tents behind him.  A zombie slowly approaches.  She walks right through the fire and crawls toward him.   He just stares ahead.

Martinez  shoots it in the head.   He looks fed up with the Governor.  The next morning the Governor wakes up by himself.  Martinez and the other dude left him.  He finds some giant truck and drives it through the gates of Woodbury.  He sets fire to Woodbury.  Zombies roam freely through its streets. Voice over, he has been on the road for a couple of months.  He is talking with some women.  He is talking about Woodbury, how it was safe but the man in charge lost it.  Barely got out alive.  He walks by himself.  He has grown a beard and is overall very disheveled.  He falls on the ground and looks up at a building. He sees a blonde girl at a window but she disappears.  He goes inside walking cautiously.  Laundry hands in the hallway.  A woman with a bat and a little girl are in a doorway (for a moment I thought he was hallucinating seeing Penny at the window).  Another woman, this one with a gun, comes to the door.  He puts down his gun.

The women have been there since the zombiepocalypse started.  One asks if he is planning on staying in the building.  He says just for the night.  Tara used to be Atlanta police and threatens to kill him if he messes with her family (that also includes an old man on oxygen).  The other woman, Lily, says they will hold on to his gun until he leaves.  He tells them his name is Brian Heriot (a name he saw spray painted on the side of some building).  Lily knocks on the door and offers him a plate of spaghettios.  He says thank you and throws the food out the window.  He goes back to eating his canned food.  The little girl and old man play backgammon.  Lily mentions that the little girl didn't eat.  She says it is because she is terrified.  They hear a noise at the door.  It is the Governor returning the plate.  Lily offers to make him some coffee.  The old man asks the Guv if he has a cigarette.  Tara offers him a slim jim (at least that is what it looked like to me).  They talk about how their dad used to be a truck driver and picked them up when the world ended.  They stole oxygen tanks.  The truck was full of food (it was from some food chain).  Tara asks him for help to get their dad up.  Eventually he stands up and picks up the old man and takes him to bed.  You can hear the zombies walking in the floor above.  The old man says that Tara keeps killing them but they keep getting back up.  He asks the Guv if he has kids.  The Guv says no.  The man says that when he had kids he finally figured out what it was like to be a man, a real man.  The old man asks the Guv to get a nice set of backgammon from another apartment so he can cheer up his granddaughter and get her to talk again.

The Guv goes to the apartment and finds the game under a bed.  He hears something and goes to the bathroom.  There is a wheelchair and two prosthetic legs.  A zombie lies in the tub.  He kills it.  He takes the gun the zombie had in its hands.

The Guv comes back and delivers the game.  The old man shakes his hand and Lily thanks him.  The Guv is back in his apartment.  He pulls out a picture of his family.  He folds over the corner where his face is.  The next morning Lily walks in while he is sleeping and sees the photograph.  She brings him a bag with some things for the road as a thank you. She tries to return his gun but he tells her to keep it, they need it.  He says he doesn't need it because he has the other gun he found upstairs.  He tells them they have to shoot the zombies in the brain.  She tells him that their dad has lung cancer and only two days worth of oxygen.  She says that there is an old folks home nearby and asks him get them another oxygen tank because he old man is the only one who can make the little girl smile).

He slowly approaches the old folks home.  He makes his way past a room with a zombie tied to a bed. Another zombie in a wheelchair reaches out to him but neither is a threat to him.  He closes the door on another zombie.  He finds a room with several oxygen tanks on a cart and he takes it.  You can hear several zombies.  He runs into a rum filled with zombies.  They come towards him and knock down the cart.  He grabs a couple of tanks and runs as the zombies chase after him.

He delivers the tanks of oxygen with blood all over his hands.  He hurries back to the apartment.  Lily comes to say thank you.  She has a bottle of rubbing alcohol in her hands and tells him to sit and let her be a nurse again.  She takes care of his injuries.  She says it feels good to have something to do.  No one ever mentioned how boring the end of the world was going to be.  Megan (the little girl) thought the Guv was her dad.  He ran off three years ago.  Megan is Lily's daughter.  Lily tells Megan to watch the Guv while she goes to get the ointment for his cut.  She asks about his eye.  He says that he wasn't born like that but that something happened to him.  He says he will tell her about his eye if she promises to keep his secret she goes to pinky swear but he doesn't know what that is.  He says he's a pirate but she says no way.  He says he was trying to help someone he loves very much from getting hurt.  She says he got hurt instead.  She asks if they got hurt too and he says yes.  She says she is sorry.

The Guv is setting up a chess board.  He is teaching Megan.  He is all cleaned up now.  He tells her pawns are like soldiers.  You can lose a lot of soldiers and still win the game.  She grabs the king and a pen.  She draws an eye patch on the king to make it look just like the Guv.  Lily comes out of her father's room and nods to Megan to let her know that her grandfather died.  She says she thinks he's been gone awhile.  The Guv tells them they should go now he is worried that the old man will turn soon.  The old man wakes up a zombie and grabs Tara.  The Guv grabs an oxygen tank and bashes his head in.  They all scream.  The Guv digs a grave for the old man.  He and Lily throw his body in it.  When they come back Megan hides behind a chair.  She is scared of the Guv.  Tara says she knows, they turn no matter what.  She says her dad almost got her.  She says her dad would have been grateful that the Guv stopped him.  So they're cool and she fist bumps him.   Lily shakes her head no to him and he leaves their place.  He sets fire to the photograph of his family.  I guess he finally let go of his old life (much like Carol).  He grabs his bag, knocks on their door, and says goodbye to Lily.  She says they are coming with him.  She knows that he had a family and that they are not it but he is stuck with them now.   He says he can't and she tells him he already has.

Lily and Megan are in the back of the food truck.  It is filled with their stuff.  She asks where they are going.  He says they will go where they let them (the walkers and the road).  Tara confesses she wasn't a cop, but she was in the academy.  She asks if she thinks they will make it.  He says they will make it.  Megan is still scared of the Governor.  In bed in the truck Lily moves closer to the Guv.  They start to kiss (the other are sleeping right next to them).  The next morning the truck won't start.  They each carry a bag.  Tara complains about some ex-girlfriend.  She trips and yells at her sister when she tries to help.  The Governor hears something.  There are a bunch of zombies down the road.  Megan just stands there.  The Governor calls to her and she runs to him. He carries her and they run into the woods with the zombies chasing them.  Tara is injured and Lily is helping her.  The Guv falls into a pit where there are zombies.  I think it is the old pit he used for Woodbury.  He kills all the zombies with his bare hands completely traumatizing Megan.  He says he won't let anything hurt her. She says promise and he says he crosses his heart.  Martinez looks over the pit and points a gun at them.

Final Thoughts
- Is this a new Governor or will he revert to his old ways when he rejoins Martinez?
- Will he lose himself again if something were to happen to Megan and/or Lily?
- Does he no longer need to exact his revenge on the prison since he has left behind his old life and now has a new "family"?