Abandoned car on the side of the road at night. Beth looks inside the car and tries to start it. Zombies can be heard coming towards them from the woods. They get in the trunk of the car and Daryl ties it shut with a rag. Zombies can be heard surrounding the car. Lightning flashes as a storm begins. Daryl holds his crossbow at the ready and Beth holds her knife as the zombies scream. Daylight now seeps through the open crap of the trunk. They seem to have stayed awake all night. Beth opens the trunk and gets out. No zombies in site. They scavenge the car for supplies and walk down the deserted road.
Daryl stalks a squirrel in the woods but misses and his arrow breaks. Beth digs a fire pit at their campsite. She uses the car's side mirror to start a fire. She uses the hubcaps from the car to make a zombie alarm. Daryl kills a rattlesnake for food. We now see Daryl and Beth devouring the snake. She tells Daryl she needs a drink. He throws her a bottle of water. But she says she means alcohol. She's never had a drink because her dad was an alcoholic but since he isn't around anymore she thinks it would be a good idea to go find some. Daryl ignores her and keeps eating his snake. She goes off on her own and calls Daryl a jerk. Several zombies come walking through the woods headed in her direction. She throws a rock away from her to get them to go in a different direction but one comes towards her. At the last minute it turns follows the others. Daryl sneaks up behind her. She gets mad at him for bringing her back to the camp so she flips him off. She wants to find the others. She tells him she can take care of herself and she is going to find a drink. Daryl sadly looks back at their camp.
They walk out of the woods onto a golf course. They make their way to the country club. Thunder can be heard. Zombies walk towards them from the golf course. The front door is locked but the back door is open. Bodies lie dead on the floor of the room they enter. It looked like people camped there for a while. Several bodies are hanging from the ceiling. According to "The Talking Dead" there was a revolt among the survivors and they hanged those individuals. The bodies on the floor don't move. Beth looks around the table and grabs a spoon that says Washington DC (is this a hint that the show will move to DC?). Daryl fills a bag with money and jewelry and Beth asks why he is keeping that stuff. Zombies start banging on the door so they head deeper into the building. They walk into the kitchen. Beth finds a bottle of wine in a closet and makes a little too much noise reaching up to get it. Daryl continues to look for supplies. A zombie comes up from behind and grabs Beth. She hits it over the head with the bottle and tries to stab it with the broken glass.She eventually stabs it with a knife. She says to Daryl thanks for the help. He points out that she said she could take care of herself. They find another room with bodies. Written on the wall is "Welcome to the Dogtrot."
They make their way to what looks like the gift shop. Daryl stuffs things into his pockets. Beth grabs some new clothes. Half of a woman's body has been displayed like a mannequin with a sign "Rich Bitch" on it. Beth wants to take her down. Daryl says it doesn't matter but Beth says it does. He covers the body with a sheet. A clock in the hall chimes the hour loudly and attracts several zombies. Daryl kills zombie after zombies as Beth stares. Daryl beats a zombie with a golf club getting blood all over Beth's new clothes. They make it to the bar. She tells Daryl she knows it is stupid to go through all this just for a drink but she doesn't care. All she wanted to do was sit and cry but can't, so she needs to do this. Daryl breaks the glass of a frame and pulls the paper out. She found a bottle of peach schnapps and asks if it is good. Daryl simply says no. Daryl plays darts with the pictures of former presidents of the club. Beth stares at the bottle and cries. Daryl takes the bottle and throws it on the ground. He tells her her first drink won't be peach schnapps.
Beth guesses that Daryl used to be a motorcycle mechanic. She asks if her boyfriend had ever guessed that. She says it's what people do to feel normal. They come to a building that Daryl says he found with Michonne. Daryl grabs some bottles from a shed and tells her it is moonshine. He pours her a glass and tells her that is a real first drink. She hesitates because Hershel told her bad moonshine could make her go blind. Daryl responds that there is nothing more to see out there. She doesn't like it but pours a second round for Daryl. He says no because someone has to stay sober. He says he knew what this place was because it was like his dad's place. He starts explaining what everything in the room is. A zombie walks up the the house but since it is alone they decide to leave it be. She hands him a jar of moonshine and says they might as well make the most of it if they are going to be trapped there. Daryl takes it, sits, in a chair and says, "Home, sweet, home."
Beth explains the rules to the game "I never." He says he never needed a game to get drunk before. Daryl says he's never been out of Georgia. He's never been on vacation. He learned to camp to hunt. Beth says she has never been to jail (living in the prison being the exception). He asks if that is what she thinks of him. He tells her to drink up because he's never been to prison. She thinks he used to be a prison guard. He gets mad and goes to take a piss. He says he never got a present form Santa Claus, he's never relied on anyone, and he never tried to cut his wrists to get attention. He tells her he is going to teach her how to shoot a crossbow. He grabs her and takes her outside. He shoots the zombie and pins it to a tree. Daryl grabs her and tries to get her to shoot the crossbow at the zombie. Beth gets out of his grip and stabs the zombie in the head. She yells at Daryl for not caring about what happened and that he looks at her like just another dead girl. She may not be like Michonne or Maggie but she survived. She remembers how he was when Sophia came out of the barn. He yells that everyone is dead and they are never going to see them again. He thinks it's his fault the Governor attacked them because he stopped looking for him. Maybe he could have done something for Hershel. She hugs him from behind and he cries.
Nighttime. Beth gets why her dad stopped drinking. Daryl tells a story of when he was young when he, Merle, and another guy were all drunk and Merle was high. He hit the other guy and the guy pulls a gun on him and Merle pulls his gun and everyone is yelling all over a cartoon show. The other guy punched Daryl in the stomach and he puked and the other two laughed and forgot about the fight. “You wanna know where I was before all this? I was just drifting around
with Merle. Doing whatever he said we’d be doing that day. Nobody.
Nothing. Some redneck asshole with an even bigger asshole for a
brother.” Daryl confesses. She says that he must miss Merle. She misses Maggie and her big brother. She misses her dad. She hoped he would live the rest of his life in peace, Maggie and Glenn would have a baby, and they would have birthdays, and holidays, and summer picnics. It would be okay. Hershel would die surrounded by people he loved. Daryl says that's how it was supposed to be. She wishes she could just change. She says she didn't change enough, not like Daryl. Daryl says he was born into this kind of crappy world. She says he escaped his old life. She says she will be gone some day and he will be the last man standing. "You are going to miss me so bad when I'm gone Daryl Dixon." You have to save who you are not what you were. Daryl says they should go inside and Beth says they should burn it down. He says they are going to need more booze. They go inside and splash the building with the rest of the moonshine. He gives her the honors of lighting the match. They light some of the money he grabbed and throw it inside. They walk into the woods as the building burns. Beth flips the building off and Daryl does so too. Zombies come from the woods towards the fire. They walk away and Daryl smiles.
Final Thoughts
- I'm glad be finally got to know Beth. I wish they would have written an episode for her like this last season. She finally has a personality and is more than just the girl who takes care of the baby and on occasion sings a song.
- Beth's new role is now of survivor and support system for Daryl. While Daryl can survive in the woods on his own but he needs an emotional support system.
- Daryl's back story is as sad and crappy as I expected.
- Both Daryl and Beth have come into their own since the zombiepocalypse. They've achieved things that they probably would never have achieved if the world hadn't been turned upside down.
- Where will they end up? Will they find Terminus? They left the tracks and we were not shown that they found any sign on the tracks leading to Terminus. Will they go to Washington, DC and find their way to Glenn? I don't think it was a coincidence that they zoomed in on the spoon Beth grabbed. In the comic book the group ends up in DC. Will we now have two groups going to two different locations?
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