You're either the butcher or the cattle.
Flashback of Gareth in a train car with others. A woman can be heard screaming outside. A man tells Gareth that they brought "them" to Terminus. Gareth said they were doing something good (at Terminus).
Rick and the gang preparing for a fight with makeshift weapons. The top of the car is opened and a tear gas canister is dropped in the car. The door opens and the silhouette of a man can be seen. Rick is thrown to the ground and kicked. A blurry vision of a body being sawed. Rick is placed over a metal trough with Daryl and Glenn and some unknown individuals next to him. The man at the end looks at Rick and they recognize each other. Men with knives move around behind them and they kill the person at the end (who was the hippy Sam from Season 4 episode 4). He bleeds out in the trough. They go down the line killing people. Rick has a weapon hidden in his pant leg. Gareth comes in and starts asking the men about their shot counts. They stop right before they reach Glenn. Bob tries to talk and tells Gareth they don't have to do this. He tells them about getting to DC to find a cure.
Gareth responds that they can't go back (the theme of season 4 can you ever go back to the person you were before the apocalypse? The answer is no). He ungags Rick and tells him he saw Rick hide a bag in the woods before they came into Terminus. He wants to know where it is and whats inside. He grabs Bob and puts a knife to his head so Rick will tell him what is in the bag. Rick says if he lets him out he will show him. Rick tells him what was in the bag. Gareth puts the gag back in Rick's mouth and gives the others instructions. Gunshots can be heard. The men go to kill Glenn but an explosion rocks the building.
Carol and Tyreese make their way down the tracks to Terminus. Carol tells Tyreese she will get them their safely but she won't be staying with them. A walker comes out of the woods towards them and Judith starts crying. Tyreese tells Carol he can't kill the walker, not yet. She says he will have to soon. When Carol finishes killing the walker she sees a herd of walkers coming towards them. They run and hide in the woods. Sounds of gunfire distract the walkers away from Tyreese and Carol. They continue down the tracks and Tyreese wonders if the gunfire came from Terminus.
We see a man setting fireworks by a cabin in the woods. He is speaking to someone on a walkie-talkie. He mentions wanting to eat the kid in the hat he also mentioned a chick with a sword. Carol walks up behind him and puts a gun to his head. She lets him know she is friends with the chick with the sword and the kid. The man tells them that Rick's gang attacked them but Carol doesn't believe him. Why? Because Carol is smart. They tie the man up and put him in the cabin. Tyreese asks who else they have. The man lies and says they only have Michonne and Carl. He explains that they use the fireworks to confuse the walkers and that is good for everyone. Carol tells him she doesn't want that because she wants the herd that is headed to Terminus to get there because she is going to need their help. The man asks Tyreese what the baby's name is and if she is his. Tyreese says her name is Judith and she is a friend. The man replies that he doesn't have any friends. He used to have friends but he can't picture his old life anymore. He just got used to having bad stuff happening every day. Tyreese says he hasn't gotten used to it. The man tells Tyreese that saving Judith is like holding on to an anchor when stuck without a boat in the middle of the ocean. He says he can tell that Tyreese has been somewhere safe because he is not used to getting his hands dirty. He says Tyreese is a good guy and that is why he is going to die today and the baby is going to die. Tyreese stands up and gives him an angry papa bear stare. The man says Tyreese could take his car and leave with Judith. He asks Tyreese why he hasn't killed him. He doesn't want to do this today.
Carol covers herself in walker guts and blood (nice call back to season 1). Carol makes her way through the woods to Terminus. She looks through the fence and sees Rick being dragged by two men (this is happening before the opening scene with Rick at the trough). She grabs her gun and looks through the scope. She sees a gas tank and the terminus people running away from the herd headed towards them. She waits for the herd to get closer and then shoots at the gas tank. She shoots a rocket at the tank and it explodes. Now we have fire zombies!
Tyreese looks out the window and sees the smoke coming from Terminus. Tyreese says no one is going to die today. The man says if he believes that than it will be Tyreese and Judith that will end up dead.
Gareth gets up from the explosion and tells the men to stay where they are while he finds out what is going on. The men decide to finish what they started. Rick cuts at his bonds with his makeshift weapon. Carol makes her way into Terminus with the walkers. Rick stabs both of the men with his weapon. He unties Glenn, Daryl, and Bob. The rest of the gang hears the noise from the outside. Eugene tries to rig something to blow open the door. Abraham thinks Rick and the other are dead but Carl and Maggie say that Rick will be back and they have to be ready to fight. Walkers make their way to the train car. Carol walks through Terminus seeing walkers eat the inhabitants. She shoots some of the people from Terminus. The noise from her gun attracts a walker but she hides from it. Rick and the group grab knives from the killing room. They walk past human body parts hanging from hooks. Rick tells them not to hesitate killing anyone from Terminus.
They see through a window that some zombies have surrounded a train car. Screaming can be heard from inside the car. Rick wants to take advantage of the distraction but Glenn wants to free the people inside the car. Glenn says that it's still who they are (people that help, people who still have their humanity) it has to be who they are. The group makes their way to the car and open the door. A man runs out screaming, "We are the same." A walker attacks him. Glenn kills the walker.
Carol walks into a room filled with people's possessions. She grabs a watch (I believe it is the watch Rick gave to Sam in season 4 episode 4). She sees Daryl's crossbow and grabs it. She walks past a table covered in toys. I wish she had grabbed a teddy bear for Judith. Rick goes off on his own and almost gets bitten by a walker but Daryl comes up and kills it. Because Daryl always has Rick's back. Rick kills a man from Terminus that has a gun and then uses that gun to shoot a bunch of people from Terminus. Carol finds the creepy candle room. Mary comes up from behind and points a gun at Carol. Carol turns around and shoots at Mary. Mary drops her gun and the two of them fight. Carol wins and points her gun at Mary. Mary tells her that the signs were real. At one time Terminus was a sanctuary. But people came and over took it and they raped, killed, and laughed. But they took it back. She says they heard the message, "You're the butcher or you're the cattle." Crazy! Carol asks about her friends. She shoots Mary in the knee. Mary tells Carol to point the gun at her head. She (Carol) could have been one of them. She could have listened to what the world was telling them. Carol says that they (the Terminus people) took people's things and killed them. Mary says not at first. They did what they had to and they are still here. Carol says, "Your not here. Neither am I." Then she opens the door and lets the zombies in to eat Mary.
Zombies approach the cabin. The man hops over to Judith and grabs her by the neck. He tells Tyreese to back off and put his weapons on the ground. Tyreese does as he says. Zombies bang on the windows. He tells Tyreese to go outside or he will kill Judith. Tyreese goes outside where the zombies are waiting. The man calls out to a Sydney on the walkie talkie but gets no response. Outside can be heard the sound of Tyreese fighting off the walkers. Then silence. In comes Tyreese. He tackles the man takes his knife and put is to his neck. Tyreese says he won't over and over again as he beats the man. Don't mess with Tyreese. He is now a very angry papa bear fighting to protect his baby.
Back in the train car everyone has their weapons ready. Sasha asks Eugene what is the cure. He tells her it is classified. Sasha insists. Eugene says even if he told them everything the cure would still die with him. Sasha just wants to hear it. He tells them that he was part of a team to fight diseases with diseases. He thinks he knows how to trigger a disease to kill everyone on the planet and that by tweaking that formula he can kill every walker. Fight fire with fire. He says that makes him bad ass. Rick opens the door and tells them to fight to the finish. They jump out and kill zombies as they make their way out of Terminus. I like how Michonne and Carl fight together. Rick shoots at Gareth and some other from Terminus. It looks like Gareth was shot in the shoulder. Rick and the gang escape Terminus. They find the bag that Rick buried. Rick wants to go back to Terminus and kill the rest of its residents. "They don't get to live." he says. Glenn says it's over but Rick says it's not over until they are all dead. No one else wants to go back. Carol comes up from the woods. Daryl sees her and runs to her. They hug. Best. Moment. Ever. The rest of the original gang walks up to her. Rick asks if she did that (the explosion at Terminus) and hugs her. She tells them they have to go with her. Tyreese and Judith walk out of the cabin as the gang gets there. Rick and Carl run to Judith. Second best moment. Sasha and Tyreese hug. Carol asks what happened and tells her about the man and killing the walkers. He did what he had to do. It's okay. The group make their way down the tracks. Rick stops at a sign for Terminus and writes in mud no sanctuary.
Flashback to the beginning with Gareth in the car. Mary is tossed in and another woman is taken to be raped. Gareth tells Mary they are going to take it back. "You are either the butcher or the cattle."
We see someone in a helmet walk to that sign. The person takes off their mask and it is Morgan! He walks into the woods and sees trees with something carved on them and he follows the marked trees.
Final Thoughts
- Carol totally rocked this episode. I am so glad she is back.
- I loved Judith's little cardigan I like that even in the zombiepocalypse you can still find cute baby clothes.
- According to Scott Gimple the man being sawed at the beginning of the episode is Gareth's brother. And Mary is Gareth's mother.
- Basically Gareth and his group became cannibals because they trusted the wrong people and their women were raped.
- The crazy man that Rick frees from the train car was one of the men that was raping the people in Terminus at the beginning of the episode.
- I'm excited to see what is going to happen with Morgan. He is a character that has only been in two episodes but has left an indelible mark on the show.
- What are the marks on the trees that Morgan is following? Who put them there? Why is Morgan following the path marked by those trees?
- I like what EW writer Kyle Ryan had to say about Tyreese and baby Judith: "Tiger Fan called her an anchor, and he’s right, but not in the way he meant: The baby links Tyreese to his pre-apocalypse self, a guy who didn't have to do horrible things to survive every day. At the moment, when he doesn’t know if his sister is alive, all he has is this little girl and his duty to her."
- Here is what Scott Gimple had to say about Terminus and its effect on this season: "I knew the story of Terminus and what happened there as our characters last year were on their way there. And I went back and forth with actually telling that story, but ultimately the story of Terminus, which I believe we’re able to do fairly economically in this episode, could very well be an echo of what happens moving forward to Rick and his crew. That there’s something about this world that if still alive, you’ve got to have some sort of story. It isn’t like nothing happened to you. If you’re still alive, some amazing things happened to you. Everybody walking around the planet on The Walking Dead in that timeline has an amazing story. And, to that end, they’re kind of like walking ghosts of Christmas Future and ghosts of Christmas Past to our characters. And I think the story of Terminus works that way with our characters this upcoming season." (www.ew.com)
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