The Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 3 "Thank You"

Don't worry about what's gone wrong. Figure out how to make it right.

The horn blares. Glenn runs through the woods. He tells Rick to try again. Rick calls to Tobin over the walkie but he can't get through. Daryl asks what is happening. Rick tells him about the horn. Daryl wants to turn around and go back to help but Rick wants him to stick to the plan and keep the herd going or it will make things worse. Nicholas stops running as he hears a high pitched whining sound. Glenn calls him to attention. A woman, Annie, falls and injures her ankle. Glenn helps her up and supports her. Some dude blames Rick. Says Rick brought them out there to die. Michonne tells him to shut up and move. Rick says the new plan is for Rick to get to the RV so he can lead the zombies away. The rest of the group goes back home to help. Glenn tries to go with Rick. Rick tells them the others need Glenn because they all won't make it. Heath overhears this. Complaining dude gets bitten by a zombie. Michonne kills him. The group stares on. The horn stops. Rick takes the dude's weapons and takes off.

Glenn mentions that they are maybe 10 to 20 minutes ahead of the herd (remember that they can run while the zombies just walk slowly). Michonne says they will all get back home. Heath replies, "So if we don't that's it, huh?" Don't be an ass Heath. Sturgess starts to freak out that there might not be an Alexandria to return to. Dave tells him they have walls for a reason. His wife is back there. Glenn says his wife is too. "Don't worry about what's gone wrong. Figure out how to make it right." They hears zombies ahead. Glenn, Michonne, and Heath go ahead and start killing them. Scott and Dave go to kill some other approaching zombies. Sturgess fumbles with his gun and accidentally shoots Scott in the leg which causes him to fall down and a zombie to attack him. Nicholas and Annie shoot at some more approaching zombies. Sturgess runs off and leaves the group behind. Dave and Heath kill the two zombies attacking Scott. A zombie comes up behind Dave and bites him on his back. He says, "I know what it means. We gotta keep moving, right?"

Daryl asks if they have gone five miles yet. Daryl wants to turn around.  But Abraham and Sasha say they have to go 15 more miles. He is free to go but the zombies could stop Abraham and Sasha. Daryl sees a sign for Alexandria and looks like he is about to cry.  He tells them, "I have faith in you." and drives off.

The group makes it to the road. Dave fumbles with his shirt. Michonne asks if she can look.  It doesn't look good. She asks him how long he has been married. Three months. They met when Aaron found him. He tells her how he was alone, "I just  gave up on being someone, an actual person. You know what I mean?"  Michonne definitely understands. They found his wife, Betsy, on the way back to Alexandria. She still saw him after he thought he was dead and gone. She was his first friend. She made him more, better than how he used to be. He wants to make it back to Alexandria to tell his wife, "Finding her in all this, that was everything." He wants to make it back to say goodbye. Annie wants to bandage up Scott's leg but he wants to go on. Glenn says they will stop when they find a place.

They walk into the main street of a town. Michonne tells everyone to look for a car they can use to get back home. Glenn tells her, "I need to get home but I can't leave these people behind." Michonne says they must he a half hour ahead of the herd. They can make it. Glenn nods but doesn't quite seem to believe her. Heath asks Nicholas if this is the place where Aiden's crew died. Nicholas says the crew wasn't afraid but Aiden and Nicholas were. Since Nicholas was here last he will lead them home. Glenn and Heath go help the injured people walk. They stumble upon a group of zombies eating Sturgess. The zombies are starting to surround them. Nicholas hears that high-pitched noise and freezes but Glenn gets him to focus. They hide inside a pet store. Michonne and Heath discuss the situation. She says they have to lead the zombies away she is not giving up. Glenn says they need to distract the zombies so they won't go to Alexandria. He suggests they burn one or more of the buildings. Michonne volunteers to do it. Glenn says he will to it. She is the one who will be able to get everybody back."We all have a job to do." Isn't that what Hershel used to say? Nicholas says he should burn the feed store. He volunteers to go with Glenn. Glenn looks uncertain so he offers to draw a map. Glenn says he can come with him. Glenn takes a moment to himself. He pulls out Hershel's pocket watch.

Rick runs down the street and finds a group of zombies eating someone. We hear Glenn over the walking updating Rick on their location and his plan to distract the zombies. Rick kills the zombies. If Rick doesn't see smoke than the zombies are still headed his way. He ends the by saying, "Good luck, dumbass." I nice little call back to the pilot. It appears that Rick might have injured his hand. He pulls weapons found on the dead body and keeps running.

Michonne wraps Scott's leg. Heath is going to find a crutch for Annie. She tells them to leave her. She is slowing them down. Scott says they should leave both of them. He says they will eventually do it. He orders them to run. Heath says they don't leave people behind. "Not us." says Heath as he looks at Michonne. Michonne says, "No one is leaving anyone behind." Michonne confronts Heath. He says he is looking out for his people. He tells her he heard what Rick said how they would not all make it and they should leave the Alexandrians behind. She points out how Glenn is out there trying to save their lives. She explains that Rick said what he said because sometimes you don't have a choice. She tells Heath he has never had to do it any other way.  He has not been through the apocalypse the same way Rick has. Rick and Michonne were out there. They know what it is like and he doesn't. If he doesn't learn from them he will die. Heath says he has been on runs since the beginning. She asks if he has ever had to kill people because they were going to kill your friends and come after you next. "Have you ever done things that have made you feel afraid of yourself afterwards? . . . Then you don't know." She drops the mic.

Glenn and Nicholas make their way to the building. They find a zombie trapped under a car. Glenn goes to kill it but Nicholas stops him.  Nicholas should do it. The zombie was one of the men from his crew that he and Aiden abandoned. Glenn tells him he is not that guy anymore. Nicholas kills the zombie. They hear gunshots. They sound like they are coming from home. Heath and the others also hear the gunshots. Zombies start walking towards the sound of the gunfire. As soon as the zombies clear they will head towards the feed store where Glenn is, until then they sit tight. Rick runs and looks at his injured hand. He make sit to the RV. He drives with one hand. Dave writes a note and hands it to Michonne. It is for his wife. It reads, "Betsy my love, if you are reading this it's because I didn't make it." She writes on her are "You're getting home." She gives him back the note. They hear a banging in the back of the store. Michonne makes her way there; it is a zombie. She kills it. Some of the zombies heard the noise and head towards the store. Heath says they can't wait. Zombies pound on the door. Michonne looks out the window and sees the herd. "They are coming."

The group open the doors and kill the few zombies there. They run out but the herd is on their heels. Annie falls. Michonne turns to go back but she tells them to run. The zombies eat her alive. They keep running and the zombies follow. Nicholas and Glenn come to find the feed store has already burned down. They turn around and see the herd headed their way. Glenn asks Nicholas which way should they go and Nicholas panics for a moment before he decides on the direction they should go. Michonne tells Heath to go over the fence first he tries to argue but she gets him over. Then Scott goes over. She and Dave struggle to get over it as zombies grab their legs. Nicholas and Glenn are trapped in an alley. They start to shoot the zombies. When they run out of bullets they start to stab them. Heath shoots at the zombies but Dave falls and gets grabbed by the zombies. Michonne makes it over. The zombies eat Dave alive. His note to Betsy gets trampled under the zombies' feet. They watch him get eaten until Heath gets them to move again. Glenn and Nicholas climb on top of a dumpster but they are surrounded. Zombies grab at their legs. Nicholas hears that high pitched sound again. He looks out at the hoards of zombies and cries. Glenn tries to get his attention. Nicholas turns to Glenn, says "Thank You" and then shoots himself in the head. The fall of his body pushes Glenn to the ground and the zombies pull out intestines and start eating them. NOOOOOO! Not Glenn!!! Please don't let it be Glenn!!!

Alive or Dead?

Michonne, Heath, and Scott walk through the woods. Scott falls to the ground. They pick him up. They come to a creek. Michonne looks at the sky. No smoke. Heath tells her that doesn't mean they didn't make it. She looks down at her arm where she wrote the note for Dave. She rubs the note off. As they cross the creek Heath stops and looks down at his reflection.

Rick stops the RV. He calls to Glenn to let him know he is at his location and asks if Glenn made it back home. No answer. Then he calls to Tobin. No answer. He calls Daryl. Daryl answers he is there. Rick hears gunfire coming from home. He says those back home can handle it, they have to handle it. They can't be afraid. This is for them. Going back now would be for us. The heard is almost to his location. Daryl drives alone. Out of nowhere one of the wolves busts into the RV and shoots at Rick just as he was going to say something on the walkie. Daryl hears it and calls to Rick. Now there are two wolves attacking Rick. Daryl stops and calls to Rick again. Rick fights off the wolves and shoots both of them. Daryl rides at full speed. Rick looks in the pocket of one of the wolves and pulls out a jar of baby food. He knows they came from Alexandria. He sees some more wolves coming towards him in the side view mirror. He grabs a gun and shoots the side of the RV and kills all of the wolves. Daryl drives on. Heath, Michonne, and Scott make it back to Alexandria. Sasha and Abraham are still in the car leading the herd. Daryl joins them on the road. The zombies follow them. Rick tries to start the car. The car won't start and he starts to look desperate. Even scared. Zombies start to gather around the RV.

So Many Thoughts
- I believe that Glenn is dead. On "The Talking Dead" Chris Hardwick read a note from the producers where they stated that Glenn would still be a part of the show in some capacity. I translate that to mean we will see him flashbacks, dreams, or even ghost Glenn (which I hope doesn't happen since we already had to deal with ghost Lori). Having said that, Nicholas did fall on top of Glenn. So those could be Nicholas's organs that we saw the zombies eating. They were pulling out intestines from an awfully high part of the chest. Although, that could just be the camera angle used to shoot that scene. Even if it is Nicolas that is being eaten that still leaves Glenn in a precarious situation. Please don't let Glenn be dead.
- This is the message from the producers that Chris Hardwick read: “Dear fans of The Walking Dead, this is a hard story to tell and when we were planning to tell we knew our friends at the Talking Dead would be talking to you about it and knowing you’d all be talking, and feeling and commiserating, I knew we should say something about it lest our silence say something we didn’t mean to say or not say. So I’ll say this: In some way, we will see Glenn, some version of Glenn or parts of Glenn again, either in flashback or in the current story to help complete the story.”
- I knew that Nicholas would somehow be responsible for something bad happening to Glenn. Glenn likes to give people the benefit of the doubt. It worked well with Tara but not so much with Nicholas. Nicholas already showed himself to be selfish. He puts himself before others. He is the antithesis of Glenn. Glenn always helps. He won't leave anyone behind even if that means he puts his own life at risk.
- On "The Talking Dead" Ivette Nicole Brown mentioned that when the group first entered Father Gabriel's church Glenn looks at a scripture that describes the kind of person that he is. I agree with her. That scripture is Galatians 6: 9 "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."
- I've loved Glenn as a character since the beginning. He is smart without being cocky and he cares. He has been the moral compass for the show since the beginning. That is part of the reason he was part of the council they had back at the prison when crazy Rick stopped being the leader.
- I also should have seen that they were going to kill Glenn when Glenn called Rick a dumbass. That was our first introduction to Glenn. There he was saving the show's hero (in the pilot at least).
- The show used Dave to parallel what was going to happen to Glenn. I should have been more suspicious when Glenn mentioned his wife at the beginning of the episode.
- Another hint that death was coming for Glenn. He pulled out Hershel's pocket watch before he left with Nicolas the harbinger of death.
- While I am glad Daryl rejoined Abraham and Sasha I understand why he left. He is a fighter and protector of the group and I don't think he liked sitting back hearing the danger his family was encountering.
- Will they save Glenn but kill Rick? The zombies are approaching and he is by himself with only one good hand. Then again, Rick is the man who lived/survived. In that sense he is like Harry Potter, the boy who lived. Would they really kill Rick?
- Will Rick lose his hand?
- SPOILER ALERT: In the comics Rick loses his hand when he meets the Governor. Could this be a way for the show to bring that aspect of the comic into the series? Also, Glenn does die in the comics after their arrival to Alexandria. That knowledge has made me nervous about Glenn's fate since the characters in the show arrived in Alexandria. That is why I believe him to be dead.
- Is Enid a wolf? This theory was posed by Ivette Nicole Brown. She seemed to believe that Enid was about to confess that to Carl in last week's episode. Did Enid let the wolves in? She does after all have keys to every house. Side Note: How did she get a copy of every house key in Alexandria with no one noticing? I am not sold on this theory but time will tell.

Greg Nicotero as a zombie

The Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 2 "JSS"

Just Survive Somehow

Enid stands half out of a car while her parents look for a fuse so they can start their car.  Zombies approach the car.  In the next scene we see Enid alone in the car covered with blood.  She looks out the window and we see a zombie eating her parents.  She walks by herself in the rain.  We hear zombie growls as she hides behind a sign.  She writes on the ground "JSS" with her finger.  Enid finds an abandoned car on the side of the road.  She tries to pull the dead body away and it wakes up.  We see her in the car as we hear a storm rolling in.  She writes "JSS" on the window of the car. As she walks down the road she comes upon a large tortoise.  In the next scene we see her eating the raw tortoise.  At this moment she looks like a zombie.  She uses the tortoise bones to write "JSS."  We see her approach the burnt house outside the walls of Alexandria. She slowly makes her way to the gate. You can hear people on the other side of the wall.  Her back is to Alexandria and she writes on her hand "JSS." The gate opens and she walks in.

Carol is grabbing food from the pantry.  Talking about cooking with some of the other women.  Shelly complains about not having a pasta machine and Carol offers to teach her to make pasta herself.  But only if she quits smoking because it is a dirty habit that will kill you and there enough things trying to kill you already. The other women suppress smiles and agree with her.  Carol finds Jessie's youngest son Sam sitting on her porch steps.  "You're dad used to beat you and he got himself killed.  It happened and now it's done. You live with it or it eats you up."

Jessie looks at her hair cutting scissors.  She calls for Ron. He refuses to get a haircut. He says this is her way to get him to talk to her. She asks if he blames her. She asks him to raise his left arm above his head but he can't.  His father is to blame. His father was dangerous.  He counters with "Rick is dangerous." He then asks if Rick is her friend and she says yes.  He stalks off.

Maggie talks to Deanna about planting crops. She gives Deanna a packet of seeds they found.  She says they need to finish the expansion and put the wall up.  Just like Reg wanted. "Everyone that's here is here because of you.  You need to show them that you're still here." She hands Deanna a shovel.

Eugene and Tara walk into the hospital. Eugene is complaining about supplies being used to build a  church. Tara suggests they share the building and use it for different things during the week.  We are introduced to the new doctor Denise (now that Pete is dead). She is a psychiatrist, she was going to be a surgeon but had panic attacks so she changed to psychiatry.  She is really nervous. Eugene asks her if she can do this and Tara says that Denise can do it. Pete didn't want Denise here. She asks Tara why she wants aspirin. Tara got dizzy and Denise tells her that she will check her out.

Carl pushes Judith in a stroller down the street.  He sees Enid and Ron sitting on the grass. Father Gabriel calls out to him and Carl rudely replies "What?" Gabriel tells Carl that what he said to Deanna about the group was about him and not the group.  He is ready to learn now.  Carl says Gabriel needs to tell everybody. Carl tells him to come by his house at three; he will start teaching Gabriel how to use a machete. Ron hugs Enid.  She sees Carl and they make eye contact but he continues down the street.

Carol is cooking in her nice kitchen. She looks out the window and sees Shelly smoking. A crazy guy with a machete comes up and attacks Shelly.

Deanna calls out to a man named Richard asking him what is going on. A molotov cocktail hits him and he falls from the fence.  Maggie runs with her gun ready. Carl comes down the stairs with a gun and Carol tells him to stay behind to protect Judith.  Crazy people are running all over the streets of Alexandria killing people. Jessie tries to leave her Sam to look for Ron but he won't let go of her hand.  They hear someone come into their house so they hide in a closet they can lock from the inside.

Carl walks slowly through his house. He hears the door open and is ready to shoot when Enid comes in. She has keys to all of the houses in Alexandria. She came to say goodbye.  He tells her she is staying. She is going to help him protect Judith. They sit back to back on the floor. He asks if she saw the attackers.  She says, "They are just people." She says this place is too big to protect, too many blind spots. Carl says those people are all going to die. He tells her, "Don't tell me goodbye." She says she won't.

The killing continues. Carol is outside. She sees one of the Alexandrians chained up being led by another man.  One of the crazy's stabs a man and uses the man's blood to write a W on his forehead. The wolves are here. Carol kills one of the men attacking one of the women she was chatting with earlier.  Carol holds her in her arms covering her mouth so she won't scream.  The woman dies in her arms. Spencer is up in the tower shooting at the intruders but he isn't doing a very good job.  He looks out another window and sees a giant truck coming towards him.  It runs into the wall outside the tower and the horn blares. The same horn that attracted the zombies at the end of the last episode.

The horn blares and the camera shows us all of the destruction. Spencer is stuck inside the tower. Aaron and Rosita bring in an injured woman to Denise. Rosita, and Aaron leave to help. Spencer gets out and opens the truck to find a zombie inside. He hesitates killing it when Morgan opens the other door and kills it and turns off the horn. Morgan asks what happened. Spencer explains. Morgan asks if he is coming. Spencer says nothing. Morgan tells him to hide. Morgan comes inside and faces off with a man with an ax. The mans says "Quick or slow." Morgan asks him to leave. The  man says gonna be slow. A masked individual kills the man.  It is Carol. She uses the man's blood to write a W on her forehead.  She tells Morgan they need to get to the armory. He says they don't have to kill people. She says they do. She is going to get to the armory and they need help. Deanna and Maggie run into Spencer. Deanna says she can't go in she in unarmed and untrained so she will be a liability. Maggie tells Spencer to keep her safe and runs towards the gate. Deanna hides in the truck that hit the tower. She closes her eyes and listens to the screams.

The woman brought into the hospital is dying. Denise says her femoral artery must have been severed. Tara tells her to try and help the woman. The woman was injured because she was protecting them "That's why we're here, for each other. You're afraid? I don't care, help her." Eugene tells her she doesn't want to be a coward. Denise decides to operate. Ron is outside hiding by a tree when he gets chased by one of the wolves. The wolf falls to the ground when Carl shoots him in the leg. The wolf begs for his life and fights Carl for the gun. Carl shoots the man. He tells Ron to go inside.  He will keep Ron safe.  Ron says no and runs off. Enid calls Carl back inside. Jessie and Sam hide in the closet. They hear Ron calling for them. Jessie leaves the closet and tells her son to lock it.  She goes downstairs with her gun. She is attacked from behind by a woman. They fight and Jessie falls to the ground. She gets up and grabs her scissors. She stabs the woman repeatedly with them. Ron comes in and sees her.

Carol has Morgan chained up.  The wolves walk past her calling her Aphid because they think she is one of them.  She shoots several intruders as she goes towards the armory. Morgan helps Father Gabriel fight off his attacker. Carol makes it to the armory and shoots two people. One gets away. The other she stabs dead. She hears someone in a closet and finds Olivia hiding. Carol grabs a bag and loads it with weapons. She shows Olivia how to use a gun. She has Olivia stay in the armory with orders to shoot anyone who comes in.  Morgan ties up the man who attacked Gabriel. The  man says "You are trapped. People don't belong here anymore." Carol shoots the man. She hands Gabriel and Morgan a gun each.  Then she runs into Maggie. Rosita and Aaron make there way along the house and shoot two intruders. Carol kills another intruder Morgan walks down the street to the sound of gunfire. He encounters another man who seems to recognize him.  He is surrounded by five wolves. He tells them to leave. His people have guns and they don't. He beats the intruders. He tells them they will get shot if they don't leave.  "You keep choosing this life you will die." The man responds we didn't choose and runs away with the others. He steals a gun from one of the dead bodies. Morgan chases after them. He closes the gate.

Carol stands over Shelly's body. She looks down at the pack of cigarettes. We then see Carol sitting on her porch holding the cigarettes. She wipes the W off her forehead. She sees the letter A written on a post by the stairs.  She cries. Aaron walks down the street checking that all of the bodies are dead. He stabs one in the head. He finds his backpack under one of the bodies and sees the photographs of Alexandria he had shown Rick last season. This is the backpack that he left behind when he and Daryl where trapped in the car when Morgan rescued them from the trap set up by the wolves. He knows the attack is partly his fault. He shakes.

Denise keeps trying to revive Holly by doing CPR but it is too late. She didn't survive. Tara tries to comfort her. She days Denise tried. She is a doctor. Denise tells everyone to go. Maggie, Spencer, Deanna, and Rosita walk back to Alexandria. Spencer asks Rosita if what happened today is how the world is outside of Alexandria. How did they survive knowing the world was like this? Rosita says, "This group, Abraham, this place. Make sure you have something to die for." Maggie stabs a zombie in the head. She tells Deanna that they are all still here. Deanna says "Not all of us." Carl looks out the window at the  man he killed. He calls out for Enid but she doesn't respond. He finds a note that says "just survive somehow" (the JSS she was writing at the beginning of the episode). The timer in the kitchen goes off. Carl takes out the dish from the oven that Carol was cooking earlier.

Morgan walks down the street and kills a zombie that looks like a resident from Alexandria. He goes inside a house that has the door wide open. He cautiously makes his way through the house. A man is waiting inside. The man attacks him. It is the same wolf he met in the woods last season who stole all of his stuff. They fight. The man says "You can't can you?  You should've." Morgan beats him and hits him over the head as he says "I'm sorry." Morgan walks down the street and runs into Carol. They walk past each other as Alexandria still burns form the attack.

Final Thoughts
-Did Morgan kill the man at the end of the episode?
-Does he know the wolves from more than just the encounter in the woods? 
- Did we know Enid's parents were dead? I just assumed from last season that she was there with her parents.
- On "The Talking Dead" the actress who plays Enid assumes that Enid was alone for a few weeks. We don't have a real time line though for how long she was alone.
- I thought it was interesting to see the juxtaposition of Enid eating the tortoise she killed and the zombie that ate her parents. The actress said the director did that on purpose. She was supposed to look like a zombie.
- Will everybody blame Aaron for the attack since he left his backpack behind for the wolves to find? Will he tell anyone about the backpack?
-How did Morgan get there so fast?
-The entire attack on Alexandria took 45 minutes. It begins the minute Carol sets her timer for 45 minutes and ends when the timer goes off and Carl takes the casserole out of the oven. It also played out to 45 in real time for the viewers.
- I guess Carol can no longer pretend she is just a homemaker with no skills.
- Eugene was able to admit that he was coward and that it feels bad to be a coward but he still didn't leave with Aaron and Rosita to help. I'm hoping he will continue to look for courage. He did save Tara's life but he needs some training.
-I found it interesting that Enid refers to the wolves as just people but one of the wolves tells Morgan that people don't belong here anymore. By here I think he means the world. There are only wolves and zombies. No people.

The Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 1 "First Time Again"

This is an insane world.

We start with the final shot from last season where Rick shoots Pete.  The image changes from color to black and white.  We hear Rick speaking over a black screen.  "We have to come for them before they come for us." He is standing by a quarry giving instructions to the people of Alexandria about what they are going to do with the zombie filled quarry.  All of a sudden a big rig crumbles into the quarry and they have no time to practice.  They have to do this now.  Carter says they are not ready. Rick tells him it is happening now and starts giving assignments to people.  Glenn volunteers for a task and Nicolas volunteers to go with him.  At first Glenn says no but then agrees to let him come only if Nicolas does everything Glenn instructs him to do.  Zombies start to push through some trucks and everyone moves to their assigned posts.  This includes sending up flares.  Daryl starts killing zombies as they head towards him.  There must be thousands of zombies in the quarry.

Black and White Scenes: Flashback
Deanna sitting on the floor covered in Reg's blood. Gabriel walks toward her and she tells him he was wrong. He nods in agreement. Abraham carries Reg's body to the graveyard. He pours some booze on the ground in commemoration. Jessie in her home holding her youngest son while he teenage son storms out.  Tara is awake and talking to Rosita.  Glenn and Nicholas come in; both are injured. Glenn is happy to see Tara is okay.  Maggie walks in and checks on Glenn.  Glenn lies about what happened.  He says walkers attacked him and Nicolas instead of Nicolas attacking Glenn.  Eugene walks in and sees that Tara is okay.  Tara says she is glad nothing happened to his hair.  She makes a joke that Eugene is freaking her out and that they should send for Noah to protect her.  Everyone looks up at her and it is very obvious from their expressions that Noah is dead. Carl climbs up to the gazebo where Enid sits. She places her hand on his.  Someone is watching them but I couldn't tell who.  The map that Abraham left for Rick which Morgan used to find them sits on a table. Rick picks it up with his blood covered hand. Morgan tells Rick, "You were right.  It wasn't over." Rick tells him, "I don't take chances anymore." Abraham places a ring on top of the bottle of booze. He gives the peace sign to Sasha who signals back and walks off.

Daryl and Rick discuss finding Morgan and the trucks filled with zombies with Ws on their foreheads. Rick says he is going to tell Deanna they don't need to look for more people to join them in Alexandria. Daryl looks unhappy. Rick asks if Daryl feels differently about the situation and he does. Rick says, "People out there got to take care of themselves.  Just like us."

Rick opens a door to an room where they are holding Morgan (I believe this is the same room where Rick was held after he waved his gun around Alexandria).  We find Morgan inside practicing moves with his stick.  Rick asks him where he learned those moves.  A friend.  After everything. Morgan is fine with being locked up.  They have to get to know each other again.

Eugene stands at the gate when something named Heath asks to be let in.  He and his crew have been on a run for a couple of weeks. Heath threatens to beat him up if he won't let them in so Eugene relents. Two more people in a car come in with Heath. The two new people are Scott and Annie. They ask how many are in Eugene's group.  He says 13 but then corrects himself and says 12. Heath asks if anything happened while they were gone. Eugene tells them they had a meeting and that Heath should speak to Deanna directly. Eugene tells Heath it's nice to meet someone like him who fully respects the hair game.

Rick tells Morgan how Reg planned and put up the wall. How the people of Alexandria just lived.  They didn't need to survive. Rick sees Gabriel walking by and follows him.  He find Gabriel digging two graves. Rick says they will not bury a killer inside the walls. Deanna tells them Rick is right. They will not bury Pete there.  "Let the trees have him." Rick and Morgan pick up Reg's body and put it in the trunk of a car. Rick explains to Morgan that he shot Pete because Pete killed Reg.  He didn't have a choice. Morgan says they have a cell. Rick says the cell is not for killers. Morgan replies, "I'm a killer, Rick.  I am and you are too."

Ron follows Rick and Morgan into the woods. Rick stops Morgan and says they should just leave the body there. Morgan responds, "That's not who you are. I know." Rick tells him he doesn't know him. Morgan starts digging with a shovel. Zombies can be heard nearby. Rick hears them and tells Morgan to stop and listen. They walk towards the sound and discover a quarry filled with zombies. Ron is being chased by zombies through the wood. He runs to the edge of the quarry and a couple of zombies fall over the edge. Rick and Morgan kill the rest. Rick and Morgan look down at the quarry. Ron tells them he wanted to know where his dad was buried. Rick says this is how Alexandria escaped with so few zombies.  Most of the walkers ended up in the quarry barricaded by a couple of big rigs. A small opening allows a zombie to get through every once in a while. Rick tells Ron he shouldn't be out there. He doesn't know how to protect himself. Rick will show him how. So he is going back with them. They make their way back through the woods. Rick stops and picks up a shovel and starts digging a grave for Pete. Morgan joins him.

Group meeting at Alexandria.  Heath explains that when it all started there was a camp down at the bottom of the quarry with maybe a dozen people.  Those people blocked off the quarry with the trucks. When he found them they were all zombies. No one has been back there since. Michonne points out that the zombie sounds attracts more zombies. That has been going on for the last few years which is why there are now thousands of zombies in the quarry. Rick explains they have to deal with the situation now because the truck is about to give and all of those zombies will head towards them.  Carol says the situation is terrifying. I  love that she is still playing quiet homemaker. Carter disagrees. He wants to strengthen the weak spots along the wall instead of doing Rick's plan. Rick says the zombie sounds keeps attracting more walkers every day. Deanna declares they will do Rick's plan. Rick explains the plan. Daryl will lead the zombies away. Sasha volunteers to go in a car alongside him. Abraham says he will go with Sasha. Rick explains the rest of the plan. Rosita, Spencer, and Holly will stay behind to be on watch. Maggie doesn't want Glenn to volunteer for this outing but he says it is important to do this for Deanna. People are scared and they need her to come back from everything that's happened. Maggie relents and Glenn volunteers. Father Gabriel tries to volunteer but Rick shuts him down.

Carter speaks up again and says there has to be another way. Does Rick really expect them to fall in line with his plan after he waved his gun at people and shot Pete in the face? Deanna cuts him off. Heath and others begin to volunteer. Nicholas looks like he wants to volunteer but Glenn shakes his head no. Nicolas says they have to do this; he needs to help. Rick asks if he can handle it and Nicolas says they need people. Rick says they will do this and it will keep them safe. Carter tells Rick to go over the plan again. Daryl says that Rick just went through it. Carter wants to go through every part of the plan again.

Rick points at a map showing how they are going to lead the zombies away from the quarry and Alexandria.  They will follow the wall and keep them on their path by blocking the road with cars. Carter is still skeptical about the plan. What happens when a few slip away? Eugene says they will use extra sheets of metal to fortify the wall so the zombies will bounce off of it like billiard balls. Carter replies, "That's an army out there. What happens when this doesn't hold?"  It will lead the zombies back to them.  Rick says they need Carter to help them make the wall hold. Morgan points out that he already did the impossible when he built the walls.

Everyone is working outside digging holes and filling bags with dirt.  Daryl comes up to Rick and tells him, "What you said before about us needing to take care of ourselves.  Going out and finding more people, that is taking care of ourselves.Your call though." Carol gives Rick a glass of water and continues to play her role. He asks her to stay back and get a feel for how the people are feeling. Her response, "We'll get there.  She's in charge but you're in charge now."

Maggie tells Tara that Nicolas got Noah killed and then lured Glenn into the woods and tried to kill him. Maggie says that Glenn gave her permission to tell everyone. That could get Nicolas exiled, but Nicolas wouldn't survive long. "Glenn saves people.  Even people like that." At first Maggie couldn't accept Glenn's decision but then she thought about Tara.  On the worst day of her life Tara was on the other side of the fence and now Tara is one of the most important people in her life. Tara says she will follow Maggie's lead. They hug.  Glenn looks over at them and smiles.

Carol offers Morgan something to drink. He asks her how long she has been with Rick and if she also was a police officer. She asks him why he would think she was a police officer and he says that he noticed how she is always watching and seems ready to handle things. Nothing gets by Morgan.

Rick tells Deanna he is sorry about Reg.  He says it was the right call to do his plan. She asks what else do they need? He tells her everyone needs to be armed and trained. He hears zombies approaching and tells Carter and some of the Alexandrians to hill the zombies using their shovels.  When the Alexandrians fail to do so he lets his people do the killing. Morgan says to Rick, "You said you don't take chances anymore."

Eugene is in the gun room.  He over hears Carter talking to Spencer and a few other people.  Carter says, "We have to stop him." Him being Rick. It doesn't matter that Rick killed a wife-beater. What Gabriel said about Rick's group was right. They are dangerous.  He is done talking.  "It's simple. We kill him before he kills us."  Eugene drops something then falls and attracts their attention. Carter holds a gun in his hand and keeps saying "He heard." He points the gun at Eugene just as Rick walks in. Carter tells Rick he is taking this place back from Rick.  Rick asks if that is what they were talking about and Spencer says that is what Carter was talking about. Rick tells Carter the smart thing to do would have been to set up some lookouts.  Then he grabs the gun from Carter and puts it against his head.  "Do you really think you were going to take this community from us? From Glenn? From Michonne? From Daryl? From me? Do you have any idea who you are talking to?" Carter says it was just him.  Just kill him. Daryl says, "Rick".  Rick says he is good and gives the to Daryl.  He tells Carter he should try to work with them and survive.

Morgan sits on Rick's porch cleaning his stick.  Rick gives him a key to the house and tells him to stay with them.  Morgan doesn't need to stay in the cell anymore.  He knows Morgan even if this is the first time.  He asks Morgan if he wants to hold Judith.  He says okay. Baby Judith bringing people together. Morgan tells Rick he is still the same man.  He didn't kill Carter, he told Morgan it wasn't over back in the episode "Clear." Rick confesses he wanted to kill Carter so he wouldn't have to worry about him.  Carter should never have survived the apocalypse.  Then he realized he didn't have to kill him. Carter doesn't get it. "Somebody like that, they're going to die no matter what."

Rick finds Jessie in the armory.  He went to get flares. He tells her he thought it would be best if he let things be for a while.  Ron told her what happened.  She tells him he can't talk to her son like that or touch him. She says, " If it's coming from you he can't hear it." He tells her they need to know how to protect themselves. She shows him her gun.  When she found out they could carry weapons she asked Rosita to show her how to use it. Jessie is then going to teach her own sons. She is going to fight. 


Rick is explaining the plan to everyone out on the road. Abraham asks Sasha if she volunteered because she wants to die?  She says no. They are at a shop where zombies inside are banging on the windows. Glenn tells Nicolas "What you've done.  You're going to sit with it awhile. Cause I don't want you out here tomorrow.  You're not ready.  You will be. Some time soon I'll make sure of it. And then you start to make it right." Nicolas thanks him.

Rick at the quarry talking to everyone: "I know this sounds insane but this is an insane world.  We have to come for them before they come for us."

Color Scenes: Present

Everyone is running to get to their assigned posts.  Daryl is leading the zombies out and Abraham and Sasha are following him in a car. People shoot flares every once in a while. Glenn has to get to his assigne location before everyone else. We see Daryl slowly riding his bike down the road.

Abraham and Sasha drive in the car.  He asks her is she is okay and she says yes. She tells him, "Doing something as big as this, that's living." They arrive to a spot marked with red balloons.

Rick uses a walkie to ask Glenn if he has arrived at his destination. Glenn says he has and that they will meet them at the yellow. Rick, Morgan, and Michonne stand at a part of the wall that has a car and an RV acting as a barricade.  Yellow balloons are attached to the top of the RV. Rick tells them it will hold (meaning the wall.) Morgan asks Michonne if she stole his last peanut butter protein bar when they last met. Her response, "That's how it always is. You always think there's one more peanut butter left."

Glenn calls Rick over the walkie that he is in position.  They have arrived at some building that is filled with zombies. They need it to be quiet so the plan is to take out the zombies a few at a time. Glenn puts Nicolas at the door.  His job is to let one or two out at a time while Glenn and Heath kill the zombies. That is how they will control the situation. Heath doesn't like the plan. Nicolas tells Heath that Glenn knows what he is doing. "Me and Aiden didn't." Heath responds that this was supposed to be a dress rehearsal. "And I was supposed to be delivering pizzas." is Glenn's awesome response. The whole reason they are there is to kill those zombies so it is quiet when Daryl leads the herd that way.  They need the herd to follow Daryl and not wander off because they heard a noise. Nicolas opens the door and they find a metal gate is down so the zombies can't get out that way.

We see Daryl approach the part of the wall where Rick is waiting.  Rick, Michonne, and Morgan shoot flares into the air.

Daryl slowly rounds the section of the wall where Rick and his group continue to shoot flares.  Zombies bang up against the wall.  The wall shakes but holds up.

Neither Heath nor Nicolas likes Glenn's new plan to kill the zombies in the building. Glenn tells Nicolas he will not be participating.  Only Heath and Glenn will kill the dozen or so zombies inside.

Glenn asks Heath if he is ready.  Then he fires a shot at the window and zombies start pouring out of the building. He and Heath begins hooting the zombies. As more zombies come out they struggle to keep control. Heath gets attacked and Nicolas steps in and kills the zombie. Glenn allows Nicolas to kill the last zombie.

Abraham notices some zombies straying from the path.  He gets out to deal with them before Sasha can stop him.  He kills a few and then makes noise so they will follow him back to the road. When he gets back in the car he laughs when he sees he is covered in blood. He tells Sasha she missed seeing Reg and Pete die. Pete's head "blew up like Pompeii" right next to him. He laughs. Sasha just stares at him. She asks him what he is doing. He says, "I'm living darling, just like you." He laughs.

Glenn meets up with Rick's group in the woods.  Carter says that Rick was right the plan is working.  They shake hands. Rick fans everyone out to keep the zombies on the right path. Rick, Michonne, Morgan and Carter run towards the front.  Carter gets grabbed by a zombie that bites his cheek.  He screams and the zombies start to break away and head towards Carter.

Rick kills the zombie that attacked Carter and tries to stop Carter from screaming.  He tells him to be quiet several times.  When he keeps screaming Rick stabs Carter in the back of the head.  Morgan and Michonne look on. The zombies head back to the road. Rick tells Morgan to go back and tell people what is going on.  Morgan tells Michonne I know it's how it is. I do"

The zombies walk down the road following Daryl.  Out of nowhere a car horn blares. Half of the zombies leave the road and head towards the sound of the horn.  Rick says the sound is coming from Alexandria. The herd his headed home. The shot pulls wide and we see hundreds if not thousands of zombies making their way to Alexandria.

Final Thoughts
- I love that Carol is still playing her role of innocent homemaker.
- I loved that Morgan noticed that Carol is always watching and ready for action.  I think only someone who has been out there since the apocalypse began would notice that.  No one in Alexandria suspects that Carol is a bad ass in sheep's clothing.
- I missed Carl in this episode.
- How well do Rick and Morgan really know each other? They knew the early apocalypse version of each other.  In "Clear" Rick struggled to bring Morgan back to sanity.  Now Morgan is all Zen and Rick is fed up and ready to kill. Will this be an ongoing theme for this season? How well do you really know another person?
- I think has had enough at this point, ever since Carl was almost raped in season4. He is willing to do whatever it takes to survive.
- Who is honking the horn?  Is it the wolves? Another group? Someone from Alexandria (perhaps Father Gabriel)?
- I'm sad that Ethan Embry's Carter was only in one episode. I like him as an actor and from the season 6 previews I assumed he would be in many episodes this season.

Walking Dead Filming Locations 2.0

 The Stalking Dead: Alexandria Edition

 All of these pictures were taken in Senoia.  The housing development where Alexandria scenes are filmed is called the Gin Property.  Here is a link to their site: http://www.historicsenoia.com/residential.html.  The neighborhood is located right off of main street by the railroad tracks.

The gates to Alexandria.

House just to the right of the gates.  I think this is where Carl first sees Enid.

Closer view of the house above.

Side view of the wall of Alexandria.

I am assuming this is Gabriel's church.

Map of the real community.