Rick is distant during breakfast. Glen’s thoughts are on
Maggie. Camp is really quiet as everyone eats, except the sound of Andrea
sharpening a knife. Glen finally tells the group of the zombie barn, and they
all look a little shocked, except Rick who looks a little pissed.
The zombies do their endless shuffle as the group goes for a
closer look. Shane is less than pleased to confirm Glen’s findings. He’s ready
to either waste the zombies or leave the farm, but Rick tells them they can’t
do either, and Carol isn’t ready to give up on Sophia. Daryl is more determined
than ever that the girl will be found, and heck if he’s not ready to give up on
her after all that he went through to retrieve her doll than no one else should
either. Shane’s thinks his harshness is helpful, truthful, and maybe it is
truthful, but it’s not what the group really needs or wants to hear. Rick wants
to talk to Hershel first. Dale tells Rick that Hershel sees the zombies as sick
people and nothing more. Shane is upset by everything, running on a short fuse,
and his outbursts rile the zombies.
Shane makes sure that the zombies can’t escape the barn, or
at least I assume that he’s not trying to get inside as he fiddles with the
locks.
Maggie goes on like it’s a normal day. Glen tries to talk to
her, and gets a egg smashed on his head for his efforts.
Lori tries to do some work with Carl, but his mind is on
Sophia. He tells her he doesn’t plan on leaving until they find Sophia, and maybe
not after that. Poor boy is so optimistic, his little heart is gonna be crushed
if they don’t find her.
Carol finds Daryl, trying to saddle up a horse, and tries to
stop him. He’s the only one searching for her girl, and Carol voices her fear
that her baby is gone, and that they’ll lose Daryl too. He’s not recovered
enough from his last ordeal, and he lashes out when his weakness shows.
Dale has a chat with Andrea. She’s armed to the teeth, and
headed out to search for Sophia. He warns her off of Shane, and she like usual
doesn’t understand what’s going on, and lands at the wrong conclusions. Andrea’s
changes this season have been the least pleasant. She’s struggling so hard to
find herself, and be what she envisions she wants to be, and she’s failing
miserably and has been just plain annoying.
Rick goes to see Hershel, and I can bet money this won’t end
well. Rick offers to help Hershel with his fields, when Hershel makes mention
of having too little time. And so Rick just comes right out and tells him that
they found the barn. Of course, Hershel doesn’t want to talk about it, wants
them to leave things be.
And Rick has been respectful up to this point, but now
that Carl is well does he not understand that Rick’s group could easily over
power him and take the farm. Seriously someone should clue him in. But Rick won’t
let the barn matter go, Hershel tells him that he wants them gone by the end of
the week, and finally Rick gives him a little piece of his mind, and of the horrors
of what world outside his farm is really like. He begs Hershel not to send them
away, tells him of Lori’s pregnancy, but he ultimately leaves the choice in
Hershel’s hands. Maggie overhears the whole thing.
Shane is on barn watch, waiting to hear how things went with
Hershel. The news isn’t good, and Rick fudges on the truth. They can’t clear
the barn, they can’t go. And Shane frustrates Rick to the point that he spills
the beans about Lori to him too.
Maggie is less than pleased with Hershel’s decision. Maggie
tells Hershel what the surrounding area is really like, its not all picturesque
like he would like to believe. And she makes her own case for Rick’s group.
Hershel isn’t a bad man, he just doesn’t want to understand. And when she tells
him that one of the “sick” people nearly killed her, but that Glen saved her,
the hardness in his eyes drains a little. They’re interrupted by some news.
Rick and Andrea plot
out a course to search for Sophia when Hershel asks him for a little help.
Lori prepares supper when Shane tells her that he thought
Rick was dead, and when they saw he wasn’t he wished he was dead, not because
of Lori but because he feared Rick would die. He doesn’t believe Rick was built
for this world, and Shane goes on to blame Rick for all of their problems. And
now he’s sure that the baby is his, but Lori tells him that the baby will never
be his no matter who supplied the DNA. As Shane stalks off, you know he’s gonna
do something bad. Carl stops him and tells him that they’re staying until they
find Sophia. And Shane doesn’t argue with him, just tells him that they need to
do whatever possible to stay. Shane tears about Dale’s RV searching for
something, but doesn’t find it. I’m guessing a weapon. He goes searching for
Dale.
Hershel brings Rick out for some zombie wrangling. He’s
willing to let Rick’s group stay, but they need to get on board to his way of
thinking, or at least not killing the walkers. Who sees this lasting for about
five minutes? Zombies gonna eat, People gonna shoot.
Daryl takes Carol to another Cherokee Rose. He apologizes
for what happened earlier, and Carol finally asks why he keeps searching for
Sophia. Daryl tells her because she’s still out there and there’s nothing else
to do.
Rick and Jimmy struggle to get one of the walkers out of the
river, and he sees that walker wrangling isn’t nearly as easy as Hershel made
it out to be.
Maggie is still upset about Glen telling everyone about the
barn, but he had his reason. He sees himself as too complacent about the
walkers, but he’d rather have her angry at him, then dead. And she accepts that,
how could she not, not only is he like the last normal guy, but he really did
have her best interest at heart.
Shane catches up to Dale in the swamps. Dale taunts Shane,
and he’s poking the cornered bear. Shane wants the guns, that Dale was going to
hide, and Dale threatens to shoot Shane, but he doesn’t really have the guts to
pull the trigger. Dale is living on borrowed time, he still has too many
morals, this is Shane’s kind of world, where the consciousless rule. Shane
takes all of the guns back.
Maggie offers to wash
Glen’s cap, when the group all gathers around the house. Shane arms the group,
and rallies the troops, Maggie begs Shane to stop this for the sake of the
group. Lori tries to stop him, and they all see first hand what Rick has been
up too. Shane of course goes off the deep end about the zombies, and uses the
groups past losses as ammo. He makes a very graphic display on how the walkers
are no longer like the living, and finally crosses the line when he shoots one
in the head. Hershel frozen by the graphic display cannot help Rick with the
remaining walker, or stop Shane. The entire group is watches in horror as Shane
breaks open the barn doors. And with the zombies loose and charging, the group
has no but to kill them. They quickly dispatch the zombies as they appear,
Hershel is distraught over the loses, and then when they think they’ve shot
them all, the big reveal.
Little Sophia shambles out of the barn. That one hits the
group the hardest, and they’re as emotional as Hershel and his group were about
the rest. No one is able to raise they’re gun as she comes towards them, but Rick
does what needs to be done, Rick is the only one who can, and he shoots little
Sophia. So Shane was right, Sophia was dead, but even he was unable to do what
really needed to be done. Rick isn’t soft, he’s compassionate to a fault, but
he gets the job done when he needs to.
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