“Hounded”
Instead of opening on that phone call Rick received in the
boiler room, because that’s what we all wanted, the show opens on Merle in the
woods with some of the expendables from Woodbury. They’re tracking Michonne thereby confirming
her theory that no one ever actually leaves that place. They find a pile of walker bodies and realize
Michonne has left them a neat little message to “GO Back.” She actually shaped two walkers into a "G" and "O" and if I were at home watching I would have taken my own screencap. Anyway, Merle coins it a “bitergram” and that’s
pretty dang funny. One of Merle’s group
is being a bit wussy about tracking Michonne so Merle gives him a pep talk only
he can (the dude must have felt a little threatened after). Merle then taunts Michonne who comes flying
out of the trees and kills two of the dudes leaving Wussy wounded and Merle
pissed off that all he did was wing her.
The woman on the phone with Rick won’t say where she is “for safety
reasons” but disclose that “it’s away…from them.” Rick pleads and pleads for her and her group
to take them in. She promises to call
him back in two hours and hangs up.
Meanwhile the folks in C-block are hanging out when Rick makes an
appearance, gets an update on the goings on and takes off again. He is expecting a call, afterall.
Back in the woods with Merle (there’s a reality show there,
somewhere), he’s expressing his desire to get back to Woodbury because the
ruckus with Michonne would have drawn attention from local walkers. Speaking of Woodbury, the Governor and Andrea
are talking and she’s still upset about ‘biter arena.’ However, she’s not sooo upset that she can’t
help out around town. Specifically
she’d
like to get up on the wall to keep her shooting skills sharp. The
Governor is amenable and promises to get her trained up with a bow and
arrow.
Rick gets that second call but this time it’s a man who asks
him lots of personal questions like how many people Rick has killed. He wants details too and this is when I make
up my mind about what’s really going on with these calls. He wants Rick to not only re-visit his kills
but how his wife died, the latter Rick refuses so the guy hangs up. Rick’s suspicious, though, because he never
mentioned his wife dying to the woman on the phone.
Andrea is on the wall with a girl who is going to train her
to shoot with a bow. If they
mentioned this chick’s name I missed it so we’re going to call her
Katniss. A walker shambles up to the wall
so Katniss aims and…misses. Twice. Geeze, Andrea, don’t let her train you. Andrea decides to jump the wall and take care
of the guy up close and personal. This pisses Katniss
off and she whines about how they’re not supposed to go over the wall. The part she doesn’t voice but that was an
understood was how she’s going to tell the Governor on Andrea. I suspect Andrea will escape with a slap on
the wrist because my guess is that Katniss doesn’t share special Scotch time
with Governor Phil.
Apparently Rick is living in the boiler room now so Hershel
decides to visit him in his new digs.
They chat and Hershel tries to get Rick to forgive himself. Instead Rick tells him about the phone
call. Hershel does what we all would
have done and picks up the receiver. We
can’t hear if there’s a dial tone but it’s not needed is it? Don’t we all suspect the same thing at this
point? Hershel hangs the phone up and
offers to stay with Rick in his new place but, of course, Rick refuses.
Merle and Wussy run into Michonne again. They tussle and end up on the ground when
some more walkers shamble up. Michonne
gets one in the gut and is consequently covered in his innerds. Yum.
She takes off again and the game continues.
Daryl, Carl and Oscar are patrolling the prison and Daryl
tells Carl a story from his very happy childhood. His mom was a smoker and often did it in
bed. She burned herself and the house
right down to the ashes. Carl sees his
story and raises with, “I shot my mom.”
I’d say Carl wins that hand of who has/had a worse childhood. Plus Carl’s got the ace of his childhood
happening during the zombie apocalypse.
Andrea visits the Governor for her scolding. They move past it and she admits that she
kind of did enjoy ‘biter arena’ but he already knew that. He also knows that she kind of likes him a
little or at least that he’s growing on her.
Meanwhile, according to Merle, Michonne is headed to the ‘red zone’ so
she’s as good as dead so there’s no need to chase after her and actually kill her. This doesn’t sit well with Wussy who thinks
they should tell the Governor the truth.
Silly Wussy, never disagree with Merle…who shoots Wussy for doing so. Michonne is hurt and covered in walker goo
but gets completely ignored by passing walkers who mistake her for one of their
own.
Rick gets another call and it’s a woman. She tries to get him to talk and uses his
name, which he knows he never gave her.
Rick is crazy, y'all!
Michonne happens upon an abandoned town and, wouldn’t you
know, Gleggie show up in that very same town! They get out of their
vehicle, kiss a bit (AWWW!) and then bust into a store. I jump when a flock of birds fly out but
other than that this has been a jump-free episode. Michonne watches from a safe distance as they
hit the formula jackpot along with some other canned goods. It seems like it’ll be a relatively painless
trip to the store until stupid Merle shows up.
And even though Glenn recognizes him, everyone keeps their guns drawn on
each other (totally reminding me of that skit from SNL this past weekend). Merle only wants to know if his brother is
alive, which Glenn confirms for him.
Merle wants to be taken to him but Glenn comes up with a reasonable
compromise (Merle to wait there while Glenn sends Daryl back). Too bad Merle isn’t exactly
reasonable. He gets the upper hand on
Maggie and forces Glenn to drive them back to Woodbury, thus setting up a combined
storyline.
But before there’s a story merge there’s still more of this
week’s show left. Daryl, Carl and Oscar
find a wandering walker with Carol’s knife in his neck (apparently her aim was a bit
off). The phone in the boiler room is
ringing again and this time it’s Lori. Rick’s been talking to ghosts the whole time. He tells her he loved her and about a deal he
had made with himself about keeping Lori (plus Carl and the baby) alive. He cries but the connection goes wonky and
Lori is gone, hopefully leaving him with a bit of closure. Because if you’re going to have a psychotic
break after your son shoots your wife so she doesn’t turn into a zombie after
dying from giving birth to your baby, closure is a good thing.
Post-special Scotch time and apparently post-coitus, Andrea
and the Governor are in bed. There’s a
knock at the door (apparently the Governor forgot to put a sock on the handle)
and it’s Merle. Natch. He catches the Governor on his day (it was a
big one) including lying about Michonne’s status of being alive. Too bad Merle doesn’t have her head or katana
to prove it. This will come back to
haunt you, Merle. He does have Gleggie,
though and this intrigues the governor.
Rick rejoins the C-block crew and even acknowledges his baby
girl. Awww. He even holds her in that Lion King kind of
way and kisses her head. Double awww! We catch up with Daryl who is conflicted
about Carol’s knife I guess when he finds her alive and carries her to
(relative) safety. Out in the prison
yard, Rick spots something in the distance and hands baby ass-kicker off to
Carl. I chant, “Please be Michonne. Please
be Michonne.” And it’s Michonne. She’s surrounded by walkers, which stumps
Rick a bit and the episode ends.
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