Upstairs outside Sam’s door. We hear Tiptoe Through The Tulips by Tiny Tim. Sam places his empty plate on the floor and goes back into his room. We see all of his toys as he draws crayon pictures of walkers attacking people. It looks like someone is tied to a tree and being attacked by walkers – probably inspired by Carol’s cookies speech to him. We see a 1960s style record player as it plays the vinyl 45 speed version of Tiptoe Through The Tulips. Ants are trailing down the window and across the floor to the half eaten cookie on a plate. The music gets weird(er) as we see the disintegrating cookie as the ants swarm over it.
The tower crashes again and we see lots of dust, silence, and then the ambling walkers as they stream in. Just like the ants. 🙂 Fantastic opening.
Rick is on the ground just in front of the mob of walkers. He yells for everyone to get back. Everyone runs, Rosita and Tara pick up Tobin and they run. Deanna and Rick are out shooting walkers. Go for the head, Deanna! She’s wounded, but it doesn’t appear that she’s wounded by a walker. She falls on something sharp – maybe the table saw that Rick was using earlier?
Carol and Morgan run. Carol falls, and Morgan doesn’t help her up, but she gets back up and runs. Morgan hits a few of the walkers with his stick and runs then up the stairs with Carol. They slam the door closed.
Maggie on the ground shooting her assault rifle, gets up, and runs up the ladder to the lookout. She barely gets up as the ladders fall away as walkers grab them. She lays on top of the lookout perch/scaffolding, and watches the balloons as they float away.
Eugene is outside on a porch, frozen with fear as he watches the horde of walkers shamble past him. At that moment, Daryl, on the walkie-talkie asks if there is anyone there. Eugene squeaks out ‘help’. A walker then notices Eugene and approaches him. Eugene has a machete – from his lesson with Rosita, but he’s afraid to use it. Rosita and Tara shoot the walker from behind and rescue Eugene. They run into a garage and slide the door shut.
Another fight with Carl, Rick, Jessie, Ron, and Deanna. They all eventually make it back into the safety of Jessie’s house.
Walkers stream through the streets.
Glenn and Enid are outside the wall assessing the situation. Enid says ‘this is how it happens, and it always happens.’ Glenn says they have to go help. He tells Enid she can run away, but that’s how you lose people, even after they’re gone. Glenn walks off in the direction of Alexandria.
Back to Sam and Tiny Tim. Lots of screaming. He can barely tell what’s happening, he’s freaking out so much. Jessie says you have to turn off the music. She leaves him. Everyone is rushing around – Rick, Deanna, Jessie, Michonne. Deanna is on the bed, and Michonne is assisting her. Rick rushes off.
Morgan and Carol are in his house where he has the wolf. Morgan wants to look at her head wound, and she resists. He notes that she doesn’t trust many people. Then she says she doesn’t trust him, but doesn’t think he’d lie. Morgan thinks she has a concussion and that she should sit down before she falls down. She’s not in good shape. He tells her that whatever is going on between them can wait, her head is what is important right now. Carol slouches down to the floor. Her vision is pretty hazy.
Denise is with the wolf. The wolf doesn’t think Morgan is coming back. He says they can talk. She says she shouldn’t be there. She asks if he belongs here. He says yes, he does. He seems confused that she would think otherwise. He doesn’t think he’s a bad person. He says he has an infection. Not a matter of fairness. It just is. She tells him to show her the wound. He does. It looks bad. And infected. She says, you weren’t born this way, you can change. She pulls out medical supplies.
Deanna was bitten on the side of her stomach, Michonne discovers. Then Deanna sees the bite and so does Rick. It looks pretty bad. Deanna says ‘well, shit’.
Quite the crowd outside (walkers). Rick tells Jessie Deanna doesn’t have long and Deanna knows it. He notes that Deanna is cracking jokes, so she’s in good spirits. They have sheets up across the windows so walkers can’t see the people inside. He says he can wait them out, go outside and get a car, and then go with their plan to lure the walkers elsewhere. Jessie looks dubious.
Michonne is talking to Deanna. She thinks Deanna’s plans for Alexandria could work – even now. It makes Deanna happy. Deanna says she got to do what she wanted right up until the end. She asks Michonne what she wants.What does Michonne want for Michonne? Michonne doesn’t know. Deanna says ‘you better’.
Carl goes down the stairs at Jessie’s and sees Ron in the garage. Ron says ‘Enid is dead, we’re all dead.’ Ron says your dad is just going to get more people killed because that’s what he does. Ron doesn’t think they’re going to make it. Carl says they will. Ron pulls out the gun and aims it at Carl. Carl and he fight. Ron pulls out a shovel and accidentally breaks the glass. It attracts a boat load of walkers. Walkers are ready to break into the house through the garage. Carl tries to stop them. Ron lays on the ground, uncaring. Rick gets them out just in time. Wow, Gabriel is there helping!
Ron walks off into a bedroom and Carl follows. He pulls a gun on Ron. Ron says he’s sorry and Carl tells Ron to give him the gun. He does. Carl says he gets it – Rick killed his dad, but there’s something he has to know – Ron’s dad was an asshole.
Judith is crying. Rick runs up the stairs. Tiny Tim is still playing. Rick sees that Deanna isn’t on the bed anymore. Deanna is hovering over Judith! Deanna is still herself, she hasn’t turned, and Judith is okay. Rick picks up Deanna and places her on the bed. She’s sweating now. Rick says that from now on, someone needs to be with Deanna, and it can’t be Judith. Deanna agrees. Deanna wrote some notes for Spencer and Maggie, and asks Rick to give them the notes. He says he will. Deanna says to look out for all of the people, not just his own. Humans are humans and all humans are all our people.
Someone screams, Rick picks up Judith, and runs out.
Rosita, Tara, and Eugene are in a garage with walkers pounding on the garage doors. Eugene is reading a book by cigarette lighter light. Rosita wonders if this is it. She wonders if Abraham is dead. Tara says he’s not – and this place isn’t over either. They contemplate shooting out the lock but don’t want to waste the bullets. Eugene says not to worry – picking locks is in his skill set.
Morgan asks Carol is she’s okay. She says she’s just resting her eyes. She doesn’t look fine. Morgan begins to go down the stairs. The lights go out. Morgan says ‘Carol?’. Carol rushes past him and runs out.
Back at Jessie’s. Walkers are in the house! All Rick’s group can do is go up the stairs and block the stairs as best they can. Michonne and Rick begin killing walkers.They put a big couch at the base of the stairs to block the walkers.
Carol makes it to Denise. She’s got a knife and means to kill the wolf. Morgan gets there just in time to stop her. He says he was prepared to let this wait, but now he can’t. Carol and Morgan face off.
Rick pulls a dead walker up the stairs.
Rick says they need bedsheets – they’re going to cover themselves in walker guts and walk through the crowd and escape that way. Jessie, Ron, and Gabriel all look skeptical – and grossed out.
Morgan v. Carol. Carol doesn’t want to kill Morgan, and Morgan says he won’t let her.
Michonne goes to Deanna who is breathing shallowly. Michonne tells her they have to leave, but Deanna will need to stay. Deanna understands and says she’ll go out on her own terms. Deanna and Michonne have a nice bonding moment, and then Deanna says Michonne should go, the group needs her. Michonne thanks her for believing. Again Deanna asks Michonne what she wants, and says that she has to figure it out. Michonne says she will.
The rest of the group are covering themselves with walker guts. Sam walks in and is horrified by what he sees. Jessie tells Sam to cover himself with guts. Sam can’t. Jessie says to just pretend that he’s brave and do it.
Carol is spewing concussion speak. The wolf says he’ll kill people. Carol and Morgan fight over the knife. Morgan wins and Carol is knocked out. The wolf picks up the gun, knocks out Morgan with Morgan’s staff, and faces Denise.
Rick’s group is all covered with guts and ready to go, even Ron and Sam.
The wolf is free and Denise asks not him not to kill them. The wolf has Denise in his grip with the knife aimed at her throat when Tara, Rosita, and Eugene walk in. The wolf tells them to give him the guns. They do.
The wolf backs out the door with Denise into the waiting mass of walkers outside. He closes the door as Tara, Rosita, and Eugene look on.
Back to the gut-covered group. They’re ready to go. Rick moves the couch and slowly walks down the stairs and past a walker, as does Carl. They all quietly walk through the crowd of walkers.
Glenn and Enid see Maggie on the perch. It doesn’t look like she sees them yet though. Deanna prepares to kill herself, then hears the walkers outside the bedroom door. She looks like she has a change of heart about killing herself and opens the door to them instead of killing herself. She takes out as many as she can. She then screams in their faces. Presumably she gets eaten.
The gut-covered group is outside now with the walkers. They prepare to go down the front stairs. They all hold hands and go single file down the stairs and then Sam says ‘mom?’ And then he says ‘mom’ again, only louder.
The End.
Where are Aaron, Eric, Spencer, Heath, Tobin, Olivia, and Scott?