Section 4.5.1
Rick is driving back to the prison alone, reflecting on his decision to ban Carol as he drives. Back at the prison, Hershel is intubating a struggling patient with a very sick Sasha and Glenn helping. He leaves Sasha to work with the patient as he and Glenn go on the rounds. They make the decision to wheel the dead out of the ward before putting them down so the other patients don't see.
- Sooz: It's obvious how bad it's getting at the prison now with the sickness, and how weak and exposed they are. We're primed for an attack of some sort!
Hershel goes to visit Maggie through the glass of the isolation ward. He gives her a Greene family pep-talk. Glenn is out in the hall listening but hiding so she doesn't see how sick he is. Maggie is out at the fence killing off what she can of a horde there when Rick pulls in the gates. Maggie asks where Carol is and Rick tells her what happened but tells her not to say anything. Rick goes in to check on Carl and Judith, giving him the food he and Carol found. Hershel goes to check on Dr. S, but his condition has deteriorated and he is now bleeding from his mouth and eyes. Dr. S. reveals a gun an ammo he's kept by him. He tells Hershel to make sure the doors are kept shut to the cells of the sick.
- Sooz: Well, Dr. S made it longer than I thought he would. I'm glad Rick told the truth, but with the surprise in Maggie's voice when she asked if Carol said she did it, it makes me wonder if Carol wasn't covering for someone and Maggie knew the truth.
- Gen: I just got the impression that Maggie was shocked by what Rick just told her. I am also glad he told the truth and didn't try to hide anything. By asking Maggie if she would have done the same, he was also looking for approval for what he'd done. To me, he seemed to be fighinting off some guilt. I would have to agree with Rick's decision. Things would be way worse for Carol had she come back to the prison.
Hershel is closing cell doors as another victim emerges and dies in the center of the cell block. Hershel removes his body and finally makes his first walker kill (evar!). Rick approaches and after Hershel gives him an update about what's been going on while he was gone, just before Rick tells him about what happened with Carol. Hershel finds a passed-out Sasha and starts working on her as another victim dies and turns in a nearby cell.
- Sooz: Hershel is trying to hold onto his humanity still but I still smell doom for him, I feel like this episode focusing on him might be his swan song. If it is, it's certainly a good job Scott is doing laying out his legacy in the show.
- Gen: The whole time you can sense things are about to get worse but just don't know how much. The way we get to see Hershel take charge was fantastic.
Maggie and Rick are trying to fortify the fence against the walker horde with cut tree limbs. Sasha wakes back up wish Hershel's aid. Glenn tries to revive a newly departed ill person but Glenn begins to cough up blood and collapses. Hershel continues to close cell doors and check on people. Meanwhile Lizzy has found Glenn about the same time as the patient he was tending to turns. Lizzy leads him away from Glenn. Hershel fires a shot which, when heard outside, has Rick sending Maggie in to help.
- Sooz: Lizzy still thinks the walkers are people. She's so creepy I wouldn't put it past her to be doing the Governor's bidding/feeding the walkers.
- Gen: You already know things are about to go bad and fast but holy cow! Talk about edge-of-your-seat.
Rick goes to get Carl to help him finish fortifying the fence. Back inside the isolation ward, Lizzy falls and Hershel saves her from the walker she was leading away from Glenn. Hershel finds Glenn, but has to get the bag still attached to the patient that has become a walker to resuscitate him. Back outside, Team Grimes (Carl and Rick) are working on the fence when it gives way and walkers pour inside the fence. The two make a run for it and escape just in time for the horde to make their way to the fence leading into the yard. Inside Hershel is arming himself with Dr. S's gun. Team Grimes is arming up, too, just in time for the horde to break through the fence and start to enter the yard. They begin mowing them down with gunfire. Maggie breaks into the isolation ward and makes it to Hershel just as he's trying to get the bag off the walker, which she shoots and kills. They both rush to Glenn who is now turning blue and begin to work on him to clear his airway. He stabilizes and it appears that the conflict inside is now at an end. Outside, Rick and Carl are putting down any walkers left moving in the pile they mowed down with gunfire. Daryl and crew return with the medicine in the van they picked up on their run. Hershel begins to dispense the medicine, starting with Glenn. Hershel goes to rest and we see him sitting alone, breaking down.
- Sooz: Wow, way to take Glenn to the brink! I think he's another one whose death this soon might make some riot, but this was the perfect way to play that. Quite the satisfying dose of character drama. Rick and Carl working together make it seem like Carl is going to be his little deputy from here on out, but it is just the resolution the little family needed coming off of last season's Full-Shane Carl.
- Gen: Part of me knew they weren't going to kill off Glenn just yet, but I did have my doubts for a few minutes there! I love how Rick finally lets Carl help with protecting the prison. I think Carl has grown up a lot since we last saw him in Season 3 and I'm glad he's getting the chance to prove to Rick that he can handle himself without going overboard.
Morning of the following day, Michonne is clearing the bodies of the walkers from the night before. Rick is on his way to tell Daryl about Carol but decides to have some one-on-one time with Carl instead. Hershel reports to Tyreese and Daryl that Glenn is breathing on his own now. Hershel tells Daryl that Carol is okay but he needs to ask Rick about her. Michonne and Hershel head out on a short run. Rick and Carl are tending to the crop as the viewer is shown the Governor watching from the edge of the woods just outside of the fence.
- What perfect timing to reintroduce the governor! Although this was quite adequately predicted by a lot of fans on forums, the timing after such an intense walker/disease issue inside the prison didn't feel forced or rushed. And I'm very hard to impress so the fact that these last two episodes have me this happy is a surprise. I can only guess that the rest of season four will be this well paced... for the past two episodes no beat has been missed or hit at the wrong time. If it's going to be predictable (and even this wasn't THAT predictable, everyone thought Hershel was going to bite it in episode 5), then playing every note in tune is exactly the way it needs to be done. Well done!
- Gen: Wow! I just need to say that Scott Wilson was consistantly knocking my socks off this entire episode. What a great job. I just wanted to give him a big ol' hug at the end. I think this was my favourite episode to date of Season 4. So well done!
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