We apologize for never getting to post a full review of the mid-season finale; things in our own worlds got a bit crazy just as TWD was quieting down. We chose to leave it to your viewing and opinion, but we'll pick back up with our reviews in the back half! So, to get you caught up and ready to check back in with Officer Friendly and crew, here are your viewing options:
- Comcast subscribers can watch all eight of the first Season 4 episodes on On Demand currently. Just check your On Demand listings under the AMC network title to find it.
- The AMC website currently has all eight episodes in their full glory on their website here, though this is likely to be restricted to specific geographical areas.
- If you're interweb savvy enough, you can usually find a "pirated" copy of the episodes online, but since this isn't exactly legal we can't really endorse this method. However, to protect our visitors we do ask that if you're unsure, don't do it. Those websites can be shifty and may give you a virus if you're not careful and/or know what to look for and avoid.
Episode Quick Summaries:
Episode 4.1: Days Gone Bye
We are back with the prison crew and what remained of the Woodbury survivors several months after the initial conflict with The Governor (after which The Gov killed off his entire "army" except Karen who survived). They have cultivated the prison grounds, established a leadership council, and formed a community. It is established that the walker hordes keep pushing in on the fences, and that Karen and Tyreese are now a couple. Part of the group go on a disastrous supply run while Rick comes across a stranger in the woods (who ends up dead when she tries to feed him to her husband who is now just a walker's head). Carl catches Carol giving the kids 'survival lessons'. Patrick (one of the children from Woodbury) and one of the pigs kept for food die of an unknown illness.
Episode 4.2: Infected
Someone is feeding the walkers at the fences. Patrick reanimates and attacks Cell Block D. After the attack, the group clears the prison of the threat and Carol is entrusted with the care of two young girls (Mika and Lizzy) now orphaned by the death of their father in the attack. The group begins to isolate the ill, including Karen and former Woodburian David. Michonne has a mysteriously emotional moment holding Judith. Rick, figuring the pigs to be lost to the illness as a food source, uses them to draw the walkers away from the fences. Tyreese finds the bodies of Karen and David outside, burnt and still smoking.
Episode 4.3: Isolation
"Dr. S" (a Woodbury survivor) and Hershel are tending to the ill while outside, Tyreese, Daryl, and Rick get into an emotional scuffle about finding who killed Karen and David. The sick are confined to Cell Block A while the children are taken into quarantine. Glenn and Sasha both take gravely ill. Daryl takes a group on a medicine run that goes South fast, as the group has to flee their car and head out on foot. Carol admits to Rick that she was the one who killed Karen and David.
Episode 4.4: Indifference
The group on the medicine run bump into even more trouble before making into the building to retrieve the supplies they need. Bob (a survivor previously established to have been picked up on the road by Daryl) causes issues as he's collected alcohol to satisfy his alcoholism instead of medical supplies. Rick and Carol go out on a run for food and other supplies, running into a young couple who offer to help them search but who quickly disappear and are presumed dead. Rick provides Carol with basic supplies and a vehicle, and tells her she can't come back to the prison with him.
Episode 4:5: Internment
The situation with the illness at the prison is at critical mass. This episode focuses heavily on Hershel tending to the sick while Dr. S gets sicker and dies. Glenn and Sasha are both near death. Rick returns and pulls Carl from quarantine to help fortify the fence that is about to give way against a walker horde; they mow them down with gunfire just as they break through the fences. Maggie rushes in to help Hershel deal with the survivors that have died and turned. The group on the supply run return in the nick of time to provide Glenn and Sasha with the medication they need to stabilize. Rick only tells Hershel of his banning Carol from the prison.
Episode 4:6: Live Bait
Episodes 6 and 7 revisit The Governor and trace his steps since the initial conflict at the prison. It is revealed that Martinez and Shumpert abandoned him on the road. On the road, he chooses the name "Brian Heriot" as his new alias just before he collapses in front of an apartment building and is taken in by two younger women (Lily and Tara) with a dying father and a young daughter. "Brian" helps the women in any way they ask (establishing him as a new type of man), and he forms an affection for Lily, the older of the two (the mother of the girl). Once the old man dies, the four take off in his delivery truck looking for a better place to live. The Governor and Lily consummate their relationship the night before they are overrun by a horde. While running away (and carrying the girl, Megan, in his arms), "Brian" falls into a walker pit and is found by Martinez.
Episode 4.7: Dead Weight
The Governor and his new family are trying to fit in with the group founded and run by Martinez, who live in a group of RVs and tents off the road in the woods. The Governor is trying to establish a relationship with Megan, and Martinez is trying to establish his authority over him. A group of men invite him to go on a run with them, but during the run The Governor is shown to still exhibit some of his old ruthless ways. Once back at camp, it is revealed that Shumpert was killed on the road, just before "Brian" secretly feeds Martinez to the walkers in the pit. A survivor, Pete, claims the leadership role once Martinez is discovered dead. Brian is again taken out on a run after which he realizes the men of the group are unstable and decides it's time to leave, but they are stopped on the road by a walker obstacle and return. Back at camp the next day, Brian kills Pete and assumes leadership and eludes toward taking a new place by force. The episode ends with The Governor peering through the woods at Michonne and Hershel outside the prison fence burning walker bodies.
Episode 4.8: Too Far Gone
The Governor delivers a rousing speech to the remaining survivors at camp about taking over a prison where they will be safe and have supplies, and informs them that he has taken two hostages from their group to help facilitate the takeover. The group reluctantly agrees to attack. Inside the prison, Tyreese has found a dissected rodent just before an explosion rocks the prison. The Governor's group has shown up outside the prison fences with several vehicles flanking a tank, and fired a shot into a guard tower. Calling Rick down to talk to him at the fence, The Governor reveals that he has Michonne and Hershel in his custody, giving them until the end of the day to vacate the prison peacefully before he will kill the pair. In the process, The Governor becomes enraged and uses Michonne's katana to slice into Hershel's neck... at which point Rick fires on him and the battle begins. The Governor emotionally beheads Hershel who has managed to crawl away between the tank and a vehicle. In the middle of the fire fight, Lily (who had stayed behind at the camp with Megan) arrives holding Megan's lifeless body in her arms as she has been killed by a walker back at camp. Tara hides from the fight and escapes while the rest of The Governor's new army is killed one by one by the prison crew. The Governor and Rick get into a hand-to-hand battle that is ended by Michonne running her katana through The Governor's back. Splintered in different areas of the prison, the prison group flees in different directions in small groups (all on foot except for the prison bus loaded with Glenn and the other sick survivors) as a wounded Rick and Carl discover Judith's car seat empty and bloody before escaping into the woods.
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