Our recap of The Walking Dead season 4, episode 12 breaks down all the drama of the Daryl and Beth-centric episode.
Beth asserts herself
-Good thing there was an old, American model car abandoned on the highway, because no way would Daryl and Beth have fit in the back of a KIA.
-Beth has come a long way since her catatonic and suicidal days on the farm. She’s no longer just standing by and screaming; she’s actively fighting for her existence, keeping it together, and trying to motivate Daryl.
-Daryl’s not doing so well. He finally manages to bag a snake, but his communication is limited to occasional head nods.
-Meanwhile Beth has built a fire, made a lean-to, and after she has had enough of brooding Daryl, she decides she needs a real drink.
Country club life
-Even in the zombie apocalypse there’s time for a booze run, apparently.
-Anyone else wondering who mowed the greens?
-The dilapidated clubhouse is as good a place as any to hide from the oncoming walkers. It comes complete with walker-mobiles, and the lamest barricades ever.
-Obviously some sadist has been there already tagging the walls, and getting even with rich folks.
-After all that effort, peach schnapps hardly seems worth it. Beth is in tears and they finally have an effect on Daryl, who decides to get Beth a real drink.
I never
-Daryl takes Beth to a cabin he found with Michonne that’s well-stocked with moonshine, and proceeds to explain white trash living to Beth as she drinks.
-Again, the cabin doesn’t seem to be the most secure of locations.
-What’s getting drunk without a good drinking game? The only game more dangerous than “I Never” would have been “Truth or Dare.”
-We learn that Daryl has never been out of Georgia, never been on vacation, and never been to jail.
-We learn that Beth has never shot a cross bow.
-After Beth pushes Daryl’s buttons, the two have an epic screaming match. Despite not having spent lots of time together before, each knows exactly how to hurt the other with brutal honesty. Daryl calls Beth out on hiding her emotions and acting like a spoiled college kid, and Beth calls Daryl out on essentially the same thing, being afraid to show people who he really is. It ends with Daryl breaking down and Beth in tears holding on to him.
-The sound you now hear is the Caryl shippers having an apoplexy and the Bethyl shippers punching the air.
Sober talk
-Daryl recounts an episode from his past where bad choices nearly got him killed, and reveals that he had no plan in life. He just followed Merle and did whatever Merle said: “I was just some asshole with a bigger asshole for a brother.”
-Beth talks about her vision of what she thought the bright future would have been despite the zombie apocalypse.
-Beth declares that Daryl will be the last man standing for his good and bad traits, and that he has to be the man that he had become, let his past go, or it will kill him.
-In the end they decide to torch the cabin as a symbolic purge of the things in their past they want to let go of and forget.
-They light the cabin up and give it the finger.
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