With the midseason finale coming up next week, we’re getting closer and closer to a meeting between Rick and the Governor. Last night’s episode gave us a taste of their eventual encounter. Our Walking Dead recap covers it all.
Glenn and Maggie are still in the hands of Merle, and Glenn is getting beaten pretty badly. Glenn refuses to answer Merle’s questions, but he does try to beef up who is still left in his group, and mistakenly names Andrea. Merle realizes Glenn is bluffing.
After beating Glenn, Merle even locks a walker in the room with him, but Glenn puts up a fight and soon takes out the walker.
The Governor takes over Maggie’s torture, and when she refuses to speak, he forced her to take off her top, threatening to bring Glenn’s hand into her cell. We were so afraid that the Governor was going to rape Maggie, but he stops and takes the shirtless Maggie over to Glenn’s cell.
The Governor confronts both Maggie and Glenn at the same time, and Maggie spills the beans on her group’s whereabouts when the Governor threatens to shoot Glenn. After putting his hands all over Maggie, the Governor and Merle leave Glenn and Maggie together.
The Governor wonders if Maggie is lying about their numbers at the prison, but he tells Merle to get a group together to track down the prison.
At the prison, we last saw Michonne waiting outside of the fences. When the walkers start to overpower her, Carl lets her in. Rick brings her into the prison, but while he’s questioning her, Daryl interrupts with news of Carol’s return.
Michonne watches the reunion, sees how much they seem to care for one another, and starts to think she might be able to trust these people.
After a hostile question-and-answer session between Michonne and Rick, she finally tells them about seeing Glenn and Maggie being taken, and reveals the existence of Woodbury. Hershel bandages Michonne’s wound and Carl keeps guard. We hope that Michonne and Carl end up having a strong relationship.
A fellowship assembles for the quest to find Woodbury, which consists of Rick, Daryl, Oscar, and Axel, all of whom are obviously led by Michonne.
Before leaving, Rick and Carl share a sweet moment, and Carl names the baby Judith after his third grade teacher. Rick also gives Carl the responsibility of keeping everyone at the prison safe while he’s on the mission to Woodbury. We hope Carl can handle the unguarded prison, since the Governor’s men are coming to scout the place.
This must have been “the one in which Rick apologizes” because he also thanks Daryl for taking care of the baby. Daryl responds, “It’s what we do,” as if taking care of someone else’s kid is the most natural thing in the world. We appreciate Daryl’s fatherly attributes, too.
While on the road, the company gets attacked by a herd of walkers, and they hide out in a seemingly abandoned shack. The walkers are banging on the doors (the dead have come knocking), and Rick finds a man asleep in the bed.
The man threatens Rick with a shotgun, and after some suspenseful fighting, the man goes running for the door. Michonne kills him before he can open it, but they shove him out to distract the walkers as the rest of them slip out the back door.
Finally, they come up on Woodbury. They hide out while they decide how to enter, which might prove to be difficult with all of the sentries guarding the wall.
Inside of Woodbury, the Governor and Andrea are still going strong, but he also asks her to help out with one of Milton’s experiments. Milton is trying to create a controlled situation for Mr. Coleman, a man near death, to see if he’ll respond the same way after he turns. Andrea is there to kill the walker version of Mr. Coleman.
Milton reveals that he’s never seen anyone turn before, and Andrea knows that his experiment isn’t going to work, which it doesn’t. After Milton undoes one of Coleman’s restraints, he almost gets bitten, and Andrea kills zombie Coleman. Milton is upset about his findings.
When Andrea returns to the Governor, she’s upset. How will their relationship fare when Michonne comes to Woodbury?