Summary:
Rick wakes up in the new place the group has found, Wiltshire Estates. Rick calls for Lori, and she tells him to be quiet so Carl can keep sleeping. Lori tells Rick she’s been awake no more than half an hour. Rick says that the deaths of Jim, Amy, and Shane must be hard on Carl. Lori tells Rick she is sad that her baby will not know anything about the world they used to know, and Carl won’t get a driver license or take a girl to the movies for a date. Lori asks Rick if they’ll ever be able to fix everything, but Rick doesn’t know. Meanwhile, Carol and Tyreese get closer.
Donna is thinking about Dale and Andrea. She points out that they both have something in common, they both lost someone important to them. It gives Donna hope when she sees them together. Lastly, she says they are really lucky and thinks she could be happy in their new home. Allen asks if she wants to have sex, and Billy and Ben look over at them and Billy asks, “What’s a ‘segs’?”. Donna thinks that answered his question.
In the morning, Rick organizes everyone to search the houses, and clear out any possible zombies and also to search for food and supplies. Julie and Chris are staying in another house, and Rick thinks Andrea could stay with the children. Rick gathers up the teams and goes to get Tyreese a gun from the RV.
Allen is hoping the houses are empty. Tyreese goes with Carol to see the yard of the house. Donna wants to take a peek inside the house. Allen tells her to be careful, but she tells him he worries too much while, unbeknownst to her, a walker approaches from the house. Suddenly, Rick discovers a sign at the entrance (it could not be read before because it was covered with snow), which reads “ALL DEAD DO NOT ENTER”. He starts to run back into Wiltshire.
Meanwhile, Donna gets bitten in the face by a walker. Everyone returns and Rick tells everyone not to use their guns. Allen tells the walkers to go away, but Tyreese captures him and tells him there’s nothing he can do. Allen starts to yell, and shoots with his pistol. The shots get the zombies’ attention, as Donna is devoured.
Rick tells everyone to leave, and goes to get Allen. Rick tells him to leave, but Allen wants to stay and be with soon to be zombie Donna. Rick tells him to think about his children, and that they need to leave now or they’re both dead. Allen comes to his senses and is ready to leave. Tyreese goes to get Dale and the others, and tells them to get their children. Tyreese runs upstairs to get Julie and Chris, and catches them trying to have sex.
Rick takes Allen into the RV, and tells Lori that Donna is dead. Rick goes after Tyreese, and is able to get to the house. Tyreese tells Chris and Julie to get their clothes on. Rick gets to the house and tells him they can’t get out downstairs. Tyreese yells they have to go through the window. They discover the ground floor is full of zombies, and Dale drives his RV through the zombie horde to rescue them. Rick and the rest jump onto the RV’s roof. The twins ask about the location of their mother. Allen starts to cry and tells them she’s dead. The party stops for gas and Rick says he doesn’t know what to say. Allen says he doesn’t have to say anything.
Rick is worried about Allen. Dale tells him they can’t bring Donna back, all they can do is let Allen mourn. Dale knows what losing a wife feels like. Lori says they’re almost out of everything. Carol wishes they could have picked up some food from Wiltshire. Rick, Glenn, and Tyreese are checking a food shop, but they find nothing. Rick thinks they have to start hunting.
Rick tells the others that they have to get back before dark, even if they don’t find food. If they hear a shot, Tyreese, Rick, and Carl will come back as fast as they can. Carl wants to come too, and Rick tells him not to shoot unless he says so. Rick tells Lori she should keep an eye on Allen, he’s worried he will hurt himself, or worse.
Tyreese asks Rick what he thinks about Allen and Rick tells him what Allen was doing in Wiltshire, and doesn’t know what’s going through his mind. Rick doesn’t know what to think after what happened to Shane. Tyreese tells him he heard the story from Carol. Rick overhears a voice and thinks somebody is after them, and just then, a bullet goes through Carl.
Carl falls down much to Rick’s shock and horror. Tyreese asks who’s shooting at them. A man, named Otis, appears and tells them it was an accident. Rick believes that Carl is dead and becomes erratically aggressive towards Otis, as he apologizes to him. Rick points his gun into his cheek and screams that he’s going to kill him.
Discussion / Thoughts:
We start with a short conversation between Rick and Lori about how Carl is handling all this death. I’d guess not well. But at 7 he may not fully understand what’s going on other than these people are not with our group anymore. I’m more worried about how all the adults are handling it. Lori does express sadness for Carl as he won’t experience life the way she and Rick did.
The search. I think it’s great that Donna is excited about this location and feeling some happiness. But throwing caution to the wind in an unknown situation was not smart and sadly got her killed. We as the book reader saw the warning sign about the place being full of the dead but the survivors didn’t. But considering all that Donna had seen so far with walkers popping up in unexpected places she should have known better. She should have listened to Allen who told her to wait. And to Rick who told all of them to wait until he returned. She did not need to die.
The houses are full of zombies but no one knows. The group barely escapes with their lives. Allen doesn’t want to escape at all because Donna died. It’s a tragic end to what everyone thought would be a happy ending.
Their food stores are nearly completely depleted as well. Glenn’s scavenging was amazing when they were near Atlanta, but now there isn’t a city with stores full of shelves. This leads them to go hunting. Carl is a daddy’s boy and wants to go. It’s sad when just wanting to do something with your dad nearly gets you killed. But in this case, tagging along gets Carl shot by someone named Otis. I can’t blame Rick for nearly killing him. His son is laying there and not moving. Is Carl dead?
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