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Season 4, Episode 10: “Inmates”
Warning: Here be spoilers
Plot: In
last week’s midseason premiere, “After,” we caught up with the team of Carl and
Rick and Michonne, who was flying solo, as they tried to find their way in a
world after their prison-home was blown up by a tank. This week, we touch base
with everybody else. The episode opens with the most huggable pair of survivors
on the show – Daryl and Beth (formerly known as: “Herschel’s Blonde Daughter”).
They run around in the woods, Beth narrates from her diary, it’s seriously awesome.
Eventually, they wind up tracking what they hope is another group of survivors
through the woods.
When we come back from commercial,
we meet up with Tyreese, who is in a very unenviable state: He’s wounded –
maybe bit – and worse: He’s saddled with the two small blonde girls and Rick’s infant
daughter Judith. Things go from bad to worse for Tyreese when Carol (you know,
the one who he doesn’t know incinerated his sick girlfriend back at the prison)
shows up completely out of nowhere to join their little gang. They kill some
zombies, older blonde girl secretly tries to suffocate baby Judith in order to
keep her from crying and attracting zombies. We realize that this is the
group Daryl and Beth are tracking and the segment ends with Tyreese, Carol and
the kids making their way towards a settlement called Terminus.
Next it’s Maggie, Sasha and Bob,
who is the drunken black dude in case the name Bob doesn’t ring a bell. Bob is
also hurt, but he seems to have been shot, Maggie decides she’s going to leave
them to go follow the bus that Glenn was in, they decide to tag along, they
find the bus and surprise, it’s full of walkers. The gang works together to off
the walkers, Maggie goes inside to look for signs of Glenn. She’s attacked by
and kills one last walker, who keeps his back to the camera, but who has sorta
long, string hair. She breaks down. Did she do it? Did she kill Glenn?
The last segment of the night
answers that: No. You see, Glenn never got on the bus. He ended up stuck on a
catwalk at the prison, finds his way off, goes to take a nap, decides against
it. When he finally gets the memo that it’s time to leave the prison – seeing as
though it’s on fire and deserted, that seems like a plan – he stumbles upon Tara,
one of the Gov’s old pals. She’s pretty bummed about the whole let’s start a
war for that one-eyed guy we just met thing. Glenn, being the peach that he is
and not wanting to go it alone, asks her to come with. As per the usual, they
run into and mow down a bunch of zombies and then, as the episode concludes, a
military vehicle pulls up and out steps Rectangle Head, Danny McBride and Latino
Sarah Conner all decked out in military fatigues.
Busy episode, but a very strong
one.
