Quick Recap of Season 3 so far

Rick's Way or the Walker Highway

Episode 1 'Seed'

 The Season 3 premiere of the Walking Dead picks up months after the finale of season 2. After Rick let the group know that it was his way or the highway, everyone seemed to quickly accept it. As Lori is more evidently pregnant now, the group has been moving from house to house, but now need to find a place to settle so Lori can delivery the baby. Most of the group now are well versed in Walker killing, and Carl now can hold his own as demonstrated in the episode's first few minutes. Once the group clear out a new house, more Walkers show up and their few minutes of rest now turn into another re-grouping. 

 While everyone decides to gather some water, Rick and Daryl decide to go hunting and stumble upon the prison, which Rick views as a possible safe haven. The group first clear out the outer prison yard and make camp, while Rick plans on them pushing forward into the prison once morning comes. While inside, they clear out a prison cell block and prepare to clear out another when they get split up by inmate Walkers. Glenn and Maggie manage to hide, while Rick, T-Dog, Hershel, and Daryl regroup to look for them. Maggie calls out for them, but only Hershel hears, so he walks back to find them and unfortunately walks over a walker who bites his leg. Rick kills the Walker and the group run into a room locked by handcuffs in order to help Hershel. 

Acting quickly, Rick chops off Hershel's leg in hopes to cut away the infected area, while Daryl spots a group of shadows watching in the other side of the room. These shadows turned out to be inmate survivors who have been locked inside since the initial outbreak. 

 This episode also showed us Michonne gathering medicine for Andrea, who has taken ill during their time together. After discussing what to do next, the group decide to head out with Michonne's walkers in tow. 

 Episode 2 'Sick' 

Helping Hershel

 After Hershel passes out from the loss of blood, Rick and the others begin to head back to the cell block while Daryl keeps an eye on the prisoners who slowly follow the group back. Rick sets up Hershel on a prison bed and everyone gathers items to help stop his leg from bleeding. The prisoners manage to find their way back to the others, where Daryl awaits armed with his cross-bow. Tomas, the apparent leader of the inmates, states that the block that they currently occupy is Cell Block C, his old home and he wants back in. Daryl and T-Dog hold them back as Rick makes his way over them. After calming everyone down, Rick asks the inmates how long they were held in the room, and they explain that they've been hidden for 10 months once the riot broke out and everyone started biting and attacking one another. 

The inmates hope to reach out to their family and Rick and Daryl explain that at least half of country if not more has been turned into infected walkers. Once outside the inmates got a safer look at the walkers and we're told that everyone is infected and death will bring you back as a shell only seeking to feed on the living. Tomas claims that the group can stay outside while they live in Cell Block C, but Rick proclaims that they took the prison and will let the inmates stay as long as they keep to another cell block, which Rick and the others will help clear out. Tomas agrees and Rick states that they must also offer up half of the inmates food. 

 Disappointed by the lack of weapons given to them, the inmates first try to attack the walkers in the only way they know how, but get quickly schooled on the proper way by the others. After dispatching of some walkers, Big Tiny, the largest inmate in the group finds himself on the receiving end of a walker scratch. The others get to him and prepare to leave him as he pleads that he is fine, but Tomas swings at Big Tiny and connects, sending him down as Tomas continues to attack, killing Big Tiny and preventing his transformation.

Covered in blood, Tomas and the others move on and prepare to clear another room. Rick hands Tomas the keys and tells him to open one of the door to better control the Walker flow, but Tomas ignores this order and opens both doors, letting in more Walkers than needed. During the process, Tomas takes a swing a Rick and then launches a Walker onto Rick, which Daryl takes care of. After they cleared out the room, Rick kills Tomas while the others take aim at the other prisoners and hold them while Rick chases after the one who escapes. He unfortunately runs outside, where a group of Walkers await. Rick closes the gate on him and returns to the group, where they let the remaining two inmates live and escort them to a cell block.

During all of this, Lori, Carol, Maggie, Beth, Glenn, and Carl watch over Herschel, expecting him to turn. Carl takes matters into his own hands and locates the infirmary, where he finds medical supplies to help with Hershel. While everyone is thankful for him, Lori gets upset that he goes alone, and Carl angrily snaps at her, leaving the cell. 

In the end, Hershel survives the bite and is alive and well, albiet missing one leg. Rick thanks Lori for her help, and Carol asks Glenn to help her find a Walker outside to cut open, since that may be the only way to properly deliver Lori's baby.

Episode 3 'Walk With Me'

"Welcome to Woodbury"

This episode was mainly focused on Andrea, Michonne, and the Governor. When a group of soldiers crash their chopper in the woods, Andrea and Michonne go to investigate, and quickly hide as the Governor and his men make their way to the crash. The men are prepared to leave when they begin hearing the sounds of Michonne's pets, who she quickly beheads to save her and Andrea from detection.

The coast seems clear, but the ladies find themselves held at gunpoint by Meryl, Daryl's brother who was last seen handcuffed on a roof in Atlanta. Forced to cut off his hand to save himself from Walkers, Meryl somehow made his way out and into the Governor's group.

The ladies are then taken to Woodbury, the town established by the Governor and has a vast group of survivors, including children and pregnant women. Impressed by what he has done, Andrea wishes to stay around while Michonne wants to leave asap, which may not be a bad idea. 

One of the soldiers survives the crash and is questioned by the Governor about his purpose of flying and if they were other soldiers around. Once he obtains this information, he finds the soldiers and notifies him about the pilot and offers for them to join. Once their guard is done, he shoots one of the soldiers, and his men reveal themselves in the surrounding fields and ambush the soldiers, killing all of them. They then take their supplies and head back to Woodbury.

Before he left to find the soldiers, the Governor was speaking with the town scientist about Michonne's pets and they come to the conclusion that having disabled Walkers around could help them blend in when out in the areas.

After they return, the Governor gives a speech to the town and heads home for the night. He looks over the town from his window, grabs a drink, and heads into his hidden room and sits in his chair to reflect on his day. The camera then turns to what else is in the room: a tank full of Walker heads that still have life in them, with the rescued pilot being at the top. 

Woodbury may not be the perfect sanctuary after all.

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Walkers lie beside the dying fire

Spoilers Ahead! Recap of the Season 2 Finale

The Season finale started off with a brief scene with a group of walkers back in Atlanta – just doing their own thing, when a helicopter flies above and gets their attention. This attracts them and they start walking towards its direction. This walking ends up being in the same area where Hershel’s farm is, and they settle out in the woods when they hear the shot that kills undead Shane by Carl. This alerts them to begin walking towards the farm. It’s possible that their journey started from season one since Rick also spotted a helicopter while in Atlanta.

While walking back, Carl wonders if Shane was bitten before he put him down, and Rick hesitates to answer when suddenly they spot the massive group of Walkers coming right for them. Far from the house, they make a dash to the barn, where Rick lays out gasoline and tasks Carl with lighting up the barn once Rick gives the go-ahead. While they take out at least fifteen Walkers or so, they still have many to deal with.

Back in the house, Glenn and Daryl arrive back to tell the group about Randal, and Lori notices that Carl is gone from the house when they finally spot the Herd on the farm. While escaping is the main goal, the group also begins taking out some of the Walkers while others can get to the vehicles. Back at the barn, Carl and Rick are on top of the roof when Jimmy comes by in the RV. He stops and lets them jump on to escape, but the RV door wasn’t locked, allowing Walkers to get and they begin eating poor Jimmy. Rick and Carl get off from the back and begin looking for the others near the house, while Hershel is seen gathering weapons and takes a shotgun – then quickly starts dispatching Walkers that get nearby.

“This is my farm. I’ll die here.”


When it seems like he may be right about dying, Rick shows up and takes out a Walker who was about to take a bite out of Hershel. They make their way towards a vehicle, as they are under the assumption that everyone else will meet up on the highway – the same fateful spot where they first lost Sophia.

Before they left, Lori, T-Dog, and Maggie’s younger sister leave, but Patricia was not so lucky as she was grabbed and take down by multiple Walkers. Carol also gets cornered, but Andrea saves her, but gets surrounded so she makes a run into the woods – toting the gun bag that contains extra ammo. Daryl comes around on his bike, and picks up Carol as they leave to go towards the highway. Glenn and Maggie make it out too, and they pull over to switch positions since Maggie is upset and worried about her family. Glenn tells her he loves her and they drive toward the highway.

As Rick drives off, Hershel looks back to see his barn burned down and his home overrun by Walkers. Rick, Carl and Hershel are the first to make it to the highway, and after a while, they worry that everyone else may have went different ways. They spot a lone Walker and let him pass, and when Rick is considering just leaving with Carl, he hears the sounds of approaching vehicles and reunites with the group – and thankfully Lori as well. They drive out for a while, but stop when Rick begins to get low on fuel.

With some time to talk, the group go into discussion of Shane and how he was a Walker when Rick tells them a secret he’s known since the Season 1 finale: Jenner whispered to him that everyone’s infected, so upon death they will turn. The group wonders why Rick would keep this secret, but he states he wasn’t even sure it was true until Shane. He goes off on his own to cool down when Lori comes to comfort him – he uses this to tell her that he killed Shane and that he wanted to stop him and all the trouble he was causing. Even though she told Rick about how Shane was dangerous, she is still shocked and walks away from Rick.


Andrea is shown again fending of Walkers – but barely since she is exhausted and still carrying the weapons. When one Walker appears to finish her off, it gets slice by a sword, held by a mysterious person with two Walkers chained up, with their mouth and arms cut off. This mysterious person is Michonne, one of the coolest characters from the comic who will no doubt be a great addition to Season 3.

Back at camp with Rick’s group, he defends himself against his actions, telling everyone that they can leave if they want, and that if they are going to stay, they need to trust him.

“There is no more democracy! My hands are clean!"

The camera then zooms out, and shows what is nearby: a prison.

Could there be safety behind bars?

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‘Better Angels’ than Demons on the Walking Dead

Spoilers Ahead! Recap of Season 2: Episode 12

The episode started off with an expected burial for Dale, as Rick led the sayings for their fallen friend. Dale left them with thoughts of humanity in their mind, and that’s something I think will be in the group’s minds for a while. Carl still felt guilty about not acting when in the woods and went to Shane, asking him to take the gun he stole from Daryl and return it – while also telling Shane about the Walker that killed Dale. Shane goes to tell Rick about Carl, but he seemed to be more focused on ensuring that ‘Operation Free Randal’ will go smoothly – which would include keeping Shane away from him.

The main focus of the episode not only included freeing Randal, but also focused on moving the group into Hershel’s house and preparing for the seasonal change. Hershel offered up his room to Lori, Rick, and Carl, so that she may have a comfortable space to be for her pregnancy.


Shane is off near a tower building what appears to be a nice perch for lookouts to be posted when Lori comes by and discusses how thankful she was to be saved by him and that she is still unsure on who the actual father of her unborn child is.

Rick catches up with Carl and they talk about the past, the death that will come to everyone at some point, and how things have and are changing. He gives Carl the gun officially and they leave the conversation a bit better.

Back in the barn, Randal is shown desperately trying to free himself from captivity when Shane pops in to free him. They both go into the woods, where Shane tells Randal that he wants to go to their camp and join them. He allows Randal to lead the way and then proceeds to knockout Randal and then injures himself against a tree.


T-Dog is the first to discover Randal is missing and Shane runs out of the woods with a bloody face yelling to everyone that Randal has run off after attacking him. The group goes into lockdown while Rick, Shane, Daryl, and Glenn go searching for Randal. Daryl and Glenn circle back and discover Randal – now a Walker after it is revealed his neck was broken, thanks to Shane – and proceed to but him down. They discover that death despite a bite or scratch from a Walker will ensure you awake as an Undead.

Shane and Rick venture back toward the barn when Rick realizes Shane’s plan: Kill Rick and cover it up with Randal’s disappearance. Shane insists on Rick drawing his gun, but Rick refuses. He closes in on Shane and stabs him in the chest. Laying Shane down to die, Rick is upset that he was forced to kill his best friend. He awaits Shane’s change when Carl comes by – armed with the gun he was given by Rick. Rick tries to explain the situation when an undead Shane approaches him, and is shot in the head by Carl. The shot is revealed to alert many Walkers nearby, and they begin their walk towards them.

There’s only one episode left in the Season, so be sure to check it out next Sunday!

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Judge, Jury, Executioner: It's all about survival now

Spoilers Ahead! Recap of Season 2: Episode 11

It must be hard to be a kid during a Zombie Apocalypse. After the group lost Sophia, Carl found himself without someone around his age to hang out with, and slowly had to witness the craziness of what the group has to do to survive. He spent the episode wondering around, insulting Carol and stealing a gun in the process. His father, who told them to think about his actions and find a way to apologize to Carol, then went to hear Dale out on the topic of Randal, who was recently interrogated by Daryl.

While speaking to Daryl, Randal told him that his group have about 30 men, who found a group of female survivors and took advantage of them – while the girls’ father was forced to watch. Yeah, Randal’s groups aren’t nice people, but that should already be well known based on the previous episodes. After finding out this knowledge, the group feels like the decision should be one of survival, but Dale still refuses, stating it would really be the end of their past and humanity.


Before the group met in Hershel’s house to discuss Randal, Carl wondered over to Daryl’s campsite and checked out his bike – then went through his stuff and took out a gun from the bike’s side compartment and went into the forest. Carl then went into the wood and found a lone walker who was stuck in the mud. Carl first began throwing rocks at him, but then he tried to kill him with the gun but panicked when the walker got loose. Dropping the gun, Carl runs back to camp and the walker starts to get free from the mud.

Back at the meeting, the group decides to ultimately kill Randal, and Rick, Shane, and Daryl take him to the barn. Daryl puts him on his knees, and Rick says those famous words:

“Any last words?”

In the background, Carl is watching.

“Do it, Dad. Kill him.”


Rick was ready to kill Randal, but couldn’t with his son there. They delay the kill, and Dale spots one of Hershel’s cattle – laying wounded in the grass from a attack. Then appears a walker, who knocks Dale down and claws into his chest, severly wounding him. The group runs over and kills the walker, but Dale is badly hurt and suffering. Daryl apologizes and then puts Dale out of his misery with a gunshot. Carl comes by and spots the walker – the very one he tried and failed to kill earlier in the woods.

It must be hard to be a kid during a Zombie Apocalypse.

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‘18 Miles Out’ with a discussion of the future on the Walking Dead

The beginning of ’18 Miles Out’ starts with chaos and a glimpse of the future showing a bloody Shane running from Walkers. He makes his way to a school bus and tries to close the door as more and more Walkers try to get in. Then the title sequence starts.

This episode appears to be a few days or maybe a week or two after Triggerfinger. Rick and Shane are on their drive out of town, as they look for a place to dump Randal, the young shooter who is now in the back of their trunk waiting to be released somewhere. Rick drives out on the road the talk to Shane about Otis, Lori, and their brief romance when Rick was still looking for them in Atlanta. He tries to lay out the guidelines if they are to continue a friendship, and thanks Shane for keeping them safe, and Shane say that they kept him alive during the chaos. He also apologizes for leaving Rick in the hospital, and explained how the soldiers there were killing everyone, not just the Walkers. After this conversation, Rick checks on Randal, who is in the trunk bound, gagged, blind-folded, and has earphones on blasting music so he can’t see or hear anything regarding the farm’s location in case he catches up with his group.

After discussing ideas on how to survive in the long run, Rick continues to drive as Shane looks out the window and spots a lone walker walking through a field. They arrive to a town and Rick wants to scavenge up some items so Randal has a fair chance to be on his own.


Back on the farm, Maggie's sister is being delivered food by Lori when she comments on Lori's pregnancy, stating that this world with Walkers isn't a good environment to live in anymore. After not eating anything on the plate she was given, the younger Greene daughter takes a knife from the plate when Lori leaves the room. After returning the plate to the kitchen, Lori notices the knife is gone and goes up to take it back, while also looking for Maggie or Hershel so they can talk to the girl.

She finds Maggie and leads her to confront her sister, then she goes back downstairs and her and Andrea have an interesting conversation about the gender roles and responsibilities around the farm. Lori is upset with Andrea that she doesn't clean or do laundry, where Andrea argues that she is better at keeping watch and protecting the farm. She then tells Lori that she has it better than any other woman because her core family is still intact, whereas everyone else has lost a good amount of people. Andrea then tells her it must be nice to have a "Husband, son, baby on the way and boyfriend" – referring to her time with Shane. They also argue that Maggie's sister should choose herself if she wants to live in this world or not.

When Maggie tires a bit, Andrea relieves her and talks to the younger sister, telling her she should choose on her own. Andrea leaves the room, and Maggie and Lori find the bathroom door locked, with the girl inside with broken glass. Crying and bleeding, but alive, the girl decides to live. Maggie looks for Andrea and is furious – telling her she's no longer allowed inside the house.

After scoping out the area, Rick and Shane drop Randal on the road and begin to walk away. Randal begins pleading to go with them, and says he went to school with Maggie. This alerts both men and they go back to him, and now are conflicted since he may know where the farm is now. Shane wants to ease this problem and tries to shoot him, but is stopped by Rick. Shane says Rick can't protect them, and this ignites the fight we've been waiting for.

After duking it out for a few minutes, Shane throws a wrench at Rick, which hits a window of a building – which contains all the Walkers from the start of the show. They both manage to run from them, and even Randal is able to kill one despite being tied up. Randal meets up with Rick to help, and they both leave while Shane is still trapped, but quickly return to save him.

Important note I noticed about this episode: There were two Walkers they were sheriffs that Rick and Shane kill. Rick wanted to focus on using knifes so ammo could be spared, and after killing them, Shane notices that they weren't bit. They realize that scratches can turn you too. After leaving from that intense moment with the walkers, Shane spots the lone walker once again. What does that mean?

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Walking Dead gets itchy with ‘Triggerfinger’

After the explosive return of the Walking Dead with ‘Nebraska’, you would think things would calm down a bit for the group, but that was certainly not the case. After fending off Dave and Tony, Rick has shown he can do whatever it takes to survive for his family and friends, and as he, Hershel, and Glenn were ready to leave the bar, a group of new men showed up looking for their now dead pals. After attempting to lay low, the three men then hears the group call for their friends. Moments go by as they yell out for them, and then Rick responds to try and part ways.


“Your men fired on us. We defended ourselves. We didn’t want to, but its like that now – you know that.”

Silence comes afterwards, followed by multiple gunshots from both sides. Meanwhile on the farm, the group realizes at dinner that Lori is gone and no one has seen her since the afternoon, so Shane leaves to find her. In ‘Nebraska’, Lori crashed her car driving into town looking for Rick, and awakes at night with a Walker attempting to get into the car, which was on its side after the accident. Lori slowly awakes and is able to kill the Walker, as well as shoot another that was close to getting her that appeared from the woods. Shane catches up to her and she refuses to go back to the farm unless Rick and the others return, so Shane lies to get her back safe.

After returning to the farm, she quickly discovers she’s been deceived and Shane tries to reason with her and explains he did it to protect her and the baby – which Carl overhears and wonders why she didn’t tell him about it. His path towards being the child without fear continued as he stated he wasn’t worried when Lori was out there alone.


Back at the bar, both groups remained cautious about stepping out, but they were forced to withdraw after a large group of Walkers began showing up. Hershel was able to wound one of the men, and the Walkers brutally finished him off. One of the men who was much younger than the others was atop a roof when the men were ready to leave. When he jumped off to leave, he fell on a fence and was impaled in the leg and stuck. The other men left, and Rick, Glenn, and Hershel were ready to leave when they spot the young shooter, and ponder whether to leave him or not.

The Walkers begin to surround them, so they quickly attempt to cut off his leg, but Rick instead pushes his leg off the fence, which saved time and unfortunately causes tremendous pain to the young attacker, but I’m sure its better than being eaten alive. After finally returning to the farm, the group discusses what to do with the young man, and Lori discusses with Rick that Shane may have killed Otis, and that he doesn’t think Rick can protect everyone. She also tells Rick that Shane believes Lori is his in this world, and then leaves Rick with a look of annoyance and anger with his longtime friend.

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Overview of 'Nebraska' (The Walking Dead)

After an almost two-month wait, the Walking Dead made it's return last week with 'Nebraska', the 14th episode of the second season. Things picked up right where the mid-seasons finale left off, with the group right outside the barn, simply observing the pile of walkers they dispatched, with the main focus on the body of Sophia. The pain of losing not only one of their group members but a child will no doubt change the dynamic on the farm, and the questions immediately began towards Herschel and his people.

Did they really not know that Sophia was the little girl in the barn?

Would they have told Rick's group eventually about the infected barn?

Even if they didn't, they surely could have put two and two together based on the fact that Rick and his group were looking for a little girl for days, and despite the fact the barn was full of infect family members, they could have eventually shared this strange secret to give Sophia's mother some closure and eliminate the false hope she had for finding her daughter safe and sound.

Shane was furious about the barn, and many believe he was justified in clearing out the barn. He appears to be more realistic than Rick now, and believes that survival must come first before compassion. He even yelled at Rick in the previous episode.

"Things have changed, Rick! It ain't like it was before!"

Now more people are behind Shane than Rick, so that may create some issues in later episodes, especially Dale since he still has problems with Shane since their intense encounter in the woods.

Carl, who is the son of Rick and Lori, is starting to become more like his character in the comic. When Rick shot the infected Sophia, Carl tells his mom that he understands why he did that, and Carl says he would have done the same thing. You can see the worried expression in Lori's face as her son now talks about killing so calmly. Zombie Apocalypse or not, Lori still wants Carl to be happy and respect the world, but with many of it's inhabitants out to eat living people, its pretty hard to instill the lessons she and Rick went through as a child.

The ending to this episode was great as well. The talk between Herschel and Rick in the barn, to the intense moment with the two strangers created one of the coolest moments in the show since the beginning episodes.

Welcome back, Walking Dead. I missed you!

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