{"id":73394,"date":"2015-10-20T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=73394"},"modified":"2015-10-20T06:45:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T13:45:50","slug":"walking-dead-602-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/walking-dead-602-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Walking Dead’ 6.02 Recap: “Don’t Tell Me Goodbye”"},"content":{"rendered":"

As suspected at the conclusion of the season premiere<\/a>, this week’s entry of ‘The Walking Dead’ is all about what happened back at Alexandria while Rick and the gang were herding Walkers. But then, just when you think this is going to be a filler episode, all hell breaks loose inside the town’s walls.
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Before the episode catches us up on Alexandria, it spends the pre-title scene showing us how Enid found her way into the community, starting with having to watch her parents get eaten by Walkers. As she spends day and night alone trying to get by (including eating a tortoise raw!), she keeps scribbling “JSS” everywhere she goes. What does it mean? We’ll find out by episode’s end.<\/p>\n

Carol is still playing Suzy Homemaker around the other women in the community, although she takes a moment to show us the real<\/em> Carol when she comes across young Sam feeling down in the dumps about his father’s death and basically tells the kid to suck it up and get over it. She doesn’t even offer him any cookies this time around! Jesse tries to give Ron a haircut, but he refuses and doesn’t like the fact that his mom has been all chummy with Rick. Meanwhile, Gabriel goes to talk to Carl and wants to apologize for the way he’s acted. Carl says it’s a good idea to tell everyone else as well, and promises to show Gabe how to use a machete later in the day. After Gabriel leaves, Carl notices Enid hugging another boy, and seems pretty jealous about it.<\/p>\n

While cooking in the kitchen, Carol notices one of her neighbors outside getting ready to light up a cigarette. All of the sudden, the woman gets attacked by a guy with a machete. Up in one of Alexandria’s watchtowers, Spencer (Deanna’s son) sees other rough-looking people running into the town, all carrying various forms of weaponry (knifes, sharp sticks, etc.), but without any guns. <\/p>\n

Back at her house, Jesse hides in the closet with Sam. Over at the Grimes’ residence, Carl has already gotten his machine gun and he and Enid stay inside to protect baby Judith. A large semi-truck comes barreling down the road and crashes into the Alexandria gate, causing its horn to go off. Now we know where the loud noise that distracted the herd of Walkers came from from.<\/p>\n

While most of our Alexandria residents get involved in the action in one way or another, this episode is really all about Carol. She mercy-kills a neighbor who’d been stabbed and then camouflages herself as one of the Wolves (yes, that’s who’s attacking), including using blood to draw a ‘W’ on her forehead. <\/p>\n

Spencer goes to stop the horn from blaring, but the driver has already turned into a Walker and Spencer has trouble getting to the horn. All of a sudden, Morgan appears on the other side of the cab and kills the Walker with his staff. The horn is now silent, but the attack on Alexandria is far from over.<\/p>\n

Morgan runs into Carol and is less than pleased with the way she’s acting. Morgan tells her that she doesn’t need to kill everyone, but that’s not stopping Carol. Later, however, Morgan faces off against a Wolf who recognizes him. Morgan tells the Wolf and his companions that they don’t have guns and will wind up dead if they keep doing the things they do. Toward the conclusion of the episode, Morgan gets into another fight with a Wolf who also recognizes him. I believe this is the same Wolf Morgan had an encounter with in an earlier episode.<\/p>\n

The citizens of Alexandria are able to drive the Wolves out, but not without a lot of losses (basically a bunch of characters we don’t really know well, if at all). New community doctor Denise (Merritt Wever from ‘Nurse Jackie’) \u2013 whose scenes seem somewhat inconsequential \u2013 loses her first patient on the operating table as Eugene and Tara look on. Jesse has to stab a female Wolf to death in her kitchen with a pair of scissors. Carol laments (probably not too long, though) about the people she had to kill. Finally, it looks like Enid deserts Carl and the others\u2026 but she left a note behind for him: “Just Survive Somehow.”<\/em> Now we know what “JSS” stands for.<\/p>\n

Fans will spend all week raving about how badass Carol is in this episode, and I agree\u2026 but the continuing development of Morgan is far more interesting to me. Will his opposition to killing lead to some bad blood between himself and the others? Hopefully it won’t be too long before we start getting some answers. For now, we know that there are a whole lot of Walkers still heading in the direction of Alexandria, and a lot of people there already exhausted from one fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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