Daddy Issues, Walker/Biter Slaughtering, And More On This Week’s ReCap of “The Walking Dead.”

This week’s episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead was almost lighthearted compared to last week’s cry-fest that saw the deaths of T-Dog, Laurie, and we assume Carol  (I say assume since we didn’t actually see Carol killed, she simply ran through a door and into the light, which seems WAAAAAAAYYYYY too subtle a way for the writers of the show to axe a major character).  Let’s recap this bitch, shall we?

Episode 5 titled “Say the Word” opens with LovesABadBoy Drea sharing a cool beverage with the creepy Stepbury “researcher” Milton.  They are at a community BBQ and when LovesABadBoy Drea asks Milton about tonight’s celebration he answers that “Mere words cannot adequately describe” what will happen.  Really, Milton?  To paraphrase Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons:  STOP TALKING LIKE A 18^th CENTURY NOVEL!!!  And take off those creepy glasses.

Speaking of creepy we leave the BBQ and move on to the Guv’Nor’s rooms where we see him brushing what we assume is a young girl’s hair.  HE’s cooing and brushing but OOPS, he pulls out a chunk of her scalp.  That’s right folks.  The Guv’Nor likes to brush the hair of his Biter daughter, Penny.  Biter Penny is pissed that her daddy fucked with her weave and goes ape-shit Biter crazy.  The Guv’Nor tries to calm her down with sweet nothings but Biter Penny is not having it.  The Guv then ties her straight jacket and puts a bag over her head.  Oh, to be able to do this to screaming chillin’ on flights…ahem…anyway back to the show.  After restraining his Biter daughter the Guv’Nor walks to his window and who do you think he sees, that’s right old Side-Eye Michonne.  Cleary she has super senses and knows all about the fuckery that just went on in his rooms.

Back at the prison the prison gang is still reeling from the deaths, especially Daddy Rick.  As everyone saw coming he goes bat shit crazy, picks up an axe and runs into the prison.  This scene has some of the best Walker kills yet.

Back in the yard Hershel sends Daryl and Maggie on a mission to find formula for the squalling babe aka Walker Magnet.

Back at Stepbury Michonne is liberating her samurai sword from the Guv’Nor’s room and then decides to do some snooping.  She finds a notebook full of names of women, the last one being Penny and then pages and pages of hash-marks.  This is a bit confusing.  Is this evidence of the Guv’Nor’s insanity?  It sort of gives me a Se7en feel.  Anyway she hears thumping behind the door but before she can break in she is disturbed by the Gov’Nor, Merle and Milton who are grabbing more supplies for the BBQ (you know beer, and chips and such) and Milton is whining about some sort of experiment.  The Guv’Nor shuts him down.

Michonne, sword in hand, is now wandering Stepbury and finds herself back by Milton’s lab and encounters a cage full of Biters.  Being out of practice and more than a little bloodlusty she frees the Biters and slaughter’s them posthaste.  This scene rival’s Daddy Rick’s rampage in sheer carnage and beauty.  Oopsie…some Stepbury resident sees her and runs and tattles to the Guv’Nor.

The Guv’Nor is not happy that she slaughtered the Biters but admires her moxy and skills.  He thinks he has the upper hand but he does not.  When he offers Michonne a deal she pulls a ninja move, gets her sword back and puts it to his throat.  Instead of stone executing him she slips out the door.  The Guv’Nor keeps the encounter from Merle.

Back at the prison Glenn is mopey and digging graves he blah, blah, blahs to Hershel about thinking they should have killed all the prisoners at first site and…ugh I just can’t with the prison gang this week.  The story is boring so I will wrap it up quickly.  Daryl and Maggie find formula, Glenn is conflicted, Hershel is wise and they still haven’t named the baby.  Oh, and Glenn is almost killed by psycho Daddy Rick because psycho Daddy Rick is consumed by bloodlust.  Oh, and Daryl puts a Cherokee Rose on what we assume is Carol’s grave.  Of course it is an empty grave since they never found her body and I for one am not convinced she is dead.

Back at Stepbury Michonne is packing and LovesABadBoy Drea , having been told what went down by the Guv’Nor, is confronting her.  Michonne isn’t having it.  She knows that Stepbury is wicked but wants LovesABadBoy Drea agree with her without hard evidence.  Michonne insists that nobody ever leaves Stepbury and LovesABadBoy Drea seems OK with that.  In the end Michonne leaves and LovesABadBoy Drea stays.  Something tells me this isn’t the last we will see of Michonne.

Meanwhile Merle is catching Biters and pulling their teeth out.  More on that later.

Back at the prison Daddy Rick has found the boiler room where Lori met her end but doesn’t find her body.  What he finds instead is a trail of viscera leading to a bloated Walker that is apparently in the throes of a massive food coma having devoured Lori’s corpse.  REALLY??????  THAT IS AWESOME!  Daddy Rick offs the hungry, hungry Walker in suitable dramatic fashion then falls against the wall.  He hears a baby cry and he sort of comes to.  Then a phone starts ringing.  A phone you say?  That’s right folks a telephone.  Rick stumbles to the receiver picks it up and says, “Hello.”

Back at Stepbury the Guv’Nor is leading LovesABadBoy Drea to some bleachers .   And what are they watching you may ask?  Well it’s a bare knuckle boxing match between Merle and some other muscley member of the Stepbury community but with a twist.  They are surrounded by chained up Biters.  If they get too close to the Biters they may die.  LovesABadBoy Drea is appalled even when the Guv’Nor tells her that they Biters are toothless she isn’t having it.  He says the peeps of Stepbury need to blow off steam.  She seems to start regretting not going with Michonne.

And…SCENE!

Overall a good episode, we got character development, plot advancement and a lot of epic Walker/Biter slaughtering.   See you next week!