Welcome to week two of life in Alexandria. The Grimes group is still having adjustment issues, but they are also working to maintain their killer instinct and not let their neighbors weaken them. It's a tough balance. While they remain suspicious of Deanna, they are starting to settle in to the roles they've been assigned. Here's where we are with "Forget:"
Mistreated, Misplaced, Misunderstood
If you were wondering how Sasha is coping with the losses she's suffered recently, there's a clear answer: the episode opens with her taking framed pictures from the house and using them for target practice. These photos are all of happy families and she takes them out as if she's exacting revenge. She shoots, the glass shatters, and she looks around. She does it again. And again. When all of the frames have been destroyed, Sasha walks over to the tree stump the pictures were perched on. She sits, sighs, and says "come and get me" to no one.
Rick, Carol and Daryl meet outside of the walls to discuss stealing some guns from the armory to stash in the event Alexandria isn't the home they hope it will be. Carol, in her amazing flowered sweater, has access to that area and plans to leave the window latch open so they can sneak in later. A Walker approaches near the end of their conversation. Carol takes him out and notices a "W" carved on the Walker's forehead. The dismembered torso zombies in Noah's neighborhood had similar markings...but no one seems bothered by this.
Daryl continues roaming through the woods and senses someone is following him. He finds Aaron, who asks to help Daryl hunt. They try wrangle "Buttons," a horse whose been milling about the gates for a while, but a bunch of Walkers thwart their attempt to bring Buttons back home with them. No really, the horse with the adorable name that was about to become Daryl's new pet became zombie food immediately. Bummer. Aaron looks devastated but continues to try to bond with Daryl, telling him that he's not as much of an outsider as he may think he is. Aaron and his boyfriend Eric still feel shunned at times. Aaron suggests Daryl try to let the community get to know him. "I ain't got nothin' to prove."
Get This Party Started
Michonne is donning her constable uniform today and I get a laugh out of watching her react to her new look in the mirror. She holds her sword while looking at her outfit and realizes the contrast of her recent role vs her new one. Deanna tells Rick and Michonne that people will respect their authority simply because Deanna tells them to. Deanna envisions a growing community that will someday have a government, a full police force, and so on. She wants Maggie to help her with this vision and Maggie is totally committed to having Alexandria be the salvation they've been looking for. Sasha approaches and wants to be a lookout in the clock tower (which, by the way, never has a lookout). Deanna says she'll consider it....if Sasha comes to the big welcome party Deanna is throwing for the group. Oh this should be good.
Carol volunteers to make cookies for the party (love it). She discusses recipes with Olivia, who manages the rations in the pantry as well as the gun inventory in the armory. She's a woman of many talents. When a couple of guys come to check out some guns for the day, Carol pretends to know very little about guns. One dude introduces himself as Tobin and offers to teach Carol to shoot anytime. She's able to switch the latch on the window before heading out to pick up the remainder of the baking ingredients.
The party is very low key when our heroes begin to arrive. Abraham and Smokin' Hot Rosita feel out of place right away. Rosita notes that beer is being served, which takes Abraham from "I don't know about this" to "I'm gonna try." Ha! Rick meets Deanna's husband Reg...and then meets Pete, Jessie's husband. I needed Jessie to not have a husband. This totally throws a wrench in the "Rick needs a girlfriend" story I was hoping for sooner rather than later. Jessie's youngest son Sam is walking around with a stamp for everyone's hand. The stamp is a big, red "A" like the one that was on the train car at Terminus. Rick doesn't seemed startled by the resemblance though. He's totally flirting with Jessie. While they are chatting she tells him that Alexandria is a good place to be....and even though the apocalypse took so much from them, they've gained a little something back with the people that have been brought into their lives. When Jessie hands Judith back over to Rick later, he kisses the side of her head and I squeal with joy. Inappropriate for a welcome party that her husband is at? Yes. Do I care? Absolutely not.
Who Knew?
Carol sneaks away to go snag some guns at the armory. Sam follows her though, hoping she was going to make more cookies, and she's caught in the act. Carol keeps her housewife smile on and tells Sam she'll happily make a batch of cookies just for him, but he has to keep this encounter a secret. Sam explains that he has to tell his mom because he tells his mom everything. Uh oh. We say goodbye to baker Carol and welcome back the baddest bitch on television:
"You can never anyone, especially your mom. Because if you do, one morning you'll wake up and you won't be in your bed. You'll be outside the walls far, far away....tied to a tree. And you'll scream because you'll be so afraid, but no one will come to help because no one will hear you. But something will hear you. The monsters will come and you won't be able to run away when they come for you. And they will tear you apart and eat you up all while you're still alive, while you can still feel it. And afterwards, no one will ever know what happened to you..... Or, you can promise not to ever tell anyone what you saw here and then nothing will happen, and you'll get cookies. Lots of cookies."
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| "I will **** you up." |
Sasha does show up at the party and she meets Deanna's other son, Spencer. He's only slightly less of a douchebag than his brother is and she walks away from him quickly. Sasha looks like she could break at any moment...and then she does. One of the women offers to cook her favorite meal for her. Sasha says she doesn't know what her favorite meal is, and the woman responds with "I'm worried I'm going to cook something you hate." Sasha flips out "THAT'S WHAT YOU WORRY ABOUT?!?!" This is the last party scene of the night.
You Gotta Get Up And Try
Daryl lingers outside of Deanna's house but chooses not to go in. When he walk's by Aaron's house on his way home, Aaron invites Daryl in for dinner, complimenting his efforts to "try." After some spaghetti and wine, Aaron leads Daryl to his garage where he is working to restore a motorcycle. He wants Daryl become a recruiter for the community because he knows good people from bad people, and he has the survival skills needed to travel outside of Alexandria to find new additions. Daryl is trying to hide his excitement about the bike and says "I got nothin' else to do. Thanks. I'll get you some rabbits." Awesome.
Carol meets with Rick and Daryl to hand out the guns she took. Daryl, surprisingly, says he doesn't know that they need them. The look on Carol's face is priceless given all she went through to get the guns. Daryl is serious though. "You wanted me to try, right? I'm good." Rick thinks about it for a second, then takes a gun with him. The episode ends with Michonne hanging up her sword. Literally. She mounts it over the fireplace and it makes me very sad. As much as I want this place to work out for them, the way Michonne wields that weapon is one of my favorite things about the show.
We've got to be on the brink of something now, right? We got a "W" when the episode started and an "A" half way through. The "R" has to be just around the corner. Will we see this community crumble before the season ends? Is Sasha guaranteed to do something completely reckless at this point? And how many times did Sam wet the bed that evening from the nightmares Carol undoubtedly gave him? I mean, that scene was even better than "we brought dinner." Just sayin.
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