Welcome to the recap and review of The Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 7. Ken offers his take on the episode and commentary. There are spoilers aplenty so if you still haven’t seen the episode, perhaps because of living under a dumpster, then please be advised.
SPOILER ALERT
Glen got under the dumpster. (I think I’ll die from lack of surprise) Three boring episodes later we learn he was able to escape a huge cluster of walkers. The dead body of Nicholas, draped over him allowed enough cover to escape.
In what they make out to be several days later, he slowly emerges like a newborn from a very slimy womb. He quickly takes inventory of the ammo left around him and gets a bottle of water tossed down to him by Enid.
As he climbs into the tiny apartment she has been staying in, he tries to get answers about what happened in Alexandria, but she doesn’t have much to tell him other than it wasn’t the walkers that caused the noise and all the gunshots, it was people. Glen obviously just wants to know if Maggie is ok, but Enid has no answers for him. In typical strange girl fashion, Enid flees the scene. It is obvious she has given up on the compound without even knowing the truth.
Meanwhile inside the walls: Rick surveys the barriers checking for damage as Morgan practices his ninja/jedi skills with his staff. Rick tells Morgan they should talk later and Morgan agrees (This is not the hey buddy let’s kick back and grab a cold one…No this is I’m seriously pissed but I’m too busy to deal with it right now.) Maggie keeps a lookout up in the tower hoping Glen will send some sort of signal. Rick believes that all of his “family” will be back and is trying to slow things down and figure out how to clear the walkers from the gates. Time is never something that anyone should count on in the world of the walkers.
Glen encounters the walker remains of Robert and retrieves the note he had written to his wife. He seems determined to deliver it, but not sure how to accomplish the journey.
Rick and Carl are still teaching Ron how to shoot a gun. (Am I the only one who knows this is a bad idea!?!) Ron wants to fire live bullets but there are several hundred (thousands?) undead reasons (just outside the gates and attracted to loud sounds) for Rick not to let him right now.
Morgan goes to Zoey… Denise. Sorry still not over series switch whiplash. Morgan thinks he thinks he is there for medical assistance, but Rick interrupts asking Morgan to come and “talk”. Rick is asking about the 5 people (Wolves) Morgan let escape, who attacked Rick in the RV and shot it up. Morgan owns up to letting them go, and he admits he wanted to kill them but he doesn’t know what’s right anymore and that he still believes people can change. It seems like the “all life is precious mantra” doesn’t sit well with anyone including Carol, who suddenly just re-appears after having been missing for awhile, and even Morgan has to question if he can fit in within the compound.
The horde is beginning to cause damage outside the gates (a large bell tower is creaking ominously), and Rick wants to use only “his group” to try and find a way out to draw them away. Diana brings the plans for expansion after the crisis is over. Michone seems the only one ready to accept them and look them over.
Eugene is in a class with other “rookies” from Alexandria learning to kill walkers with machetes, but is still having enormous problems dealing with his cowardess. He retreats in shame and the class continues.
Glen catches up with Enid and tells her he will not leave her beind and they are going back. She refuses and pulls a gun on him. Glen grabs it away. He tells her half the horde was heading toward the compound and tells her to lead the way. It’s one of those moments where we had potential to learn more about creepy and obviously not tough girl, but we come away empty.
Rick is trying to fortify the the walls with cross beams, Tobin comes to help and tells him there might be a better way to support them. He tries to explain to Rick that things move slower in the compound but they do move (It’s kind of an apology for not listening/trusting when he first arrived.) The whole town is starting to accept Rick’s leadership, but one has to wonder if he is as accepting of the community)
Enid and Glen find balloons and grabs them telling Glen they can be used to distract the walkers, he points out there are additional tanks and balloons nearby and they find them just off the road. Enid clams the compound wasn’t her home, but Glen points out it’s her defense mechanism.
Ron causes a distraction in the panty and grabs bullets from the armory. If he could write Rick’s name on one of them in his father’s blood, I think he probably would.
Glen and Enid come up on the horrific and huge horde, and Enid wants to run claiming the world is trying to die and they should just let it. Glen tells her it’s not true, and he won’t let her die. The walls are still up the houses are still up. They will find out the truth inside together.
Spencer tries to escape over the wall on a faulty steel cable/grappling hook, which breaks loose and he falls to the ground outside the compound. Terra risks her life leaning and shooting over the walls. Rick, Tobin, and Morgan manage to pull him back up (and he bitches about losing his shoe!?! WTF.) Rick chews out Tera for risking her life for “these people” a second time. She flips him off. Then he chews out Spencer for attempting the stupid stunt. Spencer claims he was trying to get to the cars and draw them away. Rick tells him he should come to him with any plans before he undertakes them. Spencer points out Rick wouldn’t have listened to him anyway.
Morgan returns to Denise in her makeshift hospital and finds her preparing medical cheat sheets. Morgan confides in her about the “prisoner” he is keeping locked in the basement and that he needs medical attention to dress a wound. Carol spots them walking to the basement together and follows them. Carol who is watching Judith quickly takes the baby to Jessie, and encounters Sam who still won’t come down from the upstairs. Carol tells him the only thing that stops people from becoming monsters is killing them.
Carol meets Morgan at the gate and confronts him about who the hell he has in the basement cell.
Ron is stalking Carl with a loaded gun.
Tera is looking for Denise and Rick tells her he is sorry for yelling at her. Diana thanks Rick for saving her son, and asks him why he did it. He tells her it’s because he was her son but she doesn’t believe it. She thinks he still has some humanity left in him.
A bunch of green balloons rise over the horizon and Maggie knows it’s a sign for Glen. Just then the rickety tower decides to fall and break the walls.
Yes, the walkers are coming in…the safety of the compound is over. And we have to wait to find out what happens next.
