Walking Dead: Episode 2 Season 1 recap

The second episode gives us insight at what happens at the Survivors camp with Amy, Lori, Shane, Dale, Daryl, and a few others, while the crap really hits the fan in Atlanta.

 Lori and Shane pursue their unbridled passion. Shane had told Lori in the previous episode that her husband Rick was dead, so she is moving on with her life.

Rick has made it into the city via horse after his car ran out of gas, but rides right into a throng of walkers who want nothing more than to eat him for a snack. He takes refuge in an abandoned tank and hides inside as the ‘walkers’ mill around outside.

A voice comes over the tank’s PA system and tells Rick about the walkers and suggests he scurry away while they are busy eating his horse. After getting out of the tank,  he runs down the alley shooting zombies as he goes and meets up with his savior from the PA system.

Glenn introduces himself and leads Rick into a building. Here he introduces Rick to the rest of the group, Andrea, T-Dog, Jacqui, Morales, who are taking refuge in a department store. Walkers surround the building, pounding on the door.

A group ascends the steps to the roof where Merle is shooting walkers and wasting bullets. A physical and verbal fight with racial slurs ensues, Merle holds a gun to T-dog’s head, and Rick handcuffs Merle to a pipe on the roof.

The group tries to figure out a plan to escape the building without dying. Morales and Glenn check out the sewer system, which is accessible in the building’s cellar.  The sewer system is not possible due to the fact of walkers being down there so anything plan is hatched.

Rick and Glenn cover themselves in walker gore to mask their live scent and go out among the zombies to fetch a van.  A sudden downpour washes them clean, while they are among the zombies and they end up running for their lives.  They hop over a fence, locate the keys and speed away in the van.

To lure the walkers away from the loading dock where Rick will pick up the other live ones, Glenn steals a sporty car. The car’s alarm system is blaring loudly and attracting the walkers, Glenn drives it away from the remaining group.

 T-dog does go back to remove the handcuffs from Merle but drops the key down a drain.  T-dog has no choice but to quickly chain, the door shut so the walkers will not get Merle.

Andrea, T-Dog, Jacqui, Glenn, Morales, and Rick escape the city while Merle is left handcuffed to a pipe on top of the department store.

 Questions:

Does Merle survive or do the walkers eat him?

If you were in T-dog’s shoes would you have done anything differently?

Do you think Lori decided to move on with her life, by sleeping with Shane so early?