Finally, after seven (was it just seven? It surely felt like forever!?!) months of waiting, it’s finally here! The much-awaited season premiere was shown yesterday (Monday) at 11:45 a.m. and again last night at 8:55 p.m. in Manila but just too bad I was not able to watch both…boohoo! I was then waiting in line at the HPO clinic from 11-2pm yesterday to seek treatment for my recurring cough and so I was not able to watch the 11:45 showing that jived with the US timeslot. Then, again at the 8:55 pm showing, I was unable to watch because WE DON’T HAVE CABLE ANYMORE…another boohoo! And so I waited until this morning when Raymond, our resident ‘pirate’ arrived and gave us copies of the episode which he downloaded from the net…thank God for kind souls like Raymond. What’s more he also gave me 3 episodes of Homeland Season 4 (which is not yet showing in the PH, by the way, I wonder why???)…yippee! But I will write about that in a separate post…here’s the synopsis of the TWD’s Episode 1, aptly titled – NO SANCTUARY.
The episode takes off from where the last season ended when the group of Rick and company find out that Terminus offers no real sanctuary for any of them. So the group decides to get ready in case any members of Terminus men come in to get them. They fashion crude weapons from belt buckles, zippers and whatever comes in hand. But when somebody finally comes for them, it was not a person that came in but a gas canister. Next scene Rick is shown being dragged outside by a Terminus tough guy in a gasmask and placed inside a room with about 7 other men, including Glenn, Darryl and Bob.
A body is being cut up in a separate table while they were tied and gagged in front of a stainless steel trough. Then, the killing begins – four strangers were hit in the head with a baseball bat then their throats are cut and gutted like chickens. Next in line is Glenn then Gareth comes in asking for an inventory of the shot count from the two men conducting the killing. Rick takes out a weapon and waits for an opportunity to break free. Bob talks to Gareth and pleads for the group’s life claiming that they have a man, who knows a cure. But Gareth says it’s too late for that, he talks to Rick and asks what was in the bag he had before coming in to Terminus. Rick tells him it contains guns, the ones he will be using to kill Gareth. The executioner gets ready to hit Glenn with the bat when suddenly they hear a loud explosion outside and more shots are fired. Gareth tells them to stay behind while he goes out to find out what’s going on.
Earlier, we saw Carol and Tyreese with the baby walking towards Terminus. Carol tells Tyreese that she will help them get there but won’t stay (after what happened with Rick). She kills a walker who walks up behind them because Tyreese still can’t bring himself to kill after what happened in the cabin (with the 2 other girls). Then they see a horde of walkers approaching and they take cover in a nearby trench. They hear gunfire and see the walkers also headed in the same direction. They decide to go a different way but still proceeding towards Terminus. The two chance upon a Terminus guy out on patrol, looking for supplies and setting up firecrackers to distract walkers. They also hear him talking on the radio about the kid with a hat and the chick with a sword so Carol holds a gun to his head, tie him up and ask him where their friends are. But the guy refused to talk so Carol heads out on her own and leaves Tyreese and the baby with the man inside a cabin.
Tyreese is left alone in the cabin with Martin, the Terminus guy while Carol disguises herself in walker blood so she can walk with them inside the compound. Martin tries to convince Tyreese to just get up and leave with the baby in the car outside as he will surely die outside anyway, being too kind a person. Carol approaches the fence and sees Rick and the others being dragged from the boxcar. She also sees some of the Terminus residents trying to repel a bunch of walkers getting near the fence but they got panicky seeing there were so many of them. So Carol shoots at the propane tank to make it leak then fires a skyrocket into it to make it explode.
Inside the execution chamber, Rick quickly makes his move when Gareth leaves. He stabs one of the executioners in the head and the other one he stabs in the stomach and left him to die and turn. Carol gets inside the perimeter, still disguised as a walker. She sees a Terminus soldier firing at the group of walkers she is walking with so she hides and shoots him in the head. Meanwhile, Rick and the others enter the butcher’s room where they see human torsos hanging on hooks and they get some knives and machetes to defend themselves and free the others. Carol enters a room and finds clothes, jewelry (including Ric’s watch), weapons (including Daryl’s bow) and children’s toys. She takes the bow and the watch and enters the candle room where she meets Mary (the woman who welcomed Rick and his group) ordering her to turn around and drop her guns. Carol manages to shoot the woman in the leg and asks her why they are doing this. Mary explained that Terminus actually started out as a true sanctuary but evil men came and tortured/raped them. They fought back, won and now adopted the mantra – ‘you’re the butcher or you’re the cattle.’ (which explains the writing on the walls – NEVER AGAIN / NEVER TRUST) Carol did not kill her but instead lets walkers enter the room.
Back in the cabin, Tyreese hears walkers approaching and goes to the window to look out, providing Martin the opportunity to get near Judith and threaten to snap her neck if he does not go out to where some walkers await. With the sound of walkers attacking Tyreese, Martin tries to contact Terminus but fails. Suddenly all becomes quiet outside and Tyreese bursts back into the room, overpowers Martin and beats him. Inside the boxcar, the group gets agitated with the gunshots and noises that they hear outside but Carl assures them that his dad will come back for them. Sasha asks Eugene to tell them how to save the world in case he dies. But he explains that the process of fighting ‘fire with fire’is complicated that even if he left detailed instructions with pictures and videos, they still would not be able to reverse the process without him.
Meantime, Rick and the others battle walkers to get to their boxcar. He sees some of Gareth’s henchmen shooting at the walkers and takes the opportunity to get their guns and shoot them with it. They finally get to the others and they shoot/knife their way out to jump up the fence and get into the woods. Rick sees Gareth and his men still busy battling with walkers and shoots at him, wounding him on the shoulder. The group circle the woods to search the cache of guns and supplies they hid before entering Terminus. Rick tries to convince them to go back and kill all of them but Maggie and Glenn reason out that the place is already being run over by walkers and gutted by fire so they should just leave. Then, Daryl suddenly sees Carol going towards them and he hugs him with tears in his eyes. Rick, realizing that it may be Carol (whom he banished from the prison) who saved them hugged her also to thank her.
She takes them back to the cabin where Rick and Carl excitedly run towards Judith. Sasha and Tyreese also tearfully reunite. While, watching the heartwarming reunion, Rosita and Abraham talk that they need to tell them about something, but just not yet. Rick decides that they need to move on, away from Terminus instead of going back to destroy it. As the group leaves, they see a Terminus sign that Rick wipes down with mud and instead writes NO SANCTUARY to make other people stay away. Then, a flashback is shown (which was also by the way shown at the start of the episode) wherein the people of Terminus that we met were themselves inside the boxcar and some other men came inside to torture and rape their women. Gareth then vowed that they would fight back and regain Terminus back. In all, it was a good first episode…at least they’re all back together again (well, except for Beth). It’s also great to have Carol back as she was able to redeem herself quite well and save them all …then in the teaser for the next episode, it seems that they shall be meeting up with Father Gabriel (from the comics) and I just hope that he has Beth with him.
(photo grabbed from AMC)
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