THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 5 EPISODE 6 – CONSUMED

For tonight’s episode of TWD, the focus this time was on Carol. It starts with her leaving the prison and Rick seeing her off after revealing to him how she killed the other prisoners who were then sick with the plague. After she left, she was seen crying by the roadside, consumed with guilt (as the episode title suggests) but she easily picks herself up and settles into some form of existence living on her own. She didn’t seem to live very far away as she was still able to see the smoke rising from the prison and sees that it had been burned and razed to the ground.

Then, the scene shifts to the present with Daryl and Carol going off in the car (Season 5 Episode 2) to follow a vehicle with a white cross (similar to the one that got Beth). They decide to follow the car and find out where Beth was. Soon the vehicle stops and they see two cops get out of the car but when they start the car again, they had run out of gas and so they find someplace safe to settle in for the night. They find a center for abused children with bunkbeds and after a bit of talking about starting over, they hear something and encounter an adult walker with some child walkers silhouetted in the door of another room. They decided not to kill them off but the next day when Carol woke up she finds Daryl burning bodies (I guess they’re of the walkers from last night)...it’s like a flashback of Tyreese and Carol burying the bodies of the girls from Season Four.

The next day, Daryl and Carol leave the center and enter Atlanta hoping to encounter the car with the cross once again. They enter what looks to be a carpark building where Noah was holed up but Carol and Daryl don’t notice and instead proceeds to the highest office window in the building to try and find the cross in the car. They look down into the desolate city and wonder what happened to the world. Carol finally admits what happened to the girls with her and Tyreese and Daryl admits they need to forget and start over. Daryl then sees an ambulance van with the same cross on the back windows and so they decide to go over there and find out where it’s from as it might lead them to Beth. On their way out, they run into Noah and he manages to get Carol’s gun and Daryl’s crossbow. He lets out a few walkers and escape then Carol wants to shoot him but Daryl stops her since he was just a kid.

Daryl and Carol proceed to the white van with the crosses that they spotted earlier and find medical equipment from Grady Memorial Hospital so they figured that’s where Beth may be. But soon the two are swarmed by walkers and cannot escape thru the road so they enter the ambulance once again and they just let the van fall...amazingly it fell upright and a few of the walkers fall dead after them. The two make plans after seeing that Grady Memorial is just three blocks away. They decide to find a good place to see/watch over the place and find out more about the people who have Beth. While doing their ‘stakeout’ Beth and Carol talk about their lives and how much they both have changed – Daryl from one who was like a kid with a crossbow and now he’s a responsible man. Carol revealed that she too had changed from a woman who waited for something to happen so she can be rid of her abusive husband into someone who can take action and make things happen for herself.

Soon they hear noises and go to investigate and they see Daryl’s crossbow stuck into some walker’s head. Then they heard gunshots and see Noah in a room fighting off some walkers by pushing a book case to a door. Daryl pushes him instead and lets the book case fall pinning him down. Noah asks for forgiveness and the two argue on whether or not to help him but Daryl insists that Carol almost died because of him and walks away. Then just as a walker was about to eat Noah, Daryl’s crossbow hits its mark and kills it.

They end up saving Noah and he warns them that they should leave at once since the people at the hospital probably heard the gunshots and would try to find them. Daryl then asks him if he saw a blond girl there and Noah tells them about Beth who was actually the one who helped him to get out. But as they were going to the next building (as Noah told them to do) a police car runs over Carol and Noah convinces Daryl to just let them take her so they can treat her injuries inside. I guess this is the scene before the one that showed Beth about to kill the doctor but stops when she sees Beth being wheeled inside the hospital (Episode 4). And I guess it also explains who Daryl brought back to the church after Bob died (Episode 3) ...it wasn’t Beth or Carol as I had hoped but Noah. I guess there wasn’t really anything much for him to do anymore but head back to Rick and plan on getting Beth and Carol back with Noah’s help.

(photo grabbed from the AMC)