![]() I really don’t think Rick needs defending in this circumstance, as it was self defense, or as close to it as it gets. Not only did he have to kill yet another human, but it was his old partner and friend. But I think the bigger issue will be how Rick deals with this. I guess Carl shooting walker-Shane sort of brings the story around to that. It also explains the people Shane and Rick found back when they were first supposed to release Randall, right? It seems like the rule is, if you die, you become a walker, even if you aren’t exposed to their black mouth-goo.Īs I understand it, in the comics, Carl kills Shane. On a related note, given that both Shane and Randall became walkers without being bit, I guess it’s safe to assume that this walker virus, is airborne. Good thing they’re all stocked up and set up in the house now. But that might be an issue left to discuss another time, since it looks like Rick and Carl are going to lead a herd of walkers right back to the farm. It will be Rick who returns, and at least Daryl can attest to the fishy circumstances surrounding Randall’s escape. If it had been Shane that returned from the woods without Rick, he would have had some serious explaining to do. And then they found walker-Randall with his neck broken and no bite marks. From the blood on the tree where Shane broke his own nose, to the blindfold, to the footprints, which he knew indicated that Shane and Randall were walking together, Daryl pretty much figured it all out, and all by flashlight no less. ![]() Seriously, if he could have dusted for prints somehow, I bet he would have. The other thing Shane underestimated was Daryl’s ability to track and find every single clue possible. I’m thinking it was the chest area, considering how fast Shane died. Regardless, he was prepared to kill Shane, and he did this by talking his way closer to Shane, acting like he was going to lower his gun and eventually getting close enough to grab Shane’s gun with one hand, and stab him in the stomach or chest with a knife in the other. Maybe some part of him hoped they could return to the farm together and figure out a better solution. Maybe he really did want to get Shane to lower his gun. Though I doubt he’ll be celebrating his own craftiness later, Rick played Shane perfectly. The first was obviously Rick’s willingness to do what needed to be done. Shane underestimated two things when he plotted to kill Randall and Rick. So he snapped Randall's neck, then broke his own nose, which he would use as part of his story of how Randall escaped. He could start fresh, and Randall might have been right in saying he would fit in with them. Leave this group, go find another group and move on with his life/survival. ![]() That actually would have been the reasonable thing for Shane to do. Shane cut Randall loose and walked him into the woods, then told him he wanted to join Randall’s group. But I still felt bad for the kid, whose limp was practically a skip when he thought he was going to live. The one sort of positive thing I can say about Randall’s death is that he barely saw it coming, which is quite different than the execution-style death he nearly got in last week’s episode. Humanity is definitely slipping among some people. Granted, this is work that needs to be done, but the way they were doing it revealed the rage in all of them. Fittingly enough, the funeral cut back and forth with a scene that had Shane, Andrea, T-Dog and Daryl brutally slaughtering walkers. The episode began with Rick saying the eulogy, which focused heavily on Dale’s message about keeping a grasp on their own humanity. He got himself stabbed and then shot properly by Carl, who showed up out of nowhere to save his father’s life.ĭale likely would have approved of how his death affected Rick. Shane should have known better, but it makes no difference to him now. The point is, since people can’t get along, even when bonded by a common goal not to be eaten by dead people, they should at least consider playing out their double-crossing schemes when it’s light out. Of course, didn’t Land of the Dead teach us that actual flairs and fireworks are great for distracting zombies? That’s neither here nor there. Firing guns late at night is probably the zombie equivalent to sending up a flair. There’s a lesson to be learned from the stand-off between Shane and Rick, and the living are about to learn it the hard way.
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