At the end of last
episode, Morgan had one of his massive emotional yo-yos and is all depressed on
the top of the hospital roof. James continues to insist on blaming Morgan for
him being bitten but no-one else really buys into that - with Wendell happily volunteering
to murder him and save everyone the trouble
June still has a
borderline disturbing faith in Morgan still. But at least she’s not waiting
around for him to lead. Oh she’d like him to lead but is willing to take charge
but he can help. Because Althea is still down in the building somewhere and
probably in need of a rescue.
The rest of the group
have met up - Victor and John being found by Alicia and Charlie. Because
everyone here is emotionally see-sawing at the moment it’s not John’s turn to be
super depressed and give up hope. While Victor has come round the other way.
Even though they’re at opposite ends of the lake full of monster alligators,
he’s seeing Alicia working with Charlie. And if Alicia can forgive Charlie
after all the devil child has done to her than anything can happen and everyone
can come together and be all shiny and hippy.
Especially when
Alicia hears June on their walkie-talkie. Except Morgan is a little less shiny
because Martha is listening to them and he’s still full of self-blame and guilt
and moping. Alicia isn’t buying it. Yes she was all fragile and close to
breaking and needing a win last episode - but she has got her win. She’s on top
of the world
I can’t decide if the
hyper emotional see-sawing of everyone on this show is exhausting or perhaps a
well written indication of how very emotionally damaged everyone is. Maybe
both.
Alicia plans her next
step, how to get to Victor and John across the island when Martha attacks.
She’s furious that they’re trying to help and, seeing her wounds, Alicia and
Charlie offer to help her. Martha gets rather agitated about that. She
continues her ongoing spiel about helping making people weak. And then
collapses because she is injured
This does leave them
free to grab Althea’s big machine gun van which is perfect for crossing the
water and rescuing Victor and John
They also take Martha
captive because good guys never kill their enemies. And they really really
really really need to start. She’s angry of course about all the helping stuff
and also because they broke her “chain” (she kills a helper, makes them into a
zombie then uses that zombie to kill the next one and takes that zombie. Yes
she’s not rational).
Back to the hospital
and Morgan tries to get James helping them to rescue Althea. This doesn’t work
because James is awful and it just adds to the Morgan Guilt. Sarah also asks
him for his recipe for beer and I kind of have to agree with James being a bit
shirty over this one but I also like how Sarah is totally not getting on board
with his angst fest. Is it callous? Yes - but she’s not going to pretend he’s a
nice guy or they’re friends or she agrees with his treatment of Morgan just
because he’s dying
The gang does go
through areas cleared of zombies and they find a note left by Althea (which
includes referring to Martha as a c*nt which Sarah is unwilling to read aloud.
I wonder at character motivations or censors) and a plea for them to preserve
and copy her tapes. They don’t find her - but she did have a plan to escape via
the freight elevator
They discover that
the power is going to run out soon adding a time constraint -but also that
zombies are swarming around the building. They can’t escape without a
distraction - so Morgan steps up to sacrifice himself because he’s just
desperate to martyr himself
He returns to the
roof to throw zombies at cars to set off their car alarms (it’s a good thing
these cars have working alarms still) for a classic noise distraction so
everyone can escape in an ambulance. That leaves Morgan and James together and
James to disagree with the idea that martyring yourself makes up for the bad
shit you do. Basically he rather uncharacteristically makes a speech about how
death and self-sacrifice is the easy way out - way easier than actually making
amends
Their big heart to
heart is useful because everyone else returns - with the big Althea truck AND a
cherry picker to rescue Morgan. Morgan fights this because he was really into
this whole martyrdom but June is clear - they need him (Martha disagrees of
course). He is the heart and leader of the group, Morgan doesn’t want to leave
James - but James encourages him to go - he can do nothing for James
So we have some roof
hopping, some improbably skillful shooting from John and, of course, James’s
redemption arc. He has been moved to help and provide his own martyrdom
distraction -throwing himself off the building to set off another conveniently
working alarm… and he even tells Sarah his beer recipe.
As they leave they
all talk nicely about James and his beer and give it a name that will annoy him
which is just perfect.
Oh and Martha escapes
(Charlie wants to look for her because she’s hurt and needs help. Yeah… no) and
turns James into her new pet zombie.
She’s still bleeding after… what several hours? This is the zombie apocalypse and she’s covered in mud and spends most of her time in close proximity of rotting corpses. She is going to get infected and die. This really needs to be a thing more zombie apocalypses are concerned with.
