Last episode Pacifica
was bombed and we have the chaos and the carnage you’d expect afterwards.
George, Warren and Doc work there way through the ruins trying to help where
they can, save people, fight a massive wave of zombies and do what they can for
the new wave of Talkers that arises - especially since they don’t have biscuits
George is grieving
and dispirited - she grieves over all the books that have been lost, all the
people dead and the humans now scattered all underlying the new hate of
Talkers. She sees someone she cares about, Cora, dying and she tries to help
her. She can’t help her and when she turns she realises she has no biscuits for
her. Warren asks her what she’s going to do… and George says she has to let
nature take its course
Which Warren stomps
on. Nature? She demands George looks at all the groaning, severely injured
wounded and George admits it’s no way to live. They Mercy them…
Ok… I’d like some
clarity on what is no way to live. As Talkers? I thought we were arguing about
Talkers being equal. As zombies? Sure - but can’t you just restrain them until
you have biscuits? As badly injured people? Well again we’re in then highly
troublesome zone of declaring disabled people as not having lives worth living
which is something we keep skirting on here.
Another thing I’m
feeling less comfortable about is George repeatedly losing hope and Warren then
picking her up. I like each scene and I love the relationship between these two
is excellent. But increasingly Warren is becoming the support character for
George. George is repositioned as protagonist while Warren is now becoming a
mentor figure. And she’s an awesome mentor figure - but she’s feeling a lot
less of a protagonist
Citizen Z is
obviously terrified for his family - but Kaia has already called for help,
broadcast it and is already hunting for Nana and JZ (who are fine because Nana
is a sensible woman who has already got them both to safety). Citizen Z and
Kaia get together and carve themselves a path to their loved ones. They have a
brief distraction when they help Doc get rid of a zombie with a bomb strapped
to his chest… which is also not good.
Examining the dead
they discover a lot of the zombies are old zombies: they’re not local and
they’re not the recently dead. They shouldn’t be around here
In the horrifying
aftermath, many of the survivors are, of course, blaming the Talkers and we
have more suspicion and hate from them and more care, trust, hope and sincerity
from George. And an ongoing need to find Dante and whoever is doing this… but
with an edge suggesting she’s not resistant to the idea they could be the same
person. They also see a Talker mercied because they had no biscuits to give
her.
In the aftermath help
arrives from Altura… they’re here to rescue any humans. No Talkers. No Wounded.
They don’t even want the books that are so important to Pacifica. They’re not
interested in rebuilding the outpost at all - nor are they concerned that
there’s no biscuits left for the Talkers behind
And lo, Estes gets more people in Altura following him and hating the Talkers.
Warren insists that
Citizen Z and Kaia go to Altura with their family because Warren can definitely
see all this as suspicious and realises she needs loyalists in Altura to keep
an eye on things
The Altura caravan
leaves - and everyone works hard to put Pacifica back together, updating their
tragic tree and carefully preserving and sorting what is left of their books.
It’s all very sad and earnest
While Warren & co
head out and follow one of the trails marked as safe for Talkers. And further
up the trail is someone walking with a big spiky club
Addy? Addy liked her
big spiky club...
We also catch up with
10k who is sad and frustrated as he tries to shoot with a prosthetic hook hand
and keeps missing. 10K never misses, ever.
He mopes around, away
from Red, ignoring his increasingly manky stump, until he sees a zombie being
herded by men with cattle prods. He follows them to see there’s a huge
warehouse full of captive zombies and through random shenanigans ends up trapped
in a truck full of a huge ball of zombies (he manages to cling to the roof
using his prosthetic hand).
When the ball is
unleashed he leaves the truck, and his hand, and sees the ball being released
down the road. In case it wasn’t always obvious, someone is deliberately
creating hordes of zombies to unleash on the settlements of Newmerica.
But we knew that
didn’t we?
