Walking Dead - Judge Jury and Executioner - "Sorry Brother"

[dr.strangelove]

What a great episode.

We start with Randall back at the farm, but Daryl is beating the hell out of him. Daryl gets him to admit his team has 30 people and are heavily armed. Anyone else reminded of the Ben Linus - LOST story arc here. I almost was picturing Sayid torturing Ben.

Anyway, even Rick agrees that Randall needs to die, and he starts to plan to hang him. Dale is the sole voice of reason and tries to convince the others of the moral thing to do. Then Crazy Carl tells Shane to kill Randall, tells Sophia's mom she is nuts and there is no god, then runs into the woods to poke a zombie with a stick who is stuck in the mud. The walker breaks one of it's legs free and Carl runs back to camp, leaving the zombie to free itself.

The the vote to kill Randall, but its just Dale and Andrea on the let him live side. Dale leaves the house and Rick, Shane and Daryl drag Randall into the main barn to shoot him. good old Crazy Carl taunts Rick to "Do it, Dad. Do it." Rick can't do it. Then we find out Dale walked out in the field to find a cow that was eaten by a zombie. Sue enough, its Crazy Carl's walker, who disembowels Dale. Daryl comes and offs the walker, but Dale is gone. Carl sees the dead walker and realizes it's the one he left alive (or is it dead, whatever). Daryl points his gun at Dale and says "Sorry brother."

Good bye Dale.

this is going to ROCK! Carl is going to lose it. He is 100% responsible for Dale's death. That boy is going to turn into Shane or worse. Shane has got to be killed or else they are all done for. Overall, another great episode. This is my favorite series on TV right now.

[RandySF]

1. NOT DALE!!!

By the way, will we ever again see the father and son duo that hooked up with Rick during Season One?

[dr.strangelove]

2. I hope so - I liked Morgan

Lennie James is a great actor. I loved him in Jericho. I hope that they were able to put down the mom and eventually that they catch up with Rick. I know this has been explored int eh comic, but please do not tell me about that. NO SPOILERS from the comic please.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. I dunno... he put himself and his son in a pretty precarious situation

the last time we saw him. But then again equally improbable things happen all the time on TWD.

[one_voice]

4. Wow...good episode...

Carl is getting on my last nerve. Poor Dale...

[Morning Dew]

5. On The Talking Dead there was a blurb that said

they had originally intended for Dale to find a cast member instead of the cow. I wonder who they were going to kill off.

Jimmy, maybe? He's not serving much of a purpose right now and it seems like they don't even have much room for T-Dog. He got one line and it was cut off (by Dale, if I recall correctly).

My Godson and I decided that when these large cast shows neglect a character for an episode, he or she has been "T-Dogged".

We're re-watching Jericho and it happens there fairly often ... "Oh, look, Heather got T-Dogged."



Still, DAMN, Just DAMN. I love the Dale Horvath character. His death though, makes the show interesting in a way most TV series can't be - any of the main characters can die at any time.

If it goes two more seasons, I can envision having survivors we haven't met yet as integral main cast members and people we love now as fondly remembered zombie treats.

I like how they reinforce the idea of Rick having trouble killing the living. When that changes, it will be explosive and I hope I'm surprised at how it comes about.

Great series!

And thanks, dr.strangelove , for the great thread.

[dr.strangelove]

6. I like that *** T-dogged

Thats awesome. They did t-dog heather on Jericho. I miss that show.