The Walking Dead’ recap: ‘Come and get me’

Alexandria ain’t so bad. Well, at least that the sentiment from some of our survivors as we watched them still trying to adjust to life inside their potential new home. I use the word “potential” because though it looked Rick and Co., were letting their guard down just a smidgen, it was more or less a front while the crew continued to size up Alexandrians. Warning: Spoilers ahead.
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? Last week: A place to call home?

???? While life inside the walls carries on, we find Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Carol (Melissa McBride), and Daryl (Norman Reedus) plotting to make a go for the storage room containing guns and ammmo. Sure, Carol’s rocking the cardigans these days, but she’s just playing “invisible,” the ol’ cold-blooded survivor in housewife clothing move. Naturally, Daryl and Rick are down for the cause, and you kind of had to love seeing arguably the three baddest characters (along with Michonne) talking about remaining trill just in case the shit goes down. While Alexandria’s Treacherous Three are meeting, they came across a walker with a “W” carved into its forehead. Looks like those messages of the “WOLVES NOT FAR” found in Sherwilt Estates a couple eps back should raise more alarm than our crew realizes. From what I hear, the Wolves showing up could mean our first glimpse of Negan is coming sooner than later.
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?Well, we can at least say that Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) feels the danger in the air. Our poor girl lost her boo, and brother, so now she’s taking trips into the woods for target practice on framed family portraits, while muttering “come and get me” to herself. As she should be, Sasha’s worried that something bad is headed their way, and offers to take a job in the watch tower, which Deanna (Tovah Feldshuh) hesitantly agrees to because that should totally be a job one should share with her roid-raging son, Aidan (Daniel Bonjur). At any rate, the leader of Alexandria’s too worried about having the perfect neighborhood party for the new residents to think about all that.  
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?Speaking of the party, it’s the type of awkward affair your ‘rents used to drag you to, where the conversations never stray outside the safe zone of trading recipe secrets, and married couples eye fuck the shit of each other’s spouses. Here we finally meet Jessie’s (Alexandra Breckenridge) hubby Pete (Corey Brill), a surgeon who wants Rick to come by for a physical at some point. Pete seems less creepy in person than he did as a silhouette, smoking a cigar on his front porch, while “greeting” Rick last week. Rick eventually makes a play at Jessie, literally, kissing her on the cheek. Good thing Jessie’s son Sam (Major Dodson) blessed the two possible adulterers with the Scarlet Letter on their hands.
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?At Deanna’s bash we also meet her husband, Reg (Steve Coulter), whose apparently been kicking back on the bed and watching the home video interviews his wife recorded when the gang first arrived. Mostly everyone from the tapes is at the party too, sans Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam), Eugene (Josh McDermitt), and Tara (Alanna Masterson). Side note: Where the hell are Father Gabriel and Eugene? I ask because they clearly missed the best part of the night, which was when Sasha goes ape shit on the other ladies fretting over what favorite dish to make her, biting with: “That’s what you worry about?!”
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?In probably one of the more interesting interactions from the ep, Daryl got to spend some QT with Aaron (Ross Marquand). The two hit up the woods for rabbit hunting, where they come across the latter’s favorite wild black horse, somehow still alive. Aaron’s been trying to lasso the beast and bring it back to Alexandria with no luck, so Daryl tries, and fails. The horse freaks out as walkers approach, and though the two men try their best to save ol’ Buttons (see what happens when you let kids name anything), he turns into zombie chow. I was secretly hoping we might see our first zombified horse. No luck.
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?It all turns into a day of bonding between Aaron and Daryl, and it’s clear the L.L. Bean model has a thing for the country boy. I mean why else would he have Daryl over for some spaghetti, and present him with all the fixings for a new motorcycle for his forthcoming job as an Alexandria recruiter? Whatever happens with these two, just know that Norman Reedus is “happy to play Daryl gay.”
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?What we do know is that there will more than likely be consequences for Carol’s actions at the end of last night’s ep. Our girl skates out of the house party to try and steal some guns from the storage room, but she’s followed by Jessie’s nosey-ass son, Sam. He claims that he just has to tell his mother what he’s seen because he tells his mother everything. Yeah, Carol ain’t having that shit, and she drops the soccer mom routine to get real with the young lad. Let’s remember that this woman lost her daughter to walkers, and put a bullet in the back of another child’s head, so when she tells the young kid what basically amounts to “snitches get stitches,” or worse, we don’t find it creepy. I actually found myself rooting for her, and everyone else to get back to the survivalist basics. Something is coming, and we have three episodes left. Clock’s ticking.
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?BEST LINE
?”And cookies, you’ll get lots of cookies.” — Carol to Sam, after telling him all the awful shit that might happen to a snitch, child or not.
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?WTF/MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
?It’s been a while since a walker killing something was hard to watch, but seeing Buttons become zombie chow was tough.
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?RANDOM ASIDES
?- Looks like Eugene and Father Gabriel resurface in next week’s episode.
?- Should we be worried about Sasha’s being hella unstable right now?
?- We still don’t know who snatched Rick’s gun out of the blender, but could it be tied to the person(s) behind the “W”-branded walkers?
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