The Walking Dead

S5 The Walking Dead Chapter 52; Them

The episode starts with Maggie, still mourning Beth, when a walker slowly makes its way through the bushes towards her. Only when it gets near her, getting stuck between two trees, Maggie finally dispatches it. Meanwhile, Daryl digs up a worm and eats it, implying the group is on the road without supplies. Sasha walks along a dried-up creek in hope to find some water when she notices several dead frogs on the soil, suggesting there is little water in the surroundings of the group. The three of them make their way back to the others waiting on the road. Maggie notes that they've gone a day and a half without food or water, and the entire group is weak and exhausted. "How much longer we got?" Maggie wonders aloud. "Sixty miles," Sasha replies numbly, referring to the distance to Washington, D.C. "I wasn't talkin' about that," Maggie says gloomily.

After driving a little further, the group is forced to abandon their cars when they run out of fuel. They proceed on foot, eventually attracting a small pack of walkers which follow them at a distance. Rick decides that, given their current weakened state, the group should wait until they've found a more advantageous position before attempting to deal with the walkers. Carl gives Maggie a music box as a reminder of Beth, which she appreciates. Father Gabriel offers his consolation to Maggie, but she rejects it, stating he didn't know Hershel or Beth and doesn't know the pain she feels, and reminds him of his own sins of letting his parishioners die. The group keeps moving on the road, starving and dehydrated, moving like the walkers in the background.

Sasha, still angry about the loss of her brother Tyreese, wants to take on the walkers, but Michonne warns her about not making the same mistake Tyreese made after the death of Karen: letting her anger get the best of her. Sasha angrily retorts that she and Tyreese aren't the same, and they never were. "It's still the same," Michonne calmly asserts.

Daryl and Carol split from the group to search for food and water. Carol says Beth saved her life in Atlanta, and Daryl's life as well, and gives Beth's knife to Daryl. She continues by saying they aren't dead and Daryl should allow himself to feel before kissing him on the forehead.

The procession eventually reaches an overpass with a steep ravine on either side. Rick, together with Glenn, Maggie, Michonne, Sasha and Abraham, attempts to dispatch the group of walkers by luring them toward either side of the road, then pushing them into the ravine. However, Sasha takes them on with her knife, forcing the group to dispatch them as well. During the struggle, Sasha becomes so single-minded that she nearly stabs Michonne, and accidentally cuts Abraham on the upper arm. Rick is nearly bitten by a walker when Daryl returns and saves him. After the walkers are dead, Michonne reprimands Sasha, who stares back at her with angry defiance.

The group proceeds further to find some abandoned cars. Maggie finds a female walker bound and gagged in the trunk, reminding her painfully of Beth. Glenn kills it for her.

Daryl is hunting in the woods, and as he does so, he encounters what remains of a deer, decomposing and possibly eaten by a walker. Daryl appears to consider whether to take the deer and eat it due to the starvation, but eventually he leaves the spot and returns to the others.

The group rests up on the side of the road. Abraham starts drinking his liquor, as the others watch. Tara points out to Rosita that Abraham is just making it (the dehydration) worse and Rosita responds that Abraham knows that. Eugene then says that Abraham knows what he is doing and the situation can't be worse than it is now. Rosita disagrees by saying that the situation can be worse. The conversation is interrupted by a group of wild dogs that have appeared from the woods, barking, threatening the group. As the whole group tenses for a fight, Sasha quickly shoots all of the dogs, to everyone's surprise. Rick seems to be irritated but stands up, picks a branch, snaps it in two, and uses it as a stick to grill the meat from the dogs. Noah refuses to eat the hounds' meat, visibly overwhelmed as he continues to stare at one of the dogs' collar. Sasha approaches him, and he tells her that Tyreese tried to help him and that he isn't sure if he'll make it. "Then you won't," Sasha says sternly. "Don't think, just eat," she adds before walking away. Meanwhile, Gabriel is seen pulling off his clerical collar and tosses it into the fire-pit, watching it burn as he eats. Maggie notices this, but says nothing.