The Walking Dead

S4 The Walking Dead Chapter 40: The Grove

Tyreese (Chad L. Coleman), Carol (Melissa McBride), Lizzie (Brighton Sharbino), Mika (Kyla Kenedy), and Judith continue their journey to Terminus along the railroad tracks. Carol and Tyreese discuss the probability of Mika and Lizzie's survival; Carol notes that Mika is too gentle and Lizzie is confused about what walkers are.

While stopping to rest, Tyreese spots an advancing walker in the distance, but it falls and becomes trapped. Tyreese moves to kill the walker, but Lizzie makes a humanistic plea to spare it.

Carol and Mika come upon a house in the middle of a pecan grove and send for Tyreese, Lizzie, and Judith. Carol suggests staying there for a few days to rest, so she and Tyreese leave the three girls outside while they clear the house. Once they go inside, a walker appears and Mika shoots it in its head as Lizzie looks on in tears.

The next day, Carol is in the house and spots Lizzie happily playing tag with a walker in the yard. Carol rushes outside and kills the walker, but Lizzie screams at Carol, saying the walker was her friend. Later, Carol and Mika come across a deer while scouting in the forest; Mika aims her gun at the deer, but is unable to pull the trigger, much to the disappointment of Carol. The duo return to the grove house and find Tyreese pumping water, who suggests they settle at this location instead of continuing toward Terminus.

That afternoon, Lizzie wanders to the railroad tracks with Mika giving chase. Lizzie feeds the trapped walker from earlier a mouse and Mika promptly admonishes her. Lizzie insists the walkers "want me to change" and reaches for the walker's mouth. Just then, walkers emerge from the woods, forcing Mika and Lizzie to flee back to the house. Tyreese and Carol run to the screaming of the girls, and the four form a line and shoot down the walkers.

The next day, Carol and Tyreese return to the house from a hunt to find that Lizzie has killed Mika with a knife. Lizzie insists Mika will be okay because she didn't stab the brain, and also reveals she intended to do the same to Judith. When Carol and Tyreese approach her, Lizzie threatens them by pointing her gun at them. Carol manages to talk Lizzie down, and Tyreese ushers Lizzie and Judith inside. Alone, Carol sobs and pulls out her knife and stabs Mika in the brain to prevent reanimation.

That night, Tyreese tells Carol he learned from Lizzie that she had been feeding the prison walkers. He wonders if Lizzie killed Karen and David; Carol says she couldn't have since she would not have had to strength to move the bodies, and would have let them reanimate. Tyreese suggests leaving with Judith to protect her from Lizzie, but Carol notes that Judith needs both of them to survive. Carol believes Lizzie is too dangerous to be around other people. Tyreese reluctantly agrees.

The following morning, Carol takes Lizzie out for a walk and asks her to look at some flowers. Lizzie, believing that Carol is upset with her for pointing a gun at her, starts to cry and pleads for Carol to not be mad at her anymore. As she's crying, Carol tells Lizzie to look at the flowers. As she does, Carol shoots Lizzie in the head as Tyreese observes from afar, and they bury the two girls. That night, Carol gives Tyreese her gun and admits to killing Karen and David, explaining that she had to contain the illness. Upset at first, Tyreese forgives her. The next day, Tyreese, Carol, and Judith leave the grove and continue their journey to Terminus.