I feel like Walking Dead needs more of S401 encounters.

One of my most memorable episodes in the whole series. If you remember, Rick goes outside the prison to check the traps, when he encounters a female walker, only to find out it's a living woman. She asks if he is with a group, and begs him to take her and her husband Eddie with him. Rick tells her that if they answer three questions to his satisfaction, he will. Clara leads Rick in the direction their camp, so he can meet Eddie and ask his questions.

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While walking through the forest she talks about her husband. They were at the airport preparing to go on their honeymoon. She claims that the two of them were the only survivors, and credits her husband with saving her life on many occasions. She also mentions having to do certain things to stay alive, and seems hesitant to elaborate.

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As Rick and Clara finally approach the campsite, She crouches over a small, suspicious-looking bundle, then suddenly attacks Rick with her knife. He manages to sidestep her, and Clara explains that she intended to feed him to Eddie, who has turned. She then stabs herself in the abdomen, and collapses. As she lay dying, she pleads with Rick not to kill her after she turns. Her plan is to reanimate, and be with her husband in a zombified state. As Clara nears death, she asks Rick what the three questions were. He tells her, "How many walkers have you killed? How many people have you killed? Why?" She says that Eddie killed all the walkers for her until he died, and lists only herself as a human she has killed. To the last question, she responds "You don't get to come back." Eddie's body is not shown, nor are the contents of the bundle. But as Rick walks away, the bundle is shown to be grunting and moving about. It is about the size of a human head.

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I want more of THIS! I want to see other survivors, and they don't have to be battle-hardened survivors either. This show was said to be about the people coping with the Apocalypse, not the zombies. I wish the show gave us more glimpses into what the apocalypse has had on the people, especially those who were too weak to carry on. Let us see more interesting encounters like this. It gives a good snapshot of the state of the world. Sometimes I feel like with all these groups and "all out warfare" we forget that the world is still a grim and sad place.

Submitted August 27, 2018 at 05:23PM by KOUMIDIATOR https://ift.tt/2BTPYgh