We have waited so long for The Walking Dead to return! If you are like me you watched the marathon every night last week just so it was all fresh. Season 4 Episode 1 was no let down! If you have not watched the episode & would like to do so without knowing what is going to happen STOP READING NOW!

With the excitement & flair that originally hooked us Season 4 takes off running, keeping you on the edge of your seat the whole time.  This episode begins with Rick coming out of the prison to tend to the garden they have built in the yard, along with livestock pens & stables. Rick is wearing headphones to drown out the walkers pressed against the fences. Everything appears to be peaceful & apparently life has been pretty good over the last few months. While digging Rick uncovers a pistol, removes his headphones only to be reminded of the danger that is always so close. Carl joins him at the stables & it appears that he is also back on track mentally. Glad to see Carl back to normal after shooting the kid at the end of season 3.

Next, Michonne comes riding in on horseback as Rick & Carl open the new gates to the prison. It appears that Michonne has been taking off for long periods searching for something (my guess is the Governor). As Michonne comes in Daryl is heading off with a small crew to check out some resources at an abandoned store & Michonne heads back out with them.

It appears that this season begins with people trying to get back to a more human life with Beth apparently in a relationship with a young man that is heading out with Daryl. It also shows Tyreese is now in a relationship with one of the women from Woodbury that came to reside at the prison.

Rick stays behind to check the snare traps that they have set around the prison & comes upon on what appears to be a walker. But as he sneaks away she hears him & calls out. She asks him to help her take the dead animal to her husband. She also asks him if he has a camp nearby & if they could come to live with his group. Rick says he will have to meet her husband & he has 3 questions to ask them, then he follows her back to her camp site. When they get there she tries to attack him with a machete. Rick throws her to the ground & draws his pistol. During all of this she just continues to talk to her husband who is nowhere in sight. This woman has clearly lost it. She then pulls out her knife and asks Rick not to end it after she turns so she can be with her husband. She stabs herself & then Rick takes off. As Rick runs away we see a burlap sack moving & groaning. The crazy lady has been keeping her husband’s head in a bag with her!

 

 

Out on the run with Daryl the group enters into the store & we cut to commercial, but not before we are shown a small herd of walkers on the roof with a crashed helicopter. Next scene we are back with the group looking through the store & one of the newest cast members knocks over a shelf full of wine. This of course alerts all of the walkers on the roof & as they begin to move around more the ceiling gives way & they start to rain down on the group. In the end they lose one member (his name here) & Daryl has to tell Beth when they get back. To my surprise Beth was very indifferent about it & told Daryl that she doesn’t cry anymore. It seems as if this new life has made her cold.

 

 

Carol is teaching the children about knives during their story time when one of the new cast members leaves saying he is feeling sick. Carl sneaks into the library to see Carol bring out the knives & Carol yells to him asking him not to tell his dad.  It appears that for the most part the group is doing well & even being able to have some type of community & normal life. But as we know danger is always close with the episode ending as the sick boy from story time heads to the showers & collapses. The last scene is his face bloodied & then his eyes open to reveal that he has turned! Until next week walkers!