Walking Dead Recap: Triggerfinger

In the last couple of weeks, gunplay has had some pretty powerful impacts on Rick Grimes and the rest of the survivors on AMC’s The Walking Dead, so it’s probably not any great surprise that this week’s episode is entitled “Triggerfinger,” or even that the shots fired in the waning moments of last week’s episode helped to shape the plot for this week. If you’re anything like us, though, you found those final moments of “Nebraska” pretty compelling and want to get right to the episode discussion…As always, remember that these recaps are intended for viewers who have already seen the episode, or for whom spoilers are a non-issue. SPOILERS ON.The episode opens on Lori’s car, in the darkness hours after her crash, with the walker she had hit struggling to bite his way into the overturned vehicle while she regains consciousness and begins to panic.On the other side of the credits, we hear Rick’s shots, finishing off the men who were menacing him (along with Glenn and Hershel) at the end of “Nebraska,” and then cut to the interior of the bar where Hershel and Glenn express their silent agreement with the decision Rick made. As they begin to pack up and leave the bar, however (with Glenn taking the guns off the corpses), they hear a car pull up and hide behind the door frame. Moments later, voices and shadows are falling across the trio, saying that they heard shots.Back at the overturned car, an impressively grotesque display of zombie makeup takes front and center as the injured walker from Lori’s car accident forces his head into the shattered windshield, doing some pretty substantial damage to the skin on his face as he does so. Lori, for her part, is able to sneak to the back of the vehicle, but her weapon is pinned under a piece of the car. As the walker grabs her by the hair, she’s able to kill him using a piece of the car, only to be set upon by another one from behind who she manages to incapacitate, but not stop completely, with a hubcap. Returning to the car, she’s able to find a handgun and kill it, but anytime you fire a gun in this world, something bad is bound to find you…Around the dinner table, the survivors and the Greenes comment on their missing members. It’s not long before they realize that Lori is gone, likely to chase Rick, and step away from the table to look for her.