The Walking Dead: When The Dead Come Knocking Full Episode Recap

If last week’s episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead was all setup, this week’s “When the Dead Come Knocking” promised to give at least a bit of payoff, with teaser trailers and TV spots promising torture, sexual abuse and possible murder or dismemberment.All in all, a pretty standard week on The Walking Dead.We also get the first meeting between Michonne and the other survivors, which promises some long-term plot ramifications. And after this episode airs there’s a seven-day countdown to the introduction of fan-favorite character Tyreese.Things are moving along. So let’s do the same…The episode opens with Glenn duct-taped to a chair; Merle tells him that all is not forgiven for being left behind in Atlanta, and that he hopes T-Dog died slowly for not being fast enough with the key (he did, of course, but that’s beside the point). He demands to know where Daryl is, and starts beating on Glenn when Glenn won’t tell him. Maggie can hear everything, and is petrified. Glenn tries to fight back, but has no luck.As we saw in an earlier preview, the prison’s story begins with the smell of dead walker starting to wear off of Michonne, leaving her on the other side of the fences against a group of them. Rick helps her in, noting that she’s got a gunshot wound and not a bite, and Daryl joins him, bringing him to see Carol while Michonne recuperates in a cell.Back in Woodbury, the Governor’s dalliance with Andrea is interrupted when he’s brought a message that “Mr. Coleman is ready.”They ask Michonne how she found them and why she was carrying formula; she tells them that she picked it up after being dropped by Glenn and Maggie, and that they were taken by the same person who shot her. Things look promising for a moment until Rick reaches out to touch her and she grabs him. Daryl threatens her, and she tells them to find their friends by herself.Michonne tells them about Woodbury and the Governor, and when she gives them a satisfactory answer as to how she found the prison, Rick offers Hershel to help her with her injuries.Back in Woodbury, Merle is impressed by Glenn’s ability to withstand the torture, and asks again where they’re at. Glenn says it’s only a matter of time before Rick and the others come for him.At the prison, Hershel is treating Michonne’s wounds, and after a long silence from both of them, she thanks him.After a discussion, Daryl, Oscar and Rick decide to set out to look for Glenn and Maggie, bringing flash-bangs, grenades and other things from the armory. Michonne asks how so few of them cleared the prison, and she’s told there were others. Rick, before leaving, tells Carl that he shouldn’t have had to go through what he did with Lori, and that if anything happens while they’re gone, he has to keep people safe in the cells until Rick returns. Before he leaves, Carl asks Rick if Judith is a good name for his sister, and Rick agrees. He and the others leave in a car.The Governor brings Andrea to the dying Mr. Coleman, where she’ll be assisting Milton in his walker research. He doesn’t tell her anything though, just barks orders at her. He puts Coleman through a series of memory tests while Andrea plays a record, at the end of which the man asks Milton to keep the record playing “while they wait.”In the interrogation room with Glenn, Merle brings a walker in and uses him as an interrogation tool. Despite being duct-taped to the chair, Glenn manages to use the furniture in the room in self-defense for long enough to break his chair and use a piece of it to kill the walker–only moments after the walker tries and fails to bite him because of Glenn’s use of the duct tape as body armor. He screams, long and loud.