The Walking Dead Recap With Spoilers: 30 Days Without an Accident

The episode opens in a garden. Rick is working his way out of the prison into a vegetable garden he’s maintaining. Birds are singing and he splashes water in his face. Overall, for a moment this isn’t the place we’re used to—-until the shot widens out and Rick is walking out into a garden framed by a fence brimming with walkers. He’s listening to music and digging in the garden when he comes upon a handgun buried there. He removes its clip and tosses both pieces onto a pile of sod in his wheelbarrow, then puts his headphones back in and continues gardening.Carl joins him outside, telling Rick that he was supposed to wake him up; Rick says he didn’t because he knew Carl was up all night reading comic books under the covers with a flashlight. Carl asks about a pig lying in the corner of the pen looking sick and lethargic but Rick says he doesn’t know what’s going on with her.

Question #3: “Why?” Answer: “Because you can’t come back from the things you’ve done.”

Rick, then, looks over at the object covered in canvas that appears to be her dead husband. It hadn’t moved during the whole time.Back at the prison, Carol is leading storytime, reading to the children, when Carl sneaks up around to watch. Another adult leaves the room, leaving Carol alone with the kids, and she brings out a box of knives to instruct the children in how to use them.Patrick excuses himself, saying he feels sick and doesn’t want to throw up on the other kids (after Carol gives him a hard time about just “I don’t feel well”).Carl sees Carol, they make eye contact and she asks him not to tell Rick. He leaves.Outside, walkers are grouping near the fence again, while Rick heads into the garden area. He sees that the pig which was sick earlier has died and seems upset by it.Back in her cell, Karen is met by Tyreese, who says he doesn’t like going out there, either. Glenn breaks the news to Maggie about Zach, and Maggie tells him she’s not pregnant; he’s relieved. She says she didn’t want to have a baby, but they could have; they can have lives there. Glenn doesn’t understand that, but she says she doesn’t want to be afraid of being alive. Glenn says that’s what’s kept them alive, but she disagrees.In her cell, Beth is writing in her journal when Daryl comes to tell her that her boyfriend has died. She’s nonchalant about it, walking over to a “days without an accident” board leftover from when the prison was operational and takes a “3” down, turning “30” into a zero. Daryl seems perplexed, but she says she doesn’t cry anymore; that she’s just glad she got to know him. She hugs Daryl and says she’s glad she didn’t say goodbye, since she hates goodbyes. He agrees.In her room, Michonne is studying maps, headed for Macon.Rick talks to Hershel, telling him that he tried to help the woman in the woods. He sees himself from last year in the woman, but Hershel tells him that he came back from his break, that Carl came back from his episode at the end of last year.In his bunk, Bob lays down and can hear Patrick coughing in the next room. Patrick makes his way to the showers, where he turns the water on, then slips and falls on the floor, dead. Almost immediately, he reanimates.