The Walking Dead Full Recap: Aim For the Head

Our episode opens as Daryl stares down the prisoners we saw at the end of the last episode; it’s his crossbow against the gun held by one of the prisoners as Rick, Maggie and Glenn struggle to put a tourniquet on Hershel’s leg. The room is chaos, with walkers at one door, everyone shouting at cross purposes and cafeteria furniture being repurposed as a gurney.Making their way out of the cafeteria and back through the dark halls into the living area, they leave behind the prisoners, who follow them rather than remaining locked in the cafeteria with Hershel’s leg.Once they reach the living area, the rest of the survivors help try to bandage Hershel, Carol taking point because Hershel has taught her as much medical knowledge as he can so that he has an assistant when Lori gives birth.Daryl returns to wait by the door for the prisoners to emerge, holding his crossbow on it and watching them as they do.The prisoners come into the light and Tomas, the group’s leader, objects. As Glen Mazzara has said in interviews:”Tomas is the leader. Tomas is the alpha male. He’s the one who is in charge and he is the one who has set the rules and he did before the apocalypse, he’s been doing that since, and suddenly, here’s Rick telling him, ‘This isn’t even your prison any more.’ Tomas is not going to stand for that.”