The Walking Dead Recap With Spoilers: Alone

The episode opens on Bob Stookey; he’s scruffy, with longer hair, disheveled clothes and facial hair. It’s hard to tell at first whether this is the future, or the past…but it’s clear that he isn’t with Sasha and Maggie. He’s not smiling anymore, either (like we’ve seen him do since the fall of the prison). He’s dour, shuffling through the world and looking like The Governor in the first of his two solo episodes earlier this year.He guzzles bottles of cold medicine, hangs just out of walkers’ grip and taunts them (or himself?) with the prospect of making him a meal. Sleeps where he finds high ground and a flat surface…until finally he’s met by Daryl (on his motorcycle, thus cementing this as the past) and Glenn (in a truck). They ask him Rick’s three questions (How many walkers have you killed? How many people have you killed? Why?) and when they like his answers, invite him back to stay with them. They’re surprised when he has no follow-up questions for them, but he tells them that it doesn’t matter who they are.Cut to Maggie, Stookey and Sashs, standing back to back to back in a circle in a foggy clearing while walkers snarl in the distance. After a flurry of combat, including some near-misses (a walker got a mouthful of Bob, but it turned out to be on top of the bandage from his gunshot wound and he was saved). Sasha hugs him enthusiastically–which hurts, becuase after all he’s recently been shot. But he doesn’t want her to stop.