The Walking Dead Recap With Spoilers: Dead Weight

The “Dead Weight” episode of The Walking Dead opens with The Governor washing his shirts and Megan studying a chess board. The Governor is telling Megan that she needs to go ahead and make a move.Then, the scene flashes back to the pit scene from the “Live Bait” episode. Martinez is looking down at The Governor and Megan in the pit. Martinez hands his weapon to someone named Mitch, and he helps Megan out of the pit. Then, Martinez throws down a rope for The Governor to use to climb out.The scene flashes back to The Governor and Megan playing chess. Megan is telling The Governor that he never lets her win anyway. The Governor tells him that it wouldn’t be winning if he let her win. The Governor tells her that is what his daddy use to say. The Governor says his dad use to beat him at everything. Megan asks The Governor if his dad was mean. The Governor says, “Sometimes.”  Megan asks The Governor if he was bad. The Governor says, “Sometimes.”Back at the pit, Lilly yells out asking Brian if he’s ok. Realizing that The Governor is using a fake name, Martinez gives The Governor a glance over.Back at the chess game, Megan has grown quiet. Megan asks The Governor if she is bad. When The Governor asks why she would think that, Megan says that her dad was always mean to her.Back at the pit, Martinez tells The Governor that they have a camp.  However, Martinez tells The Governor that if he comes with them that he needs to accept the fact that Martinez is in charge and that there’s no dead weight. Everyone has to contribute at their camp or they are cast out.Back at the chess game, The Governor reassures Megan that they are all going to be ok. Megan asks if they are going to be ok, because they are all good. The Governor doesn’t answer and just goes back to washing his shirts. Megan tells The Governor that it’s his turn, but The Governor says he is thinking.The Governor and Lilly are inside a rundown camper. Lilly asks The Governor if he is going out, and The Governor says he’s going on a supply run with Martinez and brothers Pete and Mitch. The Governor apologizes and says he wants something better for them, but Lilly insists the camp is good.As The Governor goes on a supply run with Martinez, Pete, and Mitch, Mitch warns “one eye bri” that he better watch his step. The group is looking for a survivalist cabin that supposedly has a lot of supplies. The Governor notices something in the woods, and he draws his gun. The other men follow The Governor to a tree, which has a headless body tied to it with a sign around its neck that says “Liar.”Back at the camp, Lily is bandaging up the hand of a woman names Elisha. Tara flirts with Elisha, asking if she was in the Marines, but Elisha replies that she was Army reserve. Tara tells Elisha that her M-4 is great for combat, but not good as a field weapon. Tara says she’s never been into big guns that she’s more of a Smith & Wesson gal. Elisha asks Tara if she’s always been that full of s***.Martinez and his group finally reach the survivalist cabin. Outside the cabin, they come across another headless body, which has a “rapist” sign hanging around its neck. As they reach the cabin, Martinez’s group finds another body on the porch with a “murderer” sign. They think it’s the survivalist who took himself out after killing the other guys they found. The Governor reaches down and picks up a picture that the man was holding of himself with his wife and kid.As they open the door to the cabin, they hear something moving around inside, which they assume is a walker. As the men quietly, creep around the house with flashlights, they hear the noise growing closer.  A walker jumps out and grabs Pete, but The Governor quickly takes the walker out. As Pete struggles to get up off the floor, he sees the walker heads of the headless men they found outside. Mitch is distracted by the heads, and another walker grabs him from behind. The Governor also takes out the second walker.Later that night, as the men sit around a fire, Martinez is alone with the Governor. Martinez tells The Governor that if it had been just him in the pit that he wouldn’t have brought him into the camp. Martinez says that because the Governor was with the little girl that he seemed different and changed. Martinez asks The Governor if he really is changed, and The Governor says he is.Mitch and Pete return with supplies they have found, which includes beer. Pete and Mitch speculate about what must have gone on in the cabin, but The Governor says it’s best not to think about it. The Governor asks Mitch and Pete what they use to do before everything changes. Mitch reveals he was a tank operator, and Pete says he was army as well. When one of the men asks Brian what he did when everything went bad, The Governor says he survived.Back at camp the next day, The Governor, Martinez, Lilly, Tara, Elisha and Megan are having a picnic. Lilly starts asking about the camp that The Governor and Martinez were at before, but The Governor wants to leave the past in the past. Megan tells The Governor that the roof is leaking again, and Martinez tells The Governor that he should fix it.The Governor is in his camper alone, when Martinez shows up and tells him that he has a surprise for him. Martinez and The Governor are up on the camper roof. Martinez has put down some putting green and is knocking golf balls off the roof. Martinez tells The Governor that Shumpert is dead. Martinez says Shumpert got reckless and got bitten, and Martinez says he had to put him down. Martinez says there are some things that you just can’t come back from.Martinez tells The Governor that it looks like his new family helped bring him back. Martinez says he couldn’t connect to a new family because he wouldn’t be able to sleep at night knowing he was going to lose them. The Governor says he’s not going to lose them. The Governor asks Martinez if he doesn’t think he can keep this place safe, and Martinez say he tries. Martinez says that now that The Governor is here that maybe they can share the crown a little bit.Suddenly, The Governor hits Martinez in the back of the head with a golf club. Then, The Governor rolls Martinez off the roof. The Governor drags Martinez over to a pit full of walkers and throws him in, telling him that he doesn’t want it.Lilly and Megan come home to the camper later that night, and The Governor is shaking. When Lilly asks what is wrong, The Governor says he