The Walking Dead Recap With Spoilers: Live Bait

The “Live Bait” episode of The Walking Dead kicks off right at the point in The Walking Dead Season 3 finale where The Governor had just mass murdered his own people. The Governor speeds away in his truck with his two henchmen, Martinez and Shumpert.It’s later that night, and The Governor is sitting in front of a campfire with three tents behind him. A walker comes rambling up and falls into the fire. The walker crawls through the fire and is heading toward The Governor, who just sits and stares. Right before the walker reaches The Governor, Martinez emerges from one of the tents and shoots the walker in the head.It’s now the next morning, and The Governor is emerging from a yellow tent.  As the camera pans out, it reveals only one tent instead of three. Martinez and Shumpert have apparently packed up and left. The Governor drives away in a truck, which he winds up crashing through the gates at Woodbury. Everyone remaining in Woodbury has left, and the town is overrun with walkers. The Governor burns down the town.A shaggy bearded Governor is walking along the roadway. In a voiceover, The Governor is talking to someone, telling them that he’s been on the road for a couple months now. A female voice asks The Governor where he was before the road, and The Governor says he was in a town.  When the voice asks The Governor if the monsters were in the town, The Governor says, “No, it was safe, full of good people.” When the voice asks The Governor what happened, The Governor says the man in charge just lost it and that he barely got out alive.The Governor is wandering through another abandoned town. He goes inside a building, where he encounters two women and child. One of the women pulls a gun on him, and The Governor throws his own guns on the ground to signal that he’s not a threat.The Governor is sitting and talking to the two women, and there is also an older man in the background with the child. The two women are sisters. The older named Lily and the younger named Tara. The old man is the women’s father, and the child is Lily’s daughter Megan.Lily and Tara reveal that they’ve been holed up in there waiting for the National Guard. Lily asks The Governor if he plans on staying in the building twice, but The Governor does not reply. Tara yells at The Governor to answer, and The Governor says, “Just for the night.”Tara tells The Governor that she’s Atlanta city police and that she has enough artillery to kill him every day for the next ten years. She warns him that she will put him in down if he messes with her or her family. The Governor indicates that he understands. When Tara asks The Governor if he has a name, he says, “Brian Heriot.”The Governor is eating a can of beans when he hears a knock at the door. Lily asks The Governor if he is hungry, and he shows her some beans he found and is eating. The woman gives him some more food. The Governor thanks her, but he dumps the food out the window after she is gone.Megan is silently playing backgammon with the old man, but some of the pieces are missing, so they are having to use pieces of paper as markers. Lily and Tara are washing plates and talking about how Megan didn’t eat again. They hear a sound from The Governor’s room. Tara opens the door to The Governor’s room , and The Governor is sitting by the door in front of an empty plate. Tara tells him that this isn’t the Holiday Inn and points the gun at him, but Lily calls her off.