This week on The Walking dead we take a look into the mind and heart of sickness and compassion. Still on the train tracks, heading fast to sanctuary we regroup with Carol and Tyrese as they try to keep their three small girls safe. Tyrese is still injured and it has fallen on Carol to keep pushing the group forward while trying to heal her male counter part. Carol has come a long way from the mousey beaten woman that she used to be, she has long grown into her hardened heart since her daughter was taken from her and it is in this episode she explains to Mica how that really happens.
It’s no secret the Lizzie and Mica have a hard time seeing and reacting to the walkers. Lizzie sees misunderstood and “different” people. Mica, on the other hand sees the walkers for what they are, however Mica can not seem to kill and it’s not just walkers. I really loved this combination, to me it was something I could see happening to protected small children in a Zombie world. To grasp that these once people, now want to kill and rip you apart is too much to grasp for most adults let alone children. A child’s mind is a delicate frame and it is easily shaken, if not altogether demolished.
After it is discovered that Lizzie is trying to befriend and, even worse feed the walkers it is put together that she was the one that had been cutting up animals in the jail as a form of entertainment. Her delicate mind is on the verge of a total collapse and it takes a burned walker attack to push her over the edge. Believing that her brush with death has inspired enough fear in her to stay away the adults in the party leave the trio of girls behind as they go to hunt dear. What they return to is every parents nightmare. To show them that walkers are people, Lizzie has killed Mica and demands that they wait till she turns so they can hear the walkers and see them the way Lizzie does.
So what do you do? Obviously Lizzie is sick, and at this point she is too far gone to be saved. The bigger thing to me is that her sickness has truly killed the compassion in the group. Mica didn’t have a mean bone in her body, and in that she didn’t stand a chance against Lizzie’s darkness. The hardest part is now on Carol’s shoulders, as she must carry out what is good for both Lizzie and for the world she may encounter. Carol decides that the best thing is to carry out a scene very reminiscent of Of Mice and Men. Telling her to look at the flower, Carol has to do what I could never do, even if it is what’s right for a very disturbed little girl.
Through this grief Carol finally finds the courage to confess to Tyrese that it was her that killed his girlfriend and David. Even going so far as to offer a gun for his judgment, Carol explains that we all have to do what we feel needs to be done to protect the rest of the world. Tyrese explains that he can not forget, but he does forgive Carol for trying to protect everyone. He knows that they can not stay in the cabin which has become an illusion of safety and that they must try to get to the sanctuary, although it’s his worst fear, he must get backto being around people. He must begin again and move past this sadness and loss.
It was a beautifully haunting and altogether shattering episode as we see the spiral down to the bottom and from that cold and dark place, a new foot hold grows.
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