The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 3 'Save the Last One' Recap
Written by Bob Suggs Monday, 31 October 2011 13:03
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The Walking Dead on AMCSynopsis (Save the Last One - Air Date: October 30, 2011)
The group desperately awaits Shane's return. Shane and Otis find themselves trapped in a school, surrounded by the undead. Daryl and Andrea continue the search for Sophia in the woods.
Full Recap (spoilers)
First darkness lies ahead as characters are pushed to the breaking point both physically and mentally. Discussions of who should live and why should life go on seem to be the questions of the day.
Carl lies on a bed in critical condition after the accidental shooting. Wrong place, wrong time as he got hit by a bullet being shoot at a deer by happy hunter Otis. Who in last weeks episode, went with Shane to get much needed medical supplies from the local high school. Apparently another bad decision on Otis's part because both him and Shane get trapped, with the supplies in tow, by a fairly large group of hungry zombies looking for a little bite to eat.
The episode opens with a steamy bathroom scene, no not that kind of scene, but one with Shane shaving his head and looking darkly into his mirrored reflection. We know something has gone down, but at this point we don't know what has happened.
Bam, Otis and Shane are running through the high school trying to avoid being lunch. Trapped in the gym on top bleechers they head two different direction in an attempt to break free of their current situation. Shane jumps out a nearby window, which Otis can't fit through. While Otis heads for a door on the opposite side on the gym. Shane sprangs his ankle after falling out the second story window, but avoids being zombie stew.
Glenn and T-Dog arrive at the farmhouse and Maggie ushers T-Dog inside for medical treatment.
Meanwhile, back at the RV our divided band of survivors wait for daylight, but the night is long. Daryl and Andrea head out in search of Sophia but find no signs of her. They do find a hanging zombie in a tree and Andrea convinces Daryl to put an end to the suffering, which he considers it to be a 'waste of an arrow'.
Back at the ranch time is running out and Carl is slipping into the danger zone while everyone awaits Shane and Otis's return. Standing on the farmhouse porch, a distraught Lori tells Rick that Carl's death might be a blessing: "If he dies tonight," she says, "it ends for him." Rick and his wife discuss the possible death of their son. Would it be so bad, spare him from the world that is, better off dead, all the things one might think about giving the situation they find themselves in, but Rick is not the type to give up.
Shane limps across the high school athletic field as walkers surround him. As he readies to fire his final shotgun shell, Otis emerges from around the building and guns down the walkers standing between them.
Inside the farmhouse Carl wakes, disoriented and in pain. "You should have seen it," Carl tells Lori. "The deer. It was so pretty." Carl suddenly goes quiet and begins convulsing: a seizure, Herhsel explains — his brain isn't getting enough blood.
Patricia stitches T-Dog's arm in the living room of the farmhouse. The antibiotics he got from Daryl likely saved his life, she tells T-Dog. "Merle Dixon's clap was the best thing that ever happened to you," she says.
Glenn goes to the porch, where he sits and tries to pray, though it's his first time. Maggie interrupts him. She's always been a person of faith but realizes that recently an awful lot of prayers must have gone unanswered. "Feel free to believe in God," she says, but "you gotta make it OK somehow."
Inside, Rick tells Lori about the deer in the woods. When Carl woke up, Rick explains, he wasn't talking about the horrors he'd witnessed; he was talking about something beautiful. "Why is it better for Carl to live, even in this world?" Rick tells Lori. "He talked about the deer."
Back at the high school, Shane and Otis are collapsed on the pavement. Shane tells Otis to take the supplies and leave him behind, but Otis insists they go on together.
Carl's condition continues to deteriorate, and Hershel demands Rick and Lori decide whether to operate. Rick looks to Lori, who consents, and Hershel begins prepping.
Outside, Otis's truck arrives at the house. Rick, Lori and Hershel run outside. Shane emerges, alone. "We say nothing to Patricia," Hershel insists. "Not 'til after" the surgery.
Rick embraces Shane, who stares at Lori, shell-shocked. The walkers kept coming at them, he tells Rick tearfully. "He told me to keep going, so that's what I did, but when I looked back," he says, shaking his head. "He wanted to make it right," Rick assures Shane.
Andrea and Daryl return from their hike without Sophia. Disappointed, Carol disappears back into the RV. Dale stops Andrea. "The choices I made for you were not mine to make," he tells her, returning her gun. Dale asks Andrea if she forgives him. "I'm trying," she says.
In the farmhouse kitchen, Maggie cries to Glenn about Otis. Glenn encourages her to talk about who else she lost. Maggie points to photos on the refrigerator of her step-mother and step-brother.
Hershel joins Rick and Lori on the porch to report that the surgery was a success. Rick embraces Herhsel, then goes with him to tell Patricia about Otis.
Lori kneels beside Carl. Shane looks in on them. "Stay," Lori tells Shane.
Upstairs, Shane turns on the shower and undresses. He looks at himself in the mirror, and notices a patch of hair missing.
Shane flashes back to his final moments with Otis at the high school. Walkers gain on them as they fire their final bullets. "I'm sorry man," Shane tells Otis, shooting him in the leg.
Shane and Otis struggle over the supplies. Shane kicks at Otis, who grabs onto Shane's hair. Shane punches him repeatedly in the face and rips free with the supplies as walkers surround Otis. As the walkers tear into him, Otis is still clutching a fistful of Shane's hair.
Back in the present, Shane stands in the steamy bathroom, now full circle, we know what happened as Shane stares darkly at his reflection.
Next Week: Cherokee Rose
Shane makes a deadly sacrifice which leads to unusual behavior and self-distancing. The rest of the group tries to hang on somewhere between living to die and dying to live.
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