Wiley Taylor
11/22/2011
The lies come to surface
In this week’s episode of The Walking Dead, named “Secrets”, all the secrets of the groups comes out and some are finally resolved. As informative as the title can get it, everybody views and emotions sprouted out constantly throughout the episode. In all, it answered most of viewer’s questions and speculations about what would happen if these secrets were revealed.
The episode "Secrets" start off with Lori and Carl feeding baby chicks that don’t have a mother to take care of them. Carl notices this also, and mentions his concern with his mother asking where is the “mommy chicken”. Lori puts on a smirk face of a mother who about to lie to her son and she does. She says “Maybe she’s somewhere else…” Really? Your son got shot, experienced zombies, and witnessed the world turn into a zombie apocalypse and you decided to lie to him about where the mommy hen is? Carl is easily offended but shrugged it off by saying “everything has to eat something”. Lori’s face is priceless with the surprise that her son is quickly growing up into a sociopath.
Elsewhere, one of the Greene’s group members breaks the legs of the mother hen and then stuff it in a bag with other chickens. She takes it to the barn and hurdles them into the middle of the barn from above to feed the zombies of their love ones. Creepy.
In the meantime, Glen is stares at the Zombie Barn through binoculars, but Maggie startles him by storming over with some food. She scolds him for being so obvious with his staring and tries to buy his silence with peaches with jerky. Although Maggie needs Glen to trust her, he is more worried about being a very bad liar, which he admits.
He tries to lie, but he manages to not tell anyone for about half an hour. With so much weight on his mind, he approaches Dale with a hypothetical question. “You’re old, you know things. What if somebody told you something that somebody else shouldn’t know?” Dale simply tells him to spit out and Glen says “There’s walkers in the barn and Lori’s pregnant.” Jaw dropped, he didn’t see that one coming.
Dale walks over to the stables to confront Hershel. He tells Mr. Greene that he knows about his little zombie collection in the barn. Hershel explained that he believe it was murder to kill a walker and the ones in the barn are “loved ones” who are “sick”. Dale can’t seem to come up with anything solid argue his logic and again he is left with a blank facial expression that tells that the doctor is actually somewhat crazy. All he can say is “Rick's a man of conscience," and Grimes replies "But are you so sure about everyone in your group?"
Later, Carl wants to learn how to shoot and lies to Dale about needing a walkie-talkie. He instead grabbed a pistol from the RV arsenal and whispers to Shane that he wanted some private gun lessons. Shane squealed on Carl. Lori freaked out, but Carl stood strong: "I want to look for Sophia. I want to defend our camp." Good point, but I wonder he will do when he actually has to shoot a zombie.
Shane instructs the group on the shooting lessons and Andrea turns out to be his best student. Guess that what happens when you shoot an actual person. He invites her to his office hours for further practice with a moving target. The target was only part of the test and he started messing with her head. This caused her to miss so much that she never actually hit the target and when Shane goes too far, she storms off in anger. He catches up with her in his eco-friendly truck and apologizes, but he also informs her of his possible lead on Sophia. He invites her to come with him as his back up and she hops right in.
At the farm, Dale notices that Lori is nauseated by the smell of the meat he is cooking. The wise old-timer tells her a small story about how his wife would get nauseated whenever she smelled cooking meat during her pregnancy that ended in a miscarriage. Lori gets where he is getting, but came to the surprise is that he even knew about her and Shane. She tells him that she wanted to “feel something, anything” and tells him that it’s Rick’s. This is extremely fuzzy because both Shane and Rick had sex with her around the same week. After seeing her son showing signs of being a sociopath, she worries about how her baby will turn out. At this point, she her face tells that she came to a resolution.
She asks Glenn to make another run to get abortion pills and he takes Maggie along with him. The couple gets into a debate on their different views about walkers, which ends with a stalemate and tensions rising. At the store, Maggie gets attacked by a walker and Glenn saves her by hatching the zombie in the head.
Back to Shane and Andrea, the two come to a suburban complex and they begin searching for Sophia in one of the houses. The house is filled with dead people who took option B, basically suicide. The smell of the rotting flesh attracts zombies and the two shoot their way out. As a direct result of Shane’s teaching skills of using a weapon, Andrea quickly becomes a sharp shooter. They escape and on the drive back, Andrea seems to be turned on by the whole ordeal and decides to have high school sex session in the car on the way back. Go Shane!
On their arrival back, Dale casually took Shane aside and said he should consider getting on his way. Shane laughed at his apparent jealousy. Dale laid all his chips on the table, noting that Shane had been extremely vague about what actually happened to Otis. Shane replied "Otis died a hero." but Dale brought up the time Shane pointed a gun at Rick: "I know what kind of man you are." Shane became infuriated and his counterargument turned into a threat: "You think I'd kill my best friend? What you think I'd do to some guy I don't even like?" Dale looked turned pale, while Shane smiled and walked away.
Upon Glenn’s and Maggie’s return, Maggie explodes on Lori and explains to her that they almost got killed because her touchy secret clinical “trip”. Later, Glenn tells Lori that she shouldn’t make the decision on her own, but exactly what she plans on doing. She swallows boatload of pills and soon repents what she has done. She runs outside and forces herself to puke it out.
While Lori is away from the tent, Rick finds the abortion packaging. He finds her outside and they go at it. "I'm not giving birth in a ditch,” says Lori. Rick revealed that he was angry with her for not talking to him and about the other lie. He knew there was a wall of untruth between them that dealt with her and Shane. "Is there anything else I should know about?" he asked. Lori responded, "Shane and I…."
I expected Rick’s acceptance of the situation because from episode two, according to Lori, it was always hard to make Rick mad and that he was a very understanding individual. He proves her knowledge right by his response to the whole situation: "I know. Of course I know. You thought I was dead. Right?" Lori simply nodded her head and they both held each other.
The real question now, since Rick knows about the affair, is will he ever confront his best friend Shane about it?
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