This installment of The Walking Dead had it all : Incredibly satisfy moments , self-examining character scenes , the reveal of Gabriel ’s enigma , a character death , some crazy violence … of course , it also had a plothole so big you could ride a church bus through it , but hey , that ’s part of “ everything , ” right ?
“ Four Walls and a Roof ” begins exactly where last calendar week ’s episode get out off , with Gareth and the Termites eating Bob right in front of his face , and Gareth going on and on and on just to cue everyone he ’s the most amoral fucker in the demesne ( he ’s so smarmily evil , but it works for him ) . Then Bob starts exclaim / shriek , which slowly turns into a hysteric laugh — and he reveal he was indeed bite last sequence , and all the Termites are eating tainted meat , which Bob helpfully points out by pipe up “ TAINTED MEAT ! TAINTED gist ! ”
Man , I like this had been the close of last week ’s sequence — it would have been so mind - blowing — but it was still immensely satisfying to have Bob turn the tabular array on his captors so quick , and to watch them throw up in horror ( making a cannibal laugh is pretty impressive achievement ) . The termite are so upset they basically decided to drop one - legged Bob back off at the church , where Bob warns them of the danger , confesses he ’s been bitten , and manages to pass along the news that Carol and Daryl drove off after a car ( the Termites were watching them , too ) .
With that newsworthiness , Rick is determined to wait for his people and take out the threat of the Termites , but Abraham , find out an unknown threat that could compromise his mission to bring in mulleted admiration - scientist Eugene to Washington DC to pull through the reality , thinks it ’s time to take the now - working church bus and leave . Of of course , Rick has more people and also require the buss , and finally Rick and Abraham closely descend to blows , Abraham couch the mission above all else , the same as Rick does with his masses . Glenn supervise to liaise , and strikes an awkward via media — Abraham and his mathematical group stay for 12 time of day to help fight the Termites , and at the close of it Glenn , Maggie and Tara will go with them . They agree .
Rick has a plan , and it ’s basically this : leave all the dead weight unit at the church building , while Rick and the others lead to the nearby school where the Termites are camped to bring the conflict to them . Bob , of course , it busy go , and Sasha wants retaliation . Tyreese tries to convert his sister to stay with Bob in his last hour , talking about forgiveness … but Sasha has no pardon for the cocksucker who deplete Bob ’s pegleg ( she has a point ) . In the end , Sasha leaves with Rick and the others , while Tyreese stays with Bob , a tongue in his hand , in case Bob stops take a breath .
So Rick and the others march off into the Ellen Price Wood … and the camera pans over to a signal for Gabriel ’s church … and waits … and wait … and hold back some more and you start marvel if maybe you off pause by fortuity , or maybe there ’s an issue with the program provender … and then a slight more , and you think maybe there was a bizarre redaction chance event that somehow made it onscreen … but then from the other side of the screen , Gareth and the others tardily , softly make their way to the church , break down the threshold , and then it ’s The Gareth Show .
Gareth talks for about five uncoiled minutes in the church . part because he loves to hear himself speak , and part to show that he ’s being driven by nothing other than his own inhumanity . He announces the Termites arrival , and then number off just who in the grouping has been left — by name at that . He tries to get them to reveal themselves , not really because he conceive they will , but just to prove his mastery of the situation . He offers to let Gabriel walk away and subsist — hell , he can even take the baby — if he ’ll discover where they ’re all hide . Gareth does n’t just want to obliterate the group , he wants to make them cheat each other , or to trick them , or even to make them give up . Alas , it ’s Wee Baby Judith who give away their position when she finally cries ( although to be fair , she had another bout of astonishing silence . Seriously , if you had to be stuck in the zombie Revelation with a baby , you could do infinitely bad than Judith ) .
An excess smarmy Gareth heads to where the remnants of the mathematical group are hiding … which is when his hand break loose , because Rick and the others have circled around and snuck back behind them . They vote out a few and ram the others to drop their weapons and get down on their knee joint . Gareth keeps talking , promising to leave , promising to never traverse their paths again . But Rick already open them a fortune to will them alone . Rick also made a promise to Gareth that he ’d kill him with his red - palm machete — and that ’s incisively what he does . They all slaughter the unarmed , kneel Termites , and when I say botcher , I mean it — they uphold hack at them long after they ’ve died . Maggie and Glenn look sick while they watch . When Father Gabriel comes in , he ’s boggled at the blood and gore in his church . “ But this is a firm of God ! ” he squall . Maggie retorts , “ It ’s just four walls and a cap . ”
The next 24-hour interval , everyone says arrivederci to Bob . It ’s one of the rare second where someone dies with a bit of warning and in relative safety on this show , and it ’s kind of make a motion to see everyone pile into the elbow room to make their au revoir , even if Bob is a reasonably recent addition to the stamp . Bob postulate Rick to attend back , thanking him for being a estimable guy . This aspect could get along across as quality - deaf , but I think it ’s very intentional that the smile Bob exalts Rick , even as the blood in the church right congeals . finally , Sasha says her bye-bye too . As Bob continues to smile , she require him what ’s so good about this office , ring their previous game . Chillingly , definitely , Bob pass away before he can reply . A distraught Sasha has to get Tyreese stab Bob in the genius to keep him from turn .
At this point , the 12 hours is up , and Abraham Rosita , Eugene , Maggie , Glenn and Tara take the bus and take off for DC . Abe leave a map of their course for Rick to observe , since they ’re look on Daryl and Carol ( he even leaves a nice government note for Rick on the map ) . So … why does Abe do this again ? Yes , they made an agreement to leave , but the whole reason Abaraham wanted to allow was because of the nameless scourge . This terror is now a raft of corpses in the church ’s backyard . There ’s literally no welfare to them leaving now . In fact , since they ’re splitting their forces , they ’re through empirical observation less safe . But the show seems to need to split the group up , despite how idiotic it seems to be .
But at least someone restoration to the plica , albeit in a uncanny , completely uncomfortable mode . As Michonne contemplate her sword , she hears rustling ; eventually Daryl walks through , seemingly spoilt for wear . Michonne smiles and asks where Carol is ; Daryl looks supremely uncomfortable , but turn back to the leafage and yells “ descend on out ! ” Something tells me Carol is not the one issue forth out .
If we were playing Bob and Sasha ’s “ bad matter - good affair ” game , I find like the goodness would preponderate the bad . Sure , we had a giant plothole with Abraham , but we closed the chapter on Terminus for good . Yes , the splitting of the mathematical group was unneeded and kind of dumb , but it seems like the Beth mystery will be revealed soon . I do n’t recollect Gabriel ’s reveal was quite the shocker they wanted , partially because they oversold it too much , but at least we get it over with in episode 3 . And last , but sure enough not least , we lose Bob , but we gained a scene of man-eater vomiting . Really , is there anything more we can involve ?
Assorted rumination :
• Oh , when Bob gets dropped off , Rick starts grilling Gabriel ( er , likely the wrong verb to habituate here ) if he has anything to do with the Termites . The answer is no , but Father Gabriel does reveal his Deep Dark Secret — when the zombie apocalypse happened , the Christian church ’s doors were locked and men , women and children came to him for tax shelter , he kept the doors closed and listened to them get torn asunder by zombi . I know the show want to go “ WHAT A HORRIBLE mystery ” but I ’m having a hard clip imagining this as Gabriel ’s sovereign consequence of impuissance . Really , Gabriel ? You could n’t let any of them in ? They were always accompanied by too many zombie to handle ? And you figured out from the very first how dangerous everything was ? Enh .
• Michonne find her samurai sword among the possessions of the Termites , and picks it back up . Between her previous happiness without it last calendar week , and her butchery of one of the Termites tonight , having the steel return to her seems rather appropriate . Well - played , TWD .
• Apparently when Dale finally died in the comedian , he was both infected and eaten . Had I recognise that , I would have been even more surefooted about Bob ’s fate last workweek .
• Cross - stitch in the church , seen as Gareth and the Termites haunt the pews : “ betise is also a natural endowment of God , but one must n’t misuse it . ” Apparently that ’s really a saying . But if God made citizenry stupid , what the hell do stupid people have to excuse for ? They ’re being idiots like the Lord designate , right ?
• What the fuck is Slash doing on spill drained ?
• If you ’re survive in the zombie apocalypse , and someone brings up the estimation of everybody becoming cannibals , you now have a substantial statement not to do that . Really , any pest or unwellness - based Book of Revelation , just do n’t eat on people . Now , if there ’s an economical or accelerator pedal - based end of the civilized earth , a la Mad Max , then yeah , bon appetit .
• So on next week ’s episode , we finally learn what the hell happened to Beth , and who took her . The preview usher her arouse up in a infirmary — like , a hospital with lights and medicinal drug and whoreson — and then getting slapped by a woman .
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