It’s going to be tough to follow last week’s intense episode. What are we going to do with The Governor?

And we start right away with a Governor – Where Are They Now montage. Is this going to be the entire episode? I’m thinking yes.

So we are having a nice campfire. A walker walks right up to the governor and collapses at his feet…Martinez shoots the walker before the governor has any reaction at all. He obviously isn’t taking the loss of Woodbury well. He’s straight Honey Badger now.

Like a scorned lover, he gets to destruction. Montage showing him completely destroy Woodbury with fire and a tractor.

Voiceover conversation about what happened at Woodbury. “He just lost it.” “Who?” “The man in charge. We barely got out alive.” We see the governor collapse in the street, finally about to be taken by walkers. A little girl in the window looks out. Hallucination of his daughter? He enters the building and has two women pointing guns at him. Nope, no hallucination. He really is Kurt Russell.

-OPENING CREDITS

“What is your name?” “Brian Heriot.” Trying to escape himself?

Are those Spaghetti O’s? She says they are butterbeans. Looks nasty, but it’s food. Nope, he throws it out the window.

With the family is an old man with an oxygen tank. Well, that won’t last long. The old man asks “Brian” for help. Wants him to get the Backgammon set from upstairs. “Might make my Maggie talk again.”

Well he found the set pretty easily. And a legless walker in the bathtub. Or wait, biter. I forgot they all all them different things, as long as it isn’t the Z-word. The legless walker and the severed leg earlier is really getting me excited for the canibals. Are they just teasing us with that? Or foreshadowing?

-COMMERCIAL BREAK

Lilly tells “Brian” that they have about 2 days left of Oxygen for their dad. She had stolen a bunch of tank earlier but they are running out. What a coincidence they have a visitor that can get them more!

“Brian” gets to the Nursing Home to get oxygen tanks. Walkers in wheelchairs. Is it too much to ask that they have a walker with a walker? Yes. Yes it is. “Brian” gets several tanks, then gets acosted by dozens of elderly walkers. Oh shit, it must be 4:00.

 

-COMMERCIAL BREAK

“Brian” drops off the tanks. I thought he only had one, but apparently he got 2. Lilly laments the lack of entertainment. “Nobody ever mentioned just how boring the end of the world was going to be.” Survivor Privilege.

 

Megan “thought you were our dad.” So their dad is Kurt Russell? “What happened to your eye?” “Lost it.” “Was that bad to ask?” No, Im sure he loves reliving that moment over and over again. “I’m a pirate.”  She doesn’t buy it. Tells her he was protecting somebody he loved. “Did they get hurt too?” “Yeah.”

-COMMERCIAL BREAK

He’s got his old haircut back. Guess I can throw away the other 10 easy Kurt Russell jokes I spent 5 seconds coming up with. He is teaching Megan how to play chess. “You can lose a lot of soldiers, but still win the game.” Megan gives the king an eyepatch.

And the dad is dead. He has been “gone a while.” Of course he turns. Almost kills the cop. Does she have a name? I’m sure they mentioned it. I’ll call her Robert Paulson. “Brian” steps up and bludgeons the dad’s skull in front of his 3 screaming daughters. Buries the dad outside. Robert tells “Brian” she understands and “we cool.” Megan runs and hides from him.

“Brian” burns the picture of his family. Tells Lilly bye. She ain’t having it. “For now you’re stuck with us.” “I can’t.” “You already have.”

-COMMERCIAL BREAK

“I’m not really a cop. I was in the academy.” Can she do sound effects?

Megan won’t talk to “Brian.” Lilly makes it up to him by having sex with him. It’s the little things.

The truck he is driving them in breaks down. Typical.

Megan falls into a pit with walkers. “Brian” jumps in and takes them out with his bare hands. 4 of them. Pretty bad ass. He hugs Megan tight. “I’ll never let anything happen to you.”

“Promise?” “Cross my heart”

And right on cue, Martinez is standing over the pit pointing his gun at them. “Holy shit.”

“Cross my heart.”

-END CREDITS

 

Looks like we are going to get another Governor-centric episode next week, and probably have Megan get killed to make “Brian” the Governor again. It wasn’t a “bad” episode…Some great character stuff in here. But after last week’s intense episode, it was a bit of a let down.