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Graves are being dug and the burnt corpses lay on the ground in the opening moments of the third episode of the fourth season of The Walking Dead which immediately puts the spotlight on Tyresse who goes crazy over the loss. That leads to Rick losing it as well, again showing the unhinged person from the previous season. Herschel quickly pointing out all of the bad stuff is creeping in again while Rick feels it’s always been there.

In a world back to being low-tech, how do you deal with a new enemy that you can see? That seems to be the focus of this latest season and it’s a brilliant next step of the series, focusing on building something instead of the on-the-run surviving of the previous seasons.

The answer is of course is medicine which sends a team on a mission to get supplies and hopefully save the survivors.

Steps are taken to isolate individuals and what to do in worst case scenarios, emotional tough decisions, reinforcing the situation and world everyone now lives in. What’s really great is everyone seems to be on the chopping block. With it being a disease that’s causing issues it’s easy to get someone sick and have them recover, and with a show that offs characters with almost glee, who knows who dies next.

With everything going on, the episode is a Tyreese centered episode, shining a spotlight on the large, but large hearted character. It’s finally putting the comic fan favorite character into the spotlight and showing those familiar with only the television show why he’s such. Just like the comics, he shows all the rage simmering underneath and the television comes close to mimicking an infamous scene from the comic series.

The end of the episode ramps up the tension of an otherwise slow and quiet episode, as the scavenging team and we learn who killed the two individuals and dumped and burned the bodies. It’s a great ending that only makes you want to get to the next episode.

Directed by: Daniel Sackheim
Writer Credits: Frank Darabont, Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, Charlie Adlard, Scott M. Gimple
Overall Score: 9

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