The Walking Dead Recap: Four Walls And A Roof

Change of plans, folks! Our resident Tim Howard, (credit to Jordan Calhoun for the material) Taj Williams, went down with a high ankle injury (he’s actually physically fine, so don’t send any flowers) this week so you’re stuck with me now and for the foreseeable future. Let’s get right into it. We open this episode up with WAAAAY too much talking from Gareth right before Bob halts his shuckin’-n-jive’in session with the revelation that he and his crew just ate ‘infected’ meat. Bob had apparently been bitten on the shoulder back at the food bank in episode 2. His weeping outside the church at the end of that episode was mistakenly interpreted by me as alcohol depression in my last recap. Anyway, it’s safe to surmise that only Rick and his crew know that everyone’s already infected so naturally Gareth and his crew being the self-purging process once Bob lets them in on the walker bite on his right shoulder. Stookey had a that, I’m dead anyway, moment where he sort of loses his shit for a moment, not unlike another moment in Lawrence Gilliard Jr.’s acting career: Here’s the D’angelo Barksdale/Bob Stookey reference that readers called me out on missing in last week’s ‘The Wire’ analysis of The Walking Dead Episode 2.   Gareth’s squad decides to drop Stookey off on the church’s front lawn on some, ‘you can have him back’ tip. Our favorite walker hunters have a bit of internal beef when Sgt. Ford decides it’s best that they leave for D.C. now before the crazies overrun them. H…