The Walking Dead Recap: The Distance

***If you want or need a refresher on previous seasons of The Walking Dead, check out these great animated recaps.**** There’s an old wooden barn in the middle of an open field. You start to hear the faint sounds of the last remnants of humanity within. A baby crying. The clicking of automatic weapons being readied. Even the occasional laugh. Then you hear it.  “Woah-ohhhhhh….. Trust issues….. Woah-oh-ohhhhhh… Trust issues…” Rick Grimes, the trusted leader of this group of survivors is sitting in the fetal position, rocking back and forth as he mumbles his new theme song. Okay, things didn’t exactly go down that way. But in the latest episode of AMC’s The Waking Dead, entitled, “The Distance,” Rick definitely shows how severe his trust issues and paranoia have become. Picking up where we left off last week, Maggie and Sasha bring Aaron, a wanderer who approached them in the woods, back to the group to let him have his say. Aaron claims to be a scout from a stable society with walls made of steel that nothing alive or dead can breach. After following the group for who knows how long, he chose to approach them and invite them to “audition for membership.”  During his first pitch, Rick, who has been giving him the stink eye the entire time, hits him dead in the jaw with a right cross rivaled only by the power of Roman Reigns’ Superman Punch.

At this point, the entire group realizes that Rick’s gone off the deep end when it comes to trusting strangers, and with good reas…