We begin by learning that Murderess Carol and Detective Rick are heading off on a road trip, to gather supplies and food. After all, everyone in the prison is either sick or dying, practically. What could possibly go wrong?
Last episode's bombshell, revealing a radical change in mentality in our dear friend Carol, is encapsulated thusly by little Lizzie: "We all change. We don't get to stay the same." Carol, who began the show as pretty much the weakest, most cringing and crying character, has been irrevocably changed by her situation. She lived for her daughter Sophie and her role as a mother; pointedly, she's pissed off when Lizzie tries to call her 'mom.' She ain't nobody's momma, kid. She's a survivor.
And a murderer! Of course, Carol was doing what she thought best, by eliminating the plague carriers. And, uh, eliminating the bodies. But something tells me that Rick is going to tightly clench on that stick up his ass...
It's interesting to see how determined Rick is to punish Carol for her behavior. At this point in the show, Rick has stepped down from any role of authority - he hasn't played a part on the prison council, as Carol has. And as we know, from his E1 encounter with the Irish lass, Rick has been meditating a lot lately on morality. It's a bad combination. He is grasping for the worldview of the past, trying to delineate good and bad, right and wrong. And the former Ricktator seems to be arising, for he is just a little too quick to play the judge for Carol. And worse yet, he's not even being fair, totally disregarding her virtues (helping the wounded hippies, for example!).
PS, did anyone else mistake the girl hippie for Zooey Deschanel?
This is a surprisingly well-handled episode, and I give credit to the actors. This is a very introspective episode, which typically are written with all the grace of an elephant on ice. But this is a quiet episode, and it's impressive, really, to see how much emotion, tension, and conflict the actors can convey as they rummage through medicine cabinets.
"You can be a farmer, Rick. You just can't be only a farmer!" Carol gives it to him straight, confronting him directly about the whole "I had to do it" murder situation. Somebody's got to make tough decisions, and he has shrunk from this capacity for months. True, true, true. I have to say, as a viewer, I'm totally on Carol's side.
Which is probably deliberate, because the next thing I know, Rick is dumping her in the subdivision. Yes, the Ricktator is back, and the tough / dick decision he's going to make on his first day of office is to EJECT CAROL from his prison community.
And here is how I feel about that:
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATT????!!!!
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