The secret's out! Which one? ALL of them!

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Previously on The Walking Dead: there was too much whining, and very little character development, especially for the women, and it was annoying. Tonight: Lori, and Andrea, both act like regular human people with actual (if dubious) motivations! And I don't hate them all so much!  Hurrah! Maggie also gets to show some emotions and have an adventure! And an opinion! Hurrah! Also, Glenn is hilarious, and loveable; Dale is smarter than he looks, integral to the group dynamic, and freaked out by a flat-out threat from Crazy Shane. Oh yeah, Shane? Crazy.

So we left Glenn in possession of two major secrets for the group: flannel-wearing barn walkers, and Lori's pregnancy. Glenn asks Maggie if she's trying to buy his silence about the walkers with a fruit basket and she replies, hilariously, "'Course not! There's jerky in there too." Glenn's not sure he can stay quiet - perhaps he should watch the first three episodes of this season.

Shane takes some of the group to target practice and Andrea appears to be finding her stride. Not only can she shoot Darryl in the face from a hundred yards, she can also shoot a no trespassing sign. Shane takes her for advanced target practice, where she has trouble shooting a moving target, and Shane finally offends her into quitting; then tries to make it up for her by taking her on a creepy suburban zombie search for Sophia. hey, Sophia! I remember her, vaguely. They end up in a cul-de-sac and start to investigate - they find piles of dead walkers, and a garage full of burned up bodies, and it's all revolting. Then they're under attack! Running back to the car, Shane is shooting a clear path, and Andrea is still missing every shot. Shane refuses to help her with one, approaching rapidly, and lets her get it on her own. She suddenly hits her stride, and her target, and starts hitting every shot she takes. The change...it's a tiny bit unbelievable, how quickly it happens, but the look on her face is priceless.

Glenn is acting weird with everyone, and Dale notices. After the easiest interrogation since the comfy chair (Dale basically asks, 'what's up?') Glenn says all in one breath, "There's-walkers-in-the-barn-and-Lori's-pregnant." So much for secrets!

Glenn and Maggie make a run into town for more secret supplies for Lori. Maggie knows Glenn spilled the beans and she's pissed - Glenn asks if she really believes that the walkers are still people; if she thinks like Hershel that there wll be a cure. Maggie is conflicted - until she's ransacking the pharmacy and a walker pops up and grabs her arm. Glenn sai over the counter and 3/4 decapitates the zombie with a shelf, like a boss. Then, when the walker comes back for more, he finishes the job with a knifey-thing. Back at the farm, Maggie loses her mind on Lori, and yells that maybe next time she should go get her own morning-after pills instead of sending them. Then she has an honest talk with Glenn about how he's unappreciated, and used by the group - fetching peaches, going in the well. "You're walker-bait!" Glenn returns to Lori with the prenatal vitamins he picked up, just in case she decides not to take the morning after pills. She says it's a helluva choice to make; I think she should just take both and let the chemicals fight it out. Glenn reminds her that it's not a choice she has to make alone.

Returning to camp, Andrea grabs Shane by the dumbstick, and they have crazy backseat naked action. I want them to have a bumper sticker that says "If the Prius is rockin', don't come walkin'." When they return to camp, they have to break the bad news to Sophia's mom - but the bad news that Sophia is still missing is heavily overshadowed by the bad news for Dale that Andrea and Shane had naked togetherness time. Dale freaks out on Shane, and suggests he leave for the good of the group - and here's some interesting news: Dale is suspicious of Shane, and isn't buying the story of what happened to Otis. Nice! He says, "I know what kind of man you are," and Shane replies, in a creepy, Bond-esque, super-villain-psycho-killer kind of way, "If I'm the kind of man who would shoot my own best friend...what do you think I'd do to someone I don't even like?" Holy shit! And also, well said. And also, yikes.

Lori takes the morning after pill, then runs out to the fence to barf. Rick finds the empty pill boxes (worst way to notify someone you're pregnant, I think) and finds Lori. They have it out, and when Rick asks flat-out, Lori admits that she and Shane were together in Atlanta.

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The Walking Dead S2E5 review

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