The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 14: "Prey" Recap

The Walking Dead 3 "Prey":
Milton asks Andrea to escape from Woodbury.

A little flashback when Andrea and Michonne are still camping together with Michonne's chained up zombie goons. The zombie goons are a touchy subject to Michonne.  "They deserve what they got. They weren't humans to begin with." was the only relevant explanation Andrea got from Michonne. 

Moving forward, the Governor is testing his own chains inside his torture chamber. Outside, the Governor's men are preparing a lot of arms. Andrea came to investigate.

Milton went to see the Governor who's busy in his torture workshop. He ask him to let bygones be bygones and have reconciliation with the people at the prison. The Governor won't budge an inch from his lust for revenge against Michonne.

Milton talks about it with Andrea. He relays what the Governor wants and that is to capture Michonne and deal with the prison inhabitants. He plans to kill them all. Milton wants Andrea to escape and warn the people there. However, Andrea has other plans and that is to kill the Governor. Milton would not let her. He is still loyal to the Governor.  Andrea has no choice but to leave Woodbury.

Martinez took Andrea's guns. The Governor talks to Andrea about it. He wants Andrea safe and present when they talk to Rick again.

Tyreeses and her sister, Sasha, are on patrol at the walls. They are target practicing with some zombies. Andrea came to escape over the wall. Tyreese tried to stop her. But Andrea wanted to leave and warns Tyreese that the Governor is mad. Tyreese let her go. He can't stop andrea from leaving. 

Tyreese report Andrea's escape to the Governor.  The governor recalls to them how they first find Andrea and that the is concern for her well-being.  The Governor said that he will try to find Andrea and bring her back. He then ask Tyreese's group to help Martinez with some tasks.

The Governor set forth to pursue Andrea. Milton tried to stop the Governor. The Governor now knew then that Milton and Andrea been talking behind his back and that Andrea now know what his plans are.

Tyreese and his group is going on a mission with Martinez. Tyreese and Allen are arguing with each other over Andrea's escape. Allen wants to stay in Woodbury and he don't want Tyreese righteous intentions to ruin it for him and his son.

The Walking Dead 3 "Prey":
Andrea's Last Stand with the Governor.

Andrea went in the woods to evade the Governor's car running down the highway. She's been cornered by walkers at a tree. Luckily, she escaped them using only her knife.

Martinez and the group are in a holding area full of walker. The Governor plans to use the walkers as weapons against the people at the prison. Tyreese doesn't agree with the plans to attack the prison folks using walkers. They have a fight about it especially with Allen who don't want to risk getting thrown out of Woodbury.

Andrea is on an open field. The Governor spot her and went after her on a car. Andrea escaped into the woods. She came into some abandoned buildings. The Governor's car approaches. She went inside to hide.

Inside the building, Andrea looks for a good hiding place. She trip on some buckets and made a lot of noise. This alerted the Governor to where she is at. The Governor whistles and this stirred up zombies inside the building.  Andrea is on dangerous grounds. 

Andrea stayed still in the hopes to evade the Governor and the walkers. The Governor tried to talk her out of her hiding place. When it didn't work, he broke the glass windows with a shovel to bring her out into hiding.

The Governor is getting close to where she is. Zombies starts to emerge one by one. Andrea is trap between a door full of walkers and the Governor. She choose to enter a room of walkers to escape. She left the Governor with the walker mob.

Back at Woodbury, someone gauge the zombies with gasoline and burned them.

Andrea is inches near the prison but the Governor out of nowhere caught her and pinned her on the ground.

Rick was on patrol but didn't see anything

Someone saw the zombies burned.

The Walking Dead 3 "Prey"
Tyreese and Sasha on happy times.

The Governor came back from his search mission. Martinez  told him that someone have burned the walkers in the pit. The Governor report back that he didn't find Andrea.

The Governor talks to Tyreese's group. He suspect them of sabotaging their plans.

The Governor meet up with Milton. He ask about Andrea and then the pit of biters. The Governor is suspicious of Milton as well.

At the Governor's torture chamber, Andrea is gag and bound, waiting for the Governor's return.

After thoughts:

After an intense week involving the Governor and Rick, we find this episode solely dedicated to the main characters at Woodbury.

The Governor is dead set in his plan to kill all the prison folks and have his revenge over Michonne.  Andrea now knows her suspicions are true that the Governor is mad in his revenge towards Michonne.

Milton is coming into his own.  He tries to work things out with Andrea to set things right at Woodbury. Milton even took Andrea to the balcony area of the Governor's torture chamber and watch the mad man do his work. But Milton stopped Andrea when she seize the opportunity to kill the Governor. This is a big mistake. Nevertheless, we now know that Milton is not on the Governor's side anymore. He even did a little sabotaging on his own by burning those zombies at the pit. What would happen to Milton now that the Governor knows his game?

At the abandoned building when Andrea release a zombie mob towards the Governor, how could he escape that? Whether he is superman or just running on pure adrenalin, the Governor is unstoppable at the moment.  Would Rick be able to stop such a mad and powerful nemesis?

What would happen to Andrea now that she is totally bound under the torturous hands of the Governor? Has the Governor totally lost his sanity and continue this deathly dance with her beloved Andrea?

What about Tyreese and Sasha? Will they sit still at Wooodbury or defect back to the other side to help Rick's group? We will soon find out in the coming last two episodes of the season.

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Brother against brother in a fight to the death. Merle got to prove his loyalty to Woodbury by killing his brother in an arena surrounded by the angry mob.

Rick and Maggie to the rescue.  The brothers escaped within a cloud of smoke while the governor glares an eye of vengeance. 

Michonne and Glenn charge when they saw Merle. Merle cause tension within the group.

Back at prison, Tyreese and his group are in argument whether to take over the prison.

Daryl made to choose.  He refused to leave Merle again. Rick pleaded with him to stay with the group. He chose to go with Merle.

Woodbury is in disarray. The walkers manage to get in the escape route made by Rick's group earlier. The Governor lost it. Andrea found out the truth about her friends from the governor.

Sweet reunion at prison. Rick takes a first look at the new group at prison. Beth baby sits Julie. She seems to have a crush on Rick. Carol misses Daryl. She go with him when had the chance. The prison seems weak without Daryl.

Andrea pacified panicking Woodbury residences. Will she be the bridge that unites the warring camps? 

Judith's makeshift crib says lil asskicker on the side a reminder from her unofficial godfather Daryl. Michonne goes into a coma like sleep. Glenn and Maggie's relationship seem strained after the incident at Woodbury. Hershel had a heart to heart talk with his daughter.

Axel pays homage to his prison brother Oscar.  Rick faces the new comers. He doesn't want to let new people in despite strong the strong consensus in front of him. Hershel reached out to knock some good sense to Rick's closed mind. 

Then it all went bad when Rick started to see the dead. 

Whats happening to Rick. Is he getting insane? Why is he being haunted by Lorie's ghosts?

Two camps lead by two sick minds. One, the Governor whose chasing ghosts from his past and Rick being haunted by them. Another possible confrontation is building up on the horizon.

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Last episode for the year. The series will have a long break during the holidays and all of January. This is how it went down.

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Rick, Daryl, Oscar and Michonne infiltrated Woodbury to rescue Glenn and Maggie. Although Glenn and Maggie are successfully rescued, Oscar is killed while Daryl is captured by the opposite faction. During the exchange, Michonne sneaked away to face the Governor. At the Governor's house, she discovered the Governor's secret room including Penny, the Governor's zombie daughter. During the encouter, Michonne stabbed Penny at the head and the Governor's eye. Andrea came to the Governor's aid which resulted in a standstill between her and Michonne.

While these were going on at Woodbury, a group of 5 survivors, lead by Tyreese, invade the prison. Carl found and rescued them from walkers by locking them in one of the cell blocks. Tyresse thanked the boy who offered them food and shelter, then went off to take care one bitten member.

Back at Woodbury, the Governor declares war against the terrorists that attacked them. He accused  Merle as traitor and presented Daryl to the townsfolk. The angry mob chants a verdict of execution while Andrea looks on helplessly at the faith of the two brothers.


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Oh goodie! New blood comes to the fold. A group of 5 survivors, led by Tyreese, fights their way out the walker-infested forest. In their attempt to evade their flesh hungry pursuers, Donna got bitten. The other woman in the group, Sasha, insisted on leave Donna behind. But Donna's husband and son didn't do so, even though it was futile to rescue her at that point. They were able to get out of the woods and into the collapse wall at the back of the prison. Will these group find home within Rick's dwindling dependents?

At Woodbury, we see Andrea still at the Governor's quarters. She picks up a photo of the Governor and his family. Looking at the photo, do you notice Andrea's striking resemblance to his deceased wife? So that is the reason why the Governor likes Andrea so much. When Andrea left, the Governor goes to his secret room to check on her zombie-daughter, Penny. He talks and cuddles Penny like any loving father would do. Is he also conducting an experiment with Penny similar to what Milton was doing? Could his child zombie still recognize him? But his affection were not reciprocated. Instead, her attention were all on the bowl of raw meat beside her. He got angry and shove the child walker away back into her cage.

In the holding area, Glenn and Maggie comforts each other from the torturous ordeal they had from their abductors. Then Glenn suddenly goes to the walker carcass and tears off its arm violently to extract a crude weapon from the shattered bones. In another area, the Governor talks to Merle and the others about the threat posted by the people at the prison. He wants them destroyed and let the bitters reclaim the prison. Merle wants a chance to talk to his brother and persuade him to join their faction at Woodbury. The Governor is concerned about Andrea finding out about Glenn so he orders them to take the prisoner out to be silenced.


In the meantime, Michonne led Rick and the others to the infirmary. Glenn and Maggie are not there so she insisted to locate them at the Governor's home. Rick still don't trust her so he wants to look somewhere else. A guard enters the house to investigate the movements he saw from outside. Rick seize and interrogates him on the whereabouts of Maggie and Glenn. The man knows nothing so he gag and hit him unconscious.

At prison, Axel is infatuated with the Hershel's teenager, Beth.  I do wonder where Hershel was at this point. Carols sees this and talks to Axel about it. Axel says that Beth is the only girl he an flirt with since Maggie is with Glenn and he assume Carol, having short hair, to be a lesbian. Carol says she is not homosexual. Axel proposes to her but she turns him down. What a comic relief Axel is turning out to be.

Back at Woodbury, When Merle and the other guards came to collect their captives, Glenn and Maggie attack them with their makeshift weapons. Merle lets out a round of gunfire during the scuffle. Maggie killed his captor with the zombie bone, however, Merle easily subdued the injured Glenn. More guards came in and the couple were recaptured.

Hearing the gunfire, Rick and his group advance to where Glenn and Maggie held captive. They throw smoke grenades to confused Merle and his group, and pull Glenn and Maggie out to safety. Glenn blurs out Merle is alive and that he is the right-hand man of the Governor. Daryl wants to find Merle, but Rick begs Daryl to help them escape. Michonne slips away from the group to act on her own agenda.

Upon hearing that one of his men was killed by the outsiders, the Governor rallies his group on an alert mode. He assigns Andrea to enforce the curfew just to keep her away from knowing the truth that Rick's group are there. However, the war escalated when Rick starts to assault the front wall with gunfires and smoke bombs. Andrea joins the not knowing that she is firing at her former comrades. Daryl provides cover while the others moves towards the wall. Rick stops when he sees Shane coming towards them. But it was only his imagination. Oscar have been shot and drop dead on the spot. Maggie fires a bullet on his head so he won't turn to a zombie. She calls for Rick. This snaps Rick back to reality and shouts for Daryl to follow. However, Daryl was caught in a crossfire.

At prison, Carl and the others hear screaming within the prison. Hershel wasn't able to stop the boy to leave and investigate. Carl finds Tyreese and his group fighting walkers. He lead the group out of the dangerous predicament and into the safety of the cell block. Donna dies along the way. While the group is preoccupied with the situation, Carl locks them in the cell, leaving them food and water. Sasha protests and demands to let them out. Tyreese calms her down and thanks Carl for helping and leading them to safety. He went back to take care of Donna.

Michonne went to the Governor's residence where he sits waiting for the man to enter. She hears noises in one of the rooms which he breaks down to investigate. There she finds the Governor's water tanks filled with zombie heads. At the back of it, she finds the cage and the chained, hooded figure within. She thought it was a child but surprised when she lifted the hood to find a zombie child. When the Governor finds Michonne with Penny, he surrenders his weapons and begs Michonne to let Penny go. Michonne, who struggling to understand it all, stabs the walker child with her sword. This made the Governor into a mad frenzy and they have a brutal fight. The Governor rams Michonne's face against the water tanks. The Governor pins Michonne to the ground while the zombie heads tries to take a bite on the struggling Michonne. Michonne grabs a loose broken glass and stabs the Governor's eye with it. When Michonne was about to strike the fatal blow, Andrea step it pointing her gun at Michonne. Both girls held at a stand still. Michonne lowers her sword and Andrea proceeds to help the Governor. The Governor went to where Penny is and cradled the corpse in grief.

At the infirmary, Andrea asks the Governor about Michonne, the zombie heads and Penny. Even though how much the Governor makes his explanation sound normal, Andrea struggles to accept its merits. Merle enters the room to report of Rick and his groups escape. However, he was only greeted by the Governor's hard gaze. He now know Merle lied to him about killing Michonne.

Michonne reunites with Rick outside the wall. They been waiting for Daryl to come out. Rick doubts her as she states her usefulness to them. The Governor calls for a town assembly. He reveals they were attacked by terrorists and that Merle was one of them. He then reveals the captured Daryl. He asks for the towns verdict. The public clamors for an execution. Andrea looks on in terror and disbelief.



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Highlights:

• Carl is turning out to be a miniature version of Rick. So far, it looks like he is control of everything at prison. However, I do wonder how would he hold up against Tyreese's group now that Rick and the others are not there to defend the fort. Would the new entrants take over the prison? 

•  Tyreese seems to be a decent person. He looks like a man of reason and has respect for boundaries. He would be a perfect addition to Rick's group. And Rick needs more people since it becomes evident that the Governor wants them destroyed.

•  What would happen to the brothers, Merle and Daryl? Would they end up dead or would they escape and join Rick's group? I doubt it if Daryl would join his brother at the Governor's side. The Governor already forsaken Merle. So it is better if Merle joins his brother in Rick's group. But they need to escape the Governor's wrath first.

•  What would happen to Andrea. Do you think Andrea would join Rick's group? I don't think the Governor would let her go. Maybe she will help the brothers to escape from Woodbury.

•  Why did Shane suddenly pops out of the picture? Is Rick having psychological issues? If that's the case, we can expect other dead characters make a comeback via Rick's phantasms.

• If Woodbury has Milton, the prison has Axel. Even though they are creepy sometimes, they do provide a minute of comic relief from all the seriousness that's been happening. However, I do hope Axel don't bother sweet Beth too much. While Daryl is still in Woodbury, would he take this opportunity and continue his courtship with Carol?

• RIP Oscar. I find Oscar's character similar to T-Dogg's. I thought he will have a longer presence in the show. I guess he had to go to make room for Tyreese.

•  Talk about the dynamic couple, Glenn and Maggie. They are strong when together, but weak when apart. Or is it the other way around. Nonetheless, they are now the it couple now that Rick's better half is gone. Maybe we will see her in Rick's dreams.

• Even though the ideal match up is between Rick and the Governor, I like to see the Governor- Michonne brawl once again. I am sure the Governor wants to avenge Penny's second death.

Sneak Peaks and Previews

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The Walking Dead 3x09 Sneak Peek #2 "The Suicide King"

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See you February 10, 2013