Carol replies that "Some people can't give up, like us." Maggie finds and kills the previous inhabitant, now a walker, and questions why she did not shoot herself before she turned. The rain worsens to a thunderstorm, so the group take shelter in a nearby barn. Suddenly, rain begins to fall, causing the group to rejoice, but Maggie, Sasha, and Daryl remain somber. Eugene Porter ( Josh McDermitt) volunteers to drink the water himself to see if it is a trap but is stopped by Abraham. Dehydrated, the survivors find jugs and ten bottles of water waiting for them in the middle of the road with a note reading, "from a friend". Father Gabriel throws his priest collar into the fire, signifying his lost faith.ĭespite comfort from Carol Peletier ( Melissa McBride), a grieving Daryl begins to self-harm and when alone breaks down in tears. The group cook and eat the dog meat, but Noah instead stares at the discarded dog collar. Before the others react, Sasha dispatches the dogs with a silenced weapon, which unsettles the others. He also tells Daryl that they will survive, but only together.Ī pack of feral dogs, one a Doberman Pinscher still wearing a collar, appear and begin to bark at the group. Glenn kills it for her, and later urges her to keep fighting to live. In one the trunks, Maggie finds a female walker who was tied up and died inside. Sasha is angrily rebuked by Michonne ( Danai Gurira), who warns her not to end up like Sasha's brother, Tyreese. However, Sasha breaks from the working plan with recklessness that puts others in danger, and Abraham Ford ( Michael Cudlitz) is wounded when Sasha cuts him unapologetically. Rick Grimes ( Andrew Lincoln) orchestrates a plan to eliminate the pursuing herd of walkers, which will require minimal exertion from the exhausted group.
Carl gifts Maggie a broken music box, but she remains detached. Father Gabriel ( Seth Gilliam) attempts to console Maggie, but she chastises him for abandoning his flock when the outbreak occurred. With almost no water or food, they question their chances of survival. 60 miles away from Washington, D.C., the survivors' van runs out of gas, forcing them to travel on foot. The group continues to reel from the deaths of Beth Greene ( Emily Kinney) and Tyreese ( Chad Coleman), with Maggie Greene ( Lauren Cohan), Sasha ( Sonequa Martin-Green), and Daryl Dixon ( Norman Reedus) taking the losses the hardest.
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It also features the introduction of Ross Marquand as Aaron, a prominent character from the graphic novel the television series is based on. It also focuses on Glenn's sinking depression and giving up hope, while Abraham becomes intensely reclusive and Michonne's struggles to keep holding onto hope. The episode primarily centers on the characters of Maggie, Sasha, and Daryl dealing with the losses of Beth and Tyreese. In the episode, the group of Rick Grimes ( Andrew Lincoln) are exhausted and dehydrated from their journey to Washington, D.C., while several members of the group continue to grieve over the group's recent losses and question their chances of survival.
The episode was written by Heather Bellson and directed by Julius Ramsay. " Them" is the tenth episode of the fifth season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead, which aired on AMC on February 15, 2015. The exhausted group slowly trudge forward in their journey to Washington, D.C.