'The Walking Dead' Recap: 'The Grove'

"Just look at the flowers."

BY DENISE PURVIS

Carol and Lizzie keep watch over Mika while Tyreese sleeps off his injury-induced stupor. Carol tells Lizzie about her daughter, Sophia, and tells her that she didn’t have a mean bone in her body. Since Lizzie is a creep, she asks if that’s why Sophia isn’t alive any longer. Well, that and there’s a bunch of walkers running around eating pesky kids.

As Carol, Lizzie, Mika, and head to Terminus they happen upon a house in a pecan grove. Carol sees how screwed up Lizzie is about the walkers and the weaknesses of Mika. So basically, she’s stuck with two of the worst kids ever, a baby, and a dude whose girlfriend she killed. Makes for a pretty screwed up situation. Carol tries to counsel Mika about the importance of defending oneself. Apparently Carol’s advice hits home because while she and Tyreese scope out the house at the grove, Mika has to kill a walker that’s trying to eat Lizzie and Judith. Of course Lizzie sits there and does nothing, so Mika has to shoot him in the head. (Note: It takes a couple of shots. She’s not the greatest shooter.)

Water Cooler 'Walking Dead:' The Most Talked About Scene from 'The Grove'

Courtesy AMC

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"The Grove" certainly ranks up there as one of the most difficult episodes of "The Walking Dead" to watch. The most talked about scene was undoubtedly when Carol and Tyreese make the horrific discovery that Lizzie murdered her sister Mika to make a sick point. Even more horrifying was that she was about to kill Judith. We also learned that Lizzie was not only feeding rats to the walkers back at the prison but also that she was dissecting the rabbits. Overall, watching this child's psychosis rear all of its ugly head in this episode, was truly disturbing.

Do you think Carol and Tyreese made the right decision in order to protect Judith and any other living person with which Lizzie would ever come into contact? "Everything works out the way it's supposed to." The heartbreaking scene is available below as well as other clips afterwards, including a sneak peek of next week's episode, "Us."




-Larissa Mrykalo