RECAP: The Walking Dead “Always Accountable” [Season 6, Episode 6]

Sasha, Daryl, and Abraham are ready to end their roles as the Grand Marshals of the “Herd Horde on Parade” and finally ditch their unwelcome company. Clearly the apocalypse produces as many evil assholes as walking dead.  Just as they turn off and seem to be hitting a clear open road, shots are fired. Daryl is knocked off of his bike, but before long is back up and being chased, dodging gunfire and hungry walkers.  Sasha and Abe ditch their pursuers by  leaving a blockage of debris behind to cover them. They stop to return fire and take out the strangers but are unable to catch up to a wounded Daryl. He escapes into the woods and collapses only to run into a helmet wearing walker too weak to pursue him.  Alone in the woods, Daryl is unable to contact Sasha and Abe by radio and begins to attend to his wounds. He hears rustling in the trees, but runs into humans instead of walkers.  A blond Rick Grimes knock off (BRGKO) knocks him and rifles through his things.  The two women with him help tie Daryl up as the three lead him through the trail of burned walker bodies.  They seem to be decent people, even offering him water and telling him they don’t want him to pass out. They also tell Daryl that if “they” find them, they made trade him for their freedom.  Daryl finds out that the small group took the walkers out on their own, pouring fuel and setting it on fire to create a blast.

They think Daryl is a member of the group they had to escape.  The trio tries to force Daryl to leave them – minus his things, of course. As they reach their destination, they find that their safe group, not the group they are escaping, has been turned into camp of walkers.  While they are distraught and distracted, Daryl grabs the bag with his things, and theirs, and runs off – hoping to contact Sasha and Abe by radio, but no such luck. As he looks in the bag, he realizes that the package he took off with contains insulin – we all know that means he’ll do the right thing and return it.  Luckily, Sasha and Abe haven’t given up on him and are tracking him.  Abe thinks that he’s left them behind, again, while Sasha disagrees and thinks that given Daryl’s tracking skills, they need to stay put and let him find them.  Sasha has taken over as the brains of the operation, stopping Abe from killing a walker in the street – which would only leave a trail of breadcrumbs to their doorstep for the dirtbags who shot at them earlier.  Unable to rest, Sasha wants to know why Abe joined her.  It amounts to neither of them thinking the other is in great emotional or psychological shape, with Abe being the most realistic about this issues.  He notes that the shit keeps hitting the fan, without respite (and is it me, or does his inflection remind you of Eugene?).  He seems to have tagged along to keep Sasha on track. Instead, she is straightening him out about his problems – primarily his continued flirtation with death  Instead of admitting his issues, Abe decides to stand watch, all night if he has to.

Oh Daryl, I knew it. He goes back to the trio, first taking their gun away so they don’t end up shooting him.  He gives them back the bag as he takes a figure the BRGKO was working on.  Just as he’s leaving and wishing them luck, a truck crashes through the forest. More evil assholes who tell the survivor trio that they are going to return what they took, despite their assertion that they earned it.  They are told they have to pay for their actions, kneel and beg for forgiveness. BRGKO tells a man named Wade that they are not going back.  Oddly enough, Wade calls BRGKO an asshole.  Daryl grabs them and helps them escape, giving BRGKO his gun back.  In Daryl fashion, he sets one of the pursuers, Cam, up to be bitten by a walker.  Wade removes Cam’s infected arm and decides to return to their campsite. One of the women is receiving an insulin injection as BRGKO comments about being amazed that Daryl saved them after everything they did to him, including hitting him over the head and knocking him out.  To know Daryl is to love him, people.

Back at the hideout, it’s daylight, and Abe is checking around.  He smiles when he sees a soldier carrying a rocket propelled grenade launcher, impaled on a piece of metal, hanging off of a bridge. Wisdom be damned, he goes out to the location and then collects the cases of weapons, finding cigars as well.  He climbs out on the edge, barely avoiding being bitten, yelling into the face of the snarling walker. He returns to his sense (sorta).  Instead of heading back to the safety of the hideout, he sits around watching the walker and smoking a cigar.  Fate intervenes as the wasting walker slips off the bridge and smashes to the ground below, leaving another launcher behind.  When he returns to the hideout, he admits to Sasha that his finds were the product of Grade-A stupidity and she acknowledges the beauty of his self-awareness. He realizes that he loves having beer, air-conditioning and food on the table. He tells her that he likes the way she calls bullshit when she sees it and tells her he would like to get to know her better… uh, Rosita?!?!  She wants to know why he thinks she wants to get to know him. He tells her a man can tell and I think I swooned. W.T.F.?  Did Sasha just blush?  She basically tells him he has stuff to take care of (like a break up, maybe?  Girl Code – walker apocalypse style!   Poor Rosita, but hells bells, I can’t WAIT for Sasha and Abe – and maybe Spencer and Rosita?!) 

As Daryl leads the survivor trio to safety, we learn that the group from their camp became more desperate and vicious as things took a bad  turn (scarce resources). People traded “a lot” for safety. Sadly, as the group continues moving, the trio finds the burned out home of a family they knew.  The woman who was treated with insulin, Tina,  is bitten by the two people who lived in the home. They were “killed” in the blast the trio set to kill the walkers in the woods. The scene between the two women reminds me of Andrea and Amy in the first season.  As he helps them bury their friend, Daryl asks the questions survivors are asked before being allowed to join the group.  We learn that while the BRGKO killed dozens of walkers, he has not killed humans because it is something you can’t come back from. Daryl tells them that he is from a place where people behave as they did “before.”Becoming suspicious, they decide not to return with him.  

Despite the comments about not hurting others, they rob Daryl at gunpoint when they realize he is still alone.  Asking them if they plan to go back (to the group they escaped) and kneel, he reminds them that there is nowhere to be safe anymore.  They take his crossbow and bike, leaving him alone in the woods with bandages for his wounds (thanks for nothing). They tell him they are sorry as they leave. He tells them that they’re going to be.  Continuing on his journey, he finds their abandoned fuel truck, driving it into town.  As Sasha, Daryl, and Abraham make their way home, Daryl continues to try to reach Rick, when they are greeted by a male voice asking for help.  Rick?  No.  It sounds like the BRGKO, who sounds as sorry as Daryl predicted – or is this a ploy to get him to come to them?

We will find out next week, maybe!

 

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