'The Walking Dead': What About Morgan and Carol
— -- Any Walking Dead fans expecting any closure after the bloody deaths of Glenn and Abraham in the season premiere were left wanting last night; "The Well" dealt with Morgan and Carol and their trek to The Kingdom, another enclave of survivors.
The injured Carol begins the episode in a fever dream of a walker attack, with men outfitted like knights of old, except with modern armor, doing battle with the undead. Morgan is there, too, his handy staff cracking skulls.
After spending two days asleep, Carol is taken by wheelchair to meet King Ezekiel -- who, of course, has a tiger. He tells Carol she's welcome to stay as long as she contributes. Carol pretends to be awed by the eccentric, expressing gratitude, though refusing an offered pomegranate.Privately, she asks Morgan about the situation, "Are you're s****ing me!?" She makes it plain she's going to escape the first chance she gets.
Later on, Morgan joins Ezekiel and the other men on a hunting party; they're corralling pigs to feed on walkers.
Carol continues her subterfuge as a happy participant, even as she privately starts swiping supplies to make her escape.
Morgan and the Kingdom gang take their walker-fed pigs to use as a paid tribute ... to Negan's gang, the Saviors. Suddenly, fattening up the pigs on tainted meat makes sense.
Meanwhile, Ezekiel has Morgan train a young man in the ways of the bo staff.
Carol, meanwhile, makes her escape, only to get caught by Ezekiel; he realizes she's been faking the sweet and innocent act. She admits she thinks he -- and his king act -- are a joke.
He confides in her, and admits how his royal act came to be: he was a zookeeper and community theater actor who saved Shiva the tiger's life. "I faked it 'till I made it." He got himself a tiger best friend and a legend from it -- he let others come up with how he "tamed" a tiger.
He agrees to let her go, with the promise that she can always come back.
Morgan escorts Carol from the Kingdom, and she sets up in a little abandoned house nearby.
After clearing out a walker and setting up the home, she hears a knock at the door -- and a roar: Ezekiel comes calling with his tiger pal and a pomegranate.
The Walking Dead continues next Sunday, Nov. 6, on AMC.
