Quick Thoughts on The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 3: Save The Last One

I would have posted this sooner but I just watched this episode. If you haven't seen the episode yet know that there will be some spoilers here.

I thought this was a great episode with a shocking reveal/biggest asshole move(?) near the end. We have the emotional scenes with Rick and Lori discussing the fate of their dying son, Carl. Lori is convinced that they should end Carl's life because the world is now a zombie apocalypse. There is nothing good about the world. Everybody is either dying, hiding in fear, or running for their lives. Rick believes that there is a silver lining behind all this death and destruction. It can be found from the innocence of Carl, who after waking up, describes the beauty of the deer to his mother, rather than talking about getting shot or how the world is coming to an end.

Carl`s surgery was super successful.

Brief outline of what has happened to the rest of the characters because I want to talk about the ending of the episode. Dale apologizes to Andrea about making choices for her and gives her a gun as a sign of good faith. Only time will tell if Andrea truly forgives him. T-Dog and Glen have reached the Hershel home where T-Dog has his arm checked out. Glen has a talk with Maggie about God and faith. Shane has returned just in time with the medical supplies required to save Carl's life.

Zombie Killing highlights:

Darryl getting a head shot with an arrow. Darryl also receives the "Marksmanship Award".

Shane escapes death with a shot to the zombie`s head. 

Now comes the big reveal!
The zombies are chasing Shane and Otis. Both of them are running low on ammo and it looks like that they won`t make it out of this situation alive. Shane then shoots Otis in the leg and attempts to grab the supplies. There is a struggle where Otis manages to grab a bit of Shane`s hair. Which leads us to the reason why Shane is shaving his head. He is trying to get rid of the evidence.

The image below shows the sequence of events of how Otis dies.

Sequence of events showing how Shane survives. He shoots Otis in the leg leaving Otis left 4 dead.
Shane has received "Where's the Ammo" and the "Most Dishonorable`Award". 

So is Shane possibly becoming the bad guy? Was this an asshole move? He seems to have no qualms about shooting Otis and leaving him as live wounded bait so that he can escape. He does return back with the supplies though which allows Hershel to save Carl. We'll have to see what happens in the future.


On AMC's Talking Dead (a live talk show about the Walking Dead with Nerdist's Chris Hardwick and special guests) a poll about what you would do in Shane's position. These were the results. So most people would have stuck it out with Otis. I think I would have answered in the same way. Although my perspective might be different if the world was overrun by flesh eating zombies. What would you do?

Tomorrow is a new episode! I hope they can keep up the tension and suspense!