Recap The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 6: Secrets

Sorry for the delay but I finally was able to watch episode 6 and will be watching episode 7. So here is the recap and my thoughts for episode 6: Secrets. There are spoilers for those who haven't watched it yet.

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The episode begins with Patricia breaking legs of live chickens. We see that she is feeding the zombies in the barn. It seems that the zombies are attracted to live bait such as when Shane shot Patricia's husband Otis in the leg and leaving him for dead.

Maggie tries to convince Glen keep the secret of the barn to himself. Unfortunately, Glen is a bad liar and he eventually reveals to Dale that there are walkers in the barn and that Lori is pregnant. Dale decided to confront Hershel about the matter and does not convince Hershel that the walkers are dangerous. Hershel instead still views them as people will a horrible illness and he does not want to "kill" his wife and step son who are in the barn. It's clear that Hershel and the rest of the people on the farm have been sheltered from the gruesome reality that the others have faced. These walkers are not really people anymore.

Carl wants to learn how to shoot. He goes out of his way to steal a hand gun and tries to talk to Shane about  learning how to shoot. Lori, for obvious reasons, does not want her son around guns especially after being shot quite recently. Rick decides its the best course of action just in case there is an emergency and Carl should not be afraid of guns. Fast forward to shooting practice. We see Andrea excelling during practice. I have no idea how she got so good in a short time span. She is given an advanced private lesson from Shane. This, however, does not go well. Shane keeps yelling at her because she cannot hit a moving target. She has to turn off all thinking and emotion. He crosses the line when he brings Andrea's dead sister Amy who was killed by a walker in the first season. He apologizes to her. He tells her that they have a lead on Sophia and he could use her as backup.

Back at the camp Dale tells Lori that he knows about her pregnancy. She is heart broken because she realizes that her son Carl and the baby will have a life filled with misery. Dale tries to reassure her.
Lori once again asks Glen to go to the pharmacy in town. Although Maggie is pissed off with Glen, she accompanies him back to the town. She is not truly convinced that the walkers are a huge threat until she gets attacked. Glen saves her life. This is also the zombie killing highlight for this episode!
 

Glen comes swinging with a store shelf.

The walker is still "alive"

I'm not sure what tool this is...

Melee headshot!

This zombie got f'ed up!!!

 Shane and Andrea finally get to their destination which looks like a nice suburban area. Time to check out all the houses. They stumble upon a garage where they see corpses. There is no sign of Sophia but there are signs of a lot of zombies.

At first Andrea loses her focus and cannot shoot any of the zombies coming her way. Shane tells her to relax and focus. She ends up learning how to kill the zombies.

She has something on her mind...

Gratuitous crotch grab...

 After their daring escape, Andrea has sex with Shane in the car. Back at camp, Dale is suspicious of Shane and his motives. I'm sure that there will be more conflict between these two characters in the near future. Is Shane really that big of a douche? Or is his actions justified in the context of their new reality of a zombie apocalypse?

Lori first decides to ingest a handful of emergency birth control pills and immediately regrets her decision and throws them up. Rick finds the birth control pill packaging and confronts Lori. She reveals to Rick that she is pregnant and that she slept with Shane after she thought that Rick had died.

Finally secrets are being revealed. We have to see what happens in the next episode, which is the mid-season finale. I'll be working on the next post as I get the chance to watch episode 7.