It hopefully serves as a reminder that Rick and the others need to hold onto their humanity if there's any hope of restoring order to this world. He thanks Rick for being decent and taking him in. The gang says goodbye to Bob before he talks to Rick man to man (and baby). (But you can cheer on Michonne getting her katana back.) Father Gabriel acts as a voice of reason after the carnage, even if reason has no place in this messed up world. Rick and Co make a savage, brutal, and bloody mess of the cannibals in a way that makes it difficult to cheer them on. He ain't gettin it, because Rick made a promise. Gareth tries his sob story again, and says that Rick and his people don't know what it is to be hungry he begs for forgiveness. Martin alone stands defiant, but Ford has a tactical advantage.

were smart enough to double back and take out Gareth's gang, along with their guns (and Gareth's fingers). (Adulterers? Maybe, but more likely referencing the train car from Terminus.) A giant red A has been freshly painted on the church. Too bad they're interrupted by a pack of Walkers approaching to eat the body of Bob, which the cannibals have laid in the churchyard. Though they damned him to Hell, he buried their bodies now he thinks Rick and his crew are there to punish him. He still plays the innocent lamb, but do we believe him at this point? (He's reminding me of Lost's Ben Linus.) His story is that he had always locked the doors at night, but when Atlanta was bombed (didn't look that bad to me) he wouldn't let survivors inside, and they were devoured by Walkers. Before long, they meet back up with Father Gabriel in the church to interrogate him about their missing group members. Sasha's out looking for Bob, but doesn't do a great job keeping an eye out for Walkers, so it's a good thing Tyreese and Rick show up to help out.

Gareth and his nature stories probably have Bob begging for a quick end, but at least he's monologuing details about his plans to eat 'the women and the pretty people.' Bob laughs at Gareth and his followers, because guess what? He's tainted meat! (Like many of you predicted) After the Bob's Burgers scene from last week, what extremes will the Cannibal Gang go to this week? Well if you didn't get the overt comparison of the flesh-eating Walkers to the flesh-eating humans, then tonight's opening scene should have cemented that one in your psyche.

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