This episode Rocked! Beyond expectations. I thought carol was going to save the day - told someone this ... good way to bring her back into the group. I thought they would drag it out for 8 episodes ...

This one just totally rocked. Wow is all I can say - I am in shock

 

This isn't a great picture, but




The guy who you can clearly see with Gareth, I'm pretty sure is Albert.



Same hat, and I'm pretty sure it's the game gun and shirt but I can't get a good enough look. You can also see a third person behind Albert. I don't think anyone got hit, so I think this would make a 5th surviving Terminite (this could be a Greg, David or Charlie). You can see another shot of the third guy more clearly, but I can't get a good enough screenshot of it.

I get way into this kind of stuff. I like it, lol.

 

Crazy boxcar guy

Didnt they say in talking dead that the guy rick let out of the boxcar...crazy guy....was the same guy from at the end who took the girl?

 

Wow, dude. I didn't even think of that. I got caught up in, "round count," so I was busy thinking of reasons they'd count the rounds so I didn't even think of reloading. But yeah. That makes sense. There are basically only 3 main types of rounds they'd need to make in mass-- 7.62x39 for the AKs obviously, .223/5.56 for the few m16es and m4s we saw (including the one carol stole off mr. Baby killer.) and at least Albert had an m14/Springfield m1 type rifle so .308. And obviously there weren't too many shotguns and pistols floating around but I agree-- 12g shotguns and pistols should be focused on 9mm and .38.


but thinking of it, even if they're reloading there isn't really a reason to keep a count of the rounds. Just reload whatever brass you pick up, right? That's why I was trying to figure out why he'd be keeping a round count. What other places keep round counts? Ive heard police are responsible for every round fired so maybe they do. My brother works in the division of the Air Force that guards nuclear missile stockpiles and launch facilities. They're obsessive about their ammo counts. Every time they pick up their gun and drop it off at the armory, every round is accounted for. Including their m240 belts. One time a ridiculously small amount of ammo went missing. I can't remember how much. Might have even been as little as one round of .308. Everyone got in trouble for it. Why would they be so concerned with knowing what happens to their ammo? The theory I'm running with right now is that Gareth was so paranoid and intelligent he made sure to safeguard against attack from within. By keeping track of their inventory he could make sure he controlled the ammo supply-- that is, nobody could stockpile ammo to revolt against him. Makes sense. If you're forcing people into cannibalism or die, naturally not everyone who doesn't choose death is a genuine convert.

 

Yes, we were discussing this earlier in another thread. I think in the "X" thread. It certainly could be the case, although if it is, Gimple is really playing cards only with us most die hard fans, so rare, that if you put us all together we probably couldn't even fill up a McDonalds.

 

A really big McDonald's, though, right?

 

Well at least one that had grossly oversized bathrooms, with that one stall that takes up way more space than even a wheelchair would need.

 

Well, they need the stall to be that big in case somebody brought one of the riding shopping carts for fat/handicapped people from the Walmart that is in the same plaza as the McDonald's.

 

I wonder if any of his other tattoos will have significance. The ones on his forehead and on his cheek, peeking out from behind his beard (I like that effect!) are written in that "Old English"-style font that tends to be associated with gang tattoos or jail tattoos.

 

I think they made it that big so you could check your crack for hemorrhoids in the mirror on the far wall without getting a close enough image to get a visual on your anal hairs.

 

Yes. That's the other reason.

 

On re-watch I noticed Gareth saying in the trough room, just before the gunfire/explosion that the butcher guys got 2 hours to get these guys on the drier, I'm going back to 'public face', now's the time when things get messy and let's wrap it all up by sundown.

I heard that term 'publc face' twice (can't recall the 2nd instance) but I think another reason why they want a shell count is that when new 'meat' comes in to the welcoming area, they don't want them to see spent shell casings laying around when they are on 'public face' and potentially tip them off to something bad going on there. Just thinking out loud here.

 

Yeah, there's that too.

 

I am likely way off on this, but do the cross-people (the hospital group that Beth is with) have a symbol similar like this? I have no idea why he'd have it tattooed, but it just crossed my mind quickly.

 

I doubt it, seeing as Abraham was wearing a wife-beater T, as was Maggie & Sasha...really don't think that's the type of clothes one wears when it's COLD...

 

lol I thanked you for this post but I can't lie, initially I thought it was a joke post of you taking a jab at both guys receding hairlines cause I didn't catch the x symbol lol

Great catch!

Also looking at it, could it be a cross and not an x (the tattoo especially) as the car that sped away with Beth had a cross on the back and maybe linked with Father Gabriel or that church? (Not a comic reader so not sure if they're connected).