God the way Chris is going, he might shoot Travis if his feet slow them down. So for that reason alone, his feet.

 

Travis needs to plant his foot up Chris' behind and see what kind of problems that causes for Chris. I do think Chris may be feeling a little responsible for it when he watches him walk.

 

I think that this might be an issue for Travis down the road. No pun intended. An infection will require antibiotics and we know a someone that may have access to them..

 

Chris has been his problem since the start of the show and has been a critical problem since the start of S2. Travis is a weak parent and part of Chris' issue's descend from that(not all of it however)and like a weak enabling parent in a desperate situation - he chose to keep enabling him in going off with him, rather than tending to the rest of his family that is not blatantly mentally ill.

The decision of which will not lead to any kind of positive outcome and has many predictable negative outcomes awaiting him.

Travis abandoning the rest of his family to tend to Chris in a non-effective way is a sort of microcosm of Travis and Chris' backstory. It sounds harsh, but given the circumstances of societal meltdown and walking cannibalistic corpses around every corner - abandoning Chris, who is obviously mentally ill, to stay with his family/group and act as an asset to their protection is what a strong parent would have done.

The question of which is a bigger problem to Travis - Chris or the foot infection - doesn't really need to be analyzed further than chasing after Chris, who was behaving in an extremely threatening disturbing way, is the cause of the foot infection.

A better question is how do we feel about Chris shooting the home owner who shot the member of Brandon's group? They were invading his property, but because the situation became hostile after he entered the barn, what was the other option to ensure exiting unscathed? Many situations in TWD ended up being similar to that - such as the Hermit's Cabin....

That's belied of course by Chris' previous psychotic behavior but it's worth thinking about.

 

Totally. Add that Chris was okay with knowing Brandon's group had killed the restaurant inhabitants to take their stuff and add all of the other backstory bits and it's a mountain of sociopath behaviors being exhibited.

Killing the farmer is not a point of no return and certainly S5-onward Rick would have pulled the trigger in a tense situation(he has repeatedly, it's not even a debate, Rick's body count is close to or already exceeding the Governor's), but the general overall tone is there to suggest that Chris has been beyond the point of return for a minute.

I'd say probably since a few episodes before the mid season break he was over the edge. I think between bad parenting, other hereditary psychological disorders and then all of the weight of the ZA, that kid snapped and lost touch with reality and it's brought out the worst of him.

The point of no return IMO was exhibited in his behavior towards Alicia. Everything he's done since is even less obtuse than that. He was whacked out with Alicia.

 

You're right. Brandon's group didn't show hostile take over like behavior in dealing with the farmer, more or less acted like inexperienced kids who thought they were tough.

But I think they alluded to Chris thinking they did, whether they did or not. He doesn't care either way and mentions to Travis that maybe being bad is being good now when they discussed that Brandon's group was possibly hostile.

So it's the same effect for our little nutcase whether or not they executed the people.