“Clear” is the 12th episode in Season 3. Someone from the past returns.
The Walking Dead: Stealing Is Fun!
The “Clear” episode of The Walking Dead gives fans what they desperately needed – a break from all the Woodbury nonsense!
The episode starts with a view of a sign from J telling some Erin person that they’ve tried for Stone Mountain. Rick, Michonne, and Carl are just enjoying your completely silent road trip through their post zombie apocalyptic world. Michonne drives past a hitchhiker who begs them to stop. They don’t.
Michonne drives around a car wreck only to end up stuck in the mud, when zombies surround the car. Our crew just stare at the zombies without interest. We see Zombie Erin has a bracelet that spells out her name (Hey! J tried for Stone Mountain, Btdubs). Rick casually tells Carl and Michonne to cover their ears. He rolls down the window a smidge, and shoots a zombie in the head.
Erin and her crew are now all deadsies. Rick and Carl create something for traction while Michonne is in the front seat. Carl starts to hate on Michonne for just being there. Michonne hears and looks like she’s blinking back tears when they see the hitchhiker from before. What a creeper! They quickly free the car and leave the hitchhiker in their dust.
Michonne, Rick and Carl look for guns in the King County Police Station but it’s empty. They see a building surrounded by makeshift booby traps. A zombie walks into one of the traps and gets shot by a man on the roof of the building. The shooter starts shooting at them. Carl ends up shooting the shooter, which KO’s the shooter. Rick unmasks the shooter, recognizing him as Morgan from the first episode! But, where is his son? Oh, don’t tell me…
In Morgan’s hideout, they find a hella lot of guns. Rick finds the Walkie-Talkie he gave to Morgan and sees written on the wall “Duane turned.” NOOO! Well at least Duane doesn’t have to see his dad all batshit cray cray. Rick wants to have a therapy sesh with Morgan. Michonne is like Rick, WTF? Dude is dangerous! Carl says he is going to get a crib for baby Judith. Nobody believes him. Michonne goes with him. Once outside, Carl tries to pull off a daring escape by walking away from Michonne while she’s distracted. She’s like “Shhit”! A couple steps later, she catches up to him. He says he wants to get Judith something else.
Meanwhile Morgan wakes up, grabs the knife from under his cot, and stabs Rick’s shoulder. Rick is like “You crazy son of a bitch”! and holds a gun to Morgan’s face. Morgan responds by opening his arms and smiling like the craziest son of a bitch there ever was, begging Rick to kill him and ROTFL. Rick shows Morgan the Walkie-Talkies. Morgan recognizes him and is like “oh, my bad for stabbing you. But you never answered”! Rick is like “we kept getting pushed back but I found my peeps”! Morgan explains how his son died because his son couldn’t shoot his zombie mother.
Carl and Michonne arrive at some café and see zombies all up inside that shit. Naturally, Carl’s about to go in but Michonne stops him. He’s like “you can’t stop me”! Michonne is like “you can’t stop me from helping you”! So there!
Carl and Michonne slide in the trapped rats as a diversion so Carl can get his family picture. Carl drops the picture as they make a run for the entrance to the café. Once they get outside Carl is ready to head back into the café without a plan (of course) to get the picture. He starts to throw a temper tantrum when Michonne says “no more bullshit, you wait here”. Michonne uses her ninja skills to go in through the back and get the picture. She gives Carl the picture and pulls out this weird, multicolored cat sculpture-thing and says she couldn’t leave it behind because “it’s too damn gorgeous”. Carl smiles because he knows the truth: Badass, samurai sword toting Michonne is actually a cat lady.
Rick is being all bossy boss and telling Morgan “you’re coming with me”. Morgan is like “no because you’re bringing too many guns and you’re all going to die and I have to clear”. As Carl and Michonne come back carrying a crib, Rick is bringing the bags o’ guns out and Morgan starts clearing. By clearing, he means detangling the zombies from his traps and burning them. While they’re leaving, Carl apologizes to Morgan for shooting him and Morgan is like “you should never be sorry”. Rick looks off into the distance and Michonne is like “I know you see things, I used to see my bf, it’s totes norm”. Rick is like “you drive because I see dead people”. They drive past the bloody remains of the hitchhiker from before and steal his backpack.
Next episode is the battle with Woodbury! Obviously, there will be lots of drama. And, fighting! Plus a whole lot of ass kicking! Hopefully, someone shoots Andrea. It’s her time. Who else will die? Find out next time on “Arrow on the Doorpost.”
