Walking Dead Episode 6: Hounded

Merle leads a group of Woodbury scouts through the woods to hunt down Michonne. They find a dismembered walker body arranged into a warning: “Go back.” One of the men, Garguilo, cringes at the spectacle. Merle threatens him, then insists on calling him “Neil.”

Michonne ambushes the men, killing two. As she escapes, Merle shoots her in the leg.

The reason Michonne hung back and didn’t help Glenn and Maggie is because she didn’t know who Glenn and Maggie were. Even if she did know them, she wasn’t in top form. She’d already killed all but one of Merle’s scouts, took a bullet graze and battled off zombies. She needed to recover and regroup.

For Merle, his likable-ness came up a notch this episode. The “Neil” conversation was good. However, leaving Michonne to get bit in the red zone was a bad idea. He was haggard and beat for sure, probably wasn’t up for pursuit. But.. The choice to tell the Governor that Michonne was dead will fuck him later.

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