I agree it was slow paced, but slow paced doesn't mean that it's necessarily a bad thing as tension comes in many different forms. Sometimes a slow burn can create some of the most tedious things in the universe, just like it did in this case. So it was fitting that the first music score in this season came for Beth, who is the one of the only musicians in the Rick's band. The song they'd chosen her came from an indie band called Kiev:
And the truth is admit it or not that she ended up in a bad place. A place, where truth is a second hand commodity and all those who seek it will suffer horribly, be it being tossed down in the elevator shaft or getting beaten black by the people in blue. Why they became like that isn't an easy thing to swallow, especially as the audience knows that the police should be serving the people and not acting like slavers. Then again considering what they have become in last decade what they were doing in the episode isn't very far stretch from forming a line in the parking and executing people in plain sight of the civilians. After they might be thinking that since they'd been granted a license to carry a firearm and serve justice they can do anything; starting from lying in the face and ending up forcing people to become their slaves. And that is only one step below from Gareth's cannibals, but since they were lying straight from the beginning I would put in same pedestal without giving them any sort of special price for what they've done to the people.
Rick, to be honest, is the only lawgiver in the series that has acted true to his shield or at least that's what he tried to do at the very beginning, when he rode in the Atlanta while wearing his uniform. But he didn't acting under a delusion that everything was getting back in order as soon as the Authorities come back to wipe of the undead menace from the ground. Simply the truth in his mind is that they aren't coming back any time soon no matter what Eugene has been feeding to Abraham. They simply cannot do that as there is no government, no system other than anarchy and all those things that are derived from it.
So, to me, it wasn't a surprise, when Beth chose to withheld the truth from officer Dawn, after she'd pulled her a side and said she's a weak from trying to slash her wrists. That bitch didn't even try to find out why she'd tried to do. Instead she just drew her own conclusions and thought that she knows everything. In fact, I felt a bit sick when she suggested to Beth that she should be obedient and give officer Gorman some honey, just because they'd saved her from the "biters." What is wrong with these people? I don't know but I was glad to see the episode ending with a glimmer of hope, while Blind Willie Jonson sang classic song of "It's nobody fault but mine."
