Oh man, when I read the synopsis I though "Virgil? The guy who was responsible for sending Michonne away from the series." Yeah, I turned out that Virgil is the one in this series and like back in those days, Virgil was almost useless, when it cane to fighting the zombies.
How did he managed to save Connie?
I assume that in the aftermath of the cave incident Connie somehow got lost and Virgil found her. It's just a question of who is saving who?
Virgil, you big wuss. He isn't clever like Eugene, but he is kind of smart in his own ways, but I wouldn't be the one take him into combat and trust him to protect my rear. In my mind, it would have been easier, and probably safer to duck-tape him on a radiator then giving him a weapon, a bayonet.
Where he got the stabby thing, I don't know, but the way he was handling it, I was thinking he's going to stab himself and then Connie's in big trouble. I think she knew it, from the way she rolled her eyes, when Virgil offered to watch over her. They didn't need words for them, but I didn't get that she were suffering from PTSDs.
"You need to sleep," he kept saying. To be honest, they both needed to sleep. Not just one, but also the other, and trusting him to guard both of them was never going to happen. It was obvious that they were both knackred and for the elder men, having a kip is so-o easy. But sometimes that five minute wink turns out to be two to four hours later, with a real o-*hit feeling.
However, Connie did the right thing by double checking the house. Not only she found the "eye behind the wall" aka the "secret room" and she also caught Virgil having a wee nap. I was even expecting him to say, "I'm wasn't sleeping. I was having my eyes closed."
It never happened and neither of them realised that they'd entered into a genuine murder castle.
Out of all the places they've visited in the past, I must say that the murder castle is the worst. Especially bad as the psycho or several of them had been surviving on previous victims, and they had turned to something worse than what the actual Dead represent. A bloody cannibals.
I think the whole play inside the the Murder Castle were one of the best actual horror episodes in the series. Those cannibal freaks were truly frightening and I especially liked that Connie's side were shown with complete silence.
Then, I loved that at the end Virgil confessed for being an idiot and Connie actually forgave him instead of patronising or doing something other equally demoralising activity. It was not a full redemption for Virgil, but a move to right direction.
In those final moments of terror, I thought that the Girl Scouts were going to 'ride" to rescue, so it was a pleasant surprise that the Dead were up for it. Such a brilliant move and the cannibals had a true cannibalistic ending.
"Does this bother you?" Pope asked.
Daryl shook his head. "Nah, I've done worse."
Careful man, be very careful what you tell to old devil, because as soon as he'd done with his bragging I could see a hint of smile on Pope. "Why don't you take a turn then?"
It must have been one of those moments, when Daryl has felt, as I have, frogs tumbling down from that gaping hole. I also have thought why did I as the waves of embarrassment has flushed over me. I think because I learned very early on my weakness with spontaneous commentary that I became stoic.
In Daryl's shoes, the only thing I'd have thought is to get over as quickly as possibly. A mistake for certain, but Daryl responded the same way, while Pope smirked like Walter White. It's just when you think what Pope's company had done in a-stan and other locations, Daryl's performance was definitely lacking. Big time ... until he took a finger.
Frost was so badly beaten that taking a finger at that point would have mattered.
Daryl told him to tell the location and it turned out to be true. But why Maggie's party was still in the house? Nobody else was coming but the enemy.
I'm glad that they decided to ditch the basement, while Brandon was being stupid or rather clever on not trusting the new man.
Did Frost reveal all of it to Pope?