# The Walking Dead; 4.02 "Infected" (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 21, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-02-infected-open-spoilers/671766 "2013-10-21T00:34:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-02-infected-open-spoilers/671766/101 "2013-10-23T14:44:31Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > It gives them a false sense of security. Kids after all are small and generally don’t have the strength to jam a knife through a human skull. From all the pumpkinish effects we’ve seen on this show, there are anemic kittens who could manage such a feat. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-02-infected-open-spoilers/671766/102 "2013-10-23T14:50:48Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > From all the pumpkinish effects we’ve seen on this show, there are anemic kittens who could manage such a feat. With skulls like that, one could drive spikes into trees and exterior walls at eye height and the zombies would stumble into them and take themselves out. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-02-infected-open-spoilers/671766/103 "2013-10-23T18:32:44Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > That’ll do Pig.\ That’ll be it, Pig? ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-02-infected-open-spoilers/671766/104 "2013-10-23T20:07:32Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > That’ll be it, Pig? Archer line. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-02-infected-open-spoilers/671766/105 "2013-10-24T00:10:26Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > There actually probably are valid reasons for not teaching kids to knife zombies: > [ul] > [li]They might inadvertently stab or slash each other.[/li][li]It gives them a false sense of security. Kids after all are small and generally don’t have the strength to jam a knife through a human skull.[/li][/ul] > > I don’t think Carl was weird about that though. I think he felt weird about being put in a position where he was asked to withhold information from his father. Given the chaotic and unpredictable world-setting of TWD, teaching kids even the basics of “Walker-Disposal-By-Knife-101” is better, IMO, than letting them be helpless ZombieChow. Carol’s motivations are apparent to me, and I heartily approve. _Everyone_ pulls _some_ weight after The End of The World As We know It. Trying to wrap the kids in a protective cocoon is unrealistic and doomed to failure, IMO. So _I’d_ be arming them with .22LR cal pistols w/suppressors (or better yet, scoped carbines w/suppressors!) after they pass Knife 101. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-02-infected-open-spoilers/671766/106 "2013-10-24T01:22:10Z")
Well, when the kids go around shooting humans who are putting their weapon down, it’s maybe time to take the guns away for awhile. One of the kids I suspect, is the one feeding zombies rats and attracting more, so I’m not sure the kids in TWD world are all that mature. Making sure they can stay close and do what they are told might be Zombie World Survival 101. Then we can see how they handle the killin’. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-02-infected-open-spoilers/671766/107 "2013-10-24T02:12:09Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Well, when the kids go around shooting humans who are putting their weapon down, it’s maybe time to take the guns away for awhile. And I don’t disagree. I wasn’t advocating gunnin’ them up and turning 'em loose. Integration (social as well as tactical) is key. > [@](#): > > One of the kids I suspect, is the one feeding zombies rats and attracting more, so I’m not sure the kids in TWD world are all that mature. Making sure they can stay close and do what they are told might be Zombie World Survival 101. Then we can see how they handle the killin’. Again I wouldn’t disagree, but I wouldn’t entirely agree, either. It’s a screwed up world our protagonists inhabit, and the adults won’t or can’t always be around in every situation that’s possible (even likely) to arise. The kids will either be helpless, terrified little munchies for walkers, or or at least minimally prepared to do what’s necessary to survive. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-02-infected-open-spoilers/671766/108 "2013-10-26T05:42:11Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > Hershel mentioned the pigs could be carriers and they’d have to get rid of them… Just a though if pigs can be carriers for whatever this lung haemorrhage sickness is could they also serve as carriers for whatever’s causing the zombies? Just imagine, _zombie pigs_! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-02-infected-open-spoilers/671766/109 "2013-10-30T14:35:21Z")
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