Darrel put a grenade down the muzzle, and apparently the crew had not closed the breech. The grenade exploded inside of the tank. There were flames coming out of the top hatch, but I don’t remember if the ammunition cooked off. In any case, it’s out of action and surrounded by zombies. Fuel may also be problematic. (They’ve covered quite a bit of ground since then.)
What a dick move that was by Betsy BTW.
I know the CDC episode is almost non-canon but there is a stunning bit of info there I caught on one of the marathons, Jenner says wildfire was declared something like 144 days ago and the zombie plague went global 60 something days ago. That means there was almost three months where the reanimation problem was known but not global.
Wow the gov really is incompetent in this reality.
Sure, everybody hates the filibuster until THEY need it…
I enjoyed the scene where Rick was explaining to all the useless residents that they should be quiet and not attract the walkers. He was doing this by standing right in front of a perimeter wall and screaming at people who were some distance away from him.
Rick, it would have been better to say, in a soft voice, “Hey, everybody come in close. I’m talking quietly because here’s the plan, we have to be quiet….”
Instead, he was all “HEY LISTEN UP! WE HAVE TO BE QUIET! YOU GOT THAT? DON’T SCREAM AND MAKE A BIG NOISE, ESPECIALLY RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE WALL, LIKE WHERE I’M STANDING RIGHT NOW! CAN YOU HEAR ME IN THE BACK? I SAID DON’T MAKE A LOT OF NOISE THAT WILL ATTRACT THE WALKERS! NO, THAT’S OKAY, YOU DON’T NEED TO COME CLOSER. WALK FARTHER AWAY AND SEE IF I CAN SCREAM LOUD ENOUGH FOR YOU TO HEAR ME! SO I WAS SAYING, WE NEED TO BE QUIET…”
You know, this thread is considerably more amusing than last week’s episode was.
While watching I came up with a new theory for the entire show, its a dark comedy about how the battle hardened Rick is actually due to PTSD fucking everything up.
Lets see…
His plan to deal with the quarry horde, goes wrong and gets half of Alexandria killed. due to everyone competent dealing with it, the Wolves choose to attack and more people are killed. Then Rick leads the horde straight home(WTF? Zombies are slow and humans fast?!) now due to all this the Leader woman is all on team Rick. Then he screams and stands on top the wall to rile up the zombies.
Tune in next week to see what new community Rick will mess up!
Wait do the residents of Alexandria even know about the death=reanimation thing? Geez Rick hold a seminar or two, what else does everyone have to do all day.
This would seem to be backed up by the spinoff show FTWD. Near as I can tell, President Trump or someone similar got the memo: The dead reanimate and try to eat the living; infection rate 100%, incubation period runs from minutes to a few days, hospitals already having trouble.
At which point he and the entire federal government promptly bugged out and scarpered off to Mount Weather and left the situation to the military and… um… well, I dunno. But they don’t seem to have done much.
In 2010, that would have been President Obama. “IF” you wanted to drag politics into a ZA thread?
Either way I imagine that by this point in the show Mount Weather is just a giant hermetically sealed zombie tomb.