The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 10 'Home' - Plot, Synopsis and Review

The Walking Dead: Season 3 

Episode 10: Home

Review and Plot

At the end of the last episode we saw Rick scaring off the prisons newest guests, led by Tyreese, due to his reaction from seeing a ghostly figure standing on the catwalk above him.

The group is beginning to look very thin and the last thing they need is for Rick to wander off and go all crazy again. Near the start of the episode the ghostly figure (that only Rick can see) appears standing over three graves with her back to Rick wearing a white dress. She draws Rick outside the prison perimeter and she reveals herself to be the ghost of his recently deceased wife Lori. The whole of this opening is used without dialogue and Rick gets close enough to touch his wife (when all in fact he is doing is stroking thin air as Michonne watches from inside the prison).

Whilst this is taking place the Governor reiterates to Andrea that he won’t attack the prison. Though her trust for the Governor is dwindling in the balance as of late, she is sticking around but I’m sure this will soon come to an end once she learns about the events later on in this episode.

Daryl and Merle are still alone in the woods after they left the group in last week’s episode. The two brothers who can’t seem to get on are a nightmare parting especially as they are left alone together. They can’t agree what to do; Merle wants to continue on whereas Daryl wants to go back to the safe haven of the secure prison to strengthen the slim numbers at the prison. They come across a family trapped by Walkers on a bridge (a child, what looks to be a mother and two men). Whilst Daryl wants to help the family, and does, Merle seems more reluctant. He only really helps towards the end of the Walker attack before turning his gun upon the people the brothers rescued and attempt to rob them. Daryl steps in and pulls his brother out of the vehicle points his crossbow at him and allows the victims a chance to escape. This shows the very unloving relationship they have as of now.

With Rick’s absence Glenn tries to step up to the task of leader but ultimately the boots are too big fill. Hershal sees this and begins to worry that Glenn will get them killed as he is undergoing a craziness of his own after his recent capture and treatment of Maggie. Hershal ventures down to the fence to confront Rick and try to get him to come back to the prison to regain command.

As this takes place we see two very different relationships. We see Glenn and Maggie arguing and finally confronting each other about Maggie’s traumatic experience with the Governor only for it to result in an argument. We then see a very positive and quickly building relationship between Carol and Axel. Axel opens up to Carol and we finally learn something about this character for the first time. We learn that in fact he was innocent and his arrest was ultimately due to being in possession of a water pistol when caught by the police. Just as we start to learn more about this character BANG, DEAD. A bullet comes whizzing through the air straight into the final original inmates head as he is standing right next to Carol in the courtyard.

Then this marks the start of the attack by the Governor. Yes big surprise, he went on his word made to Andrea and him and a fairly small group of four others begin their attack. Chaos is everywhere, bullets hitting cover left right and centre and even Carol has to use Axel as a human shield before she can move to a safer position. The attack is very chaotic but very amateur when it comes down to actual accuracy. For Axel to take a hit to the head from a fair distance away it must have been a fluke because every bullet misses for a good few minutes of non-stop firing unit one of the Governors men is finally gunned down on top of the tower (how he got there without begin spotted I will never know). An armoured van then drives straight through the first two fences in the prison and unleashes a small attack force from the back of the truck of Walkers before the driver retreats out of the premises. Rick looks certainly doomed, no ammo and two Walkers pinning him up a fence. This is the closest Rick has come to the Walkers and then Daryl and Merle come to the rescue and literally save Rick’s life. The Governors men retreat from this chaotic battle and I’m sure this was only a scouting mission compared to the full blow attack that is sure to come.

This is a very exciting episode compared to last week’s slower approach. We lose Axel and in true Walking Dead fashion it looks like a new character will soon enter the prison. Once the cast loses a member they almost seem to replace them imminently, either that or its likely we will see another death before Tyreese and his men are brought back into the story. With the attack we only saw a small attack force as well that acted as more of a taster for the actual thing to come in the next few weeks.  The prisons defences are also down; with the perimeter broken the prison isn’t looking as safe as it once did.

Episode Rating 8.5/10- A lot more explosive than the last episode and the only thing you could ask for was a bigger flight than the attack force than what the Governor brought. Apart from that you had everything, a cast death, a bullet flying battle and even a way to add in the Walkers to the battle between the two forces.