Five Moments to Remember From The Walking Dead’s ’30 Days Without an Accident’

If you missed last week’s season premiere of “The Walking Dead,” this will get you catch up quickly.

Gory: Zombies falling through the roof of a store and one zombie hanging from the ceiling his intestines. Yes, his intestines got caught in the rods of the ceiling as he fell through. The gore factor is still strong with this show.

Sobering: It seems Beth, the girl with the voice of an angel, got herself a boyfriend since we last saw her. Unfortunately, he is killed by walkers on a supply run. Daryl takes it upon himself to tell Beth that her boyfriend is gone. She accepts it and there are no tears from Beth. She declares to Daryl, “I don’t cry anymore.” He answers, “I don’t want to lose any more people.” She embraces him to give him comfort. Way to show the grownups about growing up with walkers.

Badass: Sweet Carol takes a page from Romper Room and provides reading time for the little folks in the prison/sanctuary. She reads them a fairy tale but stops her reading as soon as a character in the story senses trouble or danger. She snaps the book shut and then pulls out a tray of knives and tells the children, ” Today, we are going to learn about knives, how to use them, how to defend ourselves…” Leave it to Carol, the once simpering miss of The Waking Dead, to use a fairy tale to introduce kids to knife fighting.

Fairy Tale Inspired: Rick meets a spooky lady in the forest. She seems to appear out of nowhere. She has long black hair that hides most of her face, and only allows her intense green eyes to peer through. She is covered with muck. At first glance, she seems to be walker. Instead, she is just a frail, sad soul who begs Rick for help for herself and her husband, Eddie, who is back at their camp. Her eyes are so mournful and always brimming with tears as she tells Rick in her mellifluous Irish/Scottish accent her sad tale of doing things she regrets in order to survive. Rick agrees to help, providing he first meets Eddie and they answer three of his questions to his satisfaction. (Way to use the three wishes motif.) And the lady who could easily be straight of Hansel and Gretel takes Rick to her camp, not because she needs his help, but she needs his flesh to feed Eddie, the animated head of her dead husband. Rick thwarts her plans and she stabs herself in her stomach. Her final words to Rick are, “You do not come back from the things you have done.” She leaves him with those words as if they are a curse.

A Lift: Michonne gives Carl a stack of comics she found on her search for the Governor. Carl smiles and the audience learns the Governor will be back.