TWD: Dead City Makes Its First Painful Kill Two Episodes Into Season 2
Much of the action in Sunday's episode of The Walking Dead: Dead City concerned Governor Byrd, Perlie and even Hershel's refusal to listen to sensible Maggie. Hence, the ferry that the New Babylon Federation took into NYC was sunk with methane-filled walkers for cannonballs, and Hershel followed his mom and Ginny straight into harm's way. But the real heart of "Another S—ty Lesson" lay with Victor, the violinist who had become Negan's confidant over the last year.
As the Saviors' former leader was ordering walkerballs shot at the ferry, The Croat noticed him pause. We knew that this was because Negan had spotted Hershel getting into a life raft; the reformed baddie had wanted to give Glenn's son a chance to escape. Unfortunately, The Croat, being a complete and total tattletale, blabbed to The Dama that Negan had hesitated. To loosen his lips and ascertain why, she had Victor brought in and let him play some Bach before brutally slitting his throat.
Negan was aghast: his only friend, dead. Even The Croat seemed kinda sad. Negan insisted to The Dama that he'd only seen a kid, a random kid, that was why he'd paused. But she was as unlikely to believe that as Ginny was not to do something stupid with the gun that we glimpsed in her possession in the last moments of the hour. Sometimes you don't even need to be wearing your glasses to see it coming a mile away.
Me, I liked Victor. He seemed soulful and sweet, and brought out a different side in Negan, so I was sorry to see him dispatched so quickly. (Hell, I only just learned his name in this episode!) What about you? And does anyone know WTH Maggie was seeing that seemed to so perturb her when she was eyeballing Hershel help treat a woman's leg? I feel like I missed something, but I'll be damned if I know what.
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