PASSWORD: TellItToTheFrogs
The prologue of the episode shows Merle Dixon (Michael Rooker), still trapped on the roof of a department store, where he was handcuffed to a pipe by Sheriff's Deputy Rick Grimes after attacking another member of their scavenging team. Alone on the roof with no food or water, Merle talks to himself and occasionally struggles impotently against his bonds. A group of walkers reaches the door to the roof and tries to push through but are blocked by a heavily padlocked chain. With the walkers trying to squeeze through the door, Merle frantically tries to reach some tools lying nearby.
The episode begins with Glenn (Steven Yeun)'s arriving at the survivors' camp in his Dodge Challenger, with the alarm still blaring. Shortly thereafter, Rick and the rest of the group from Atlanta arrive in the box truck in which they escaped the city. Rick is shocked to find his wife Lori and son Carl among the survivors, as well as his former partner Shane. The survivors are alerted to the presence of a walker, which they find eating a deer near the camp. They surround and bludgeon the walker; the survivors are concerned because no other ones had yet made it to the remote area where the camp is situated. Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), Merle's equally volatile and dangerous younger brother, arrives in camp from a hunting trip and is enraged to hear that his brother was abandoned.
Rick has an inner struggle with the fact that they left Merle on the roof alone. He resolves to return to rescue Merle and reclaim the bag of guns and ammunition that he dropped when he was knocked from his horse. He also wants to retrieve the walkie-talkie from the bag so he can warn Morgan Jones and his son Duane not to go to Atlanta. Against the misgivings of his wife, Rick leaves with several other members of the group to return to Atlanta. Back at the camp, tensions are high among the survivors. Lori tells Shane (whom she had a romantic relationship with when she believed Rick to be dead) to leave her family alone now that her husband is back.
Ed Peletier (Adam Minarovich) is sitting around, while the women of the group, including his wife Carol (Melissa McBride) wash clothes in a stream; when he hears them talking and laughing, he goes down to the stream to tell his wife to focus on her work. When one of the other women, Andrea (Laurie Holden), tells him off, Ed quickly becomes threatening and then strikes his wife. Shane comes to the scene and takes his frustration at Lori's rejection out on Ed, beating him severely and telling him that if he lays a hand on his wife or his daughter again, Shane will beat him to death. In Atlanta, the rescue group reaches the top of the department store and breaks through the chain with bolt cutters. They find that Merle is gone, and Daryl goes into a fit of rage. What they do find are the handcuffs still attached to the pipe and Merle's severed hand.
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