Internment

"Internment" is the fifth episode of Season 4 of AMC's The Walking Dead. It aired on November 10, 2013 at 9/8c on AMC.

Plot Synopsis
Rick arrives back at the prison and meets Maggie who is busy clearing walkers from the fence. After Rick asks about Carl, Maggie questions him on Carol's where abouts. After he avoids it with another question, she demands him to tell her. He tells her what happened to Carol, asking whether or not she'd do the same. After hesitance, Maggie agrees, but insists she wouldn't be able to actually commit to it. Rick tells her to follow her instincts before leaving. Rick heads to the administration building, where he gives a bag of food to Carl.

Inside A Block, things get worse when a few more members get sick. A survivor cannot breathe and Hershel inserts a tube into his throat along with an air pump. Sasha and Glenn take shifts pumping air into his throat, beginning with Sasha. Glenn and Hershel find Mr. Jacobson dead with blood covering his face from his nose and mouth. Glenn attempts to kill him when Hershel warns him of not doing it in front of everyone. When they get him out of the Cell, Hershel is unable to put him down and Glenn does so. Later, Maggie comes to visit Glenn through the window, but Hershel tells her that Glenn is resting and tells her to stay out. When Hershel starts closing everyone's cell doors as Caleb had warned him to, a man storms out of his cell suffocating from the blood in his lungs. An extremely weak Sasha helps Hershel put him on a bed with wheels before she gets too weak to help him. He warns her to return to her cell and he brings the body into the room with the window. He fails to put the man down and has to cover his face before he can do it. Rick witnesses Hershel stab the man in the face and tells him of Carol.

When Hershel returns to the Cell Block, he continues closing cell doors. However, upon seeing a collapsed Sasha, he runs to her, leaving a cell with a female walker open. Hershel notices that Sasha has passed out, due to dehydration, and he revives her. She tells him of how she used to calculate everything to live as long as possible and that she is thankful for his "stupid" behavior. He then starts to close more cell doors when he spots Noris and his son passed out in the same cell. The father warns him that he wants to stay by his son's side and locks the cell door. Soon after, the man Glenn was pumping air for dies and when he attempts to call out for help, he starts choking on his own blood and passes out. Lizzie finds him as the man starts to reanimate. Lizzie calls for help, which gets the attention of the female walker behind Hershel. The female walker jumps on Hershel and pins him to the ground. The father leaves his cell with a gun and his reanimated son follows him. A blonde woman comes to his rescue and pulls the walker off of Hershel, potentially saving his life. However, the father's son attacks his father from behind, to which he accidently fires a gunshot that kills the woman. The gunshot echoes through the prison to Maggie and Rick who are fortifying the fence. Rick warns her to go help the people in Cell Block A.

Meanwhile, Lizzie leads the walker away from Glenn as Maggie arrives and attempts to open the door without success. Hershel gets up and runs toward Lizzie, who gets pinned by a walker. He manages to throw the walker off of the catwalk. He sticks Lizzie in Luke's cell and he goes to get the shotgun from Caleb, however he has already turned. Caleb grabs Hershel as the female walker starts to move up the stairs. With sadness, Hershel breaks one of Caleb's arms and kills him. He proceeds to kill three walkers after leading them out of the children's sight. He realises he needs the air pump and climbs onto the metal fence that the walker from before landed. He ends up getting pinned. Maggie heads to the visitors room and smashes a window to get into A Block. She kills the reanimated father and the walker that pinned Hershel and the two head to help Glenn who has stopped breathing.

Outside, the fence gives way and a hoard of walkers get in. Rick and Carl run into the courtyard, where they get assault rifles and gun down the many walkers. Right after they finish, the van with Daryl, Michonne, Tyreese, and Bob arrives. Daryl and Michone run out of the van to go help, while Bob and Tyreese head to A Block. Tyreese goes and cradles his sister in his arms, while Bob goes to administer drugs to Glenn.

The next morning, Rick returns to his usual routine, splashing water on his face. He is about to go talk to Daryl when Carl comes along. Rick instead decides to spend time with Carl harvesting the garden. Hershel helps Michonne and Daryl load up the dead bodies. Daryl asks where Carol is, and Hershel avoids the question by telling him that she is fine but to talk to Rick. Michonne extends an offer to Hershel to join her, and he accepts.

Outside, The Governor is seen looking at the prison from a distance.

Co-Stars

 * Sherry Richards as Jeanette.
 * Luke Donaldson as Luke.
 * Jan Harrelson as Noris. (Credited as "Father")
 * Erin Hunter as Crying Mom.

Uncredited

 * Santiago Cirilo as Julio.
 * Randy Woods as Mr. Jacobson.
 * James Keats as Henry.
 * Denny Ainsworth as "Woodbury Resident".
 * Adam Daniels as "Prison Newcomer".
 * Will Martin as "Sick Teenager".
 * Sarah Wildman as "Prison Survivor".
 * Becky Shaw as the "Achey Woman".
 * Lauren Henneberg, Greg Tresan & Ellie Decker as Walkers.
 * Unknown as "Noris' Son".

Deaths

 * Mr. Jacobson (Zombified)
 * Caleb Subramanian (Alive and Zombified)
 * Noris' Son (Alive and Zombified)
 * Crying Mother (Alive and Zombified)
 * Noris (Alive and Zombified)
 * Henry (Alive and Zombified)
 * 2 unnamed prison survivors

Trivia

 * First appearance of Julio.
 * Last appearance of Noris
 * Last appearance of Mr. Jacobson.
 * Last appearance of Crying Mother.
 * Last appearance of Noris' Son.
 * Last appearance of Henry.
 * Last appearance of Caleb Subramanian.
 * David Morrissey (The Governor), makes his first appearance since the Season 3 finale, "Welcome to the Tombs".
 * Despite being a series regular, he is listed under "Also Starring" in the closing credits, possibly to keep his appearance as a secret until the ending.
 * After the events of this episode, almost exactly half of the prison population is dead, leaving 23 survivors. With Carol's whereabouts being unknown, the current population confirmed alive is 22.
 * The title of this episode is referring to putting and keeping the infected into their prison cells or other kind of detention because someone (Hershel) thinks they might be dangerous. This is also done to prevent the sick from seeing the fate of those who succumbed to the flu. Although, they already know what's happening despite Hershel trying to hide it.
 * Melissa McBride and Emily Kinney are both absent from this episode.
 * This is the second consequetive episode that Emily Kinney has been absent.
 * The ending of this episode is similar to the beginning of "30 Days Without An Accident". Some of the similarities were:
 * Rick walking out of Cell Block C and splashing water onto his face.
 * Carl asking Rick why he hadn't woken him up yet.
 * Michonne talking about her runs.
 * This is the second episode where Rick and Hershel talk about the faith in God, the first was "Cherokee Rose".
 * The song featured in this episode is "Oats In The Water" by Ben Howard
 * This marks the first time the unnamed members of the group saved a main character's life. In this episode, Hershel was saved by a blonde woman who was previously seen weeping over a dead child.
 * Scott Wilson performed all his own stunts in this episode.
 * The Governor's return at the end is considered to be one of the most memorable moments of the show.

Goofs/Errors

 * After Rick returns to the prison, while talking to Maggie, the Hyundai's driver's door is open, after a few shots, the passanger's door is open while the driver's door is closed. The two doors change from open to closed during the change of shots, until both doors are shown closed, but when Rick is walking back to the car, the driver's door is open again like in the beggining of the scene.
 * When Rick bludgeons the walker with his rifle, he is clearly shown attaching a fresh magazine. It is also visible while he hits the walker. However, in the next shot, the magazine is missing and Carl throws him another one.
 * It is mid-day when Rick and Maggie run to the prison, however it is mid-night when they get there.