Breaking News: The Walking Dead season 11, episode 4 recap and Trailer
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The Walking Dead season 11, episode 4 recap and Trailer
The Walking Dead season 11, episode 4 recap
Like âFind Meâ, âRenditionâ is also Daryl-focused, and like âHuntedâ last week, itâs also largely predicated on the relationship between two people.
But Darylâs beau, Leah, turns out to actually be a Reaper, so rather than taking away from the overarching plot this latest installment is able to pull double-duty, both character and plot-focused.
There are some obvious logical leaps designed to get everyone into position â" weâre basically redoing Neganâs infiltration of the Whisperers â" but the quasi-romantic angle is compelling and the Reapersâ leader, Pope (Ritchie Coster), is clearly unhinged enough to be a threat, even if his God-bothering cult leader vibe hardly strikes as new.
But that religiosity is the big takeaway from the entire Reaper setup. After a brief scuffle out in the woods, Daryl is separated from Dog and left alone, though quickly runs into both Dog and Leah, and finds himself a captive.
His angle is that he isnât part of the larger group that the Reapers have been chasing. When he was shacked up with Leah he had been living alone in the woods, so this isnât a ridiculous claim. But it means that Daryl has to deny all knowledge of his friends, instead tactically drip-feeding vague suggestions about their leadership â" and exaggerated their size â" in order to gain Leahâs trust.
He doesnât break under waterboarding, at least in part because Leah cuts the torture short, and keeps up the ruse while imprisoned alongside one of Maggieâs people.
All the while, âRenditionâ makes oblique reference to âthe one we answer toâ, though it hardly keeps Pope sidelined for long.
Having bought into Darylâs story, Leah recommends that he sticks around and becomes a fully-fledged member of the Reapers, which Pope seems surprisingly agreeable to, albeit after a test that involves dragging Daryl to a shack and setting the place on fire with him and Leah both inside to see how he responds.
Still evidently being smitten, he saves Leah before himself, which means he passes the test. Baptized by the fire, Daryl is inducted into the ranks of the Reapers, which earns him a brief but backstory-heavy meeting with Pope.
Information is still pretty thin on the ground. The Reapers were once soldiers who, after experiencing profound physical and psychological losses in Afghanistan before returning home to a country they could no longer assimilate into, turned to lucrative though morally questionable mercenary work.
This continued until the end of the world, âThe Fallâ, as Pope describes it, and at some point between then and now he went bananas, coming to believe that the Reapers are Godâs soldiers, doing holy work. Daryl remains understandably unconvinced.
But Pope is evidently not to be trifled with. Outside, while the group eats and enjoys each otherâs company, Pope starts to proselytize, and you just know heâs going to do something crazy.
Lo and behold, he does. Given one of their number has recently died, heâs especially antsy and suspicious about the soldier who carried him â" his âbrotherâ â" ten miles on his back. That back is injured, and by Popeâs logic, the only way oneâs back gets injured is by turning it towards the enemy.
This isnât the Reaper way, of course, so Pope throws the guy into the fire and holds him face-down underfoot until he dies in melting agony. It looks like Daryl is going to have some acting to do.
The Walking Dead season 11, episode 4 recap
Like âFind Meâ, âRenditionâ is also Daryl-focused, and like âHuntedâ last week, itâs also largely predicated on the relationship between two people.
But Darylâs beau, Leah, turns out to actually be a Reaper, so rather than taking away from the overarching plot this latest installment is able to pull double-duty, both character and plot-focused.
There are some obvious logical leaps designed to get everyone into position â" weâre basically redoing Neganâs infiltration of the Whisperers â" but the quasi-romantic angle is compelling and the Reapersâ leader, Pope (Ritchie Coster), is clearly unhinged enough to be a threat, even if his God-bothering cult leader vibe hardly strikes as new.
But that religiosity is the big takeaway from the entire Reaper setup. After a brief scuffle out in the woods, Daryl is separated from Dog and left alone, though quickly runs into both Dog and Leah, and finds himself a captive.
His angle is that he isnât part of the larger group that the Reapers have been chasing. When he was shacked up with Leah he had been living alone in the woods, so this isnât a ridiculous claim. But it means that Daryl has to deny all knowledge of his friends, instead tactically drip-feeding vague suggestions about their leadership â" and exaggerated their size â" in order to gain Leahâs trust.
He doesnât break under waterboarding, at least in part because Leah cuts the torture short, and keeps up the ruse while imprisoned alongside one of Maggieâs people.
All the while, âRenditionâ makes oblique reference to âthe one we answer toâ, though it hardly keeps Pope sidelined for long.
Having bought into Darylâs story, Leah recommends that he sticks around and becomes a fully-fledged member of the Reapers, which Pope seems surprisingly agreeable to, albeit after a test that involves dragging Daryl to a shack and setting the place on fire with him and Leah both inside to see how he responds.
Still evidently being smitten, he saves Leah before himself, which means he passes the test. Baptized by the fire, Daryl is inducted into the ranks of the Reapers, which earns him a brief but backstory-heavy meeting with Pope.
Information is still pretty thin on the ground. The Reapers were once soldiers who, after experiencing profound physical and psychological losses in Afghanistan before returning home to a country they could no longer assimilate into, turned to lucrative though morally questionable mercenary work.
This continued until the end of the world, âThe Fallâ, as Pope describes it, and at some point between then and now he went bananas, coming to believe that the Reapers are Godâs soldiers, doing holy work. Daryl remains understandably unconvinced.
But Pope is evidently not to be trifled with. Outside, while the group eats and enjoys each otherâs company, Pope starts to proselytize, and you just know heâs going to do something crazy.
Lo and behold, he does. Given one of their number has recently died, heâs especially antsy and suspicious about the soldier who carried him â" his âbrotherâ â" ten miles on his back. That back is injured, and by Popeâs logic, the only way oneâs back gets injured is by turning it towards the enemy.
This isnât the Reaper way, of course, so Pope throws the guy into the fire and holds him face-down underfoot until he dies in melting agony. It looks like Daryl is going to have some acting to do.
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