Cherokee Rose (The Walking Dead)

"Cherokee Rose"
The Walking Dead episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 4
Directed by	Billy Gierhart
Written by	Evan Reilly
Original air date	November 6, 2011 (2011-11-06)
Guest stars
IronE Singleton as Theodore "T-Dog" Douglas Scott Wilson as Hershel Greene Lauren Cohan as Maggie Greene Emily Kinney as Beth Greene Diane McNeill as Patricia James Allen McCune as Jimmy
Episode chronology
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"Cherokee Rose" is the fourth episode of the second season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead, which aired on AMC in the United States on November 6, 2011.^[1] The episode was written by Evan Reilly and directed by Billy Gierhart. In the episode, the group of survivors move to the home of Hershel Greene (Scott Wilson). While the group contemplates on what to do, Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) continues to search for Sophia Peletier (Madison Lintz).

Ratings were up from the previous episode, with 6.29 million viewers.

Plot

Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs) recovers from his operation, and asks his father Rick (Andrew Lincoln) if Sophia Peletier (Madison Lintz) is alright. Since Sophia is still missing, Rick lies to Carl and tells him that she is fine.

Dale Horvath (Jeffrey DeMunn), Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), Andrea (Laurie Holden) and Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) move the vehicles and set up camp at the Greene home and are introduced to the Greene family. There, they lead a funeral procession for their ranch hand, Otis (Pruitt Taylor Vince). Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal) is asked to share Otis' final moments; Shane continues with his lie that Otis had sacrificed his life to save Carl, while in reality Shane betrayed Otis.

The group, along with Hershel Greene (Scott Wilson) and his daughter Maggie (Lauren Cohan) organize Sophia's search. Since Shane is still injured and Rick is too weak from blood loss, Daryl ventures out on his own. Daryl eventually finds an abandoned house, however he does not find anybody there. He finds a Cherokee rose, which is a Native American sign in which the gods protected their children, and gives it to Carol.

Maggie directs Dale and Theodore "T-Dog" Douglas (IronE Singleton) to a nearby freshwater well, only to find a bloated walker inside. Shane, Maggie, Andrea, Lori and Glenn (Steven Yeun) join the two; the group concludes that shooting it might further contaminate the water. They then decide to use Glenn as live bait and harness the walker to a rope to drag it out of the well. After a slight mishap, Glenn manages to saddle the walker. The group manages to pull the walker to the top of the well, but it becomes stuck at the top. Attempting to pull the walker free causes the walker's body to get ripped in half, with the lower body, fluid, and organs spilling back into the well, contaminating the water. T-Dog then kills the walker with a 2x4.

Maggie and Glenn decide to venture to the local pharmacy to find more supplies. Before leaving Glenn is asked by Lori to search for something in the Feminine Hygiene section. At the pharmacy, Glenn discovers the item is a pregnancy test. When Maggie asks him what he's looking for, he tries to make an excuse and accidentally grabs a box of condoms. Maggie then seduces and has sex with Glenn.

Rick and Hershel tour the farmland, where Hershel reveals that the group has to leave once Carl fully recovers. Rick manages to convince Hershel for the group to stay for the meantime. However, there are rules they must follow. Rick pleads with Hershel to not force them to leave and to reconsider his request. He (Rick) says "if you knew what it was like out there, you'd understand", Hershel only agrees to "Reconsider" it.

Later on, Rick is up in the room where Carl is recovering in bed. Carl wakes up as his Dad leans closer with an admission, he says "Earlier today I told you something that wasn't quite the truth". He admits he lied to him about Sophia; Carl reveals that his mother already told him the truth. Carl notices that both of them have been shot, in a touching scene Rick puts his much too large to wear hat on Carl. He (Rick) says that they can "Share" the hat.

Meanwhile, after retrieving the item she asked from Glenn, Lori goes to a distant place at night and urinates on it; in the dark she raises the stick and see's a "Red +" sign, she is pregnant.

References

1. ^ "The Walking Dead : Cherokee Rose". Zap2It. http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/the-walking-dead-cherokee-rose/EP013240020010. Retrieved September 27, 2011. 

External links

• "Cherokee Rose" at AMC
• "Cherokee Rose" at the Internet Movie Database
• "Cherokee Rose" at TV.com