[NewChief]

This episode was... uneven.

On one hand, you have new characters, new conflicts, and new developments in the relationships of those we know. There's action. There's zombies. There's a forest fire with space blanket preserved zombies. There's the chopping off of a hand. There's Red going nuts then finding his inner Casanova.

Then there's the weirdness of the ambush. Totally random. Then Daryl goes into the woods and it's hard to tell what's wrong with him. Was he shot? Just wounded? He, inexplicably, covers up his motorcycle after pushing it for a while. Evidently his motorcycle is broken, so he's going to go to ground. He odes that, then he meets the people. They seem to be simpatico after an initial feeling out period. Then, despite Daryl seeming to have a decent place to provide for them, they turn on him. And the most inexplicable part: the motorcycle was evidently working the entire time? So Daryl was just wondering around the woods here for... fun? Maybe I missed something ,but there were a lot of actions and plot points that just didn't make sense to me in this episode.