2. Killer Within Season 3, Episode 4
This episode is what I always call the most shocking episode of The Walking Dead ever. Why would I proclaim such a title? Because Lori Grimes and T-Dog, main cast members since the beginning, died in this episode. Their untimely deaths sent shockwaves that were felt for the rest of the season, especially in the case of Rick. Loris death was the catalyst in his descent into madness, something that doesnt get resolved until the season 3 finale. The gravity of the material in Killer Within was enough to be a shocking season finale, yet this was only the fourth episode of an already intense season 3. The episode began idyllically enough, with the prison group cleaning up their new home and establishing boundaries with their remaining prison inmate neighbors. Hershel even starts walking around in the courtyard. All is well; until walkers spill out into the yard from an open gate and all hell breaks loose. The entire group is splintered, with Maggie, Carl, and Lori getting pushed deeper into the tombs, and Lori going into labor from all the movement. In another part of the prison, T-Dog and Carol are also pursued. In his final heroic moment, T-Dog fights off two vicious walkers, allowing Carol to escape but him getting torn apart mercilessly in the process. As Lori goes into labor, she figures that the only way the baby can survive is through a C-section, which also seals Loris doomed fate. As she shares a tearful goodbye with Carl, some of us cant help but over look all the past wrongs Lori has committed. Many fans have wanted Loris head on a platter but for her to go like that was just too tragic to be enjoyable. If you did enjoy it then something is wrong with you. This episode was monumental for both Rick and Carl. Rick has just lost his wife whom he had only began to reconcile with, and Carl has finally left any semblance of growing up a normal child, as he was forced to shoot his own mother in the head so she cant turn into a walker. However, with death comes new life, as Loris death allowed for the birth of Judith, the glimmer of hope among the ruins of the apocalypse.