10 Most Disturbing Moments In The Walking Dead
6. Rick Rips Joe's Throat Out
After the separation of the survivors due to the destruction of the prison, Rick, Carl and Michonne are holed up in a fairly scenic suburb of rural Georgia. That is, until a dangerous group known as the Claimers unknowingly make themselves at home in the very same house.
Rick chokes out one of the Claimers as he makes a hasty getaway, but Joe and his merry band of bandits don't take kindly to this and begin tracking them, recruiting an oblivious Daryl en route.
Eventually, the Claimers catch them up. Rick and Michonne are held at gunpoint, Daryl is used as a punching bag and Carl is suggestively pinned to the ground by Dan.
Rick tries to fight back to no avail, being easily subdued by Joe, who taunts the former sheriff's deputy by asking "what the hell are you gonna do now, sport?"
Big mistake, Joe.
Rick sinks his teeth into Joe's neck, ripping out his jugular and leaving him to bleed to death. He then proceeds to cut Dan open from stem to stern.
Joe and his group certainly deserved their comeuppance, but the squelching of Rick's knife being plunged into Dan's chest repeatedly being the only audible sound coupled with a zoom-in on Carl's young face was a bit too much for some viewers.