The Walking Dead Season 5: First 8 Episodes Ranked Worst To Best

8. Slabtown

After the brutal Four Walls and a Roof, the season's fourth episode, Slabtown, took a step away from the main group to catch up with Beth Greene, who had been missing on the series since the fourth season episode "Alone". Set entirely at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, the episode revealed that the owners of the mysterious vehicles with crosses on them were cops led by the slap-happy Dawn who didn't feel too guilty about forcing people like Beth into a form of indentured servitude. As with the two-episode catch-up with the Governor in season four, one's enjoyment of Slabtown comes down to one's interest in its focus on a single character. In a show filled with characters like Rick, Daryl, Michonne and Carol, Beth hasn't made a huge impact on the series since being introduced in season two and, unsurprisingly, her solo outing divided a lot of people, with one camp enjoying the story and the unfolding of Beth's situation and the other eager to get back to the rest of the cast. Slabtown may be the season's weakest episode thanks to its placement against a host of other far more interesting stories being told, but there's still a lot to enjoy, including the story's general mystery, the Beth/Noah escape, Carol's unconscious arrival to the hospital and seeing a Beth informed by her past experiences and the lessons she's learned from all her friends to survive (for however much longer) in this world.