Written by: Scott M. Gimple Directed by: Tricia Brock Full disclosure here: this is the only episode from Season 3 that made this list. Season three tried way too hard to compensate for complaints about season two's pace, and became more of a show about killing lots of zombies rather than a show about characters trying to survive hordes of zombies (and yes, there is a difference). The greatness of this episode isn't hard to pin down: it is the returning presence of Lennie James as Morgan Jones. Jones was a key presence in the pilot, a man who could make the ideological switch to survival of the fittest mode, but couldn't leave all of himself in the past when confronted with his dead wife. His scenes in the pilot have yet to be matched by any of the one-off characters thus far. A true bottle episode, Clear seems to have only one real goal on its mind: humanize the show again. Morgan's return reminds the audience that behind all the bells and whistles was once a very grounded and human story. Morgan's breakdown in front of Rick and the reveal of his backstory is more cathartic than anything the writers could cook up in the rest of season three combined.
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