The Walking Dead 4.2, "Infected" Review

Two Women And A Baby Finally, there is Michonne. Having gone through a transformation from sullen and silent in Season 3 to helpful and social in Season 4, Michonne is all smiles in the beginning of the episode as she exits the prison on horseback. When she hears gunshots from D-Block, her smile falls and she turns back. Before she can make it through the gates, she falls from her horse and is overwhelmed by a pair of Walkers. Luckily, Maggie and Carl come to the rescue and Michonne escapes with no more than a sprained ankle. Less luckily for action-oriented Michonne, she then must spend the rest of the episode recuperating with Beth and Judith. Beth binds Michonne's ankle as Judith adorably plays with some cups. She and Michonne discuss the people lost in the day's attacks. It is not a cheery conversation. "There's 'widows' and 'orphans,'" says Beth, "but what do you call someone who's lost a child?" Right on cue, Judith bursts into tears. Her face carefully blank, Michonne asks Beth if the child always caterwauls like that. Beth just says that Judith senses other people's moods. Hmmm... Later, Beth is walking Judith around the cell block and singing to her. Judith dislikes the song and spits up on Beth, who basically flings the baby at Michonne in her anxiety to clean up. Michonne holds the baby as awkwardly as is humanly possible for just long enough to give the impression that the scene is meant to be a spot of humor in an otherwise very dark episode. She so begrudgingly takes the child from Beth that it's difficult not to crack a smile. But then, her face crumples. She cuddles Judith to her and begins to cry. All at once, Michonne has a layer beyond that of "badass."