The Walking Dead: 7 Things That "The Grove" Did Right (And 3 It Didn't)

2. Tyreese Forgives Carol

"The Grove" was a rather eventful episode, and poor Tyreese spends most of his time watching the little family unit fall apart. The gentle giant who just wanted to stay on the pecan farm with three little girls and his trusted friend Carol was twisted into a man complicit in the killing of a child following the murder of another. When we see him sitting miserably in the cabin after the deed was done, Tyreese deserves for the episode to end before anything else can go wrong for him. And go wrong something does. Broken by the deaths of the Samuels sisters and her failure to protect them, Carol slides her gun across the table and tells him that she killed Karen and David. "You do what you have to do," she says, crying and looking as though she hopes that he'll pull the trigger on her. Devastated and furious, Tyreese clutches the gun for a long moment...then lets it go. "I forgive you," he says, almost whispering. "Never gonna forget. It happened. You did it...It's a part of you now. Me too. But I forgive you." It's an incredible scene, and Chad L. Coleman acts his heart out. Done differently, Tyreese may have come across as weak or cowed for so quickly forgiving Carol for her terrible crime, but his acknowledgment that for her to live with the burden of what she had done was punishment greater than any that he could enact with a gun gave him an edge that we hadn't before seen in his character. We didn't get the impression that his forgiveness was the result of any calculation. He just saw that nothing was black and white to them anymore, and vengeance would do no one any good.