The Walking Dead Season 4: 7 Huge Contrivances That Led To Great Scenes

7. It's Raining Walkers (4.1, "30 Days Without An Accident")

In the season premiere, Daryl leads a group of survivors on a run to an abandoned warehouse store. As they split up to peruse the inventory, newbie Bob heads straight toward the Beer & Wine section. As you do. After picking up and gazing longingly at a bottle of wine, Bob returns it to the shelf. He happens to return it rather forcefully, and the shelf collapses on top of him. He's uninjured, but the noise attracts the Walkers that have been shambling aimlessly on the roof, and they grow more animated. As the menfolk struggle to free Bob, a Walker above steps on a soft spot and falls through the roof into the store. His entrails are caught on jagged edges, and he actually dangles above them by his own intestines for a few moments. It's pretty great. Daryl and Co. are less impressed, however, and as they attempt to rescue Bob, Walkers begin to fall through soft spots all over the store. Some hit the floor and explode into bloody splats, but others are cushioned by shelves and remain intact. Suddenly, the survivors are being mobbed by zombies in all directions, and they must fight their way through the dark aisles to escape alive...with one exception. (RIP Zach.) It's a necessary incident in an otherwise action-free episode. It is also awesome. Unfortunately, the set-up was less than awesome. A helicopter that is apparently the clown car equivalent of military aircraft has crashed, spilling dozens of Walkers out onto the roof of a store. Okay. Judging by the state of the wreckage and the level of decomposition of the zombies, they'd been up there for quite some time. Fine. Yet, prior to the characters' arrival, none of the Walkers had managed to fall through the roof that was evidently riddled with soft spots. Granted, they hadn't exactly had much stimuli to get them moving, but there's no way that one of them wouldn't have dropped through the roof before this episode.