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

2. Unsupervised Meghan (4.8, "Too Far Gone")

In "Too Far Gone," Lilly and Meghan stay behind at the trailers while the rest of the camp goes off on the Governor's insane assault on the prison. Lilly sits atop one of the vehicles and anxiously watches the opposite bank of the river that theoretically protects them from approaching Walkers. Apparently having gone to the same school of mothering as Lori and Carol, Lilly pays no attention to her daughter as she plays in the mud at the riverside. Meghan pries up a metal sign that had been buried in the mud, and she has barely enough time to read the flash flood warning before the corpse that had been trapped beneath reaches up through the clay to grab her. She begins to scream. Lilly races to the rescue, but Meghan is bitten on the arm before her mother can put a bullet into the Walker's head. Blood absolutely spurts everywhere, and we get our first onscreen child zombie bite. Alright, in all fairness, it's entirely possible that there are no contrivances and Lilly is just a terrible mother. She wouldn't be the first on this show, and nobody could have predicted that a Walker would actually rise up from the mud and kill her daughter. It was an unlikely turn of events. Still, it wouldn't exactly have been out of the realm of realism for Lilly to tell Meghan to stop shouting about every little thing and go play inside of the trailer. Besides, what mother would really allow her daughter to mess around in the muddy red Georgia clay? Honestly, it's a good thing that Meghan died. Those stains were never going to come out.