Tales of The Walking Dead season 1, episode 4 recap: Amy/Dr. Everett. Episodes 145

In Tales of The Walking Dead season 1 episode 4 “Amy/Dr. Everett” we meet two survivors with two different views on the world around them. As one follows science, the other hope, we learn that in the end one thing never changes, walkers remain a present and unending threat. The episode mostly follows, Dr. Everett who has been studying walkers, whom he calls Homo Mortuus for years. He is living in the Dead Sector which is cutoff from the rest of society It is here only walkers and animals survive together with the exception of people coming in and taking the heads of walkers as trophies. Through his research he learns how hordes are formed and wears a jacket made of walker skin to protect himself from them.

As he continues his research, especially that of a walker he named Specimen 21 he meets Amy. Amy got separated from her group and needs his help as she’s been feeling sick for days and doesn’t have anywhere to go. Dr. Everett ignores her, focusing on his research when Amy accidentally damages the tracker on Specimen 21 while defending herself. She follows Dr. Everett to his base located in a giant tower and manages to climb up with one good hand and the other a weaponized piece of metal.

Dr. Everett eventually lets her in and discovers she’s been eating poisonous berries. After a night of puking and rest the two argue over his research and the world around them. Dr. Everett views walkers or “chompers” (as Amy calls them) as nature, a new form of predator like wolves. He observes, does not interfere and has already noticed strange patterns amongst them.

Amy thinks he’s wasting his time and desperately needs to find her group. The two split up where Amy winds up finding and tracking Speciment 21 by marking trees as she goes.