In Sunday night’s episode of The Walking Dead, we discover yet another group of humans living in post-apocalyptic Atlanta. These survivors don’t eat people (guinea pigs are on the menu, though). Plus, they have plenty of resources: food, electricity, clean clothes, an iron, a record player, a Caravaggio painting. Sounds like the place to be.
It is not the place to be. Because in exchange for those supplies, they’ve turned Grady Memorial Hospital into an asylum where anyone who enters becomes their indentured servant. After three episodes of intense action, “Slabtown” slows down the pace and fills in the blanks of Beth’s whereabouts post-Daryl-separation. Beth awakes on a gurney after being found knocked out on the side of the road. She’s immediately skeptical about this hospital, which is run by a cop named Dawn, our new Governor/Gareth.
“If we hadn’t saved you, you’d be one of them right now, so you owe us,” Dawn tells Beth, who’s then forced to play nurse. The payoff is that Dawn thinks someone will rescue them. Good luck! Like other survivors, these people have found a way to co-exist. “We’re the ones holding on. That’s the good we’re doing here,” says Dawn. Here’s What Would Jezebel Do?
1) Would we try to escape the hospital?
Yes. So many remnants of the real world exist in the hospital, but it’s all an illusion. Dr. Steven Edwards, the only doctor there, barely knows what to do with himself. While in his office, Beth tells him, “If you feel safe enough to be bored, you’re lucky.” Unfortunately, Beth is at the mercy of Dawn. She thinks Steven has a choice of whether to stay or not.
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