Sunday night’s episode 5 “Say The Word” has left a lot of people saying “what the?” as the most intense scene was Rick looking for Lori’s body in the boiler room and finding a full-stomach walker sitting on the floor. The walker that Rick finds was munching on Lori as director Greg Nicotero confirmed on Talking Dead. Apparently the walker dragged Lori’s body around the corner and ate her, or most of her. Nicotero also says that the walker had some of Lori’s hair in its mouth. (See down below for Greg Nicotero’s explanation of what happened to Lori’s body.)

Image of Rick sitting on ground with nearby walker that ate Lori

We see Rick stab at the walker’s stomach which could mean he wanted to see if Lori was in there and/or he was taking out some anger on Lori? Then later the phone rings in the boiler room and Rick answers it. If you read the comic then you know who it will most likely be, the beginning of Rick going a little crazy.

Read and watch the summary of episode 5 “Say The Word” here.

Besides what was going on with Rick, there was quite a few things that happened in this episode. In the beginning of the episode we did see that the Governor’s daughter Penny is in the show and she’s not alive but dead alive. I wonder if they’ll show much more of her in upcoming episodes or not.

Also in this episode we see Michonne take out a few walkers all by herself in a nice action scene. You can see some cool GIFs made by others of the action here and here.

We still don’t know if Carol is alive. I’m guessing that she is and we’ll see her soon as in one of the previews for next week Daryl mentions her name, as if she is not dead.

Here are some preview videos for episode 6 this coming Sunday!

In the above video it looks like Andrea is going after Michonne; Michonne is fighting Merle; Glenn and Maggie go on a run and Maggie is pointing a gun at someone, which looks like a white male, maybe Merle?

Director Greg Nicotero answers what happened to Lori’s body and why they didn’t show Lori’s remains.

Greg Nicotero on what happened to Lori’s body…

“The idea is supposed to be the walker has dragged her around the corner of the boiler room. There’s a blood trail that continues past the walker, at that point when it’s sort of engorged itself — as disgusting as it is. When you first see the walker you see its distended belly and we wanted it to give a little callback to Lori, even though we clearly know that Lori’s not pregnant anymore. We added bits of hair in its mouth and hand when it reaches up towards Rick. We wanted to show that this thing had feasted on her, as horrible as it is.

“It’s sort of a callback even to episode 1 in Season 2 when they’re going to do an autopsy on the walker to see if it had eaten Sophia and they find the woodchuck. So when Rick gets down and pulls the blade out there’s that moment when you think “Oh God he’s gonna cut it open because he just needs to see…” It’s like a horrible, sick connection. [Rick] walks into the room, he sees [Lori’s] clothes on the ground and he picks up the bullet that Carl shot at her. It’s really the beginning of his descent into madness. He never had a goodbye with her, never had any resolution. Going into the deepest depths of the prison, that’s a really horrible way for him to have a last connection with her.”

But the audience doesn’t see Lori’s remains for a reason…

“We told that story with T-Dog in episode 4 [when the survivors find his half-eaten body] … You may not believe it but there are a few boundaries here on ‘The Walking Dead’ that we want to preserve.”
Source: zap2it.com