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"Welcome to the Tombs" is the sixteenth episode and third season finale of the post-apocalyptic horror television series ''The Walking Dead''. It originally aired on AMC in the United States on March 31, 2013. In this episode, The Governor (David Morrissey) and Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) prepare for the upcoming assault on the prison. Tyreese (Chad L. Coleman and Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) decide to not participate in the assault and stay on guard duty before preparing to leave as the citizens of Woodbury become increasingly alarmed at The Governor's erratic behaviour. Meanwhile, Andrea (Laurie Holden) struggles to escape The Governor's torture chamber. "Welcome to the Tombs" was directed by Ernest Dickerson and written by Glen Mazzara. However, the scenes involving Andrea were re-written by Scott Gimple and re-filmed one month after production ended to deliver a more satisfying conclusion. The episode explores the theme of embracing humanity and civilization. The episode features the death of Andrea, who is bitten by a reanimated Milton in The Governor's torture chamber. It also features the final overall appearance of Sarah Wayne Callies as Lori Grimes via hallucination, as well as Dallas Roberts as Milton Mamet. Guest appearances include Jose Pablo Cantillo, Melissa Ponzio, Emily Kinney, Chad Coleman and Sonequa Martin-Green. Commentators gave a mixed response, with some praising the atmosphere and theme of the episode as well as arc of the season while others criticized the lack of conclusion towards The Governor's story and Andrea's death. The finale was watched by 12.42 million viewers upon its original airing, which (before the fourth season premiere) was the show's most-watched episode. ==Plot== The episode opens with a view of The Governor's one good blue eye. The Governor (David Morrissey) is berating and brutally beating Milton (Dallas Roberts) for burning the pit of walkers and betraying his plan to Andrea. Milton wonders what Penny would think of her father now. The Governor states she would be afraid of him; however, she would still be alive if he had been like this all along. He hands Milton a knife and orders him to kill Andrea (Laurie Holden), who is still handcuffed to a dental chair. When Milton refuses and instead attempts to kill The Governor, The Governor turns the knife, stabs Milton multiple times in the torso, and leaves him to die in the room with her. Before leaving, The Governor proclaims, "In this life now, you kill or you die. Or you die and you kill". Meanwhile, Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and his group pack up the prison and load supplies into the cars. Rick tries to talk to Carl (Chandler Riggs), but Carl ignores him. Looking up at the catwalk, Rick sees a hallucination of Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies), dressed as she was on the day she died, staring back at him. Daryl (Norman Reedus) mounts Merle's motorcycle, observing, "Merle never did nothing like that his whole life", referring to his brother's one-man, suicidal assault on the Governor and his forces, and Carol (Melissa McBride) praises Merle (Michael Rooker) for giving them a chance. In the cell block, Michonne (Danai Gurira) forgives Rick for considering The Governor's offer and thanks him for taking her in the day she first arrived. Rick counters: "It was Carl who made the call. He said you belong here. You're one of us." Back in Woodbury, The Governor assembles and passionately rallies his troops against the enemy. Tyreese (Chad Coleman) informs The Governor that he and Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) will fight walkers, not humans, and offers to stay behind to guard the children and elderly. After The Governor returns, Tyreese says, he and Sasha will leave if The Governor wants them to. After a tense moment, The Governor consents, hands Tyreese a rifle, and gruffly thanks him. Woodbury's forces then storm the prison, using a grenade launcher to explode the guard towers with a shock-and-awe approach, while Shumpert rakes the walkways with a mounted heavy machine gun, and the others fire from the backs of the trucks at both the zombies in the yard and at the prison. They use the trucks to storm the prison yard, mow down the fences, and yank off the grated cell block gates, until the spikes Michonne laid earlier flattens one vehicle's tires. The army then moves on foot into a seemingly abandoned prison, where The Governor leads them into the tombs. The Governor finds a Bible Hershel left for him, opened to the highlighted passage, John 5:29, "And shall come forth: they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." The Governor angrily tosses the book aside. The Governor hears a noise and directs his troops to split into two groups and investigate the tombs. There, Rick and his group stage an ambush, and discipline breaks down amongst The Governor's people, who panic and flee. A Woodbury teenager, Jody (Tanner Holland), becomes separated while fleeing the prison and encounters Carl, Beth (Emily Kinney), and Hershel (Scott Wilson) in the woods. Carl and Hershel point their guns at him and the latter instructs him to drop his weapon, but the youth approaches Carl, weapon extended and finger off the trigger, as if to turn it over, but pointed in Carl's direction. Despite the ambiguity of the young man's intentions, Carl shoots him in the head without remorse. Carl later justifies this action to Rick by claiming the young man drew first, an account which Hershel disputes. In Woodbury, Tyreese checks in on the women and children, who are sequestered in the supply depot. He and Sasha agree they may have to slip out when The Governor returns. A rapidly fading Milton asks Andrea why she stayed in Woodbury after learning her friends were alive. She explains that she wanted to save everyone, "even The Governor, for a while." Milton informs Andrea of pliers he left within grasp behind her and urges her to hurry. She removes her shoes and tries to grab the tool with her feet. The Governor overtakes the retreating convoy of his surviving assault team, some distance away from the prison, and forces them to stop. When most of the citizen-soldiers express a desire to return to Woodbury and leave the prison group alone, The Governor begins shooting them, killing most of the group, including a shocked Allen (Daniel Thomas May), who wanted to return to the prison to avenge his son's death, and who stands up to The Governor. The Governor spares only Martinez (Jose Pablo Cantillo) and Shumpert (Travis Love), who witness the massacre and recoil in horror. Karen (Melissa Ponzio) hides under a corpse and plays dead, while The Governor shoots the dead bodies in their heads. He eventually runs out of ammunition, and subsequently leaves with Martinez and Shumpert, who are horrified at his inhumane act. Rick asks Carl about the teenager he shot. Carl points out that Dale, Lori, and Merle all died because he and Rick did not seize opportunities to kill potential threats. Glenn (Steven Yeun) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) offer to help guard the prison in case The Governor returns, while Rick decides to finish off The Governor's forces at Woodbury and gives chase, accompanied by Michonne and Daryl. They encounter the abandoned vehicle convoy and some of the former Woodbury soldiers, several now reanimated as walkers, as well as Karen, the only survivor, who is hiding in a truck. Meanwhile, at Woodbury, Milton reanimates and advances on Andrea, who has untied one hand and is desperately working the pliers, trying to free her other hand from the restraints. After she is able to free her other hand, the sounds of a struggle and screams are heard, and then that of a body dropping to the floor. Tyreese and Sasha are standing guard at Woodbury's gate when Rick's group arrives with Karen. They open fire, and Rick's group fires back. During a lull, Karen convinces Tyreese and Sasha to stand down, explaining how The Governor killed everyone, and Rick, Daryl, and Michonne saved her. Rick's group comes out from their cover with their hands raised. Rick mentions that Andrea never made it to the prison and suggests she could still be in Woodbury. They head to the interrogation room and notice a pool of blood under the door. Inside, they find Milton dead and Andrea huddling against the wall, revealed to have been bitten. A weak, feverish Andrea apologizes for her actions, explaining that she didn't want anyone to die, and she insists on shooting herself. Andrea asks about Carl, Judith, and the rest of Rick's group and is pleased they are all still alive and that Michonne found Rick's group, as nobody can survive alone now. Daryl concurs that no one ever could. Rick assures Andrea that she is and always will be one of them and gives her his gun for her to shoot herself. Andrea says goodbye, and the others give her privacy, leaving a tearful Michonne by her side. Then a shot is heard. The episode ends with Rick's group returning to the prison with Andrea's body, and leading a school bus filled with the noncombatant children, elderly, and infirm residents of Woodbury who had remained behind (as well as Tyreese, Sasha, and Karen), much to Carl's dismay. Rick looks at the catwalk where he had seen Lori before, but the hallucination is gone. Meanwhile, The Governor, Martinez, and Shumpert remain at large. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Welcome to the Tombs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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