But it turns out to be one of those frustratingly foolish character decisions that endanger several lives for entirely thoughtless reasons. Of course, it takes ol’ ray-of-sunshine himself Chris to break the happy spell, pointlessly hopping into the ocean and giving his parents a fright. The episode allows itself a brief a brief few seconds of jolly normalcy, as the group sit down to a slap-up seafood dinner – before diving headfirst back into the standard-issue misery and fretting that is apparently the new orthodoxy. Shame, then, that the rest of the episode never quite matches that spark or dramatic impact. It’s a sight that recalls the shot of Manchester on fire in 28 Days Later, and it packs a powerful punch. The city is being bombed to smithereens as a result of Operation Cobalt, hinted at last season, which sees the military evacuate the city and ‘humanely’ execute anyone left, in a vain attempt to halt the infection.
Yet to graduate to heavier artillery – these characters are, after all, newcomers to zombie killin’ – we can only hope they’re not still chucking pebbles around by season 3.Īfter one final zombie gets taken through a makeshift food processor (see ‘Kill Of The Week’ below), everyone hops on board the luxury yacht in time to witness the most impressive imagery yet offered by the show: the entire city of Los Angeles ablaze. The pre-title sequence provides the only gore of the episode: Madison (Kim Dickens) and Travis (Cliff Curtis) dispatching zombies with rocks, like the chimps in 2001. The gang are making their escape to Abigail, the boat owned by the mysterious Strand (Colman Domingo). It’s fire and brimstone in the City of Angels, and zombies have – for reasons never fully explained – started swarming the beach where we last left our heroes. Things are already in fiery motion, having skipped ahead a fair few hours from the season 1 finale.
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