the buy himself more time before they got to DC. he knows as soon they arrive he'll have to admit he has been lying.
He didn't want to get to DC and tell the group he didn't know how to stop the zombie apocalypse. I guess he was just trying to prolong the journey.
Where did it insinuate that they were raped? There also was no sign that the wife killed her daughter (singular, the other one I believe was a boy). She wrote a note saying something like "stay away from us", so she wasn't planning to off her self nor kill her children. Why she wrote such a note? My guess is that he may have been a wife-beating husband before all this happened and the brutality he showed killing those men (for whatever reason) was the last straw for her.
I didn't get that from the show either, but apparently it's in the comics that his wife and daughter were raped by multiple members of the group they were with at the outset of the zombie apocalypse. The level to which Abe dealt with them scared off his wife. I guess it makes sense. People snap in situations like this. Even if Abe had never been violent to his family before, them seeing him go off the way he did, as violently has he did, could understandably make them fear for their own lives. Especially early in the apocalypse when most can't fathom the things people will have to do to survive. But also in the comics, he found his wife and son eaten by walkers and his daughter zombified, who he has to kill.
The talked about him killing the people because they raped his wife and children during Talking Dead last night. Also, you're right in that the wife didn't commit suicide and kill her children. They just died from walkers pretty much immediately after leaving that building.
They didn't really touch on the why of Abraham beating those guys to death, but the comic backstory fits the reactions. He did scare off his wife and children who were terrified of what he had become. And I'm pretty sure the wife and kids were just killed by walkers. They looked eaten up to me. That fits the comics too. People need to be careful with just assuming people know the comic storyline. Although it fits this time, the show has diverged a lot, so just throwing "Oh, in the comic, such and such happened" to explain something is silly. In this case I think it fits, putting that aside. He seemed to be protecting his wife and kids, for WHATEVER reason, and scared them with how brutal he was to the attackers, and they took off, and died because of it.
And again, that's one of my criticisms of the show. They need an after show to point out stuff that wasn't well explained (or not explained at all) on the actual show. I don't think Breaking/Talking Bad ever had that issue.
Thanks guys. I read the comic, yet I didn't recall those details. You are right, parts like this shouldn't have to be explained in the show after. All they need to do was to show the wife with torn clothing and we would've gotten the idea.
Me too! His lack of details. His vagueness His quickness to go to the 'It's Classified' card I just never thought he knew anything I was shocked at how little people probed him I was like at several people died .. . . and no one said .. . DUDE - We need something to tell the CDC in case you get Zombied! I know we won't understand it but ***** put it on paper or something . . . . Rocket River
Hard to tell if it's supposed to be obvious or just bad acting with this show.... not a complainer either. Honest remark.
Spoiler Let's just say Eugene has the right idea about Washington D.C., however, they're threats there that are even more dangerous.
I just realized Eugene is McHale. McHale was like, yeah bro, I swear we'll get Love bro, I promise Daryl, I promise, I'm the key to landing Kevin Love just hire me. I know what he wants. C'mon, brah.
So are we all just going to pretend that there were no mentions or references of "Houston"? Aiight. Well just to let yall know, they met Eugene and started in H-Town.
In Five seasons . .. . . is it me or have they never seem to have left the Atlanta Area .. . All the walking . .and driving .etc. . . .and they still a brief car ride to Atlanta [How much time has past in the show?] Rocket River
