- The Walking Dead S01E01: Days Gone Bye
- The Walking Dead s01e02: Guts
- The Walking Dead s01e03: Tell It to the Frogs
- The Walking Dead S01E04: Vatos
- The Walking Dead s01e05: Wildfire
- The Walking Dead s01e06: TS-19
- The Walking Dead s02e01: What Lies Ahead
- The Walking Dead s02e02: Bloodletting
- The Walking Dead s02e03: Save the Last One
- The Walking Dead s02e04: Cherokee Rose
- The Walking Dead s02e05: Chupacabra
- The Walking Dead s02e06: Secrets
- The Walking Dead s02e07: Pretty Much Dead Already
- The Walking Dead s02e08: Nebraska
- The Walking Dead s02e09: Triggerfinger
- The Walking Dead s02e10: 18 Miles Out
- The Walking Dead s02e11: Judge, Jury, Executioner
- The Walking Dead s02e12: Better Angels
- The Walking Dead s02e13: Beside the Dying Fire
- The Walking Dead s03e01: Seed
- The Walking Dead s03e02: Sick
- The Walking Dead s03e03: Walk With Me
- The Walking Dead s03e04: Killer Within
- The Walking Dead s03e05: Say the Word
- The Walking Dead s03e06: Hounded
- The Walking Dead s03e07: When the Dead Come Knocking
- The Walking Dead s03e08: Made to Suffer
- The Walking Dead s03e09: The Suicide King
- The Walking Dead s03e10: Home
- The Walking Dead s03e11: I Ain’t a Judas
- The Walking Dead s03e12: Clear
- The Walking Dead s03e13: Arrow on the Doorpost
- The Walking Dead s03e14: Prey
- The Walking Dead s03e15: This Sorrowful Life
- The Walking Dead s03e16: Welcome to the Tombs
- The Walking Dead S04E01: 30 Days without an Accident
- The Walking Dead: Season Four
- The Walking Dead: Season Five
A review by C J Dee
Director: Ernest Dickerson
Writer: Scott M. Gimple, Glen Mazzara
Starring: Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies, Chandler Riggs, Steven Yeun, Laurie Holden, Jeffrey DeMunn, IronE Singleton, Melissa McBride, Scott Wilson, Lauren Cohan, Emily Kinney, Michael Zegen
Running time: 43 minutes
Rating: ★★★★☆ 4/5
[Spoiler alert — review includes a synopsis of the episode]
The group decided that Randall (Zegen) needs to be taken away for fear of him bringing his insidious friends back to the farm. Rick (Lincoln) and Shane (Bernthal) drive him far enough out that he won’t easily make his way back then they find a safe place for him to hole up. As Rick and Shane leave Randall, he tells them he went to school with Maggie (Cohan). Knowing this means he already knows the farm’s location, Shane and Rick get into a fight over whether or not to kill him. The fight becomes physical and draws the attention of a zombie horde. They manage to escape with Randall and head back to the farm.
Meanwhile, back at the farm, Beth (Kinney) steals a knife with which to kill herself, but Lori (Callies) stops her. As Beth and Maggie argue upstairs, Lori and Andrea (Holden) argue downstairs about whether stopping Beth was right. Andrea relieves Maggie from watching over Beth, but leaves her alone to make her own decision. Maggie and Lori find Beth in her bathroom with her wrist cut by a broken mirror. Andrea feels she made the right decision because now Beth knows she doesn’t really want to die, but Maggie exiles Andrea from the house.
’18 Miles Out’ ends with Shane seeing a walker wandering through a field towards to farm from the car window, but he says nothing.
I’ve spent several of the past episodes wondering when Rick and Shane’s tension would come to blows and this episode it finally happened. Was it all that I’d hoped it would be? Truth be told, I was kind of hoping Shane would end up a little more worse for wear than he did.
Overall ’18 Miles Out’ brought new tension and was markedly different to previous episodes that have been in the comfortable rut.
“You sit up on that RV, working on your tan with a shotgun in your lap.”
