- 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: Phil Abraham
Writer: Scott M. Gimple
Starring: Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies, Chandler Riggs, Steven Yeun, Laurie Holden, Jeffrey DeMunn, IronE Singleton, Melissa McBride, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Scott Wilson, Lauren Cohan
Running time: 42 minutes
Rating: ★★★★☆ 4/5
Unable to sleep due to Carol’s weeping, Daryl heads back into the woods with Andrea and continues the search for Sophia.
As Carl’s condition deteriorates Rick and Lori are forced to accept that they may have to consent to the surgery without crucial supplies. Just as they decide to allow Hershel to operate without additional medical equipment, Shane returns with supplies but without Otis.
Shane explains to the others that Otis willingly sacrificed himself to the zombie horde that had them surrounded so that Carl may live. Through flashbacks, however, we see Shane shooting Otis in the leg so that he could escape with the medical supplies.
At this point in The Walking Dead, it is becoming easier to work out which characters will have the power to endure the zombie apocalypse and which have just lucked out so far.
Although this is only the eighth episode of the series, ‘Save the Last One’ is the final straw when it comes to Shane retaining his likability. There is very little left in terms of redeeming qualities when it comes to Shane.
The plot of ‘Save the Last One’ has a lot of filler to allow scattered storytelling of Otis’s fate through Shane’s flashbacks. The result is an episode that sacrifices a lot of audience engagement for a plot twist that can be smelt out a mile away.