TalesOfTWD Season 1 Episode 4 recap with spoilers - 'Amy/Dr. Everett,' starring Poppy Liu and Anthony Edwards:
Six different stories. One dead world. Tales of the Walking Dead is AMC's episodic anthology series from The Walking Dead Universe, consisting of six original one-hour standalone episodes focused on new and established characters within the walker apocalypse. Each episode has its own distinct tone and point of view — but the stakes are high in each story, pushing new, indelible characters with relentless, life-threatening choices and situations.
prevnext The Food Chain Everett's studies focus on three specific specimens: Specimen Sunflower, a walker that seems to posses an acute auditory sense, always one of the first to react to a disturbance; Specimen Gamma, one of Everett's original specimens that has endured various attacks by both human and animal predators; and Specimen 21, a male walker who"has illuminated my understanding of the Homo mortuus more than any other subject.
She trails behind Everett, asking and then begging for help."You shouldn't be here," Everett scolds."Are you a mule?" She's lost. An attack separated her from her group and she's been on her own for three or five days. She's suffering from headache and severe stomach pain, like"someone's punching me from the inside out." But she's not bit, she assures him, and she's not a thief.
She looks around, picking up a skull."Homo erectus, right? On a scavenging run, we found on old school, grabbed some books... Biology, chemistry, algebra. My favorite thing is the bird section in the biology book." "That's the problem with Homo sapiens. All we do is take, take, take, until there's nothing left. And then once nature corrects the damage, we go back and do it all over again," Everett tells her."They're one and the same now," he answers.
She's not buying it."Doesn't really sound like science to me," she says with the attitude of an unaffected high school student challenging her teacher."Sounds like some weird personal quest."He lost track of Specimen 21 yesterday, after Amy damaged his transmitter."I need to find him, retag him, and get him back to the herd before something happens to him."
He shows her life: footage he's recorded of plant and animal life that thrives in contrast to the dead world. Animals that escaped zoos have reclaimed the land. Awed, Amy tells him,"It's like a different world.""I was part of a research group studying the environment since the shift. Unfortunately, disagreements fractured our group. We gave up our lives for this study. I have to honor that," Everett explains."There's a lot more to learn.
They come across a moment of beauty: a colorful Victoria crowned pigeon. Once on the verge of extinction, the bird is beautiful."You're alive," Amy says."You're right here." Amy's marveling turns to heartbreak when the bird flies away. Everett softens."You think I'm callous, that I don't care about people. After I lost my team, I wandered around for two years until I found the ranger's station. I climbed up, knocked on the door, it opened, and the face that greeted me stirred up emotions I never even know I had."