Glen comes up with a plan to save them all, but Nicholas can’t stick with it. Nicholas repeats this same mistake later, when he, Noah, and Glen are all trapped in a revolving door of zombies – an ingeniously hideous image that will have provoked a few shudders this Monday morning. If this were Greek mythology, it would happen to him every night for eternity, so he’s lucky.
His penance is to be left behind by Glen and Noah and disemboweled by zombies. While Aiden is lodged in a mangled shelf, he tells Glen that the people in their crew they lost recently died because he and Nicholas left them.
As soon as they’re out in the field, Aiden’s and Nicholas’s inexperience put the entire gang in danger, especially when Aiden shoots the grenade strapped to the body of a zombie security guard. Naturally, the biggest example of this is Glen, Noah, Aiden (Deanna’s bad son), Nicholas (his jerky friend) and Tara’s journey to get more solar power cells (or whatever the heck those things were). In the moral worldview of this show, doing nothing is always worse than doing something, even if that something is killing someone else. It’s a sin of inaction, as opposed to the sins of action Rick is guilty of. Just as he locked all his parishioners out of the church to die, the people who live in Alexandria have a policy of leaving people behind when they are threatened. Gabriel is the sort of weak-willed survivor who threatens the new society most. The ironic thing is, he has it all wrong. He says that they have done awful things to stay alive and those deeds corrupt the paradise she has created. He says that he’s not sure how, but one day their evil will destroy everything that Deanna created. He tells her that Rick and company are really Satan, hiding out as the angels of light. He shows up at Deanna’s door acting like the sort of raving proselytiser you see shouting in the subway.
What he says about Rick and his people later on in the episode is a bit more interesting. This week we have Gabriel, our resident tortured priest, literally ripping pages out of the Bible. These days, it wouldn’t be the start of an episode of The Walking Dead without a very obvious metaphor.
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