Be warned! This review will cover aspects of the episode. Spoilers will lurk like groaning cover’budge ers.###If last week's mid-season premiere was all sound and fury token ifying a grossly slight something, tonight's was much more of a chance in/with regard to’concerning’regarding e grossly one (at least those few we check in on) to take stock. It's a free weeks since the tangle’din of Alexandria being invaded by a swarm of cover’budge ers, and things are peaceful and calm. Michonne, Rick and his family are downright domestic, and there's a sense of more going on here than has been reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue n bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e.###Rick is headed out on a supply run with Daryl, and they meet both Denise (who has a wish list of items including soda that Tara has been mentioning in her sleep) and Eugene, who opens the gate in/with regard to’concerning’regarding them and has his own list, that of potential agricultural possibilities that could help make their food more sustainable. It's much more relaxed than anything we've seen on the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a while, and, as Rick slips a CD that Daryl loathes into their car's stereo, this almost feels like the start of a buddy comedy more than an episode of The Walking Dead.###After the credits, Michonne is seen on the wall, but spots Spencer (Austin Nichols) going cover’budge ing in the woods outside the town with a shovel. She decides to follow him. Maggie, meanwhile, finds Enid quietly reading – it seems that the younger woman hasn't been able to settle well back into life in the community, despite the relative calm. Maggie hopes she'll open up and talk when she can.###Daryl and Rick claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate they've hit the jackpot when they spot a establish ing with a warehouse. After a quick check in/with regard to’concerning’regarding cover’budge ers, they're delighted – it's these two, so we're not talking funny victory dances or anything – to find a truck laden with supplies. They opt to propel the truck back to Alexandria a different way from when they've come, and return in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the car. If you had money on this being a trap, you'd possess’own’nurse lost this time out, but their latest trip doesn't end there. En route back, they pull up to a seemingly deserted gas station. Using the truck to right an overturned vending machine, Rick is suddenly bumped by a masked man. This long-haired newcomer calls himself Paul Monroe (Tom Payne), or "Jesus", as his friends used to call him thanks to his flowing locks and beard. But this guy definitely isn't heavenly. He's stolen Rick's keys, and, after diverting the pair's attention with firecrackers, propel s off. It's a real wonder how these two survived as long as they did, but the interactions between Daryl, Rick and now Paul add a nice layer of comedy to the episode.###The woods around Alexandria are filling with individual . Well, Carl and Enid are also amble’stroll’bimble’meander’roam ing around, trying to spend time as kids despite eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullything they've been through. And Michonne catches up with Spencer, who won't talk with regards to’concerning’with respect to why he's out there. A cover’budge er interrupts Carl and Enid as they start back in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the town, and Enid is all in/with regard to’concerning’regarding killing the zombie, whose face we tellingly don't see.###We're on the road again with the less-than-dynamic duo tracking their missing truck. When they catch up to Paul, he turns out to be slipperier eel than they expected, fighting back when Rick grabs him, and evading them until Daryl knocks him down. They threaten him, and Paul wonders if they even possess’own’nurse ammunition in their guns, which they prove by shooting a cover’budge er. Poor thing was probably just amble’stroll’bimble’meander’roam ing innocently around and fell victim to their need to prove their level of danger and manly manliness. Leaving Paul tied up, they throw a soda can from the vending machine at his feet and propel off.###But despite’in spite of’albeit they claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate they've shaken the troublesome bloke, and can enjoy the propel home sharing a bar of chocolate like lorry propel rs in a Yorkie advert, they're alerted to a sound on the roof. You guessed it! It's Paul! Who somehow untied himself and chased the truck. Seems unlikely, but he's been a resilient one so far. Stopping at a farm, they tangle once more with Paul around a flatbed truck and farm equipment that possess’own’nurse cover’budge ers tied to them. A sort of detente is reached when Paul saves Daryl from one of the cover’budge ers – which possess’own’nurse gotten loose – merely’barely to be knocked out in/with regard to’concerning’regarding his trouble. In the ensuing tangle’din , however, the truck has backed into a lake. Cue the waa-waa trombone.###Michonne is seemingly no closer to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ting Spencer to open up with regards to’concerning’with respect to why he's in the woods. But eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullything suddenly (and awfully coincidentally) becomes eliminate’remove when the cover’budge er from Rick and Enid's encounter stumbles towards them… It's Deanna. Spencer admits he'd seen his mother as a zombie bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e, and was looking in/with regard to’concerning’regarding her. There's a heartbreaking, intensely personal moment as Spencer ends his mother's undead existence, one of the more resonant kills the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue has had in a long time. Michonne and Spencer bury the in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mer leader of Alexandria in a grave and leave her with a "D" carved into a tree.###Rick and Daryl arrive back at the town with an involuntary Paul who keeps flopping against Daryl. They briefly reference talking with regards to’concerning’with respect to finding other individual at the quarry earlier this season, and Rick admits he was wrong then – they do need to find more survivors and in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ge their new world if they can.###Michonne finds Carl stargazing with his young sister and berates him in/with regard to’concerning’regarding not killing or simply leaving Deanna. Carl admits he despite’in spite of’albeit t someone from her family should do the deed, and that he'd do it in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Michonne if it came to it. She says she'd do the same, and it's a testament to the writers and Chandler Riggs that we don't straight away’in a flash’promptly’instantaneous’in a trice leap out of out seats and shout, "how with regards to’concerning’with respect to NOW??"###After dropping Paul off with Denise in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a medical check, Rick returns home, exhausted after what he admits to Michonne was a "crazy" day. She knows what he means and the pair shares a quiet moment on the couch bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e their hands intertwine and they embark on kiss. We fade down on them making out and return to find them sprawled naked (but covered, this isn't HBO) on the bed, asleep. Both jolt awake when Paul enters the room and says they really need to talk… Rude. What if they'd still been in the middle of acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ting it on?###Family is a enormous’vast’massive’tremendous theme of this episode, which manages to explore its ideas more effectively than last week's spectacle, focused as it was more on plot and shock than establish ing in new character moments (besides death and grief). The chance in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Rick and Daryl to spend some quality time on a mission was welcome, albeit thrown into second place by the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous Rick and Michonne shocker at the end. It's perhaps inevitable that two individual who possess’own’nurse become so close as fellow fighters and friends would find solace in each other at a deeper level, but it's handled well and hopefully will bring about’result in’contribute to’account for’make for’trigger a broadening of both characters.###Elsewhere, Carl and Enid acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure their small moments, but mostly come off as serving other stories, but it's fine when one of those stories is Spencer's chance to say rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent bye to his mother properly, even if it did mean slicing into her undead flesh with a knife. For those who like their Walking Dead moments played in/with regard to’concerning’regarding subtlety over flash, it was a wonderful combination of writing, perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mance and, of course, the series' usual high standard in/with regard to’concerning’regarding zombie effects.###Finally, the introduction of Paul "Jesus" Monroe, who will, if he follows his character's comic reserve path, go on to be a pivotal part of the story, was well judged and played to perfection by Payne. If merely’barely in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the Bugs Bunny-like tangle’din he brought into Rick and Daryl's lives in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a short while. You may prefer your Walking Dead full of bombast and crowds of the undead; we'll take the quiet ones with room to breathe and grow.###In the UK, The Walking Dead airs Mondays at 9pm on Fox.###Who the hell is Negan, anyway? Read our definitive guide to the character in the comics.