'The Walking Dead's' best moments of Season 4

With just over a week to go until the return of The Walking Dead, I myself couldn't be happier that the group is back out on the road. Things seemed to be going too well for Rick and the gang at the prison, so, naturally, it was time to shake things up. The first half of season four started off a little slow, and the build up for the next few episodes could have gone at a quicker pace as well, but once we got to the payoff in the mid-season finale, everything was worth it. Let's look back at some of the best moments from the first half of season four of The Walking Dead:

Rick & Clara - The Three Questions

Rick goes out into the forest, solo, to gather some supplies and runs across a woman who appears to have been living out in the wilderness for some time. She begs Rick to take her and her husband in, but Rick says he will, but only to be questioned. Back at this woman's camp, Rick realizes that he's meant to be food for the woman's walker husband. She attacks Rick, fails, and then turns the knife on herself. As she dies, she asks Rick what the questions would have been. "How many walkers have you killed?…How many people have you killed?…Why?"

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Raining Walkers in the Supermarket

Every episode needs at least a little bit of action, and the season's premiere episode delivered when Daryl, Glenn, Tyreese, Michonne, Bob and Kyle go on a supply run and come across a supermarket that was in the middle of a military checkpoint. The group seems to have hit the jackpot, but obviously, things start going wrong. As most of the supplies have been gathered, walkers start falling from the ceiling, and in incredibly gory ways.

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Tyreese Finds Karen's Burnt Body

Nothing like the zombie apocalypse to ruin your love life, right? This time, though, it was the paranoia of one of the group's senior leaders that leads to Tyreese finding two burnt bodies in the yard, one of them Karen. Fearing Karen was carrying the disease that was offing people left and right, Carol took it upon herself to kill Karen and burn the body to kill the disease within her. Tyreese didn't take that all too well.

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Bob's True Nature Spells Trouble for the Group

It showed a little bit in the supermarket, but on another supply run a few episodes later, it's pretty clear that Bob has a drinking problem, and it's not only a problem for him, but for the group as well. The group is overrun by walkers on their way out of a school, and Bob's bag is grabbed by some walkers. He goes back for it, and the others help him, thinking there's something in the bag that they actually need. When Daryl sees that a liquor bottle is the only item in the bag, he straight up tells Bob that if anything like this happens again, he'll feed Bob to the walkers himself.

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Rick Sends Carol Packing

At the prison, Rick asked Carol point blank if she killed Karen. She immediately said yes, then walked away. A few days later, Rick goes on a run and has Carol come with him. They stumble across a neighborhood where they search for supplies. Just as they're about done, Rick tells Carol that there's no way she can come back to the prison, that Tyreese would kill her. Rick tells her she has a better chance of surviving out o the road by herself. He gives her a gun, gasoline, supplies and a car. So long, Carol.

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Welcome Back, Governor

Everyone knew it was only a matter of time. After the little tease of the back of the Governor's head at the end of episode five, episode six flashes back to show us what the Governor has been up to since he shot up all of his Woodbury militia. Martinez and Bowman left him. The Governor was broken, but as he walked, he found refuge with a pair of sisters and a young girl who he began to care for as a surrogate daughter. I think it helped him to burn Woodbury to the ground a well.

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The Governor Takes Out Martinez

The Governor, despite becoming somewhat domesticated with Lily, Tara and Megan, is too far gone to ever change who he became. After dinner one day, the Governor took advantage of Martinez, who became the leader of the new group of survivors, by taking him out while he was drunk. The two of them were catching up while hitting some golf balls, and then the Governor pulled a fast one and knocked Martinez out. Then he did what comes naturally to him: feed Martinez to the walkers in the pit.

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The Governor's Second Assault on the Prison

After showing some restraint by not killing Michonne and Hershel immediately when he cornered them in the woods, the Governor leads his new group to the prison not to take it over, but to kill everyone in there once and for all. And what better way to announce your presence than by rolling up with a fully functioning tank.

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The Governor Loses Another Daughter

Lily and Megan hung back at the camp while the Governor led the assault on the prison. The camp didn't prove be any less dangerous than the prison war zone. Megan was playing down by the lake, and a buried walker unearthed itself to take a chunk out of her. Lily collected her daughter and walked over to the prison holding Megan in her arms. The Governor, as cold as could be, takes out his gun, and shoots Megan in the head without hesitation.

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RIP Hershel, Good Riddance Governor

When you show up with a tank, you obviously mean to do some harm. The Governor, while talking to Rick, has Hershel on his knees as a hostage. Hershel knows whats about to happen, and Rick doesn't want to accept it. The Governor grabs Michonne's sword and starts hacking away at Hershel's neck. Not too long later, the Governor and Rick are finally getting into the fight we'd all be waiting for. The fight is decidedly one sided, leaning toward the Governor. He's about to choke the life out of Rick when a familiar sword bursts through the Governor's chest, which Michonne on the other end. The sword didn't quite kill the Governor, but the bullet to the head by the way of Lily's gun sure did the trick.

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Season Four resumes Sunday, February 9 on AMC.