If you haven't watched the episode yet...STOP HERE...don't read any further because I'm going to spoil the hell out of it!
...so this story was "sort of" not surprising to me, but as you can see from my reaction above, it was still mighty surprising! For those that have not and do not intend to read the comic book, there were twin brothers (one named Ben, the other named Billy) who were with the group. I had a hunch that the girls were following that story line, and a very similar situation happened with the twins (one of the more memorable parts of the comic book in my opinion)...so as you can imagine, when stuff started falling into place last night (particularly when Lizzie started feeding the zombies rats and I realized she was the person who was putting them at the fence at the prison as well)...I knew what was coming.
NOTHING could prepare me for seeing it visually though...that was so DARK and emotional, I seriously sat and stared at the TV for a few minutes with it on pause just shocked! The major difference here is Carol had to do the deed of ending that poor kids torment...where as in the comic book, Carl kills Ben in a van where he was being held for safety reasons. This is a little weird now because that move was actually one that kind of promotes Carl to a different level of "manhood" in the comic book...and I think denying him that in the show is going to slow his characters progression...for better or worse.
Insane though...and the acting, holy sh*t beans was it amazing. If anyone was falling off the train because of character development, last nights episode should have landed you back in first class again!