We all knew it would happen eventually. Last night's episode proved once again that all that glitters isn't gold. Rick and the rest of the team got to see all too well that the Alexandria safe zone was not the paradise in the midst of the zombie apocalypse that they all hoped it would be.

The Walking Dead episode, titled "Spend," certainly had us screaming and clawing at our screens. With more brutal deaths and revelations about the town and the people in it, how much more does Team Grimes have to go through?


Who died and who's going to get more than just a Walker chasing after them in "Spend"? Keep reading below for our full recap. SPOILERS ahead!

We know there will be trouble when on-again/off-again man of god, Father Gabriel, opens the episode, ignoring a gift of strawberries and instead continuing to his important task of tearing up pages from a Bible right before delivering his first sermon to the citizens of Alexandria.

Meanwhile, Rick seems to be getting his game on with Jessie. Who knew he had all that swag hidden under that beard? Jessie's husband, Pete, picking up on the clearly superior testosterone competition, is not too pleased with Rick. In a short but tense scene between the two, we can tell Pete is not a good guy and we all root for Rick to take him out, one way or another. But more on that later.

Then we have Eugene. Genius but quite useless. Once again, he falls into his pattern of doing idiotic cowardly things leading to getting everyone in danger.

On a supply run outside of Alexandria's walls, Eugene convinces Glenn, Aiden, Noah, Tara, and Nicholas that they need to get some inverters to do some genius things to repair Alexandria's power grid, which only he can do because -- he's a genius, of course.

The supply run does not go off as easily as anyone would have liked. At a warehouse where they hope to find the parts they need, they eventually get swarmed and trapped by Walkers. Fortunately, the Team Grimes part of the scavenging team has a plan to get everyone out safely. Unfortunately,Team Alexandria, not as cool under stress, just panics and makes the whole situation worse.

A Walker decked out in protective gear starts making its way toward Aiden, and he repeatedly fires meaningless shots at it. Glenn, seeing something strapped on to the Walker, screams at Aiden to stop, but it's too late. One of Aiden's bullets hits the device and the Walker explodes!

Everyone and everything in the vicinity is thrown back. Aiden is plastered on a wall and Tara is bleeding profusely from a head wound.

Meanwhile, back in town, Carol finds Sam, the cookie thief, hiding in her home again. Telling him she doesn't have any cookies for him, she dismisses him with orders to steal some chocolates and that way she'll bake more cookies for him. To which Sam obediently follows. What's up with that?

Back to the action, Eugene laments over Tara who is unconscious, at first washing his hands of any bit of guilt he should be feeling. He quickly turns his emotions into determination to do as Tara told him to earlier in the episode and steps up his game. He hauls Tara's body over his shoulder and carries her out of the warehouse to safety while Glenn and Nicolas try to help Aiden.

It's clear that all their efforts to unimpale Aiden from a metal skewer only causes him more pain, and his screams attract the Walkers to their location.

Nicolas is the first to freak out and bail on his "friend." Not the first nor the last time he will do so in this episode.

While Glenn tries to rescue him on his own, Aiden, knowing that it's too late for him, tells Glenn to go.

"It was us. They didn't panic, the four before," he tells him, showing that he knows his fate is his just reward for what he's done.

Eugene manages to show some heroics again by using Aiden's car to lure away the Walkers in the parking lot to help Noah, Glenn, and Nicolas escape to safety. The only way out of the building, however, is through some revolving doors where there was still a hoard of Walkers trying to get them from inside the building. If they spun the doors one way, Nicolas would get eaten. If they swung the other way, Noah would be.

This episode made me realize one of my own personal phobias of revolving doors. Doors should be simple, straighforward contraptions. Swing open, swing shut. Sometimes they slide open and shut, no big deal. So what's the point of making them spin and make entry and exit needlessly complicated? There is no reason!

While Glenn tries to save them both by trying to break the glass, Nicolas, once again, freaks out and pushes his way to safety, exposing Noah to the Walkers who are ready to grab him.

Noah dies in the absolute most gruesome way possible. Just when we thought he had finally found a new beginning in Alexandria, he is torn up - literally and up close - by the Walkers, with Glenn unable to save him. A sacrifice he had to do to end his personal torture and to cement my personal assertion that revolving doors should be eradicated from the face of the planet.

As if things could not get any worse, Father Gabriel decides to turn on everyone who, until this point, saved his neck from countless situations and kept him safe. He goes to Deanna and tells her that the group is Satan and they have done terrible things that will make them eventually destroy the haven that is Alexandria.

Deanna, though shocked, tells him: "They survived; that's what makes them assets."

Little did they know that a little bird by the name of Maggie heard the entire conversation. Watch out, Father Gabriel, turncoat!

The episode isn't over yet. Sam is back at Carol's with the chocolates and, true to her word, she bakes him a fresh batch of cookies. His true motivations start to come out when instead of being interested in her cookies, he begins asking her about her hidden stash of guns and if he could have one. It's not for himself, he asserts, but tells her little else than that before he runs off - without the cookies.

With her spidey senses tingling, Carol goes to Sam's home and asks to speak with his mother Jessie, but Papa Pete tells her it's a bad time before slamming the door in her face. Knowing the scenario all too well because of her own past with an abusive husband, Carol finally understands why Sam was so interested in her guns.

She immediately goes to Rick to tell him that Pete is beating Jessie and the kids. She tells him that there's only one thing they can do with people like Pete.

"You're going to have to kill him," she says.

Rick seems only too happy to hear about this solution.

"Spend" is certainly a jam-packed episode with more gore and deaths in one hour than we think we can handle. Let's see how everyone copes when they find out the fates of Aiden and Noah, and if Tara will survive next week on AMC's The Walking Dead.

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