Rick's knack for dragging his crew through moments of despair is never clearer than when he coaches them through a tough time on the road en route to Virginia. Rick reaches deep to find an old family story that fit the situation to a T — this time, quoting his own grandfather, who survived World War II by resigning himself to being doomed every day on the battlefield.
"Every day he woke up, told himself 'rest in peace, now get up and go to war.' Then after a few years of pretending he was dead, he made it out alive. That's the trick of it, I think. Do what we need to do, and then we get to live . . . This is how we survive: we tell ourselves, 'We are the walking dead.'"
Not too shabby for a fourth wall title wink. Not too shabby at all.
