The show begins with the aftermath of the car accident involving Lori, who impulsively took off alone to find Rick, Glenn, and Hershel, largely because rationality is something out of Lori's comprehension. Two zombies are accosting our unfortunate heroine as she scrambles to escape the wreckage of the car, proving once and for all that zombies are not married to the idea of feasting on brains. By happy accident, Lori is able to dispatch the threats. Meanwhile, back on the farm, it has been hours since Lori has disappeared and the approximately dozen or so people there have just now noticed she's gone. Carol asks feral manchild Daryl, exiled to the backyard for presumably not being housebroken, if he has seen Lori, but he screams something incoherent about Sophia at her, completing Daryl's transition from one of the show's more interesting characters to one of the show's less interesting caricatures. Shane takes off after her, because Shane is the only person that can make a decision without half an episode of fretting over it.
In town, Rick, Glenn, and Hershel are hiding out in the bar as the friends of the two Jersey guys they killed last episode show up searching for their buddies, which turns into a firefight when Rick admits that he had to shoot the duo. Why these people are wasting tons of ammo and attracting zombies over two dead guys who seemed to be total assholes anyway is never explored. Glenn and Hershel try to sneak out the back door, leading to a scary moment where we think Glenn might have been shot. Hershel is forced to shoot the gunman, but Hershel is probably still drunk from the previous episode, so instead of a killing the gunman, it just injures him enough for him to lay around moaning and crying, which attracts the zombies, who begin to eat him in front of poor terrified, boozed-up, elderly Hershel. Rick regroups the trio, and they watch an idiot kid who had been searching for them try to leap off the roof of a building into the bed of a pickup truck. When the kid predictably fails, his friends leave him behind. This is the point where you or I would probably laugh and compliment karma on her timely intervention, but not Rick Grimes. No, in Rick Grimes' zombie apocalypse, you can't just leave an injured moron who had literally been trying to kill you less than three minutes ago behind, and in spite of Glenn's protests, Rick and Hershel risk their lives to rescue their would-be killer.
Shane manages to find Lori- granted, all he had to do was drive forward from the wreckage and look for the stupid woman walking in the middle of the road, but I'm not sure this simple feat could be accomplished by anyone else at the farm- and the only way he can coax her into going back to the farm and having her injuries tended to is by fibbing to her that Rick has already made it back to the farm. This kind of little white lie is a pragmatic one, but doing things to keep his friends alive is what makes Shane the show's de facto villain (OK, full disclosure: Shane sacrificing Otis to the zombie mob and still being in love with Rick's wife are why Shane is the show's villain, but actually going above and beyond to keep the party alive are supposed to add to the reasons why we should dislike the character, although without Shane they would all be dead). Upon arriving back at the farm and finding Rick not there, Lori reacts as if Shane has just given her the Chris Brown treatment, even though in actuality he has probably saved her life for the umpteenth time, and Shane accidentally reveals her pregnancy to the one person who still isn't aware of it, her son Carl, who takes the news as if he is somebody who contributes anything and is therefore somebody who needs to be consulted about stuff like this (spoiler alert: he isn't), causing Lori to do what Lori does second best: storm off in a huff (putting people in unnecessary peril is what she does best, should one find oneself wondering). Her anger is unfounded though, as Rick and the gang return just moments later with the kid they've rescued from town. Somehow, someone (probably Glenn) at least had the good sense to blindfold him, but nonetheless, Shane is understandably furious with Rick's display of compassion for somebody who had been trying to kill them and pointed out that his friends may be looking for him. Hershel, still all butthurt about the barn incident, reminds Shane that this is HIS farm and if he doesn't like what they're doing, he can go live in a sleeping bag in the tall grass with Daryl and his weird collection of squirrels and ears.
As the show draws to a close, Dale is mouthing off to anyone who will listen that Shane is dangerous, and Lori uses her vagina to get what she wants from Rick, and what she wants is Shane dead. When Rick shows reluctance to do anything about the growing tension between Shane and the group, Lori tries to get into Rick's head by telling him that Shane thinks the baby is his. She finally appears to have Rick considering the possibility of taking action against Shane. Personally, I'm kind of rooting for Shane.
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