The Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 5: Self Help

[Midnight Man 2]

Abraham and Eugene are an unusual pair, to say the least. One is a genius and the other a soldier. They are on a mission to get Eugene to Washington and hopefully save the world. Unfortunately, Eugene is a coward. He is a scientist with the answer to why the dead walk the earth, or so he says. They met immediately following a very traumatic incident that haunts Abraham and nearly drove him to suicide, but meeting Eugene and hearing his story once again gave him purpose and a reason to live.

The bus that they now ride in, after their time at the church with Rick and his clan, is doomed. Eugene has sabotaged it to slow them down because he believes that he is worthless without the belief that he can save the world, but he can’t. It has all been a lie from the beginning. When he first met Abraham he felt it was necessary to make up the story to get protection and now he believes that the longer it takes them to get to their destination the longer Abraham will protected him, and the longer he will stay alive. The bus wreck was somewhat horrific and flips over on its side, and believe it or not, no one was seriously injured or killed. They climbed out of the bus, fighting walkers the whole way, and Eugene actually stabbed a walker. Granted he stabbed it in the wrong place and wouldn’t have done it without the coaching from Tara, but he did it, he summoned up the courage and he did it.

They bedded down in a book store over night and the next day fond a fire truck as a means of transport. While prepping the fire truck for operation they pulled it away from the fire house door, which released a torrent of walkers and they were once again being attacked. They were overwhelmed and all seemed lost until Eugene let loose with the fire hose nozzle on top of the truck to save the day.

While on the road the truth about Eugene comes out in an argument to move forward, Abraham is forcefully determined not to stop, not to back track, and not to reverse course, no matter the circumstances. Washington is the goal and nothing else matters, until Eugene comes clean about his true intentions, and when he does, Abraham explodes with ferocious anger directed at him for his dissemination. With two left crosses and an elbow uppercut to his face Abraham takes him down, possibly for good. Then Abraham is seen to once again slip into the mindset that he was in when he first met Eugene. The mission is over because it never truly existed and therefore his purpose and sole reason to stay alive were both nothing but a fabrication that is now all washed away by the truth.

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