Live Bait (The Walking Dead)

"Live Bait"
The Walking Dead episode
The Governor, after burning down his entire town after it is overrun by walkers.
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 6
Directed by	Michael Uppendahl
Written by	Nichole Beattie
Featured music	"The Last Pale Light in the West" by Ben Nichols
Original air date	November 17, 2013 (2013-11-17)
Guest appearance(s)
Audrey Marie Anderson as Lilly Chambler Jose Pablo Cantillo as Caesar Martinez Alanna Masterson as Tara Chambler Meyrick Murphy as Meghan Chambler Danny Vinson as David Travis Love as Shumpert Daniel Thomas May as Allen
Episode chronology
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"Live Bait" (previously titled "Rise") is the sixth episode of the fourth season and 41st episode overall of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead, which aired on AMC on November 17, 2013. The episode was written by Nichole Beattie and directed by Michael Uppendahl.

The episode centers on The Governor (David Morrissey), who has isolated himself from society after killing his entire army. He has become an aimless wanderer until he meets a small family of survivors.

This episode marks the first appearance of Alanna Masterson as Tara Chambler.

In a flashback, The Governor (David Morrissey) becomes indifferent following his massacre of the Woodbury army, and he is abandoned by his henchmen Caesar Martinez (Jose Pablo Cantillo) and Shumpert (Travis Love) while he is asleep. He returns to Woodbury, only to find it abandoned and overrun by walkers; he burns down the entire town.

A few months later, the bearded and weakened Governor has become an aimless wanderer. He sees a young girl, who resembles his deceased daughter Penny, in the window of a nearby apartment building. Inside the building, he meets the Chambler family residing there: Lilly (Audrey Marie Anderson) and Tara (Alanna Masterson), the sisters' father David (Danny Vinson), and Lilly's daughter Meghan (Meyrick Murphy), the girl the Governor had seen earlier. The family has sufficient food and arms, and they are waiting for the National Guard. After explaining that he would only stay for the night, he fabricates a false story involving the fall of Woodbury and a new identity, "Brian Heriot", a name he saw painted on a barn. David then requests that The Governor retrieve a backgammon set from a neighbor, which The Governor does.