The Walking Dead S02E12 HDTV XviD

Was there an event in this episode that flipped Shane’s switch, pushing him to embrace the monstrous depths of his cold-blooded self and plot the murder of his best friend? Or had it been his ambition to kill Rick all along and the events of this episode simply offered the best chance?
For provocations, “Better Angels” offers two choices: Lori’s possibly misinterpreted message of thanks to Shane for his just-after-the-apocalypse heroics on her behalf, which he might have heard as “I still love you, Shane.” Or Rick’s unilateral decision-making over the groups’ affairs, notably reversing last episode’s near-consensus in favor of executing the captive Randall.
But we’ve also seen Shane twice go violently rogue with little care for the consequences – the barn-zombie massacre and the murder of Otis – so the simpler interpretation could also be correct: Shane is a twisted psychopath who will kill for what he wants. His scheme to kill Rick borrows from both of his past plots. As with the Otis murder, he has contrived a story that relieves him of the blame for his comrade’s demise. And just like the barn, he has freed a captive figure to set the wheels in motion.
Yet in the end, when he had the drop on his rival, Shane allowed himself to think – just the thing he warned Andrea never to do when primed to make a kill, back when he gave her a private shooting lesson in the woods. Shane stopped to consider Rick’s offer of amnesty, of a path back from the edge — and in that moment Rick stabbed his friend in the chest.
A quick recap of how Rick and Shane finally came to finish their twisted friendship.
After Dale’s funeral, Hershel Greene decided to move the convoy survivors into his farmhouse for safety against an uptick in zombies, and Rick decided again to spare Randall’s life. As the farm burst into a hive of home-making activity, Shane removed Randall from his prison shack, walked him out into the woods and snapped his neck (but not before Randall revealed that his crew of roaming predators had recent been camped just five miles from the farm!).
In classic TV show plot-contriving fashion, Shane then rammed his face into a tree to sell the story that Randall had jumped him and made off with his weapon. This creates the manhunt situation in which he planned to find the one-on-one time to shoot Rick, assigning the blame to the supposedly armed and on the loose Randall.
Despite his snapped neck, Randall’s on-the-loose status wasn’t quite as finished as one would assume. Daryl and Glen, the other two-man group in the manhunt, come across a zombiefied and very mobile Randall. After killing him again — this time with a knife to the skull — they ascertain that he was never bitten by a zombie. And that’s how we make the biggest leap forward yet in our understanding of the zombie virus… “Walking Dead” viewers who have read the original comics already understand the mechanics of zombie immunology, and I won’t spell it out yet in order to not pre-empt the show. But the transformations of both Randall and Shane into zombies even without the bites and scratches known to “transmit” the virus offer a pretty clear sign that there’s a little bit of zombie inside everyone who has lived through the apocalypse.
In another nod to and departure from the source material, zombie Shane is killed by Carl Grimes. (The original comics had Carl kill a still-human Shane to save Rick’s life, and an encounter with the zombie Shane didn’t happen until later in the story.) Here, Carl still saves his dad by killing Shane – and he does so in a way might have gotten him over his inhibitions against violence that had led Shane to tauntingly berate Rick for raising a weak son. It turns out: Carl is a dead-eye shot.