The Grove (The Walking Dead)

"**The Grove**"
"The Grove"
The Walking Dead episode
	Carol prepares to shoot an unstable Lizzie after her sister's murder.
Episode no.	Season 4; Episode 14
Directed by	Michael E. Satrazemis
Written by	Scott M. Gimple
Featured music	"Maybe" by The Ink Spots
Original air date	March 16, 2014
Guest appearances
	Brighton Sharbino as Lizzie Samuels; Kyla Kenedy as Mika Samuels;
Episode chronology
← Previous; "Alone"	Next →; "Us"
	The Walking Dead season 4
	List of episodes

"The Grove" is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead, which aired on AMC on March 16, 2014. The episode was written by Scott M. Gimple and directed by Michael E. Satrazemis.

Carol, Tyreese, Lizzie, Mika, and Judith come across a house in a pecan grove on their trek to Terminus and deal with the moralistic concepts of the world of walkers, an unstable Lizzie, and the admission by Carol of killing Karen to Tyreese. This is the final episode to feature two semi-regular cast members Brighton Sharbino and Kyla Kenedy.

"The Grove" received critical acclaim from television critics, who praised its "gut-wrenching" storytelling and the actors' performances. Upon airing, the episode was watched by 12.87 million American viewers and received an 18–49 rating of 6.4.^[1] This marks an increase in viewership and 18–49 ratings from the previous episode.^[2] Online television critics in later years have since generally ranked it as the best episode of The Walking Dead.

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