Hap comes back to Texas after working for several months on an offshore oil rig and promptly gets bitten by a rabid squirrel. Good job, Hap. Are you literally trying to get yourself killed? At any rate, his overpriced medical insurance sucks, so he has to check into the hospital and stay in order to get his rabies shots. It's not all bad, though, he meets a lovely nurse named Brett and the sparks fly. Charlie comes to visit him with some distressing news: Leonard went after a biker who his ex-boyfriend Raul took up with, Horse Dick. Horse Dick is dead and Leonard is missing, the cops are hunting him on the assumption he killed Horse Dick. Hap leaves to go find Leonard, and the two of them somehow end up embroiled in a horrible mess of people who film gay people getting beat up and sell it underground. Apparently it's big business, which is just sickening. A whole lot of bad stuff going on in this one, but the ending was really good.
I saw a movie on TCM a few weeks ago called "The Mating Game", starring Debbie Reynolds and Tony Randall, and it was so adorable and charming. I went online and found out it was loosely based on a series of books by H. E. Bates, and luckily my library owned it. There were three novellas in this book. The first one is the one the movie was based on: a tax collector named Charlton comes to the Larkin farm in the English countryside to figure out why Sid Larkin has never paid taxes. The Larkins live a life most of us can only dream of: yes, they work hard on the farm, but they also believe in eating, drinking, dancing, partying, and basically having a good old time. Soon Charlton is smitten with oldest daughter Mariette, and they end up married. The second novella finds the Larkins traveling to France for a holiday. And the third has Pop selling the big manor house he acquired for a song to a couple from the city who think they can make a go of the country life. They were fun, delightful stories and much needed to lighten the mood after Hap and Leonard.
The survivors are rebuilding after the Whisperer attack, and Rick finds out Eugene has been communicating via radio to a woman in Ohio. He decides to send a group to go meet with this woman and her group and see if they can forge some mutual bonds of interest. Michonne offers to go, and even though Rick doesn't want her to, she does anyway. He's still pretty torn up about Andrea dying, and lets Negan go, much to Maggie's horror. Carl returns to the hillside camp to help them rebuild and Lydia is jealous of his relationship with Sophia. Uh oh. I see trouble brewing there. Michonne and her group find a girl named Princess living on her own on their way to Ohio and let her tag along, she seems like a character. Wondering how long she'll survive.
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