The Walking Dead: 30 most heroic moments of all-time

22. Carol Confesses To Tyreese

Season 4, “The Grove”

There were many moments in “The Grove” that were both tragic and heroic. It’s truly one of the finest episodes The Walking Dead ever did. But Carol’s confession to Tyreese was an incredibly heroic moment. Tyreese almost killed Rick when he found out that Karen and David had been killed and their bodies burned. Tyreese was still grieving for Karen, and for Sasha because he didn’t know where she was. Carol knew that there was a strong chance that Tyreese would kill her because she had killed Karen. But she told him the truth anyway.

Carol didn’t have to tell Tyreese that she was the one who killed Karen. She could have easily let him go on thinking that someone else at the prison did it and that person was probably now dead. Carol could have taken the easy way out. But that’s not Carol. She had to tell the truth.

Part of her maybe wanted Tyreese to kill her, or to hurt her, to stop the pain she was in over having to kill Lizzie and the pain of losing Mika who was so similar to Sophia. But Tyreese chose to forgive her, which was also pretty heroic on his part. And together they both just had to make room for the weight of everything that happened in that little cabin in the grove.

When they left the cabin, after burying Mike and Lizzie, they bravely set out to see if they could find the others and of course Carol would go on to save everyone and Tyreese saved Judith. Over and over again in the apocalypse world ordinary people are forced to choose whether they will be heroes or villains every single day just to survive.