The Walking Dead - 2x03 - Save the Last One

    Picking up from the last one, Shane and Otis make their way out of the school with the medical equipment.  The other plot lines are incidental.  Maggie and Glenn get to meet and talk a bit.  Lori and Rick fret about Carl.  Andrea and Daryl have some time in the forest at night, which isn't romantic.
    Now that I summarize the episode, it's not much of a plot-heavy episode.  Most of it is efforts to build the characters.  The big "shock" point of the episode is a bit annoying.  Shane sacrifices Otis in his efforts to escape.  What I didn't like about this was how much the episode was relying on telling the story out of sequence to put this at the end.
    When I thought about this, I found myself wondering how the episode would play out if they told it in sequence.  Suppose they did.  The biggest difference is that when Shane comes back to the farm, we'd know what it was he was concealing.  We'd' have the tension of wondering how he was planning on playing it.
    Instead, with the way the story is told, we don't know that Shane is hiding something.  I find the experience of knowing that he's lying is much more interesting than twisting his actions after the fact.