'The Walking Dead' recap: season 6, episode 2: JSS

So much else happened during this packed hour. Here's a quick summary of other moments and/or storylines:

• Major crisis forthcoming: We now know why a car horn went off, sending the quarry walkers off toward Alexandria. A wolf with a truck tried to crash into Alexandria. Spencer, Deanna's son on lookout, shoots him but when the truck crashes, the dead man's body slumps over the steering wheel, setting off the horn. Soon, the man turns into a zombie and Morgan ends up killing him.
• Sloppy Carl: Carl protects baby Judith during the attack but gets a bit sloppy when he saves Ron by shooting a Wolf in the leg. When the Wolf "begs" for his life, Carl approaches him and the Wolf grabs the gun. Fortunately, Carl finally shoots him dead. Still, Carl can be downright stupid sometimes!
• Unrequited love Carl: Carl clearly has the hots for Enid but it's not clear Enid cares enough in return to stick around. She decides to leave Alexandria but will she get very far with the horde of walkers approachign? And now we know why she is so pouty. Sure, she's a teen but she also watched her family get eaten by walkers, as shown in the opening minutes.

• Has Gabriel turned a page? He seems to have changed since Sasha let him live. He realizes what he had told Deanna last season about Rick's crew being evil was more about him than them. He was deflecting his own guilt and pain. He tries to get a now very deep-voiced Carl to understand. "I want to help now," Gabriel says sincerely. Carl softens up: "You have to tell everybody." He also promises to teach him how to use a machete later that afternoon.

• Grieving Deanna: Maggie tries to shake Deanna out of her sad stupor before the Wolf attack, noting that as they expand Alexandria, they need space to farm. And good news: they have seeds! It's about time. How long could the canned goods possibly last?
• New doc in the house: Denise, a psychiatrist who originally was going to be a surgeon until she succumbed to panic attacks, takes over for drunken Pete as resident doctor. Unfortunately, one of the Wolf victims - Holly - died under her watch.
• A discovery: Aaron figures out why the Wolves found them. He had left his backpack behind last season after Morgan saved him and Daryl. In the backpack: photos of Alexandria. He is burdened now with guilt, something that will surely be addressed down the road.
• Jessie can kill! Jessie is attacked by a Wolf, who oddly chooses not to kill her, just knock her out. She isn't really knocked out and grabs a knife and just purees the woman while her son Ron watches. She wacks away with crazy intensity, perhaps a cathartic way to deal with the loss of her abusive husband, drunken Pete. She is clearly trainable.
• Smoking kills - literally. After Carol gently upbraids one of the ladies for smoking, she watches the woman get killed by a Wolf while (of course) taking a smoke break. Later, Carol grabs the pack from the dead woman's body and holds a cigarette, deeply saddened by the situation.
• Carol lecture #32. Pete's younger song Sam looks depressed on a stoop. Carol tells him to buck up, that he can't let his dad's death eat him up inside. As we know, she has had to do the same when it came to Sophia (and in a way, her abusive husband.)
• Not a churchgoer: Logical Spock-like Eugene complains that the expansion includes a church instead of, say, a machine shop. Tara appeases him by saying the space could be shared.
• JSS? What does JSS stand for? It's what Enid kept writing out. We learn at the end it's: "Just Survive Somehow." How very teen angst of her! There are some rumors she has ties with the Wolves but I'm not so sure.