The mole theory makes tons of sense when you consider that the Governor is a crazy person and using Merle's lies as a way to manipulate him is totally his M.O.
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Well, The Hobbit was going to be one film in itself at one point, right? The second film was something else, I thought.
I think that stuff hit the...
Andrea still hasn't figured out that fucking every guy who lets her shoot a gun is a bad idea.
Poor Dale. If only he'd let her hold that rifle more often.
The offscreen pilot murder is actually in service of making his psychoses even more apparent, though. Seeing that particular severed head is supposed to be the full stop on the reveal of his craziness: "Yeah, he collects zombie heads....
Off-screen doesn't equal rationalized, though. And if the Guardsmen murders were at all justifiable - if HE believed they were justifiable - he wouldn't have lied about them so extensively. AND him wanting to cure his zombie daughter...
He killed an entire troop of National Guardsmen unprovoked, murdered the helicopter pilot and added his head to his Zombie Aquarium, ordered the murder of Michonne, and is keeping his undead daughter as a pet and trying to comb her...