‘The Walking Dead’ recap: Long road home for Daryl, Abraham and Sasha

After wrangling a mega-herd of zombies away from the Alexandria Safe-Zone, Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), Abraham Ford (Michael Cudlitz) and Sasha Williams (Sonequa Martin-Green) nearly fall victim to human predators on “Always Accountable,” Episode 606 of AMC’s “The Walking Dead.”

Daryl gets the worst of it when he’s wounded in an ambush by mysterious assailants. Later, he’s knocked unconscious and held captive at gunpoint by two unnamed strangers (Austin Amelio and Christine Evangelista) and their companion Tina (Liz E. Morgan).

The young man who bound Daryl’s hands claims he was “stupid” for believing people would unite in battling the zombie apocalypse. Instead, people often turned on each other.

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“You don’t think you’re being stupid right now?” Daryl asks.

“Are you going to pull something on us?” the man angrily responds. “Right now by me not pulling this trigger, is that a mistake?”

Definitely not a mistake. This is Daryl, after all, who saved many lives with his crossbow skills and selfless attitude. So it’s not surprising that when Daryl grabs a duffel bag and flees, he dutifully returns. That’s because the bag contains a supply of insulin that keeps diabetic Tina alive.

Just as Daryl starts to head out, a truck crashes through the trees. Exiting the vehicle are two menacing figures, Wade (Darin Cooper) and Cam (Matt Lowe), demanding to reclaim what belongs to them.

“You’re gonna return what you took,” Wade insists. “It’s over. You know the rules.”

“We’re not going back, Wade,” the young man yells in response. “We’re done kneeling!”

Now Daryl protects his former captors by luring Cam into a zombie trap. When Cam is bitten on the arm, Wade performs a brutal amputation with a knife.

“We thought you were one of them,” the young man tells Daryl once they’re safe. “We knock you over the head, tie you up, threaten to kill you. Why the hell did you come back?”

“Maybe I’m stupid too,” Daryl replies.

Not that Tina is stupid, but she does kneel down next to a couple of charred corpses that turn out to be ravenous zombies. Tina dies within seconds.

Later, the surviving man and woman betray Daryl by stealing his motorcycle and crossbow.

“Sorry,” the woman says apologetically.

“You’re gonna be” is Daryl’s terse reply.

As for Abraham and Sasha, they gun down some of the men who ambushed them, then take shelter in an abandoned office and wait for Daryl to arrive.

It suddenly gets real when Sasha accuses macho Abraham of being out of control by indulging in animal-like behavior as if there’s no tomorrow.

“If you have a roof over your head, you have food, you have walls -- you have choices,” Sasha points out. And that means Abraham is accountable for his violent acts.

Abraham soon has an epiphany, perhaps, as he stares into the eyes of an undead soldier impaled on a fence. There’s no telling if Abraham comes away with a new outlook on life. But he does come away with a stash of rocket-propelled grenades and a box of cigars.

This puts him in the mood for romance.

“What makes you think I want that?” Sasha warily asks.

“A man can tell,” Abraham brags.

This awkward exchange is interrupted when Daryl pulls up in a fuel truck.

While driving back to Alexandria, Daryl tries to contact Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) by walkie-talkie. What Daryl hears is a garbled plea for help.

Could that be the voice of Glenn Rhee (Steven Yeun)? Could he have survived his fall into a zombie swarm? Maybe we’ll learn more on the next episode. Or maybe not.