Hammer time last night was crazy.
they pushed that event way back on the timeline and it's a lot less cool the way the show did it. if we had a spoiler function, like other bbs's do, i would type it up for you guys.
Do it anyway, no one cares.
alright, in the books tyreese joins the group when the first get to the prison. he is involved extensively in the cleaning up process. A traumatic event occurred during the early moments at the prison that sent tyreese off the deep end. later, while a four man party was attempting to rid the prison's gym of a horde of walkers that had been locked in there since the outbreak. tyreese got seperated from the other three and was overrun. they had to abandon him and lock him in the gym. in the books rick came back, after some time, expecting to find tyreese's body mutilated by the remaining walkers. instead, tyreese was sitting in the middle of the floor surrounded by a mass of mutilated bodies, sobbing.
it was a much more powerful moment, one that could have been easily duplicated for the show and the staff mumped it up, like they have with so many other pivotal moments.