Last week, the fourth season of AMC's The Walking Dead debuted to a record number of viewers. Some 16.1 million people caught up with Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and his group of survivors occupying the prison, and were introduced to this season's "Big Bad". Rather than a mustache-twirling villain like last year's Governor (David Morrissey), this year's challenge is an even bigger threat despite its microscopic size. If the title of the episode didn't already give it away, the survivors are now facing a disease of unknown origin. Hit the jump to see why I've got you under my skin. In our recap of the fourth season premiere, I remarked at the attention the writers and new shorwunner Scott Gimple gave to the characters' relationships. While the main cast got their fair share of screentime in the last go-round, Tyreese (Chad L. Coleman) was only glimpsed. The follow-up episode features a bit more of Tyreese and his love interest Karen (Melissa Ponzio), with their scenes providing the bookends to "Infected". Since their arc in this episode perfectly encapsulated what The Walking Dead is all about, we'll tackle that first. After a creepy intro that featured a shadowy figure (one guess on just who that might be) feeding rats to the Walkers at the fence, we got to see Tyreese and Karen in a brief romantic interlude in which Tyreese "sings" the portentous lyrics of "I've Got You Under My Skin", made famous by Frank Sinatra. Ol' Blue Eyes probably never envisioned that song being ...
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