Made to Suffer

"Made to Suffer" is the eighth episode and mid-season finale of the third season of AMC's The Walking Dead. It is the twenty-seventh episode of the series overall. It premiered on December 2, 2012. It was written by Robert Kirkman and directed by Billy Gierhart.

Plot
Andrea steps up as the people of Woodbury are thrown into uncharted territory. At the prison, a new threat arises.

Special Guest Star

 * Jon Bernthal as Shane Walsh (Hallucination)

Co-Stars
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 * Tyler Chase as Ben
 * Cherie Dvorak as Donna
 * Daniel Thomas May as Allen
 * Russell Towery as Guard #1
 * Vincent Ward as Oscar

Uncredited

 * Travis Love as Shumpert
 * Adelaide and Eliza Cornwell as Judith Grimes
 * Kylie Szymanski as Penny
 * Philip Dido as Warren
 * Randy Woods as Mr. Jacobson
 * Rob Fitts as Mr. Richards
 * Lucie O'Ferrall as Ms. McLeod
 * Debi Hett-Kimsey as Betty Coleman
 * Moses J. Moseley as Mike (Zombified)
 * Theshay West as Terry (Zombified)
 * Dango Nguyen as "Mean Guard"
 * Keith Andrew Gostel as "Woodbury Resident"
 * Kristy Hoefler as "Claire"
 * Alexandra Scuffle as "Gloria"
 * Deanna Dixon as "Woodbury Resident"
 * Denny Ainsworth as "Woodbury Resident"
 * Nathan Standridge as "Woodbury Guard"
 * Leola Williams as "Woodbury Resident"
 * Sherrie Leigh Floyd Billings as "Woodbury Resident"
 * Marlin Lynch III, David Tillery, Mitchell Gunter, Henry Louis Adams,William Curry Harris, Elberta McKnight, Gregory Wilborn, Royce Munn, Gina Marie, Brittney King, Trish Vetterick, Luther Thompson Jr., Amy Fuster, Summer Kidder, Bill Vella, Nikki O'Neal Cocroft, Robert Bae Harvey, Alexander Miera, Chris Brown, Aaron Parr, Bridget Jourdain-Middleton, Nicholas Wayne Whatley, William Tokarsky, Kathy Miller-Boyer, Gerald Duckworth, Christine Collins Ridley, Cheryl Jones Harvey, Becky Nunnally, and Sheila Agnew as "Woodbury Residents"
 * Ellie Decker as Walker
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Deaths

 * Warren
 * Oscar
 * Penny Blake (Zombified)
 * Donna
 * At least 3 unnamed Woodbury soldiers

Trivia

 * First appearance of Tyreese Williams.
 * First appearance of Sasha Williams.
 * First appearance of Allen.
 * First appearance of Ben.
 * First appearance of Ms. McLeod.
 * First (and last) appearance of Donna. (Alive)
 * First (and last) appearance of Warren.
 * Last appearance of Oscar. (Alive)
 * Last appearance of Dr. Stevens.
 * Last appearance of Penny Blake. (Zombified)
 * The title of the episode, "Made to Suffer", is a reference to how the Governor feels after his daughter's death.
 * This is the second episode to share the same title of a comic series volume, the first being "Days Gone Bye" and the following being "This Sorrowful Life", "Too Far Gone", "No Way Out", "A New Beginning" and "What Comes After".
 * This is the First of three times where a character who is a young girl died in the mid-season finale being Penny Blake.
 * In Season 4, Meghan Chambler died in the mid-season finale, "Too Far Gone".
 * In Season 5, Beth Greene died in the mid-season finale, "Coda".
 * This episode marks Chandler Riggs and Laurie Holden's 25th episode on The Walking Dead.
 * The lyrics to the song that the Governor sings to Penny are from the old nursery rhyme, "Bye, Baby Bunting."[1]
 * This is the last episode that has the TV-14 rating. It was changed to TV-MA in "The Suicide King".
 * This episode marks the first time Maggie is shown killing living people.
 * This the first time that the Dixon brothers Daryl and Merle are seen together in reality. The first time we see them together was in a hallucination of Daryl's.

Comic Parallels

 * The Governor planning to kill every survivor at the prison is adapted from a similar scene in Issue 30, where he plans to move Woodbury there instead.
 * Michonne fighting with the Governor and stabbing him in one eye is adapted from Issue 33.
 * The Governor finding out one of his lieutenants lied to him about killing Michonne is adapted from Issue 47.
 * The Governor's speech to the Woodbury residents is adapted from Issue 43.