<P> In the episode "I Ain't a Judas", the Governor proceeds to rally Woodbury against the prison survivors, labeling them terrorists and raiders . Andrea wants to leave to negotiate peace with the prison group, but the Governor discourages her, implying that she will not be welcomed back if she leaves . When Milton tells the Governor that Andrea asked him to help her sneak out, the Governor tells him to go with her . The Governor welcomes Tyreese, Sasha, Allen, and Ben to Woodbury, after Rick kicked them out of the prison . Andrea returns to Woodbury and warily resumes her place at the Governor's side . In the episode "Arrow on the Doorpost", encouraged by Andrea, the Governor meets with Rick in a secluded grain silo to offer him peace in exchange for turning over Michonne, giving him two days to think about it . The Governor returns to Woodbury and secretly orders Martinez to set an ambush at the barn, to kill all of Rick's group and bring Michonne to Woodbury so The Governor can torture her . In the episode "Prey", Andrea flees for the prison, and the Governor hunts her down personally, bringing her back to Woodbury and strapping her in the dentist's chair that he meant to use on Michonne . In the episode "This Sorrowful Life", Merle kidnaps Michonne at Rick's suggestion to turn her over to the Governor, but lets her go and instead lures walkers to the Governor's meeting place to ambush the Woodbury army . Then, the Governor maims, shoots, and kills Merle, leaving his body to reanimate as a walker, which Daryl later kills, out of pure anger, remorse, and pain . </P> <P> In the season finale "Welcome to the Tombs", the Governor brutally beats Milton up after learning that he burned the walkers that the Governor had been corralling; he then orders him to kill Andrea . Milton tries in vain to kill the Governor, but the Governor stabs him and locks him in with Andrea, so that Milton will reanimate and kill Andrea . The Governor then leads his army into the prison to kill Rick's entire group, but Tyreese and Sasha wants nothing to do with it, and stay behind at Woodbury . Rick and the others have set a trap at the prison, expecting the Woodbury army's arrival . Ambushed and outgunned by Maggie and Glenn, the Governor's army flees the prison in terror . The Governor stops the fast - fleeing convoy, and, in response to their protests against returning to the prison, he opens fire and slaughters them all, sparing only Martinez and Shumpert, his two primary henchmen . Only Karen escapes his rampage (by playing dead under a corpse). The Governor, Martinez, and Shumpert are last seen driving off as Rick and Tyreese bring everyone from Woodbury to the prison, and leave Woodbury to be overrun . </P> <P> "Live Bait" reveals that, just after massacring his own people, the Governor sets up camp with Martinez and Shumpert . Martinez and Shumpert abandon him after he does nothing to protect himself from a walker, believing him to have lost his nerve . The next day the Governor drives back to Woodbury, which is overrun with walkers, and burns down the entire town . After several months alone, intentionally trying to let the walkers kill him, he finally collapses on the street . He looks up to see a young girl, about the same age as Penny, in the window of a nearby apartment building; he pulls himself back to his feet and investigates . He finds the Chambler family residing inside, consisting of sisters Lilly and Tara, their father David, and Lilly's daughter Meghan . Lilly and Tara initially hold the Governor at gunpoint, but they later confiscate his pistol and allow him to stay in an apartment across the hallway . After hearing about how the Governor has survived the last few months, they ask him his name . He tells them that it is "Brian Heriot", a name he saw painted on the side of a barn while staggering aimlessly through the countryside . He runs some errands for the family, and risks his life to get David two oxygen tanks from a walker - infested nursing home . When David dies and reanimates, the Governor saves the rest of the family by bashing in David's head with one of the oxygen tanks . After he buries David, he burns his photo of his wife and Penny . That night, he goes to the Chamblers to say goodbye, but Lilly insists that he stay . He and Lilly become lovers, and he saves Meghan when she falls into a pit of walkers, killing them with his bare hands . Moments later, he encounters Martinez and his group . </P> <P> In the episode "Dead Weight", Martinez takes in the Governor, accepting his new facade as "Brian", and the girls and lets them join their camp . Among the camp are brothers Pete and Mitch Dolgen, who have a working tank . When it becomes clear that Martinez may not be able to keep them safe, the Governor kills him by throwing him into a pit of walkers . Pete takes command, but the Governor later kills him as well after he displays an inability to kill a group of other survivors to take their belongings . The Governor plans to rally the camp and use the tank in a second attack on the prison . </P>

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