How far is this going to go? This is the question I kept asking myself during In Harm’s Way, the third episode of the second season of Telltale Games’ adventure series The Walking Dead. While the entire franchise has asked increasingly stressful moral questions about what you have to be willing to do to survive in a world of zombies and madmen always looking out for number one, the latest chapter takes you into such extreme, nihilistic territory that I started to worry about Clementine’s soul, not just her skin.
In Harm’s Way is one of the more pensive episodes of the season when it comes to exploring character motivation, although there is enough action–especially in the chaotic, bloody conclusion–that it’s not exactly My Dinner With Andre. The story picks up right whe…