As difficult as it is to deal with someone who is volitile like Merle, in the current situation someone like him could be the best ally you could hope for.
Finding Lori & Carl so quickly is a very common issue with both the comics & show. Atleast in one of the novels when Megan & Lilly(neither character is in the show) catch up, it is explained that so early in "the fall" cell phone towers still worked, and its not hard to imagine 2 twenty-something women would own cells.
That is a dick move by Shane, but not nearly as bad as say Kyle Reese from Terminator(who went back in time to become his best friends daddy)
Finding Lori & Carl so quickly is a very common issue with both the comics & show. Atleast in one of the novels when Megan & Lilly(neither character is in the show) catch up, it is explained that so early in "the fall" cell phone towers still worked, and its not hard to imagine 2 twenty-something women would own cells.
That is a dick move by Shane, but not nearly as bad as say Kyle Reese from Terminator(who went back in time to become his best friends daddy)