#1. Start Spreading the News
Has Rick ever told his family about Wayne Dunlap, as he promised?
— 🦋Catina🦋 (@TheWalkingMommy) September 8, 2017
The situation with Wayne Dunlap was a weird one. Not only was it never a character who fans got to know when he was alive, but absolutely nothing was really known about him aside from what Rick was able to pull off his driver’s license.
With $28, a photo of a woman named Rachel, and nothing to really connect him to anyone, the organ donor did just that in season 1 when Glenn, Rick, and the others camouflaged themselves in walker guts to escape Atlanta.
Of course, Rick was still very new to all of this. Sacrificing the zombie body of Wayne was something he didn’t feel comfortable with, and it helped bridge the gap between humanity and walkers very early in the series.
But his promise to tell about Wayne to his family never came to fruition, at least not on television screens. This is where I think hardcore fans can enjoy things like this happening behind the scenes. Although I was always hoping there would be a callback to that very moment at some point in the show.