The Walking Dead, A New Beginning: Things To Note

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Khary Payton as Ezekiel, Lauren Cohan as Maggie Rhee, Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon, Melissa McBride as Carol Peletier, Danai Gurira as Michonne, Seth Gilliam as Father Gabriel Stokes, Pollyanna McIntosh as Jadis/Anne, Avi Nash as Siddiq, Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes – The Walking Dead _ Season 9, Episode 1 – Photo Credit: Jackson Lee Davis/AMC /

9) Clearly (Considering the tents and sleeping bags in the hall), at some point in the outbreak, The Smithsonian was used as a shelter, or perhaps, even a safe zone. What happened to those survivors afterwards, however, is unknown.

10) How did all those walkers get into the lower level? Were they stored there by the survivors in the hall at some point? Or, as things worsened, did those survivors become the walkers?

11) As the group searches the basement of The Smithsonian, Siddiq is attacked by a walker covered in spiders. Considering how infested the walker was, and how overgrown the basement was with spiderwebs, it raises the question: Did that walker die of a spider bite?

12) As Rick, Siddiq, Anne/Jadis, Enid, and Father Gabriel search the “Horticultural Management” room, Anne reveals that she used to be a teacher (Presumably, an art teacher) before the outbreak. This is the first bit of Anne’s pre-apocalypse backstory we’ve learned so far.

13) While Carol, Maggie, and Michonne are discussing the fact Gregory asked for a vote to see who should lead Hilltop, Michonne stops to admire a display about The Civil War. While why it might be so significant to Michonne is obvious, might the content of the display also be meant to serve as a parallel to the conflicts the communities went through, or, perhaps, foreshadow a later one, going back to Maggie’s ominous words at the end of the Season Eight finale?

14) As the group was attempting to escape with the artifacts…why didn’t Ezekiel and Carol just walk along the marble floor next to the stairs and around the cracking glass floor?

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