The Walking Dead, Omega: Things To Note
By Liam O'Leary
1) This episode begins with a flashback to Lydia and her parents’ early days in the outbreak. This is the first time we’ve seen (In earlier seasons, we’ve heard ) what was going on in the D.C.-metro area (Baltimore, specifically) in either Walking Dead series.
2) As the camera travels through the basement Lydia’s original group is holed up in, the words “Day 23” can be seen scrawled on a column. This would likely be around the time Nick arrived in La Colonia in Season Two of Fear The Walking Dead.
3) While Henry may not realize it, during the early portion of their conversation, Lydia is trying to extract information about Hilltop’s defenses (“Are there a lot of guards posted?”) out of him.
4) During Lydia’s initial flashback, we see her remembrance of her father’s dying moments. In that flashback, we see his fatal wound being a relatively small one on the left side of his throat. Later, she recalls him being bitten by a turning Matias, then revises it by revealing her mother murdered him, yet, if you were paying attention, you would have realized the wound Lydia initially envisions was not big enough and too clean to be a bite, revealing the real source of his death before it was revealed.
5) In another flashback, we hear Matias in the background saying that noise outside might be the portion of the group that left, before a woman (Rose?) reminds him they left eleven days earlier, implying they weren’t returning. With the column seen a few seconds later now reading “43 Days”, putting this day approximately three weeks before Rick wakes from his coma in the first episode of The Walking Dead, “Days Gone Bye”.
6) As Matias starts to panic, the noise he heard earlier is revealed to be some kind of battle going on outside between people (Armed with automatic weapons) and the dead. Were Lydia and her group in the basement of Johns Hopkins Hospital? It is a research hospital, after all, the kind of place which might have been working on a cure, and therefore, vital to hold on to as the outbreak worsened. It’s a theory if nothing else.