The Walking Dead Flashback: Morgan and dead people’s faces
By J.C.
One popular theory which caught fire since the debut of the Whisperers on The Walking Dead is that Morgan Jones knew about them. It is possible Morgan met them and here is why.
Scott Gimple said that it was a pure coincidence and no connection. From a showrunner perspective, it was a coincidence that Morgan made a reference that strikes us today. Scott may have said there is no connection, but in The Walking Dead, there is no such thing as a coincidence.
Morgan made a return in the season three episode “Clear” and he was distressed. While he was talking in this episode, he proclaimed that he witnessed “people wearing dead people’s faces”.
The connection that supports the theory that Morgan saw a Whisperer comes from this season’s episode “Omega”. Lydia told stories about her mom, which showed the earliest days of the fall of humanity. The timeline of Alpha making those changes go along with the general timeline for Morgan.
Not every moment in The Walking Dead history has been shown on television, we have heard about many deaths and encounters that happened off-screen. Lydia stated that they go from place to place, and they do it at a gradual pace.
Alpha and Lydia were already on the move and started laying the foundation for their way of life with other survivors. Nothing is built overnight, and every major community and organization starts off as a grassroots movement before growing.
Morgan while traveling likely had a disturbing encounter witnessing the rise of the Whisperers in another area. It could have been a Whisperer shedding his mask or Morgan killing a walker just to see it was a human dressed up as a walker.
Morgan had a lot on his mind from losing his family to suffering post-traumatic stress. Morgan denied what he saw in his state of mind, the same way he denied his survival killing instinct. After Morgan was rehabilitated by Eastman, he seemed to be at peace with everything he experienced.
The Whisperers travel and do not have a true base, instead they just live wherever they migrate and take down camps in the process. The likelihood that it was a few minutes of observing what he thought was a hallucination was in fact reality.
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You can be the judge if Morgan saw one of the Whisperers. It is truly fun to think about regardless with those factors. What has been seen with the Whisperers thus far, it is easy to see how someone can go mad like Morgan Jones. Stay tuned for new episodes of The Walking Dead on AMC as the Whisperers continue their reign of terror.