The Walking Dead, Bounty: Things To Note
By Liam O'Leary
6) Ezekiel’s use of a boombox to distract the walkers inside the theater is, funny enough, the same tactic The Saviors planned to use to drive away the herd that surrounded The Sanctuary back in Season Eight’s “The King, The Widow, and Rick”, though, on a much larger scale.
7) In a nice bit of subtle foreshadowing, the arcade walker has a series of claw-like slashes on the top of his head. When Ezekiel finds the theater, he spies a female walker trying to crawl through a fallen popcorn machine, receiving the same kind of slashes, indicating the arcade walker came the same way.
8) Several times in this episode, Ezekiel talks about preparing for “any eventuality”. Is this foreshadowing something bad befalling The Kingdom?
9) In her conversation with Daryl, Alpha implies that The Whisperers have been operating for so long, that they’ve been having children and incorporating them into the group. However, when the baby Whisperer fails to stop crying, the mother places the baby on the ground, leaving it to die. How could The Whisperers be having babies? Babies cry. Have they just been abandoning all of them?
10) In a subtle display of just how despicable Alpha is, if you pay attention, you can see her chuckle to herself at her quip about “natural selection” in reference to the baby being left to die.
11) Enid recounting her backstory to Henry, specifically how losing her parents changed her and how she “Became all about surviving somehow” is a nice little reference to her old philosophy, revealed in Season Six’s “JSS”, a.k.a, “Just Survive Somehow“.
12) On a side note, it’s amusing that Enid’s pep talk to Henry should reference Carl, considering that Henry is serving as a stand-in for Carl now in the series.