The Walking Dead, Lines We Cross: Things To Note
By Liam O'Leary
1) This episode begins with a shot of a late Soviet-era Russian satellite buzzing around the planet. This satellite is the first reference to anything going on in space since Victor Strand had a conversation with Valery Stepanovich Vashchenko in Fear The Walking Dead’s Season Three midseason finale, “Children Of Wrath”. Coincidentally, both of these spacefarers are Russian in origin.
2) The communities are using a wrecked boat along the coast, which is filled with walkers, to train against. What happened to it? Were all of those walkers the crew, who, presumably, died of dehydration or scurvy? Or, were those passengers all random survivors thrown together when, presumably, D.C. fell (Like the survivors on The Abigail in Fear), who died of some other cause?
3) After finishing their training, Daryl and Michonne are walking together in Oceanside, when Daryl says that he knows “one idiot” who would’ve enjoyed seeing the communities reuniting. This is almost certainly a reference to Rick.
4) While examining the seashells that she, R.J., and Jerry and Nabila’s children collected, Judith finds a Whisperer mask. How did it get there? Are The Whisperers encroaching on Oceanside, or, did the Whisperer who owned that mask die somewhere else on the coast, and their mask washed up at Oceanside?
5) In the title sequence, the red stained-glass window on the tree is replaced by one featuring a windmill and is now joined by three more red stained-glass windows, each one representing one of the other three allied communities.
6) Also in the title sequence, on the wall where “Final Warning” was written last season, now reads “Silence The Whisperers”, and, just after that, instead of seeing the windmill’s construction, we see a silhouette of Rick at the bridge being encroached upon by the herd that was chasing him in his final episode, “What Comes After”, before the remnants of the bridge are shown engulfed in flames.
7) Lastly, at the end of the title sequence, as the walkers approach, we can now see the pikes that mark Alpha’s border between them and the windmill.