The Walking Dead:World Beyond, The Sky Is A Graveyard: Things To Note

6) Silas’s flashback to the fatal fight with his father, Gary, finally reveals the details of the incident which got Silas sent to Campus Colony, something we’ve been getting tiny snippets of since the third episode of the show, “The Tyger And The Lamb”.

7) Silas remembering why he beat up his dad is the first of what will prove to be several flashbacks within a flashback.

8) As Hope and Iris discuss the significance of Silas being in possession of some of Iris’s drawings and her poem, Hope is (At least partially) incorrect: Silas did not dig Iris’s tiger drawing (And the accompanying poem) from the trash, he found it on the floor after Iris dropped it in the aforementioned episode, “The Tyger And The Lamb”, which also happened to be the title of the poem.

9) Additionally, the strained relationship with his own father (Chronicled throughout this episode) would go a long way toward explaining why Silas was so moved by the picture of Leo, Iris, and Hope during the same scene wherein he finds Iris’s poem: Either Silas wished his relationship with his dad had gone back to being more like Iris and Hope’s was with Leo, or, he was remembering his dad before he became abusive, and missed the man that his father was.

10) Judging by the fact that Silas’s neighbor mentions how she hears things she’d “rather not hear”, calls Gary a “piece of human refuse”, and the fact that we see him chug down his drink after enhancing it with some booze just before spazzing out on Silas at the dinner table means that Gary had developed a reputation for being abusive, and, that he may have had a drinking problem, to boot, making him not unlike another abusive father, The Walking Dead’s “Porchdick” Pete Anderson.