Connecting The Walking Dead: ‘The Deepest Cut’

2) Huck Exposed

The best part of any mystery (And the occasional espionage story) is when the protagonist discovers the perpetrator/enemy spy/villain. Seriously, go back and watch just about any classic Law & Order episode from the 90s, and the best part is always the reveal or discovery of who the real perp was, or when, after professing innocence throughout the whole episode, the accused turns around and reveals just how evil they really were the whole time, the same goes for any good whodunnit story. When done right, it’s great watching. Episode nine of The Walking Dead: World Beyond is an example of this.

Now, while we knew that Huck was a spy, the group didn’t know, and, it was exciting watching Hope and Iris start wondering (And eventually discovering) if Huck wasn’t who they thought she was.

Of particular interest was watching Hope slowly decipher the Civic Republic Military code book, figuring out that the codes were coordinates on the map the group found at the CRM fuel depot, and that the specific letter at the specific coordinates was a letter in the message, revealing the way the CRM identified Huck, and what her orders were.

Watching that made me think back to last season of The Walking Dead, when it was revealed that Alexandria’s new doctor, Dante (Who also boasted a past in the military, like Huck, coincidentally), was, in fact, a double agent, a spy for the Whisperers.

In that episode, Siddiq, the only survivor of the massacre at the end of the previous season, is constantly haunted by the words “Open your eyes” being repeated to him, as he suffers horrific flashbacks of the massacre of his friends at the hands of Alpha (Something he’d been suffering since), the phrase something a Whisperer said to him during the incident. Then, as the episode ends, he remembers the voice of the Whisperer who told him to open his eyes, realizing it was Dante. It was a great slow-burn reveal.

The reason Hope’s discovery of Huck’s betrayal reminded me of Siddiq’s revelation of Dante’s is because both relied on evidence the spy’s own group (Or the spy themselves) left behind, with one of protagonists poring over it until realizing who the traitor was amongst them. The part of me that loves espionage stories loves this.

Unfortunately, because of the nature of it, it’s something we don’t see too often in the Walking Dead universe, but, it’s a treat each time that we do.