The Walking Dead, One More: Things To Note
By Liam O'Leary
1) Just like the previous two episodes, this episode begins with a recap of the Whisperer War. This time by Father Gabriel, focusing especially on the loss of Siddiq and Beatrice and Gabriel’s murder of Dante (In “Open Your Eyes,” “A Certain Doom,” and “The World Before,” respectively).
2) When Father Gabriel and Aaron arrive at the house on Maggie’s map, they find it burnt to the ground, much like the safehouse Maggie’s group was using in the first episode of the season ten extension, “Home Sweet Home.” Was this also the work of the Reapers?
3) After killing the walker that was stuck to the telephone pole, Gabriel sets and tosses an egg timer to draw the attention of nearby walkers, a trick first seen used by Enid way back in season five’s penultimate episode, “Try.”
4) After clearing a field of walkers (Revealed by Gabriel’s use of the egg timer trick), Aaron and Gabriel come upon a pair of skeleton horses with skeleton riders, and not far from them, a line of cars occupied by walkers and corpses and riddled with bullets. What happened there? The road seems like an odd, out of the way place for a traffic jam, this “traffic jam” is rather small, only about six or seven cars and the fact that at least one of the occupants of the cars seems to have died inside paints a puzzling picture. Were those cars the beginnings of a camp similar to the one outside Atlanta at the beginning of the series? Were those people ambushed? By whom?
5) Judging by the “SAVE US” sign painted on the roof of the convenience store Gabriel searches, the group there used the store as a sanctuary when the outbreak first hit, as they were clearly looking for help from potentially passing aircraft. Had they seen helicopters from the CRM? From what we saw in The Walking Dead World Beyond, the Civic Republic does have an outpost in the general vicinity.
6) Additionally, it appears that at least some of the members of the convenience store group turned inside the store. The survivors escaped to the roof, but, for reasons unknown (Maybe the store was surrounded by walkers?), they chose to commit suicide rather than try to make the relatively short jump to the ground.