The Walking Dead, Splinter: Things To Note

1) This episode’s recap of the tail end of the Whisperer War is conducted by Eugene, who also mentions he, Yumiko, and Ezekiel’s journey to Charleston, West Virginia, their meeting Princess, and their run-in with the Commonwealth’s soldiers.

2) Speaking of those soldiers, their use of boxcars as holding cells for Eugene, Yumiko, Ezekiel, and Princess is very reminiscent of Terminus residents, who did the same thing with the boxcars at their rail yard base.

3) Princess’s method for dealing with her claustrophobia is reciting state capitols. Princess is the second confirmed character in The Walking Dead universe with claustrophobia, behind World Beyond’s Elton Ortiz.

4) While talking about her rather rough childhood with Yumiko, Princess mentions a friend she had at school who taught her to dye her hair, then wonders aloud if she survived. Princess is one of the first people in the series to wonder if a person from their childhood survived the apocalypse.

5) The morning after the group is apprehended, we can overhear a pair of Commonwealth soldiers talking after Yumiko passes out. One of them says to the other, “I’ve never seen one turn that fast.” Considering how far along into the apocalypse we are by this point, that had to be fast for someone to take note of it. Will this be something we see again when the group is brought to the Commonwealth?

6) The boxcars Princess, Eugene, and presumably Ezekiel are placed in are, apparently, cars C, B, and A. The letter A has been something of a bad omen in The Walking Dead ever since the letter was seen on the boxcar Rick Grimes’s group was placed in at Terminus in the season four finale, aptly titled “A.”

7) Incidentally, of Eugene’s team, he is the only one to have also been imprisoned at Terminus.