The Walking Dead, Diverged: Things To Note
By Liam O'Leary
10) Sticking with the car in the middle of the woods: How did the walker inside die? Along with the bloody handprints (Obviously left by the walker reaching for things it saw), there are some strange blood spatters on the inside of the windshield, as if the person had coughed up blood before turning. Had a strain of the flu seen in season four made its way to Virginia?
11) Just before Daryl gets a new multitool, we see him limping as he makes his way down the train tracks. How, exactly, did he injure his leg? Even as he’s walking his motorcycle up to the tracks, he isn’t limping, yet, he is as he makes his way to the soldier walker. Why?
12) During Daryl’s adventures with the train track walkers, he encounters three soldier walkers (Amongst about a dozen other regular walkers), all with their supplies intact. Were those soldiers (And the rest of the walkers with them) all from the same safe zone when the outbreak hit?
13) As she’s about to go to sleep, Carol asks Dog if she should leave. If she were to go through with it, and if you count her suicide attempt at the end of “A Certain Doom,” this would be Carol’s fifth attempt to distance herself from the group, behind her exile by Rick in season four (Which she seemed content to stick to), her brief self-imposed exile in season seven, and her adventures out at sea at the beginning of this season.
14) After replacing the garage’s drywall, Carol trashes the scarf she and Dog found upon reentering Alexandria, saying “Sorry” to it as she does so. Carol acknowledges that she can’t “fix it” seems symbolic of her and Daryl’s relationship, which appears to remain fractured as the episode ends.
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