The Walking Dead season 11 episode 6 On The Inside: Things To Note

The Walking Dead On the Inside recap

1) This episode’s “Previously on The Walking Dead” focused on Daryl’s captivity by the Reapers, Maggie and Negan reunited with Father Gabriel and Elijah. We also see Carol’s desire to search for Connie (Who she had just learned was still alive in the previous episode), is voiced by Melissa McBride.

2) Virgil and Connie taking refuge in a farmhouse that slowly gets surrounded by zombies in the middle of the night is an homage to George A. Romero’s The Night Of The Living Dead, which would inspire The Walking Dead.

3) After the title sequence, we get a chance to see more of the house. Suppose the scenario Connie and Virgil are in wasn’t enough. In that case, the boards over all of the windows, the hunting trophies and paraphernalia, the first upstairs room Virgil explores, and even the location of the stairs relative to the living room all contribute to the Night Of The Living Dead homage (Or, at least, the 1990 remake).

4) Connie’s hallucinations are the first time in The Walking Dead we’ve seen someone suffer from the adverse effects of long-term sleep deprivation, or at least, the first time we’ve seen it acknowledged. Rick’s hallucinations of seeing Lori could have been sleep deprivation, or it could have just been trauma from grief…it’s tough to tell.

5) When Pope asks Daryl if seeing Frost tortured bothered him, Daryl replies, “I’ve done worse.” This may be a reference to him torturing Randall way back in season two’s “Judge, Jury, And Executioner,” though…whether it was worse? I’m not so sure.