The Walking Dead, Promises Broken: Things To Note

Can the Commonwealth be trusted?

1) This episode’s “Previously on The Walking Dead” — Focusing Eugene’s arrest by the Commonwealth military, their release being arranged by Lance Hornsby, Yumiko learning about the Commonwealth from Tomichi, and Maggie’s team narrowly escaping The Reapers — is voiced by Khary Payton.

2) As we learn later in the episode, Teresa, Elijah’s sister’s walker, is roaming around outside Meridian. Does this mean that all the bodies we saw hanging upside-down along the side of the road when Maggie’s team first encountered the Reapers were the rest of the Wardens?

3) As Stephanie goes to find Lance Hornsby after she, Princess, Ezekiel, and Eugene clear a house of walkers, some preppy douche (Who turns out to be Sebastian Milton, the governor’s son) walks by, complaining to Mercer, “This is too close to where the nasties are working.” This phrase is the first nickname we’ve heard for those on the lower rungs of Commonwealth society, though, as this episode will demonstrate, not the last.

4) Assuming that Maggie led the construction of Meridian’s walls, you can see where she took influence from Alexandria’s walls.

5) While discussing the takeover of Meridian with Daryl, Leah says, “We have a whole community to protect.” Are there civilians under the Reapers’ watch that we’re not aware of? I mean, she certainly could be talking about the rest of the team. Still, she makes it sound like there are people that the Reapers are protecting, much like the Saviors were separate from the civilians living within the Sanctuary. Soooo, who is this community The Reapers are “protecting”?