

Deanna walks up and agrees, telling them to take the body away and let the trees have him. “We’re not going to bury killers inside these walls,” says Rick. Rick spots the preacher and Tobin digging two graves and tells them they only need one. Rick and Morgan take a walk and look at the walls while Rick explains the history of Alexandria and says he thinks it might be too late for them to come around. They ask if anything big happened while they were gone and Eugene tells him to talk to Deanna and get it from the horse’s mouth. He tells them there are 13…no, 12…of his people now with them in Alexandria. Finally, he lets them in and explains it’s actually Holly’s shift and he didn’t want to be there. He’s been on a run with his team the last couple of weeks and Eugene won’t open the gate because he doesn’t know them. Rick apologizes for locking him up but Morgan understands and says they have to get to know each other again.Įugene is on guard duty when Heath (a new character played by Corey Hawkins) pulls up at the gate. He asks where he learned to do that, and Morgan says from a friend after the zombie apocalypse. “All right, here comes the parade,” says Rick over the walkie.ī&W: Rick goes to let Morgan out and finds him practicing moves with a stick. They drive up to the three red balloons checkpoint. They’re doing something huge and they both know it, and he hopes she’s not impaired. Daryl obviously doesn’t agree, but doesn’t argue the point.Ĭolor: Sasha’s driving and Abraham is asking whether she’s been drinking. The walkers with Ws are brought up and Rick tells Daryl he’s going to tell Deanna they don’t need to look for any more people outside of Alexandria because they need to take care of themselves. Glenn’s job is to take out the noisy walkers at the tractor place before they distract the other walkers.ī&W: Daryl works on his bike in Alexandria while chatting with Rick about Morgan, who is locked up for now. Rick’s giving instructions over the walkie talkie, reminding them Daryl’s leading the walkers out and will join up with Sasha and Abraham driving a car. He flashes her a peace sign she flashes it back.Ĭolor: They all have their assignments and know where to rendezvous. Rick says he doesn’t take chances anymore.Ībraham puts Reg’s wedding ring on top of a bottle of booze as Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) passes by. It wasn’t over,” says Morgan (Lennie James) to Rick.

Eugene (Josh McDermitt) makes it back and Tara jokes, “Thank god nothing happened to your hair.” She makes a comment about Noah, but no one has the heart to tell her he’s dead. Tara (Alanna Masterson) is able to sit up and Glenn (Steven Yeun) rushes in with a blooded Nicholas (Michael Traynor). Meanwhile, our little group is in bad shape but hanging in there.

Abraham (Michael Cudlitz) shows some respect to Deanna’s dead hubby, Reg, while Pete’s family mourns his death (Deanna gave Rick permission to kill him in the season five finale). In they come, walker after walker, thousands of them.īlack and white: Back at Alexandria, Preacher Gabriel Stokes (Seth Gilliam) admits to Deanna Monroe (Tovah Feldshuh), who’s sitting on the ground near where he husband was killed, he was wrong. They’re going to set off flares to bring the walkers into a confined area. Although it was supposed to be a dry run, Rick makes the plan go live. The group is gathered ready for a fight and watch as the walkers push through the barricades and send a semi toppling off a cliff road. In color: Rick says it’s time they take the initiative and take on the walkers stuck inside the quarry’s walls. It was a bit jarring at first, but after the fourth or fifth switch-over, it quit being distracting. In order to easily explain what’s taking place in the immediate aftermath of the season five finale and what’s taking place now, The Walking Dead creative team chose to do the flashbacks in black and white while everything else was in color. So huge in fact that the episode was expanded to 90 minutes. With a couple of dead bodies still in need of burial and Alexandrians leery of Rick’s motivations even though Deanna seemed to now be 100% on board with his plans, episode one of the new season had a huge amount of story to lay out. Rick and his fearless group of survivors had to convince the untrained citizens of Alexandria to go outside their city walls and herd thousands of walkers, just days after Rick shot one of their own point blank in the face. Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes, Danai Gurira as Michonne and Lennie James as Morgan Jones in ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 1 (Photo Credit: Gene Page / AMC)ĪMC’s The Walking Dead began season six with an episode featuring the largest
