Last night’s episode of The Walking Dead was in a word….incoherent. It was certainly exciting I suppose, almost non-stop fighting and gunfire as Rick’s group splintered and did various…things all around the map. It was hard to keep track of who exactly was doing what at which location and what the goals were (steal weapons?
kill everyone? all of the above?), but one of the weirder locations was Rick, Daryl and a small group at some unspecified building where there was supposed to be a heavy weapons cache, according to their spy, Dwight. Spoilers for last night follow.Rick and Daryl found no weapons, but a few weird things instead, including a room that looked like someone had been imprisoned there, and a man, probably a Savior, trying to protect his infant daughter which Rick didn’t realize until after he’d killed him. Why a Savior infant was at a scarcely guarded outpost in the middle of who knows where, I have no idea, but perhaps we’ll figure that out soon.
But the strangest thing Rick found in that funhouse was none other than…Morales!
Who?
If you said that out loud last night, you’re not alone. Rick gives a brief explainer, that Morales was from Atlanta, but if you didn’t recognize either his face or his name, it’s hard to blame you. So, a reminder.
Morales was one of the original band of survivors that Rick met way, way back in season one. He goes on a supply run in “Guts,” the second episode of the series, along with Rick, Andrea, Merle, Glenn, T-Dog and Jacqui. You know who all of those people are except probably Jacqui, who ended up killing herself at the CDC once she figured out there was no cure.
Morales didn’t even last that long. In total, he appeared in four episodes, departing in the fifth episode right before the first season finale (it was a short pilot season that year). He took his wife, his son and his daughter to Birmingham in the hopes of finding their family, as he didn’t want to go to the CDC with Rick. There was no “Ricktatorship” back then so Rick gave him some supplies and sent him…
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