Sunday's episode of "The Walking Dead" had people gasping in shock with the return of the cannibals that have been hunting Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and company. In the last scene of "Strangers," a disoriented Bob (Lawrence Gilliard, Jr.) realizes that Terminus leader Gareth (Andrew J. West) is eating his amputated leg. The Daily Beast said Bob, who finds himself chained to a post, is forced to watch Gareth chowing down on his leg as the latter explains the cannibals' need to eat human flesh.
Gareth said, "We have to hunt. Didn't start that way. Eating people. It evolved into that. We evolved. We had to. And now, we've devolved into hunters. I told you. I said it-can't go back, Bob. I just hope you understand that nothing happening to you now is personal. Yeah, you put us in this situation and it is almost a cosmic justice for it to be you. But we would've done this to anybody. We will. But at the end of the day, no matter how much we hate all this ugly business, a man's gotta eat."
The Hollywood Reporter asked West, who plays, Gareth, about the significance of Bob's state of health when he and his group has captured him. Ahead of his capture, Bob had a narrow escape with a walker. In the comic version, Dale Horvath (Jeffrey DeMunn) was the one who was captured and had his leg eaten by the Terminus people. Dale is believed to have been left for dead after being eaten by a walker.
West shot down speculations regarding Bob's survival and told THR. "Bob is a completely different character than Dale. I wouldn't recommend people speculate too heavily on if the show is following the comic; it veers in and out of that world and that will continue. How this whole situation with Bob and Gareth plays out is going to be interesting. There will be more surprises to come."
Meanwhile, Sgt. Abraham Ford (Michael Cudlitz) spilled to Entertainment Weekly that the new season would definitely be full in the romance department. Cudlitz, whose character is reunited with Rosita (Christian Serratos) this season, said about the love pairings, "Yeah, I think everyone will be moving forward in their personal relations, because they are so isolated in so many ways. There's only one way to go, which is since we're not going out, we're gonna go in."
Cudlitz also shared to EW his assessment about the new team of survivors' chance of survival in carrying out their mission to Washington DC. He said, "They're a bunch of badasses. He's seen them operate. And they're also family-driven and family-oriented. From what he's seen, everything that they do revolves around taking care of each other."
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