The much-anticipated sixth season premiere of AMC's zombie drama, "The Walking Dead", broke out last October 11 in 'First Time Again.'
As recalled, the season 5 finale ended with Rick seeing Morgan again after a very long time. This "first meeting" happened right after Rick shot the wife-beating community doctor, Pete, after he killed Reg, the husband of Alexandria leader, Deanna Monroe. Their first meeting back in the pilot episode of the whole series had Rick lying flat on his back slowly losing consciousness as Morgan points a gun at him. Now, Rick is the one on the offense and had just killed off a man as he would a walker.
"The Walking Dead" Season 6 premiere started where Season 5 ended. Rick shoots Pete, but this time, everything turns black and white. Morgan calls Rick and fades out to black followed by a coloured sequence with Rick leading a "dry run" with the survivors and the Alexandrians in the hopes of achieving his zombie apocalypse principle, "we have to come for them before they come for us."
Rick and Morgan discovered an army of walkers roaming in a colossal pit barricaded by huge trucks just west of Alexandria. As everyone knows, Rick Grimes always wants to plan ahead. That huge horde of hungry walkers would soon break out of the quarry and possibly reach the community. The episode showed Rick's walker parade plan in vignettes, while switching to the events that took place from the end of Season 5 to the present which are distinctively displayed in black and white.
In between the preparations for the big walker mission, viewers see that Alexandria is not at its best state, especially their leader, after the events of the Season 5 finale. The people are in shock. They don't see much throat-slitting and faces being blown off within their walls. But still, Deanna trusted Rick with his plan to lure the walkers away from Alexandria.
Though not everyone agrees with Rick. A family-man, Carter, shares his plan to take out Rick to a few people in the community, and Eugene overhears it by accident. Carter points a gun at Eugene, Rick and the others come to the rescue. Rick wanted to kill Carter, but Daryl-always the voice of reason-called out his name in his "don't-kill-that-guy" tone. Morgan witnesses another "First Time Again", that is definitely not the Rick he knew back in Atlanta covered in bandages, wearing a hospital gown and all that. But they finally reconnected again when Rick offered to let him stay in their home and hold Judith, telling him, "I know you, Morgan. Even if this is the first time." It was as if Rick was again, coming out from a coma and entering into the apocalypse unawares-but now, seeing Morgan again-he wakes up to who he is now in this mad apocalyptic world.
Going back to Rick's plan, the dry run turned out to be the actual thing. Rick and the group began scrambling to do their tasks to execute the plan outright. The group used flare guns to catch the walkers' attention and lure them to the right direction. Daryl led the zombie parade on his motorcycle while Sasha and Abraham drove by his side in a car. The zombie parade actually went smoothly. Rick's plan was working. The walkers are heading west, away from Alexandria.
But as the walkers made their march nearing the end of the episode, a blaring horn blasted on their parade out of nowhere. And it looks like it's coming from home.
Andrew Lincoln who plays Rick Grimes teases the next few episodes (via EW), "The next two episodes are insane, 2 and 3. I've always said this, episode 1 is like a bow being pulled back, and in the last 30 seconds are the bow being released. Two and 3 are nonstop crazy action. It's insane."
It's definitely an insane world as Andrew Lincoln (and Rick Grimes) puts it, and the season premiere is as insane as insane gets in the world of "The Walking Dead".
Catch episode 2 of "The Walking Dead" Season 6 on AMC this Sunday night at 9PM.
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