By the end, his calm, welcoming demeanor is revealed to be a calculated ruse to exploit others to his gain. But things aren’t what they seem, as we learn of the lengths the Governor is willing to go to preserve the town’s isolation. Given the unsettling reality that much of society has crumbled outside of this place, Andrea appears ready to buy into the Governor’s alluring utopian vision. He talks nostalgically about a sense of community at Woodbury, referring to it as a place where people can return to who they are and what they’re really about. Their leader, known as the Governor (David Morrissey), runs a tight operation of protecting the Georgia burb. Barricaded from the world outside, the people of the town attempt to lead a relatively normal life with minimal fear of death. Following an encounter with Daryl’s brother, Merrill (Michael Rooker) at the start of the episode, Andrea and Michonne are plucked from the dystopian wilderness and end up in a place that would seem to be its opposite. Unwittingly abandoned during the group’s escape from Hershel’s farm, Andrea came under the protection of Michonne, and together-along with two armless, jawless walkers-they survived the winter. This becomes clear at the outset, when Andrea (Laurie Holden) and her travel companion, Michonne (Danai Gurira), are discovered by a familiar face at the site of a helicopter crash.Īfter the first two episodes of the season focused so intensely on Rick’s (Andrew Lincoln) fleeting humanity and the group’s strategic actions to gain asylum, “Walk with Me” introduces a new survivor group that takes Andrea under its wing. More importantly, however, it’s about unearthing the past and recalling a distant life. “Walk with Me” is a notable change of pace for The Walking Dead for several reasons, most clearly its shift in plot trajectory to initiate a new storyline with a new group of survivors. Here, though, the significance of the question doesn’t concern zombies so much as how the human survivors of a zombie uprising project their own fears and insecurities onto the living dead. Romero zombie film, specifically one of the more recent ones, wherein zombies exhibit traits of their pre-zombie selves. This is the kind of question you’d expect from someone in a George A. “Do you think they remember anything? The person they once were?” a man asks in the latest episode of The Walking Dead.