7 Questions We Have After The Walking Dead’s Midseason Premiere

1) Who Are The New Arrivals?

When Rick and the others try to find Gabriel, they instead discover that they’ve walked into the middle of a trap and are ambushed by a bunch of silent people wielding weapons. Weirdly enough, this causes Rick to smile. Care to share the joke with us, Grimes?

The big question we have after watching this episode is: who are these enigmatic new arrivals? And do they actually mean the Alexandrians harm? The weapons would suggest so, obviously, but they could still turn out to be friends rather than foes. Whoever these folks are, they’re definitely tied in with the reason Father Gabriel left Alexandria and who exactly that spy in the boots was.

It’s possible that they’re the TV show’s version of the Whisperers, a group of demented survivors from the comics. The spy in the boots, then, could be their leader Alpha – the Whisperers strip themselves of their human identities e.g. Alpha’s second-in-command is called Beta. However, it would be weird for them to be introduced this early on and – more importantly – they don’t have the zombie face-masks that signify the group in the comic books. Still, there has been a lot of speculation that the Whisperers would be joining The Walking Dead this season, so who knows?