The Walking Dead: More Terminus Secrets Revealed

On tonight's season finale of AMC's The Walking Dead, Rick Grimes and his small group finally made their way to Terminus, where they met up with Glenn, Maggie and the rest in a somewhat...unexpected way. Along the way, though, they found themselves in one of the strangest and most interesting settings in the series so far: The Terminus Church. A large, oddly-shaped room that the survivors were funneled through en route to their final destination, the room was in actuality an old roundhouse for a railway yard -- but it serves a very different purpose to the Terminians. "And this right here is Church. It's kind of a memorial to our departed Terminants," explains Andrew J. West, who plays Gareth, in the video embedded below. The names on the floor, then, are presumed to be the loved ones of the residents of Terminus, which presumably explains why there are trinkets left behind for them while the residents of the community are fairly shameless about pillaging from the living, taking things like Glenn's pocketwatch and Eugene's riot gear. None of the names on the floor -- you can see some in the photo above -- strike us as familiar and the ones we tried don't pop up in The Walking Dead Wiki as anybody in particular from the comics or the Telltale Games series. While some fans had speculated that this was in fact a room where the Terminians memorialized their victims, the notion that it's in memory of their loved ones lost would support the messages on the wall, which say things like "never trust" and "we first, always." It seems that they encountered somebody like The Governor and took away very different lessons from the one Rick's group did. "There's a big story to Terminus," Robert Kirkman explained in the show's postmortem at TheWalkingDead.com. "There's a very long and involved way that Terminus came about, and that memorial is a big part of it. It's what these people have lived through and what's happened to them and what's built them into what they are, which will be revealed in Season 5. There are a lot of hints when you watch this episode closely of what's to come in Season 5, so I would definitely urge everyone to watch this episode multiple times and try to pick out the things we're teasing because there's a lot to find."