The Walking Dead: New Images From the Midseason Premiere Debut Online

Entertainment Tonight has a sneak peek at Sunday's midseason premiere of AMC's The Walking Dead, [...]

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has a sneak peek at Sunday's midseason premiere of AMC's The Walking Dead, titled "The Suicide King." In the episode, Rick grapples with his role as leader of his band of survivors when Carl tells him to step aside and deal with their family life and Hershel tells him that it's time for him to step up. Meanwhile, Daryl and Merle Dixon are locked in battle in the gladiatorial arena to see which one of them (if either) will get to walk away from Woodbury alive. And Rick, Glenn and company know they have to save them from The Governor. Here, we see a couple of photos of people in cars--one of them appears to be Maggie, about to drive Rick somewhere, while Rick talks to Carl and a group of walkers look on just beyond the prison fences. It certainly doesn't look like a happy scene for anyone involved, so it's not unlikely this is going to be just as Rick sets out to rescue Daryl.

Whether that's the same car in the second shot is hard to tell, although it would make a kind of sense, with an angry gunman pointing his rifle into the window and Andrea apparently trying to cool him down. Coloring-wise, though, it certainly doesn't look like the same vehicle. There seems to be an exodus from Woodbury going on in the background here; people apparently no longer feel safe in the wake of Rick's attack, and are preparing to leave the confines of the city. That can't put The Governor in a good headspace, so things are likely to get ugly pretty quickly. This guy might actually be keeping his own people in, rather than keeping someone out.

Could it be the previously-pregnant Woodbury survivor we already met, leaving the town? And if so, is that her we saw with the baby and the walker? The third image, and the least spoilery, is really just a very emaciated walker. Emmy-winning special effects guru Greg Nicotero had promised that, as the world of The Walking Dead advances on past the initial infection, we would start to see some really messed up zombies, having "survived" for a year or more while their bodies slowly rotted away. This appears to be the first concrete fulfillment of that promise.

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