Last night saw the zombie series return for its second episode after its mid-season break with Rick Grimes (played by Andrew Lincoln) and his group trying to enlist help to start a war against Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
And the latest instalment called New Best Friends picked up from the moment Rick was seen smiling in the previous episode, despite being surrounded by a large group of mysterious individuals holding murderous weapons.
The scene is a new creation that hadn’t featured in Robert Kirkman’s comic book series which the horror series is based on.
So fans were no doubt anxious to find out what would happen next.
Rick meets Jadis (Pollyanna Macintosh) the leader of the group and he immediately asks them if they want to join the fight against Negan which earns him a swift no.
But he then gets ‘auditioned’ by the leader – to become their ally – who pushes him into a pit where a walker covered in spike armour awaits him.
Battling for his life, Rick manages to kill the beast by burying him in the garbage and stabs him.
Proving himself a worthy winner despite cutting his hand, Jadis agrees that her people will join Rick’s fight against The Saviours but there is still a catch, he has to deliver them “lots and lots” of guns.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly about what’s going to happen next with Rick, actor Andrew says: “He’s got to get the guns! And we’ve got an intelligent audience. I think they may know where some guns are stashed.”
When Rick first met Jadis who appears as a cold tight-lipped mysterious leader, Andrew says there was a “sexual” feeling between the two characters.
He continued: “There was a combative but also kind of a sexual, flirtatious, strange, weird dynamic that happened quite instantaneously.
“And Jadis was so odd and strange, and I think Rick is kind of amused by them, but also inspired.”
The Walking Dead airs tonight on FOX at 9pm.
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