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Daryl spots a landscape with several meanings on Sunday's "TWD."
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  • Warning: There are spoilers ahead for "The Walking Dead" flavour 11, episode 2, "Acheron Role 2."
  • Sunday's "TWD" appeared to reference many prove moments, including a night ane with the Governor.
  • A mural Daryl sees was inspired by ii paintings and mirrored events on Sunday's episode.
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Maggie's walker escape is reminiscent of Glenn's famous flavor six dumpster swoop.

Maggie and Glenn both survived "TWD" cliffhangers by crawling to safety.
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On "TWD" season premiere, Maggie slipped from a subway car and roughshod into a tunnel filled with walkers. How did Maggie escape unscathed?

She took a page out of her tardily married man'southward book.

When Glenn faced a similar impossible escape at the terminate of season vi, episode three, fans had to wait four agonizing episodes (one month in Tv fourth dimension) to larn that Glenn shimmied under a dumpster in order to survive.

We're sure Glenn likely recounted this story of survival to Maggie. Whether intentionally or not, she institute herself in a similar situation where she needed to pull herself under the subway cars to escape the dead before making her way inside the automobile.

Maggie uses morse code (SOS) to get her group'southward attention and enter the subway motorcar.

It's noted on "Talking Dead" that Maggie likely learned Morse Code in Alexandria. At that place was a giant board in season seven.
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In a message on aftershow "Talking Expressionless," executive producer Denise Huth said "it'due south possible" that Maggie may have learned morse code from the chart that appeared in Michonne and Rick's Alexandria home on flavour seven.

Ads in the subway cars are nods to fictional "TWD" products.

Apparently, in that location was an ad for Duane Jones' Whiskey in the subway cars on Sunday'due south episode.
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According to "Talking Dead," two ads that can exist seen in the subway cars are "Duane Jones Whiskey" and "Gorbelli Foods Company."

The sometime was the brand of whiskey that Aaron and Male parent Gabriel stole from Mays on the season 10 bonus episodes. The latter is the proper noun of the company where Tara's begetter worked before the apocalypse.

That's a deep cut.

Daryl comes across a subway mural that's inspired by two different pieces of art: Pieter Bruegel's The Triumph of Death and Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights.

The mural Daryl sees appears to mirror the struggle between Maggie's grouping and Negan'southward on Sunday's episode, and the larger disharmonize throughout "TWD" universe. The right panel of Bosch's triptych, depicting Hell, can be seen on the lesser.
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The Triumph of Death showcases a skeleton army destroying everything in their path. (You tin view information technology hither.)

Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights is a triptych (view information technology here). The image on Sunday's "TWD" virtually likely references the right most console of the oil painting, which depicts Hell through a series of illustrations of sin, temptation, and greed all leading to the destruction of human being past his own devices.

The mural which Daryl sees seems to be a combination of themes from both.

Man is at war with himself instead of his true enemy, the undead. The trivial war between humans ultimately leads to their destruction by the vast horde of walkers who they should be rallying together against.

On a special featurette after the episode on AMC+, showrunner Angela Kang said the mural told the story of what happened in the subway tunnels.

"The backstory of it is that in that location was this massive class struggle that happened. Poeple wound upwardly murdered and stuffed in numberless," Kang said.

"Talking Expressionless" points out that "people are fighting each other and not the walkers surrounding them" in every section of the mural. It's also likely the mural symbolizes the conflict playing out between Negan and Maggie'south group in the subway machine equally the expressionless similarly surround them.

The mural Daryl sees may foreshadow an impending conflict between Alexandria and the Commonwealth, 1 which ultimately may be unnecessary if it meant they were stronger as one. Kang hinted that it speaks to a class struggle that we'll encounter on the prove.

Daryl finds a $100 bill with a message on it that's sending us back to the show'southward pilot.

This seemed like a reference to the testify's very kickoff episode.
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The message reads, "Dear Dad, You always said if you don't come back in a calendar week to move on. Mom didn't listen and went looking. It's been 3 weeks, and then we're going side by side. I'll watch Jesse and plough on the radio every day at ten. See y'all both soon. Honey, Tom and Jesse."

Rick similarly told Morgan on the show's kickoff episode that he'd turn on his radio every morn, simply at dawn, to bank check in on him and Duane. He did information technology for a while, but and so the grouping was moved further and farther from Rick'south hometown.

Kang confirmed on AMC+ that the white rabbit that Daryl sees in the photo with the children is the aforementioned stuffed bunny that was seen in the season xi premiere in the tunnels.

When Cuff calls Maggie a liar, information technology mirrors another huge moment when the Governor calls Rick a liar.

Gage's concluding moments speaking with Maggie felt like the inverse of Rick pleading with the Governor.
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This one might be a little bit of a stretch, but both Cuff and the Governor delivered haunting deliveries of the word.

On Sunday's episode, Gage said it when Maggie decided they didn't have fourth dimension to salve the teen who was trapped in a subway car with walkers. Instead, they watched him go torn apart by the expressionless.

On season iv, episode 8, the Governor said the word quietly after Rick Grimes suggested they could all live at the prison together instead of fighting over the building.

Shout-out to @DixonBrother_ for spotting this ane.

Mercer tells Eugene he'southward not a good liar. He conspicuously underestimates Eugene.

Mercer does not know Eugene well. He likely will soon enough.
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As we know, Eugene is quite the skilled liar. He'due south such a good liar that he convinced Abraham and Rosita to take him to Washington, D.C. because he claimed to know what started the zombie outbreak.

"When Mercer chosen him a bad liar, it was definitely one of those situations similar, 'Hold my beer,'" Josh McDermitt, who plays Eugene, said on "Talking Dead." "Eugene'south super power is lying. You could either lie to become something you want and be nefarious about it or you tin lie to survive. And that's really where Eugene thrives — when he's just trying to survive and keep other people safe."

McDermitt said Eugene was a bit offended when Mercer called him out.

"He did not similar that. Then he made Mercer look like an idiot," McDermitt said of Eugene subsequently putting on an act and lying circles around him.

Though he added $.25 of truth about Stephanie, he connected to lie about coming from a large community.

Eugene recalls singing Iron Maiden over the radio with Stephanie.

Eugene sings "When the Wild Wind Blows" on flavour ten, episode 11 of "TWD" to Stephanie over the radio.
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That wasn't a prevarication.

Eugene did that on flavour x, episode xi during a montage sequence equally his grouping prepared for battle against Blastoff and the Whisperers.

Yumiko says that her blood brother was a thoracic surgeon before the apocalypse.

Yumiko reveals her brother has a different occupation than Michonne's daughter in the comic.
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We noted last week that Yumiko's story arc is a remix of Michonne's from the comic when she finds her long lost daughter, Elodie, at the Commonwealth.

In the comics, Elodie's a baker.

The prove is making Tomi (Yumiko's brother) into a surgeon. We can't help but wonder if at that place's a reason for that and if that reason has to do with Ezekiel, who could probably apply a good surgeon right virtually now.

A immature woman claims to be Stephanie, merely we're not convinced.

Though she may wear similar red glasses to Stephanie, just like in the comics, we're skeptical of whether or non this is really Stephanie.
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Josh McDermitt, who plays Eugene, confirmed to Insider in 2019 that Margot Bingham voiced Stephanie on the radio. The woman who presented herself equally Stephanie at the end of Sunday'southward episode isn't Bingham.

The part likely wasn't recast as Deadline previously reported that Bingham joined "TWD" for its 11th season.

What'southward going on?

The Republic may exist further testing Eugene and his friends past sending in a decoy to encounter if they were lying about coming from a big community. That'south non good news for Eugene who has been lying to everyone just Stephanie.

Mercer, the leader of the Commonwealth army, warned Eugene that if he lied to him, he'd know. Nosotros're wondering if this is what Mercer meant. If so, Eugene may be in trouble.

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