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Carl even takes his hat - the exact same hat Rick was wearing all those years ago - drops it to the pavement and crouches down to peak under a car. The scene is in some ways a shot-for-shot recreation. Carl comes across a body, but it’s living. In this scene, Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs) pulls up to a gas station in a van, looking for gas, too. What he discovers is a little zombie in pajamas. In that scene, a clean-shaven, uniformed Rick Grimes stops his police cruiser at a gas station/refugee camp, some time after the Turn. The first scene after the credits is a loving, and intentional, callback to the cold-open of the pilot episode. There are a some special tidbits thrown into this episode, especially two callbacks to episode one from 2010. WSJ+/MarketWatch live event: “The Walking Dead” and “Guts” with Paul Vigna “On this day, we begin to reshape this world, for your child, and the children to come,” Ezekiel says.
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Are they strong enough to take on the Saviors? Well, they at least have a plan. Three communities, Alexandria, the Hilltop, and the Kingdom, have joined forces. “The future is ours, the world is ours,” Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan) says, rallying the troops along with Rick and King Ezekiel (Khary Payton). Now they are at the point where they can start putting the world back together again, if they can only get past people like Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), the psychotic, sadistic leader of the Saviors.
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Lauren Cohan as Maggie Greene in 'The Walking Dead'