Two things. Dead rats typically precede an outbreak of the plague, they don't carry plague, but their fleas do and kill them as well as humans, pigs, not so much. Also, the biggest problem with this or any zombie type situation is starvation. As the zombie infestation exponentially spreads their food source…

In a series with great song choices, and beautiful direction, that final shot blew me away. I love power pop and Badfinger's "Baby Blue" is one of my favorite all time songs, period, so maybe it's just me. I shed tears for Walt, one of the all time hubristic, sociopathic, bad guys, sad that he didn't find his calling…

No mention of the Blade Runner homage?

…uh, there's a monkey in the banana field…