It looked like he was clearly thinking about killing her. But of course he didn't have the guts to actually try (and Maggie was presumably expecting it, or even hoping for it, because she took an incredibly long time getting that shrub uprooted).

I also loved "Doug. Hm. I haven't heard that name in a while."

It's a bit meta, but I loved how the show kept riffing on Henry's whereabouts. It's almost like a line-item-by-line-item shoutout to the Vulture article, "Every Excuse The Americans Has Used to Hide Henry Jennings Offscreen"

It would also explain why the CDC guy from Season 1 (who knew the most about the virus and how it operates) was determined to be utterly disintegrated by a fuel-air bomb. Maybe shooting Walkers in the head just. . .disables their motor functions, but can leave the residual spark of awareness somehow intact.

Oh, absolutely. But multinationals have an interest in technology transfer. The makers of finished products are only too delighted to have someone steal the designs for the base components that they're bringing to China for assembly. . . if a cheaper supplier should later just happen to appear, they can claim…

True. . .although of course it's in the interest of military contractors in general to let it be known, through what were probably quiet channels before the show inspired people to go digging around, that stealing plans from them just might not be the best idea.

The Telegraph article ascribed the pipeline's failure to a software hack, but the piece of software in question was tasked with running the pipeline's "turbines, pumps, and valves." The article doesn't make a big deal about the turbines, but I'm not so sure. The turbines are a major component of the pumps (https://en.w…

I agree. That's almost definitely what it's going to turn out to be here. But the show has departed from reality (in subtle ways) before. For instance, IRL, the CIA did plant fake blueprints for the KGB to steal in the hope that any machinery built around those components would fail (and they did cause some pretty…

That's less horrid than my own pet theory, which is that the humans they used to be have no control over their actions, but are still "in there" to some extent. The hissing and moaning could be an attempt by the human consciousness trapped inside the zombie to warn their prey.

Right. All his efforts to cleverly subvert and/or mess with the Alexandrians instead of just mowing them down are clearly wasted. They're a useless, feral (to Negan) liability in his own backyard, much the way the Wolves were a liability to Alexandria.

"And he remembered not to make the patented "Zombie noise" until he was on camera!"

Well. . . we don't really know all the finer points of zombie behavior. I think some kind of rudimentary clustering instinct would make sense (at least, when there's no prey in their direct line of sight, since you're probably right about that bit).

Seriously. Negan seems to have an unaccountable soft spot for Rick & Co. Anyone else who crosses him in even small ways gets either summarily executed or ceremoniously face-ironed, but for some reason whenever one of Rick's people gets it into their head to plot some half-baked assassination attempt (or even several),…

They didn't regroup to arrive at the exact same time. . . but it's not completely implausible that the zombies could have some kind of herding instinct. We know from the show that they follow each other. It's not at all unlikely that they slow down or speed up a bit to form large groups.

Actually, it took her a suspiciously long time to kill that walker. . . almost as if she was having a struggle with her own conscience about his life.

They kind of explained how that happened. The walkers were the former crew of an oil tanker that foundered on the coast, and they'd been loitering on board their own (largely underwater) ship until the enormously loud explosions drew them all out in a group. The crew of the ship was finite, though, and no other walker…

I think it might be a shout-out to the original group's initiation ritual, which was central to their collective identity. You probably remember it.

They could do a whole episode like that. Stan could ask Matthew to "see what you can find out" about what's troubling Paige, based on his concern that something's "not right in Paigeland", kicking off an adorable (but also nervewracking) all Paige-and-Matthew episode of The Americans in which Matthew tries to use bits…

A conversation? This could be a whole spinoff. . . at the very least, we deserve an episode featuring Tuan's life as a bad after-school sitcom, complete with cheap cardboard sets and a laugh track. The show could be called. . . um. . . "Tuan Life to Live", and at the end we can see Tuan waking up from the horrible…

Ok, maybe. . . but you're ruining my vision of how to properly reintroduce a nerdy character in a Russian drama.