# The Walking Dead; 4.14 "

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**Created:** [March 17, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-14/683887 "2014-03-17T00:39:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-14/683887/19 "2014-03-17T02:19:24Z")

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A while back I posted this:

> [@The Walking Dead; 4.03 "Isolation" (open spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-4-03-isolation-open-spoilers/672400/87):
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> So, looking back, first we had the Dr at the CDC working on a cure for the zombie virus, then we had Herschel that truly believed that with either prayer or modern medicine the zombies would come back to their human form, then he gave up that notion. Then we met the Governor who kept his daughter locked up in a closet and, IIRC, was hoping that he might eventually get her back, but at the very least strongly felt that she was still in there somewhere. He even had his doctor working on tests to prove that zombies still retain some memory of what they knew before they died.
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> Now we’ve got possibly the little girl, but at the very least we’re working on the theory that someone is feeding them. On the one hand a single rat isn’t going to feed hoard of zombies, OTOH, it seems like they always try to keep at least one character (or small group) that thinks that they’re still human but merely sick and need to be treated and it’s just a matter of finding the right treatment.
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> Yes? No? I never really thought about this until now, but it seems to make sense.

It’ll be interesting to see, assuming I’m correct in this assumption, how long it takes before they have a new member in their group that has a different set of beliefs regarding the walkers.

Come to think of it, it’ll be even more interesting if all those people (who, other than Herschel are all dead now I think) end up being right. I did think about that, but the necrotizing flesh tells me it can’t be true. It doesn’t much matter if you can ‘come back’ if you have no lungs, skins and are riddles with bullet holes.

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