In episode 1, when Rick stumbled out of the hospital after waking up, Morgan’s son Duane clonked Rick on the head with a shovel. That makes Duane the first “human” that Rick sees in the new Zombie Apocalypse world. Rick, as he’s passing out from the shovel, sees Morgan walk up to a zombie, and shot it in the head. That makes Morgan the second human he sees. Morgan and Duane take Rick into their safe house to recover.
He then made a reappearance after losing it, as a few other posters have mentioned.
Maybe Morgan had gotten all his guns from Rick’s old department? Ex-military or something? I thought there was some connection, but Morgan had gone off the deep end so Rick let him be. Well, I rely on these boards to fill me in on everything I miss.
Well, Morgan sheltered him when Rick first came out of the hospital in the middle of everything in the first episode. They were supposed to in be contact when Rick went in search of his family, but it never happened, so Rick felt tremendous guilt when he saw Morgan again.
Morgan had gone off the deep end by the time we saw him the second time, when he had the stockpile of guns.
The first time we saw Morgan was in the first episode of the series, when he was pretty normal – not crazy at all – and didn’t have a stockpile of guns. It was clear in that episode that Rick was a cop and Morgan was not.
Morgan’s big arc in that episode was being unable to shoot his zombified wife, who kept coming up to their front door and turning the knob trying to get in. If I remember correctly, the zombie wife then killed Morgan’s son at the end of that episode, which presumably led to his going off the deep end.
You remember slightly incorrectly. Duane was till alive at the end of that episode. But in Season 3, we learned form the “crazy” Morgan that Duane had been bitten at some later point by his zombie Mom, and Morgan then had to take out his now zombie son. Thus the Crazy.
Not that I recall. They were going to use CB radios at dawn each day or something. I don’t know where the symbol comes from. Since it’s supposed to be months later, maybe it’s something Rick and the gang have been using that Morgan started following.
It went by quickly, but it looked like that symbol was tattooed on the crazy guy’s (the one Glenn set free out of the container) forehead. I don’t know the significance, though.
Excellent season opener, and I haven’t been able to say that very often with this series. Well written, directed and edited, without endless exposition or stupid plot devices.
I think it was meant to show a parallel to Rick’s “lets go back and kill them all” mentality shift - that even “good” people can be driven past a breaking point -
i got that vibe last year when they were “herded” into the cattle cars. selection process… cattle cars… it was all there.
i haven’t believed that “scientist” guy from moment one. abraham is so desperate to hold on to something, to have a mission, he is not looking too closely. he has lost so much, so many people for this guy, he has to believe it is worth something.
the doctor at the cdc had more going for him and even he was having trouble getting a handle on how to stop it.
I’m confused… What exactly is it that you are tired of? Your protagonist continuing to survive? Because you can’t be suggesting that our entire zombie killing crew miraculously and unrealistically continue to beat all the odds because they decidedly do not, we’ve lost many. Perhaps not quite as many as they would if this were real, but it’s not and the show can’t wipe out the whole cast every other week and hope to keep the audience invested in what happens next.
having rewatched, i’m still a bit baffled. when did they have time to clean up before digging up the bag? and where did they clean up? was there a lake or a creek i missed?
This bothered me too, I told the person I was watching with when they saw the first guy hit and slit they all would have been squirming and hopping futile or not.