# The Walking Dead; 5.07 "Crossed" (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-07-crossed-open-spoilers/705454 "2014-11-24T01:11:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-07-crossed-open-spoilers/705454/61 "2014-11-25T02:10:03Z")
What do you wanna bet he comes running back to the church being chased by zombies and the people in the church can’t get the door open in time, and he dies pounding on the door trying to get in. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-07-crossed-open-spoilers/705454/62 "2014-11-25T03:47:50Z")
I got the impression that Bob Newcop was a hostage negotiator before the ZA. Took control, directed everything, manipulated a seasoned survivor… ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-07-crossed-open-spoilers/705454/63 "2014-11-25T03:57:36Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > What do you wanna bet he comes running back to the church being chased by zombies and the people in the church can’t get the door open in time, and he dies pounding on the door trying to get in. Forgetting about the his hole under the church he created to get out in the first place? Actually, that sounds about right. ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-07-crossed-open-spoilers/705454/64 "2014-11-28T13:49:38Z")
So after Gabriel bothers to escape the church(!) he stands on a nail. A three or four inch nail. That somehow was standing on it’s end and did not sink into the earth under his weight, but somehow maintained it’s upright position and penetrated his shoe’s sole and on through his foot. Apart from ‘how?’ the other question is ‘why?’. What was the point the writers were trying to make? That he’s unlucky? Cursed? They needed to slow him down I guess but, this? They should have just laid out some comedy rakes and had him step onto them like Sideshow Bob. And Eugene and Moustache Boy immobile for almost the entire episode reminded me of game glitches where your character is facing a wall and for some reason you can’t move them so you have to reset. It was just dumb. I agreed out loud with Maggie’s line - ‘It’s not going to get any better’. Oh boy. MiM ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-07-crossed-open-spoilers/705454/65 "2014-11-28T13:56:21Z")
> [@Made\_in\_Macau](#): > > They should have just laid out some comedy rakes and had him step onto them like Sideshow Bob. Hey, there’s a thought. If you raid garden stores and loot hundreds of rakes, could you surround your base with them as a zombie defense both effective and hilarious? As for Gabriel, I expect sooner or later he’ll get trapped inside two vending machines. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-07-crossed-open-spoilers/705454/66 "2014-11-28T15:06:59Z")
The second time we saw ‘Morgan’, all alone and going crazy in that town, he did something like this around his building, with sharpened stakes. He could have used rakes! It must be horribly unpleasant, looking out to see moving groaning impaled zombies all around. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-07-crossed-open-spoilers/705454/67 "2014-11-28T15:34:39Z")
> [@Made\_in\_Macau](#): > > So after Gabriel bothers to escape the church(!) he stands on a nail. A three or four inch nail. That somehow was standing on it’s end and did not sink into the earth under his weight, but somehow maintained it’s upright position and penetrated his shoe’s sole and on through his foot. Apart from ‘how?’ the other question is ‘why?’. What was the point the writers were trying to make? That he’s unlucky? Cursed? They needed to slow him down I guess but, this? > They should have just laid out some comedy rakes and had him step onto them like Sideshow Bob. They made quite a joke of his character on _Talking Dead_. Something like: The guy with virtually no survival skills decides he has to “escape” from the only people who can keep him alive. He can’t even get out of the building without stepping on a nail, and he seems to know every Walker he encounters! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-07-crossed-open-spoilers/705454/68 "2014-11-28T19:09:32Z")
Gabe’a elevator don’t go to the top floor. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-07-crossed-open-spoilers/705454/69 "2014-11-29T21:35:46Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Hey, there’s a thought. If you raid garden stores and loot hundreds of rakes, could you surround your base with them as a zombie defense both effective and hilarious? > > As for Gabriel, I expect sooner or later he’ll get trapped inside two vending machines. IIRC you always seem to have good ideas in these threads. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-07-crossed-open-spoilers/705454/70 "2014-11-29T22:33:10Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Gabe’a elevator don’t go to the top floor. Gabe’s rosary is short a few beads. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-07-crossed-open-spoilers/705454/71 "2015-01-03T04:21:16Z")
So we’ve been watching the marathon on AMC. ‘Crossed’ is playing now. I’d wondered before what the bible verses in the church were, and today I finally looked them up: > [@](#): > > **Romans 6:4 —** We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father. > > **Ezekiel 37:7 —** So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. > > **Matthew 27:52 —** And the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. > > **Revelation 9:6 —** During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them. > > **Luke 24:5 —** In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-5-07-crossed-open-spoilers/705454.md?page=3)