The Walking Dead: all we already know about the second part of the season 9

We are full of revelations, while the series goes on break for long weeks.

It's a well-established tradition, for almost a decade. Season 9 of The Walking Dead is cut in half, and after episode 8, the zombie series is paused for several weeks. She will come back in early 2019, with the second part. So what is waiting for us in these 8 new episodes? Attention spoilers!

The Walking Dead, season 9: it's (spoiler) who decided to leave

The (almost) announced date

In the trailer announcing the sequel, broadcast in the wake of the "mid-season finale", the American AMC channel revealed that The Walking Dead will resume in February 2019. This means – if we take into account previous years – a return of season 9 is Sunday 10 or Sunday, February 17, 2019, or at the latest, February 24.

Return directly to the cemetery

When we left Michonne, Aaron, and Co., they were trapped in that hazy graveyard, where Jesus died. "We will resume things very quickly where we stayed ", entrusts the showrunner Angela Kang in EW. "Our characters will be there and they will obviously have to fight."In view of the trailer above, we see that they will manage to survive alive, with a hostage bonus."But they will make another strange and shocking discovery along the way, during the episode. And the story will run from there. "

Negan in freedom

"We'll see exactly what's going on with Negan now that he's out of his cell"continues Kang. The showrunner adds that the leader of the Saviors "has served his time, and he's gone out into the world, there's some really cool stuff waiting Jeffrey Dean Morgan, in the next episode, in the main story with Whisperers … " The bad guy at the bat will probably give a hand to overcome his dangerous fools. But who will be able to accept that he is actually released after only 6 or 7 years in prison?

The revelation of the X

One of the main mysteries planted in recent weeks concerns these X, engraved on the skin of Michonne and Daryl. Scars in the lower back, which clearly tell us that it happened horrible and striking (it is the case to say it), during the post-Rick temporal ellipse. "We will certainly tell the story of what happened at that time. And what's cool with a 6 year jump in time is that we now have the opportunity to go back and tell some of these stories. There it will be an emotional story for Michonne and Daryl. So I'm glad people are discovering that. It will be something that will certainly have had a profound and particular effect on Michonne. So that's something we want to tell people. "

Tara the boss

Maggie is gone. Jesus is dead. So, in the pyramid of command at Hilltop, it is she who should logically take things in hand: "Yes, we will see that Tara will have to play a leading role. She already managed a lot of things, because, in many ways, Jesus did not want to be the leader of Hilltop. He did not like bureaucracy. It was someone who wanted to live in the world. And if he liked Hilltop a lot, he was an absent leader. Tara has managed a lot of things everyday … " She will become the boss and it will not change much for her.

The world of Whisperers

The new villains of The Walking Dead are now advancing uncovered. But who are these Whisperers and what do they want? "We're really going to get into the Whisperers philosophy, the way they do it, it's not really a group that talks a lot, it's a group that acts, they stick to what they believe in, for terrifying purposes, so this is a very interesting time for our characters, who have to come up against a group that does not think or behave like any other group we've seen before. put a skin mask on your face and walk around with zombies … They are very special people. " Otherwise, Angela Kang reminds that Samantha Morton and Ryan Hurst will disembark to play Alpha and Beta.

No Oceanside in sight

Cindy and her friends hit hard in the first episodes of this season 9, quietly murdering the Saviors who had stubbed their husbands and children a few years earlier. Since the post-Rick jump in time, Oceanside women have not reappeared. But they are still there, since Henry has spoken with his comrades at Hilltop. That said, we will not see them anytime soon: "I do not know! Oceanside is always here. There are all these communities that are now isolated. We have not said much about Oceanside yet … but maybe someday. "

The general theme of the second part

If the first chapter showed the post-Negan life and the redesign of a civilization, what are the next eight episodes about? "We are now in the world of Whisperers, a world with a particular philosophy and this philosophy is really at odds with that of our group, which has tried to reconstruct something close to a civilization. It's really a theme we're exploring all season, piece by piece. "