I hope episode 2 lives up to the hype and doesn’t disappoint me like every Walking Dead cliffhanger does. The only exception was the season 6 to 7 cliffhanger. I was heavily invested in who was going to die from Negan but the 6 month wait and it getting spoiled for me from Reddit ruined it for me. Episode 2 is going to pick up from Negan and company going in the train car without Maggie and the group wondering where she went, Daryl looking for Dog, and the events after Yumiko found that her brother Tami is still alive…
I believe that the group with Negan is going to grow very suspicious of his story on what happened to Maggie. Negan’s story is going to grow old and people aren’t going to believe him. Things are going to go sour quick but Negan is going to tell them what truly happens. This is going to prompt him to feel guilty or the group making him go after Maggie. I do believe that one way or another Negan is going to find Maggie Maggie is going to want to kill him even more than she already does after this episode (even though I do not know how that is possible), but Negan will save her from her demise. It sets up a season-long tug-of-war as these two wrestle with trust, forgiveness, and the urge to murder each other.
The little story with Dog and Daryl is going to make Daryl go in a direction that he doesn’t want to go. There is little to go on in the trailer but all we see is Dog go into another small opening and Daryl crawling to go after him. I think this is where Dog is going to get hurt and whimper, like we heard in the season 11 trailer, but he will ultimately be okay. I know Daryl’s love interest, Leah is going to comeback this season in episode 5 so maybe there is connections with episode 2, Dog, and Leah, but this is real slim. I do think that Leah is going to be apart of the Reapers and Daryl is going to recognize her or at least Dog will…
The last important part of episode 2 is The Commonwealth storyline with Yumiko, Eugene, Ezekiel, and Princess. In the trailer, it seems that Ezekiel has gone missing. I believe that it is either because they know of his cancer or because of his altercation with Mercer during integration. I think that this episode is the group trying to get him back. Episode 2 is also going to show how the group either gets caught with The Commonwealth’s armor or how they discard it and go back to their holdings. I want to see how Yumiko reacts now knowing that her brother is alive and in the community. I think this is another way to gain Mercer’s trust to go into The Commonwealth, other than Eugene’s with Stephanie. It will connect the points of Alexandra needing food and supplies to rebuild and The Commonwealth having that stuff to help them with, with the connections of Eugene, Yumiko, Ezekiel, and Princess already being inside and Georgie & Maggie’s connection from the time that she was gone from season 9 to 10.
Here below is the trailer for The Walking Dead’s season 11 episode 2: Acheron Pt. 2:
Episode 2 Trailer