9 Scenes You Won’t Believe Were Cut From The Walking Dead

9. The Vatos' Fate Revealed (Season 2)

Remember the heady days of The Walking Dead season one? When Rick and his gang were more concerned with staying alive than rebuilding the world, Glenn looked about 12, and Andrea and Dale were still alive?

During the fourth episode, the survivors arrive at a nursing home in Atlanta and find a gang called the Vatos holed up there, protecting their family from the endless tide of walkers. Rick leaves guns and ammunition behind for them before hitting the road.

Going purely off the footage which aired, the Vatos' fate was left open-ended, but a deleted scene from season two's premiere reveals exactly what happened to them, and it wasn't pretty.

Rick and his crew return to the nursing home to find it overrun with zombies and littered with corpses. All of the Vatos are either dead or undead, and on closer inspection, the former sheriff realises this was the handiwork of human pillagers, rather than zombies.

Yeah, it's pretty grim, but that's not why it was cut. Season two's premiere was actually two episodes spliced together as a result of a subplot involving Shane being nixed at the last minute, so the showrunners were forced to axe everything bar non-essential footage to keep the runtime from spilling over.