The Walking Dead: 5 Things We Learned From The Mid-Season Premiere

5. The Long Road To Nowhere

Noah convinced the group to make a play for the sanctuary he was planning to head back home to if he and Beth had escaped the hospital together. He claimed it was secure and a good place for the group to make some roots, so as a way to honor Beth, as well as find some purpose for themselves after the dream of Washington D.C. had been snatched away, the gang agrees. If you expected them to arrive to a walled-in safe zone filled with resources and happiness, then you haven't been watching this show long enough - there was none of that. Instead what the group found at the end of their journey was a wasteland of burned-out homes and bodies, both reanimated and not. Noah was heartbroken at the destruction of his neighborhood and wanted to return to his home to check on the status of things there, only to find more of the same. Comic fans may have suspected Noah's neighborhood to be something akin to the Alexandria safe zone that served as the home base within the pages of Robert Kirkman's book for quite a while, but that obviously wasn't the case. Most of the group was crestfallen at the discovery, but it lead to a decision that they made later on in the episode that will have much larger implications on the bigger picture.