This subway tunnel is a location seen in AMC's The Walking Dead. It is located in the Washington Metropolitan Area. A group of survivors from Alexandria use the tunnels to travel to Meridian, entering through the Pyron Metro Station and making their exit through the Degard East Market Metro Station.
Pre-Apocalypse[]
Little is known about this tunnel or the location it is in before the outbreak occurred, except that it was in the Washington Metropolitan Area. It was an underground railway system used to transport large numbers of passengers within urban and suburban areas.
Post-Apocalypse[]
After the start of the outbreak, the subway tunnel was used as a shelter for a number of people, including Tom, Jesse and their parents. However, it was eventually abandoned by the survivors and it became overrun with walkers.
At least part of the subway tunnel had water marks suggesting that it flooded during bad weather. It was also used as a mass grave for numerous people whose throats had been slit nearly to the point of decapitation with the bodies wrapped up in plastic and then left to reanimate. It's unknown if these people were killed in the Fall or if they were the subsequent victims of a hostile group such as the Reapers.
Season 11[]
"Acheron: Part I"[]
A group consisting of Maggie, Daryl, Negan, Gabriel, Alden, Elijah, Cole, Gage, Agatha, Duncan, Frost, Roy, and Dog enter Pyron Metro Station to hide from the storm. Negan is asked what way to go despite wanting to rest. He says to take the Yellow Line North up to Reagen National and then head on the Blue Line until they reach Bethesda and cross to the Red Line. After this, the whole group moves forward in the tunnel as per Negan's instructions. They hear pipes groaning from the storm winds. Negan points to a watermark on the wall, indicating that the tunnels regularly flood. He suggests they turn around, but Daryl shoots down his idea. As the group continues they find a pile of dead bodies, each wrapped in plastic. Daryl removes the plastic from one body and kills the walker when it snaps at him. They observe the walker made no noise because its throat had been slashed. Maggie says that they must have been killed in the fall but Negan is paranoid that these are from recent victims. Maggie instructs the group to kill the walkers, clearing a path, so that they can proceed.
A huge walker silently attacks Gage. Negan kills the walker and refuses to go further, calling Maggie's plan a death march. Gage and Roy agree with Negan, but Maggie insists Negan needs to stay with them to guide them through D.C. Negan guesses that Maggie just brought him along to send him to his death. Maggie admits that she constantly thinks about killing Negan, and isn't sure how long her self-restraint will last. The group notices that Roy and Gage are missing and most of their supplies and ammo have also gone missing, at the same time they see a horde heading towards them. The group kills some walkers so Negan, Frost, Gabriel, and Alden can find a way into the subway car as the tunnel has collapsed around it. The group quickly climbs on top of the subway car while after they were not able to break open the door, Daryl crawls underneath it to look for Dog. Maggie is the last one to ascend, but a walker grabs her leg and she can’t pull herself up. She cries out to Negan for help, but he abandons her. She loses her grip and falls.
"Acheron: Part II"[]
Most of the group make it inside the subway car while they question where Maggie is, Negan lies and says “she was right behind me”. Daryl breaks open a wall and hears Dog bark he looks around and he sees a dead body shot in the head with a briefcase of money handcuffed to his arm he also finds the remnants of a survivor camp, as well as some graffiti depicting the Fall. He opens a bag with a few snack items and also an 100$ bill with a note on it from Tom and Jesse who lived in the subway tunnel a long while ago with many others as well as their family who had gone missing, There is also a picture in the bag of the two, they had left it when they went off to look for their family as they had been gone for weeks. Dog hears a scream in the distance and runs after it while Daryl tries to stop him. Maggie climbs under the subway car and bangs on the floor in morse code so the other open a hatch and help her in. Maggie tells everyone that Negan lied and left her to die. Everyone questions if they should still keep Negan around when they hear yelling from the other subway car. Gage shows up saying he and Roy got “lost” in the tunnels and he is outrunning a horde. Gage realizes he didn’t close the door and walkers are right on his tail. He begs Maggie to open it to save him, but Maggie says they don’t have enough ammo to kill all the walkers, Alden tries to convince Maggie to open the door and lunges at it, but the group holds him back. Gabriel says “let it go” to Alden and Gage calls Maggie a liar. Gage cries and pulls out two knives and stabs himself in the heart several times killing him, his body is eaten by walkers afterwards. Gage is zombified and the group doesn’t look at him, Alden says he didn’t deserve die in the worst way imaginable, but Maggie says there are “worst ways, a lot worse” referring to deformed women who had been killed by a psychopath they had met when she and Hershel were on their own travels.
Daryl catches up with Dog after killing a few walkers and runs into Roy who had got “lost” with Gage in actuality they had run off with the ammo bag and other supplies which Roy lost as they were being perused by walkers. Roy was heavily injured when he was lost in the tunnels and Gage had died. Back in the subway car Frost and Duncan get one door open but they find the other door is blocked so they would have to take much more time to get it open, on the other door however the walkers had pushed it open and the group would have to fight them off zombified Gage was the first killed. With walkers now coming from both doors of the subway car Negan is given a gun by Maggie to help with the group's efforts. Daryl shoots several walkers and makes it to one door where everyone escapes from, he later shoves a grenade into one walkers mouth killing a large number of walkers in the subway car. The remaining survivors in the mission group exit the subway station through the overgrown Degard East Market Metro Station. The group rests up at this station before they continue on their mission to get more supplies.
Inhabitants[]
Formerly[]
- Tom and Jesse's father
- Tom and Jesse's mother
- Many unnamed people
Deaths[]
- Gage (Alive and Zombified)
- Many unnamed people (Alive and Zombified)
Appearances[]
TV Series[]
Season 11[]
- "Acheron: Part I"
- "Acheron: Part II"
- "A New Deal" (Archive Footage)
Trivia[]
- The subway tunnel appears in the archival footage shown at the beginning of "A New Deal" as Judith narrates past events of the show to the audience before the episode's story begins.