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| “ | You and your people took away our home. That's fair play. Now we're out here like everybody else trying to survive. And in order to do that, we have to hunt. Didn't start that way, eating people. It evolved into that. We evolved. We had to. And now we've devolved, into hunters... I just hope you understand that nothing happening to you now is personal.
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The Hunters[1] are cannibals from Terminus that formed following its destruction introduced in Season 5 of AMC's The Walking Dead. They were based in the compound known as Terminus, until it's destruction caused by Rick's group. However, Gareth, the former leader of Terminus, and five other Terminants survived and formed the group in hopes of getting revenge. They served as one of the two primary antagonistic groups for the first half of Season 5 (along with the Atlanta Police Department).
Post-Apocalypse[]
- Main article: Terminus
Following Terminus' destruction, the surviving Terminants: Gareth, Martin, Theresa, Greg, Mike, and Albert formed a group known as "the Hunters", stationing themselves outside of the Hunter's School, plotting to get revenge on Rick's group.
Season 5[]
"Strangers"[]
The Hunters knock out Bob Stookey after he went outside of St. Sarah's Church. Bob wakes and sees blurry faces and a fire. They are the remaining residents of Terminus. "The good news is, you're not dead yet," Gareth says. They have Bob tied to a pole. Gareth says they didn't want to hurt them, before, but these are things they have to do. "You and your people took away our home, and in order to survive, we have to hunt." During a montage of the group celebrating and eating, Gareth gives a speech about how the Terminants didn't start out eating people or doing the things they've done. One shot shows Gabriel looking at a picture of the church lady, who was a church organist, with him while she was alive.
"We evolved. We had to. And now we've devolved into hunters," Gareth says. "I told you. I said it. Can't go back, Bob." He says he just hopes Bob understands it's not personal, that even though they put them in that situation they would have done this to anybody. Gareth says that at the end of the day no matter how much they hate all this ugly business, a man's gotta eat. Bob is shown to be missing his left leg, amputated about at the knee. He begins panicking out of shock.
Gareth takes a bite of Bob's cooked leg right in front of him. "If it makes you feel any better, you taste much better than we thought you would," Gareth says. The Hunters feast on Bob's leg, now roasting on a spit.
"Four Walls and a Roof"[]
As Gareth continues to calmly speak to Bob, while walkers growl at them from inside the elementary school they are camping outside of, Bob becomes more and more visibly distressed. Gareth admits here that his group had been leaving the marks on the trees as a way to find their way to/from Terminus. Finally, Bob begins chuckling, then breaks into a laugh as Gareth tries to chastise him for not listening. The rest of the group come over, commenting that Bob has "lost it". Bob, however, gleefully pulls his shirt down, revealing a bite wound on his shoulder, and laughing as he explains that he has been bitten and is therefore "tainted meat". As the members of his group react in horror, Gareth angrily kicks Bob into unconsciousness, while explaining that they will be fine - because they "cooked him".
Rick's group rushes out the church to discover Bob lying in the grass with one of his legs missing, and begin carrying him inside as walkers approach. However, the Hunters open fire on them from the trees, and Rick blindly fires off all of his bullets into the trees. As he turns to go back inside, he finds an "A" written in blood on the side of the church, a sign that they were prisoners in there until Gareth decided to kill them.
Under the cover of night, Rick, Michonne, Sasha, Glenn, Maggie, Tara, and Abraham leave the church to go to the elementary school. As they disappear into the woods, the Hunters appear, arriving at the church from a different route, and break in. As they search the church, Gareth asks the group to come out, revealing that he knows that Rick had taken some of their members and most of their guns to the elementary school. When they don't comply, he calls for Father Gabriel saying that if he reveals himself and the group, they will spare him, and even let him leave with Judith. As they search, Judith begins crying and gives away the group's location. Gareth and the Hunters give the survivors one last chance to come out before they break down the door, and, when no one replies, orders the Hunters to force their way in.
Albert and Mike approach the door, but are both shot in the head from behind. The Hunters turn around as Rick appears from the shadows and orders them to drop their weapons. Gareth begins to panic and tries to get Rick to back down by threatening the rest of his group, but Rick unceremoniously shoots off his middle and index fingers as he points at the door. Gareth fall to his knees and tells the rest of the Hunters to do as Rick says. All of them except Martin kneel, who insists they haven't been beaten. Abraham steps out of the shadows and puts his rifle to Martin's head, and orders him to get down, which Martin does. Rick then walks to Gareth, who tries to tell Rick that they used be good people who really did accept newcomers into Terminus until "they" arrived and changed everything, and tries to convince Rick to let them go. Rick explains why it's too dangerous for him to do that, then reminds Gareth of a promise he made to him back in Terminus, before pulling the machete with the red handle from his belt and slashing Gareth to death with it, who screams in agony as Rick, Michonne, Sasha, and Abraham brutally murder Gareth, Theresa, Martin, and Greg respectively.
"What Happened and What's Going On"[]
As Tyreese is slowly dying, he has a flashback to witnessing Rick killing Gareth.
"Forget"[]
Theresa can be seen eating Bob's leg in a flashback sequence when Sasha is having a panic attack after arriving at the Alexandria Safe Zone.
Members[]
Deaths[]
Killed Victims[]
- Numerous counts of zombies
Appearances[]
TV Series[]Season 5[]
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Webisodes[]Red Machete[]
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Trivia[]
- While the groups name is never said in the series itself, Robert Kirkman referred to the group from Terminus as "the Hunters".[2]
References[]
- ↑ Meet The Hunters: The Walking Dead Season 5 on undeadwalking.com
- ↑ ‘The Walking Dead’: Rick Grimes And Negan May Be More Alike Than We Think on uproxx.com
TV Series Groups
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| Major Groups | Rick's Group • Woodbury Army • The Saviors • The Militia • The Scavengers • The Whisperers • The Coalition • The Reapers • Commonwealth Army |
| Minor Groups | Vatos Gang • The Living • Michonne's Group • The Prisoners • Brady's Group • Tyreese's Group • The Governor's Militia • Abraham's Group • The Claimers • Rapist Group • The Hunters • The Wolves • Georgie's Group • Civic Republic Military • Magna's Group • Jocelyn's Group • The Highwaymen • Jen and Wayne's Group • The Nomads • Eugene's Group • The Wardens • Valak's Vipers • Franklin's Group • The Ferals |
Webisode Groups
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| Derek's Group • The Claimers • Rick's Group • The Hunters • The Saviors • Morgan's Group |