"The Key" is the twelfth episode of the eighth season of AMC's The Walking Dead. It is the one-hundred and eleventh episode of the series overall. It premiered on March 18, 2018. It was written by Corey Reed & Channing Powell and directed by Greg Nicotero.
Plot
Hilltop's leadership faces a difficult dilemma after the arrival of unexpected visitors; Rick comes face to face with an adversary.
Synopsis
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Other Cast
Co-Stars
- Elizabeth Ludlow as Arat
- Mike Seal as Gary
- Mandi Christine Kerr as Barbara
- Kim Ormiston as Hilda
- Misty Ormiston as Midge
Uncredited
- Chloe & Sophia Garcia-Frizzi as Judith Grimes
- Scarlett & Sophia as Gracie
Deaths
- None
Trivia
- First (and last) appearance of Georgie.
- First (and last) appearance of Hilda.
- First (and last) appearance of Midge.
- The title refers to Georgie's "key to the future," which is "a book of medieval human achievement so that we may have a future."
- This episode is 68 minutes long, with commercials, according to AMC's schedule.
- It is the ninth extended episode this season and the twenty-seventh overall.
- This episode marks Katelyn Nacon's 25th appearance on the show.
- Rick uses the radio he took off of a dead Savior in "Honor" to see the Saviors coming.
- Negan finds out about Simon killing The Scavengers back in "The Lost and the Plunderers".
- This is the first episode in Season 8 not to feature any deaths aside from several walkers.
- Rick wields Lucille again as he did in "How It's Gotta Be."
- The lighter that Rick uses to set Lucille on fire belonged to Glenn Rhee.
- This episode featured the first full body nude zombie.
Goofs/Errors
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