The Walking Dead: Red Machete

Red Machete
Distributor	AMC
Based On	AMC's The Walking Dead
Episodes	"Behind Us" "Sorrowful" "Made to Suffer" "What We Become" "Gone" "We Find Ourselves"
Original Run	Oct 22, 2017 to Apr 9, 2018
Preceded By	"Passage"
Succeeded By	"The Althea Tapes"

The Walking Dead: Red Machete is a six-part story featuring the origins of Mandy, the red machete used by Rick Grimes in AMC's The Walking Dead. The machete was used to brutally kill Gareth in Season 5.

The storyline takes place prior to the events of Season 1 and spans until after the events of Season 8.

Plot

The series starts all the way back to the beginning, when the red-handled machete was just one item on the shelf of a hardware store as the zombie apocalypse began. A young man pulled the machete off the shelf and used it to defend himself from a walker. Unfortunately for him, he didn't actually know how to kill a walker and ran the blade through his assailant's stomach rather than striking at the monster's head.

The young man died, but the machete ended up with David, taking care of two young girls named Mandy and Alyssa, presumably his daughters. David used the machete to defend himself and the children from walkers and to chop wood while they bunker in their home.

However, when the cabinets eventually ran bare David was forced to lead the girls out into the walker-infested wilds. While making their escape, a walker grabbed Alyssa by the hair and she was lost, eaten before her sister's eyes. The final scene of the episode shows David using the machete to cut Mandy's hair, ensuring that she does not suffer the same fate as her sister.

Webisodes

	Title	Writer(s)	Director(s)	Original Post Date
1.	"Behind Us"	Nick Bernardone	Avi Youabian	October 22, 2017
2.	"Sorrowful"	Nick Bernardone	Avi Youabian	November 19, 2017
3.	"Made to Suffer"	Nick Bernardone	Avi Youabian	December 10, 2017
4.	"What We Become"	Nick Bernardone	Avi Youabian	February 25, 2018
5.	"Gone"	Nick Bernardone	Avi Youabian	March 20, 2018
6.	"We Find Ourselves"	Nick Bernardone	Avi Youabian	April 9, 2018

Cast

This is a list of the Cast in The Walking Dead: Red Machete.

Red Machete
Actor	Character	Webisode count	Status	Background
Anais Lilit	Mandy	4	Unknown	The older sister of Alyssa and the daughter of David.
Jose Rosete	David	2	Dead	Father of both Mandy and Alyssa.
Sofia Esmaili	Alyssa	1	Dead	The younger sister of Mandy and the daughter of David.
Michael Wayne Foster	Derek	2	Dead	He arrives at Mandy's home with three other survivors and takes the red machete.
Jeff Kober	Joe	2	Dead	Leader of the Claimers. Claims the red machete after killing the walker it's stuck in.
Davi Jay	Tony	1	Unknown	Member of the Claimers.

Deaths

• Young Man
• Alyssa
• David (Off-Screen)
• Derek
• Thief 1 (Off-Screen)
• Thief 2 (Off-Screen)
• Jerel (Alive)
• 1 unnamed man

Awards and Nominations

Primetime Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Nominee(s)	Result
2018	Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series	Alex Coley Brown, Noam Dromi, Jay Williams, executive producers; Nick Bernardone and Avi Youabian, producers	Nominated

Trivia

• Red Machete has the most amount of on-screen deaths out of all webisodes, the second one being Cold Storage and the least being The Oath.