Crossed

"Crossed" is the seventh episode of the fifth season of AMC's The Walking Dead. It is the fifty-eighth episode of the series overall. It premiered on November 23, 2014. It was written by Seth Hoffman and directed by Billy Gierhart.

Plot
Between holding down the church and going on a rescue mission, the group is spread pretty thin. Will this be the breaking point?

Co-Stars

 * Ricky Wayne as Officer O'Donnell
 * Teri Wyble as Amanda Shepherd
 * Christopher Matthew Cook as Officer Licari
 * Marc Gowan as Percy

Uncredited

 * Charlotte & Clara Ward as Judith Grimes
 * Jarod Thompson as Officer Tanaka
 * Sammy Hadid as Officer Alvarado
 * Chris Harrelson as Walker

Deaths

 * None

Trivia

 * First appearance of Bob Lamson.
 * First appearance of Licari.
 * First appearance of Percy.
 * This episode marks Andrew Lincoln's 50th appearance on The Walking Dead.
 * This is the first episode of Season 5 to feature all credited series regulars.
 * Rick echoes himself when he tells Lamson and Shepherd to "put their guns on the floor and kneel." Same as when he told Gareth and the hunters in the episode, "Four Walls and a Roof".
 * The title of the episode, "Crossed", refers to Rosita explaining how she met Abraham, and how they crossed paths.
 * It also refers to Sasha being double-crossed by one of the officers they captured, in addition to the crosses in the rear windows of the cars driven by his fellow officers of Grady Memorial Hospital.
 * It could also refer to how Rick and his group crossed a line with Gabriel by spilling blood in and desecrating his church, as well as the cross necklace Gabriel found on the walker in the forest.
 * Tara calls her group a "band of brothers", referencing the show of the same name that starred Michael Cudlitz.
 * In this episode, the full effects of the firebombing of Atlanta (as shown in a flashback in "Chupacabra") are seen.
 * The melted street walkers in Atlanta were a combination of dummies and half-buried actors.
 * The cast were unaware that some of them were real until they started moving.
 * The walker's head that Daryl ripped off was rigged so that the spine would move afterward. There were controls for the spine inside of the eye sockets that his fingers were in.