Them

"Them" is the tenth episode of the fifth season of AMC's The Walking Dead. It is the sixty-first episode of the series overall. It premiered on February 15, 2015. It was written by Heather Bellson and directed by Julius Ramsay.

Plot
Life on the road has left the group beaten and beleaguered. Will they be able to trudge along? Are they even the same people they once were?

Uncredited

 * Charlotte & Clara Ward as Judith Grimes
 * Unknown as Duke

Deaths

 * Duke
 * 3 unnamed dogs

Trivia

 * First appearance of Aaron.
 * First (and last) appearance of Duke.
 * This makes the 25th appearance of Judith
 * As of this episode, Emily Kinney and Chad Coleman have been removed from the opening credits after being killed off in the last two episodes. (However they are re-added in the episode "Forget", as only flashback appearances)
 * The title of the episode, "Them", refers to Daryl's reply of "We ain't them" following Rick's speech at the barn.
 * Andrew Lincoln stated in one of his interviews after the episode has been broadcasted that the line is his favorite line of Rick Grimes. “When I read it, it reminded me of something that happened in my life when I spoke to someone in a fight. It almost had the same speech, so it resonated on a really, really profoundly, deep, familial level. I remember when I read it, I just cried. When I read the script I couldn’t … because I always to tend to read my words out loud and I just couldn’t. I got something caught in my throat when I read this speech. It’s just a very bold episode and I hope we got it right," he told Entertainment Weekly.[2]
 * On the wall of the barn the word "Wolves" can be seen written again, relating to the "Wolves not far" from the previous episode.
 * This is the first episode since "Guts" to feature heavy rain. Lauren Cohan and Seth Gilliam revealed on Talking Dead that the special effects crew had set up equipment to simulate rain during the scene on the highway, where the group discovered Aaron's gift of water, but a natural rainfall spontaneously began while they were shooting the scene, as if on cue.
 * Norman Reedus ate a real worm for his scene where Daryl eats a worm.[3]
 * Several critics compared Aaron's introduction to that of an Other from the ABC television series, Lost.[4]
 * The brown shirt that Rick wears in this episode and the following two episodes could possibly be a reference to Shane, as he wears almost the identical shirt in Season 2. Although this could be a coincidence as it is not proven.
 * When the group is holding the door of the barn against the walkers during the storm, a piece of Hans Zimmer's soundtrack "528491" for the 2010 movie Inception is used as background music.

Comic Parallels

 * Rick's line of, "We are the walking dead", is adapted from Issue 24.
 * Aaron introducing himself in search of the group's leader is adapted from Issue 67.