Oh shit! That opening was awesome. Looks like Dante's reasoning for killing the older woman was to have an excuse to dig a hole/tunnel. Makes you wonder how long they have been doing this. I love that Beta does everything so brutally, he opened the RV door like GTA.

Daryl sneaking back around the front of the cave is smart. If Alpha leads the horde out of the cave he has an easy way to go get Connie and Magna.

I do wonder about the video game aspects of the cave though. They all fell down small cliffs when they went into the cave, how are the walkers coming back up the same way if the able bodied group couldn't? I hope that is explained in the show otherwise that will be stupid. I already had to suspend belief about how the walkers and whisperers were able to get to the group deep inside the cave. Reminded me of Uncharted. Where Drake is the first person in hundreds of years to solve puzzles in order to get into these caverns only to run into bad guys.

 

I find it hard to believe Beta is able to get into Alexandria like that. Then again... these Whisperers sure are smart and crafty it seems. I guess anything goes at this point. There’s def more than we think we know about these dirty skin-wearing nomads.

 

I'm assuming they will answer how the tunnel was built. Angela seems to be able to connect dots and do what earlier show runners did by using exposition to explain things. Like I am really hoping they explain how Alpha gets the horde out of the cave entrance. If they don't address that and we see the walkers exiting the cave without any explanation as to how they are able to do it when Daryl and company couldn't. That would be FTWD levels of bad writing. Like never explaining why Dante killed the older woman. Now we can see he needed an excuse to dig a hole for the Whisperers to enter Alexandria.

 

Hopefully they're using the existing sewer system as part of the tunnel. Otherwise it would make no sense that Dante could dig a tunnel by himself from inside to far beyond the walls of Alexandria. That would take years.

 

Especially when we have the overhead shot of the trailer and it's a pretty good distance from Alexandria. That would be a huge tunnel.

 

Even if the Whisperers did make use of the existing underground sewage system, it is hard to believe that they could make an entry point into ASZ. I mean, the Alexandrians have been living there for years (8 years?), surely they must have investigated the system, at least the part which is directly underneath the area marked by the boundary wall. Must have something (blockade, booby traps, alarms...whatever).
Maybe in 'peaceful' times, the part of the system directly underneath is not checked/patrolled on a regular basis. But, Alexandrians know they are having a powerful enemy close-by....

BTW, maybe this thread should be moved to Episode 10 section.

 

That's my thought too. It's large enough that Beta is able to comfortably move through it, so that's something that had to be professionally built.

 

I agree that after all these years you'd think they would've addressed the potential of their community being infiltrated this way.

It's not a big deal though to me because it's these sorts of oversights that happen all the time in the real world. You don't recognize it until it actually happens.