The Walking Dead/Out of the Ashes

Out of the Ashes
Season 11, Episode 5
Airdate	September 19, 2021
Written by	LaToya Morgan
Directed by	Greg Nicotero
Stream
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The Walking Dead — Season Eleven

Out of the Ashes is the fifth episode of the eleventh season of The Walking Dead, and the one hundred fifty-eighth episode overall.

Starring: Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon) (credit only), Melissa McBride (Carol Peletier), Lauren Cohan (Maggie Rhee), Christian Serratos (Rosita Espinosa), Josh McDermitt (Eugene Porter), Seth Gilliam (Gabriel Stokes), Ross Marquand (Aaron), Khary Payton (Ezekiel), Cooper Andrews (Jerry), Callan McAuliffe (Alden) (credit only)

and Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Negan)

Also Starring: Eleanor Matsuura (Yumiko Okumura), Nadia Hilker (Magna) (credit only), Cailey Fleming (Judith Grimes), Cassady McClincy (Lydia), Lauren Ridloff (Connie) (credit only), Paola Lázaro (Princess), Michael James Shaw (Mercer), Lynn Collins (Leah Shaw) (credit only), Josh Hamilton (Lance Hornsby), Margot Bingham (Max), Ian Anthony Dale (Tomi), Okea Eme-Akwari (Elijah), Chelle Ramos (Stephanie Vega), Brad Fleischer (Keith), Jesse Boyd (Blond Wolf)

Co-Starring: Anabelle Holloway (Gracie), Antony Azor (RJ), Kien Michael Spiller (Hershel Rhee), Pilot Bunch (Vincent), Matt Mercurio (Charles), Rebecca Ray (Clerk), Ryan Vo (Commonwealth Paper-Pusher), Franco Barberis (Supervisor)

Uncredited: Robert Patrick (Mays (archive footage))

Plot Overview

With Alexandria's walls failing, Aaron, Jerry, Carol, and Lydia return to the remains of Hilltop for supplies and encounter an old enemy.

Eugene's group take in the Commonwealth while Maggie and Negan reach their destination, but disagree on their next step.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• One of Alexandria's walls falls. Hilltop is scavenged for tools.

• It's revealed that some Whisperers are still alive. However, according to the one who speaks, they pose no threat and just trying to survive.

• The Whisperer reveals that he saw Connie escape the cave and where he last saw her.

• Maggie and Negan find the supplies, but are alone. After waiting, they are joined by Elijah and Gabriel. Daryl and Frost are the only ones unaccounted and so they decide to stay and wait.

• Wanting to use the radio to contact Alexandria and not wanting to go through the red tape, Eugene uses Stephanie's help to get access. Rosita tells him that the war with the Whisperers is finished, but the connection breaks up as she begins to apprise him of their current situation.

• Eugene and Stephanie are arrested for using the radio along with Ezekiel and Princess. After being separated from Stephanie and facing banishment, a man named Lance Hornsby intervenes, but Stephanie warns that even if they can be spared banishment, they will still have to be punished.

Characters

• Yumiko reunites with her brother who she learns is working as a baker despite his past as a surgeon.

Referbacks

• Aaron's nightmare not only includes the Whispers and the Saviors, but one of the Wolves, the first threat Alexandria faced back in Season 7.

• As Aaron wakes up, he sees a flash of Mays from "One More".

Trivia

The Show

• The letter Yumiko receives reveals her last name is Okumura.

Behind the Scenes

• The actor who we see playing the Wolf in Aaron's nightmare is played by Jesse Boyd who actually played one of the Wolves during that storyline.