Rick is dead, and has been a zombie working with other zombies throughout the series. Together, their decaying minds try to piece together a sense of humanity in their no-longer-human lives. In short: What WE see as human characters are actually zombies, and what WE see as zombies are actually human survivors. The groups we follow are all zombies whose minds are trying to hold onto their past human lives. Yes, this is sort of version of the Matrix. Don't blame me; blame the producers for using this cliche.
Does that sound crazy? I'm sure it does, but hear me out. There is a method behind this madness!
The base evidence is this, they entire show is about the characters de-humanizing the zombies. There are often references about them not being human, they are quick to push the fact that they have no memory of their previous lives.
So what helps this theory along? Let's find out! One disclaimer before I start: This is intended to be used with the show. I'm writing completely in my theory, so it will be your job to watch the show and see what the show is actually portraying.
Days Gone By:
In the very beginning of the episode, a little girl picks up a teddy bear. She see's Zombie Rick and wants to give him her teddy bear, because she feels bad. He starts to attack her, and she struggles for her life, but it isn't enough. Zombie Rick eats her.
(Living) Rick Grimes gets shot and dies (well that was quick); he awakens in a morgue. He works his way over to a girl who just fell off her bike, and she broke her leg mostly immobilizing her. Rick doesn't eat her now, because he has no way to justify her death humanely. He, as a zombie, could eat her, but he is unarmed and unwilling to accept that HE is the zombie and that SHE isn't. He leaves to find a chance to "arm himself".
Traveling along, he finds another zombie, Morgan (with his dead son Duane). Morgan and Rick realize that there must be other zombies out there. Morgan explains that humans only hunt at night because the zombies have terrible eyesight. At that moment, a group of humans try to lure the zombies out with a car alarm; it doesn't work. Morgan's wife tries to get into the house. She looks in the eyehole and even tries the door handle, but the Zombie Morgan had securely blocked it off. Morgan helps Rick by arming him and teaching him how to kill humans. Rick helps Morgan by giving him some guns.
Remember that police officer that Rick called immature for wanting to be on the cop shows? It turns out that he survived the zombie apocalypse. They THINK they shot him, when really he was shooting at them, and they just maimed and ate him. Then, Morgan and Rick part ways. Zombie Rick, now armed, is able to justifiably eat the girl because now he has a "weapon". When he gets to the farm, he starts eating the horse, but it runs off. He chases it all the way to Atlanta.
People see this wounded animal and take it away from Zombie Rick. The reason all these people were standing around idly in the streets in the first place was, because Glenn, another zombie, was spotted and everyone was hoping to get a picture. At this point zombies aren't feared as much as they are popularized. When they take the horse from Zombie Rick Instead, they see him and chase after him to get a picture with a real zombie. Zombie Rick then climbs into the tank (the tank was there to help settle massive riots in the city; you know how disasters are). The soldier was so excited to see a zombie up close that he pulls out a camera, and Zombie Rick takes that time to eat him. Glen acknowledges Zombie Rick and offers to help him out of this paparazzi scenario, and the episode ends.
Notes:
What about the power outage, and overturned cars? A very terrible end of the world storm happened. I mean, why would zombies overturn a car? What's the point? No, a terrible storm wiped out the power grid to, at least, Atlanta. This is evident in the thunderstorms that you see when Rick is "driving".
When Rick gets to the farm house witht he dead people, he ignores all of the potential food, supplies and weapons that a farm would obviously have and goes straight for a horse? The only source of living meat? *cough*ZOMBIE*cough*
Everyone tells them that they HAVE to kill the zombies by killing the brain. In real life, there would also be headless zombies so this is obviously incorrect. This is each zombie justifying their thirst for brains. Remember, whenever they are "shooting" someone, or whenever they are "driving/riding" something that is just their brain making a "human" justification for some event that occurs.
At the end, when the camera pans out, you see people smashing the side of the tank. If Rick WAS human and the other people were zombies, then they would have gone for the easier meal (the horse), rather than simply banging wildly on the tank.
If you're not convinced by the end of this episode, that this is a possibility, then you need to stick around for more "Don't Dead Open Inside" posts.
Happy Friday!
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