"There's a beautiful tone of... regret an longing in that first episode." "That's what it feels like for this characters." "They all need to hold on to one another." "If one brakes, if the chain brakes then there are all at risk." "We're getting this slice of his life of normality." "And then..." "Rick!" "When he wakes up he is tying to work out whether or not he is still in a coma." "If it's some horrendous dream." "We're able to see the zombie apocalypse through Rick Grimes eyes." "Through someone who wakes up to find the world has completely changed." "I don't think he's able to comprehend the enormous in the scale, the vision that he's confronted with." "He's trying to keep it together, trying to keep his grace and his good intentions intact in the zombie apocalypse." "Lori." "Lori!" "When he gets home there's an unrevealing." "He comes apart." "It's just this horrendous epiphany." "It's actually Morgan that saves him." "What's your wound?" "You tell me or I will kill you." "Morgan is wandering this new nightmare world with his ten years old son." "And still trying to raise his son into being a good man." "Sit down, before you fall down." "It's the first human contact Rick has." "He gets fed by these people an it's that kernel of humanity and hope that starts to bring him back to the man he is." "It took my breathe away because it was all about what have been lost to what they were trying to hold on to." "From that point there is a choice that he mades, he says "no"." "As soon as the sheriff badge comes back on and the hat then there is this semblance of structure and order." "Then you see that is a man that does all he can." "From then on." "You're a good man Rick." "I hope you found your wife and son." "Rick's journey is a man's search for his family." "At the beginning of the story he meets the worse side of that search which is what he meets in Morgan really." "This scope is accurate." "The reality of Morgan world is that he is left having to do what in the surface seems like a bad thing for a good reason." "It's a horrible situation for him to be in." "He is a man who has gone through the same things that Rick gone through." "But he is a month further on." "He is a month wiser." "He is a month more prepared." "The way that I see killing the zombies justified is about erradicating that." "And reclaiming what his lost." "For the middle of this madness, the two man try to do the right thing." " Come on." " I'm sorry this happened to you." "Two men yearning for family." "You always express your thoughts?" "Do you share you feeling, that kind of stuff?" "Shane has extreme loyalty to Rick." "To a large extent, I think that Rick's family is Shane's family." "When to him Rick was not gonna make it It was Shane absoluteley top priority to save Lori and Carl." "Nobody goes anywhere alone, you know that." "Filling into Rick shoes was something that... ..naturally he was doing for his friend." "Yes, sir." "What's really complicated for lori is that..." "Rick and Lori marriage was under a lot of stress right before this happened." "Shane has only ever try to protect Lori an Carl." "That boy has been through too much." "He's not losing his mother too, OK?" "You get the sense that he is willing to let the rest of the world burn to the ground as long as the two of them are safe." "This is a need to physically affirm life when everything surrounding us is death and destruction." "We turn this 21st century guy into basically a western icon almost..." "Is iconic, you know." "Man on horseback riding into town." "He's going into Atlanta with good intentions." "He doesn't know the true scale of the epidemic." "It's only when he arrives that he realizes the enormity of the problem." "Then it's absolutely about survival." "In the middle of a sea of inhumanity..." "The spark of the story are the moments of humanity." "Hey, you in the tank..." "Cosy in there?"