Caution: Huge spoilers for Walking Dead: World Beyond Finale

The Walking Dead: World Beyond’s post-credits sequence completely changes AMC’s zombie apocalypse forever, revealing vital information about the virus, the evolution of the undead, and where the franchise is headed over the next decade: all the details are explained here. Although the series has the unenviable honour of being the least enduring (and, to be honest, least watchable) of the three main Walking Dead TV shows, it has added generously to Robert Kirkman’s original mythology.

Following Rick’s helicopter departure in the main show, Walking Dead: World Beyond has formally introduced the CRM (Civic Republic Military) as the most powerful group currently active on US soil. The people in black have big plans for the rest of the world, and their scientists are making progress in developing a fungus-based solution to the outbreak. The CRM also completely lacks moral boundaries, and the season 2 finale finds Iris and Hope Bennett leading a small resistance that thwarts Jadis’ plan to bomb Portland with Project V.

However, the underwhelming headline coming out of Walking Dead: World Beyond is the post-credits sequence at the end, a scene wholly removed from the spin-off’s main narrative. Set in an abandoned French biomedical lab, a scientist and a survivor share a conversation. Their seismic exchange reveals the origin of the zombie outbreak, proves that the undead has evolved, and paves the way for the future of The Walking Dead.

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