Walking Dead: Bounty

"Bounty" is the eleventh episode of season nine of the zombie survival horror television series The Walking Dead, and the 126th episode of the series overall. It was directed by Meera Menon with a script written by Matthew Negrete. It first aired on AMC on Sunday, February 24th, 2019 at 9:00 pm.

Notes & Trivia

 * The Walking Dead was created by writer/executive producer Robert Kirkman and developed for TV by Frank Darabont.


 * "The Walking Dead: Bounty", "WD: Bounty", and "TWD: Bounty" all redirect to this page.


 * This episode is rated TV-MA. It contains strong language and acts of extreme violence.


 * This episode had a viewership of 4.386 million upon its initial broadcast, which is down by 0.152 from the previous episode. It rated 1.73% in the 18-29 viewing demographic.


 * Co-executive producer Denise M. Huth is credited as Denise Huth in this episode.


 * This is the first episode of The Walking Dead directed by Meera Menon.


 * This is the twenty-second episode of The Walking Dead written by Matthew Negrete. It is his second episode from season nine of the series. He previously wrote "What Comes After".


 * Paul Rovia, aka "Jesus", appears in flashback only in this episode.


 * This is the first appearance of William, who is tall black man and a member of The Kingdom.


 * As of this episode, Ezekiel, Jerry, Dianne, and Carol have yet to be informed that Jesus is dead.

Allusions

 * This episode partially adapts material from The Walking Dead #138 by Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment.


 * The title of this episode refers to a line of dialogue spoken by Ezekiel to Carol regarding the potential increase of communal solidarity that they hope to find with the upcoming fair.


 * The song that is playing on the boom box is "It's All Right Now" by recording artist Eddie Harris. The song is also played as part of a thematic battle charge during the scene when the Kingdomers are fighting the walkers in the movie theater.


 * Henry practices his stick-fighting techniques in this episode. He was instructed on how to do this by Morgan Jones back in the season seven episode, "Bury Me Here".


 * When speaking about the fragility of the projector bulb, Jerry pronounces it as "Fra-gee-lee". This is a reference to the 1983 Bob Clark holiday film A Christmas Story, in which a character played by Darren McGavin pronounces a box marked "Fragile" this way.


 * When speaking to Henry, Enid refers to her previous mindset of "just survive somehow", which was the basis (and acronym) for the season six episode, "JSS".


 * The close friend that Enid speaks of is Carl Grimes.