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The Walking Dead wouldn’t be the gripping, hair-raising horror it is without its terrifying, flesh-eating Walkers. Over the past 10 seasons, AMC and Fox UK viewers have watched as fan-favourite characters have died at the hands of the reanimated corpses. However, an interaction Rick Grimes (played by Andrew Lincoln) had with one of the dead in the very first scene of the very first episode has left fans scratching their heads.

How did Walkers act differently in TWD pilot? In the pilot episode of The Walking Dead, an unsuspecting Rick Grimes awakens in a hospital. Blissfully unaware of the apocalyptic-style outbreak currently sweeping the country, he had no idea what horror laid ahead. So when he saw a little girl outside of a gas station, it was only instinct he try to talk to her. Wearing his sheriff’s uniform, Rick spotted the blonde child among a pile-up of abandoned cars. READ MORE: The Walking Dead: Why did Sarah Wayne Callies really leave TWD?

The Walking Dead plot hole: How did the Walkers behave in the pilot?

READ MORE The Walking Dead season 10, episode 9 streaming: How to watch online Rick heard her footsteps on the other side of the car he was standing on and laid on the floor to see who it was. As he watched her feet shuffle along the pavement in her slippers, the girl bent over and picked up an abandoned teddy bear. The little girl began to walk off but Rick called after her. Rick said: “Little girl, I’m a policeman, don’t be afraid.”

The Walking Dead plot hole: The Walker picked up a teddy bear

The Walking Dead plot hole: Rick watched the Walker

Little did Rick know the girl was actually a Walker and she turned around with a huge chunk of her face missing and clouded pupils. Rick looked on in horror as the girl clocked on to where he was. The Walker began running towards Rick who was forced to pull out his pistol and shoot her in the head. While the tense and bloody nature of the scene isn’t atypical of The Walking Dead, the Walker’s capabilities are completely different from what fans have been used to. DON'T MISS:

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There are two plot holes from the pilot scene which haven’t gone unnoticed – the fact the girl can run and the picking up of the teddy bear. Throughout all of the subsequent 10 seasons, a Walker is never shown running towards one of the living. Also, the Walkers’ intellectual capabilities are nowhere near high enough to register an object on the ground, let alone to then pick it up. Numerous times in the series Walkers have walked into open holes in the ground, spikes and fires – why would this one have the nous to pick a toy up? The blunder hasn’t gone unnoticed by YouTube viewers who have rewatched the scene online.

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