Walking dead why are there walkers in the barn

Hershel sets a deadline. All secrets are out in the open. Glenn stands up for himself and Shane takes charge. Everyone sits at the camp eating breakfast.

Glenn looks over at the house, where Maggie stands shaking her head, then looking at Dale who nods. Glenn reveals to the survivors that Hershel's barn is full of walkers.

The group immediately goes to investigate with Shane taking the lead. They discuss the situation and Shane insists that they leave for Fort Benning. Carol says her daughter is still out there, and Shane tells her they need to consider the possibility that Sophia is dead. Daryl insists he's close to finding her but this doesn't appease Shane. Rick says he's going to talk to Hershel about the barn and staying when Dale reveals that Hershel sees the walkers as sick people, and with good reason.

This only makes Shane mad at Dale for not telling them sooner, but Dale thought they would be fine. The walkers in the barn start rocking the barn doors. The survivors know they will have to deal with this issue soon. Shane stands guard at the barn, testing the locks.

Glenn goes to speak with Maggie, but she rebuffs him by smashing an egg in his hat. Carl and Lori discuss Sophia. Carl says that he doesn't want to leave the farm until they find Sophia and even after that.

Carol pursues Daryl into the stables and tells him not to go after Sophia because of his wounds and because she wouldn't be able to stand losing him too. Daryl, angered by this, storms out of the stable. At the RV , Dale loans Glenn his hat. Inside Andrea is arming herself to go search for Sophia with Rick. Dale tries to warn Andrea about Shane but she doesn't agree with him.

After Andrea leaves, Dale asks Glenn to get some water. Dale gathers up all of the guns. As Hershel reads the Bible over lunch, Rick goes to him to discuss remaining at the farm again and to tell him that they know about the walkers in the barn.

Rick just wants to talk, but Hershel demands that they leave before the end of the week and Rick confronts him about the reality that they'll face. He tells Hershel — who only saw the apocalypse via the news — about Hannah and asks Hershel to let them stay because his farm is their only safe haven. In a final attempt he tells Hershel that the farm is special and that he needs to stay there because his wife is pregnant. As I said, the herd attacking the farm was pure bad luck. And the fact that no herds had attacked it before that was pure good luck.

There is no "herd mentality", because there is no "mentality" of any kind - zombies are too stupid for that - but there is something you might call a "herd dynamic". They aren't thinking, really, just reacting, and they don't enjoy each other's company or make decisions. They probably don't even notice other zombies at all in other situations note how they walk into each other when there is a big group in one spot not going anywhere. But when one zombie sees another walking in a specific direction, sometimes he starts following; not because he's looking to make friends, but because he assumes there might be food ahead.

Once a group or a herd forms and is moving along, unless they hear or see prey, each member of the herd keeps walking because the others are walking, so each assumes the others are chasing dinner. Part of the subtext of your question relates to the intelligence of zombies; you seem to be dangerously close to overestimating what the zombie brain is capable of.

They are stupider than the stupidest person who ever lived. They don't think - they are single-minded if it even makes sense to talk about zombies having "minds" of any kind , and they can only sense prey, chase it, grab it, bite it, and eat it.

In fact, zombies are so single-minded that even when they are in the middle of eating someone they killed 5 minutes earlier, if another person walks by, they will abandon their meal and chase after the new prey. Since they are dead, they can't digest what they ear, and eating doesn't benefit them in any way. A zombie is basically a vehicle the virus uses to infect new hosts. It makes the zombie feel constant hunger, which makes the zombie bite people, which spreads the virus to the bitten person, and so on.

So it is in the virus' best interests to make the zombie host bite people, but NOT let them eat the entire body. The virus only benefits when the bitten person is left more or less intact, so they can turn and begin biting people as well, thereby spreading the virus to new hosts.

When a zombie bites someone, and the bitten person is completely eaten, the virus doesn't benefit at all. I don't even like using the word "assume" to describe what is going on in zombies' heads, because they're too stupid to even assume anything.

They just feel hungry all the time and automatically respond to anything that might get them closer to food. To show just how stupid they are , imagine a canyon a mile deep and 50 feet across. You are on one side, and a herd of 1, zombies is on the other One of the zombies notices you, and walks towards you. He falls into the canyon and is smashed to bits at the bottom.

This will keep going on until there are no more zombies left. Even zombie 1,, who just saw others try to get to you and fail miserably, will learn nothing from the gruesome fates of the who went before him. He won't try anything different, or realize he can't reach you, or lose interest - he will march right off the edge of the cliff and fall to his final, permanent death, just like all the others.

They can't learn. They can't think. They can't adapt. They can't plan. They can't make decisions. They can't turn doorknobs or open windows. They can't climb. Even stairs are difficult for them to navigate - they can crawl up slowly or tumble down quickly, but they are so stupid that even the simple act of lifting a foot, placing it on a step, pulling themselves up, and repeating the process is too much for them to handle.

They can only stand, sit, lay, crawl, stumble, grab, claw, pull, bite, chew, and swallow; if they have intact eyes, ears, and noses, they can see, hear, and smell. But they are blind, deaf, and Note: In the first two episodes of season 1 we saw zombies do three things that infuriated zombie fanatics like myself around the world - Morgan's zombified wife turning a door knob, a zombified child picking up a teddy bear, and one of the zombies in the herd outside the department store using a rock to break a glass door.

We zombie freaks take these things very seriously. I'll stop now, lest I turn this into a rant. The creek or whatever was surrounding the farm trapped some of the Walkers in the thick deep mud too.

I think it was because Hershel had walkers in his barn. And after Shane let them out they would find them around the farm and In the episode where Shane is going to get killed right after Shane got shot there was a camera moment where the walkers where walking in one direction and heard the gun shot and then went to see what the noise was.

I also believe it was that is why there where walkers in the barn. The walkers were in the barn because Hershel kept them there. One classic storyline that has been under the microscope on social media is the death of Sophia, played by Madison Lintz.

It later transpired that the barn on the premises was packed full of walkers, who the farmers had been herding up and collecting in case they one day found a cure. Naturally Rick was furious that the dangerous creatures were being kept so close to his people and wasted no time unlocking the barn and gunning them down. However, after taking at the bulk of the zombies the group were devastated to see an undead Sophia stroll out, confirming their worst fears that she'd been bitten and had turned.

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