Walking Dead Repeats Aaron's Introduction To Rick Grimes
Warning: Spoilers for The Walking Dead season 11, episode 13
The Walking Dead season 11 just repeated Aaron’s introduction to Rick’s group. Several years ago, it was Ross Marquand’s Aaron who set up the main characters joining the Alexandria community. Back then, finding and recruiting new people was Aaron’s main responsibility to Alexandria.
Aaron has since found himself fulfilling a similar role at the Commonwealth. In The Walking Dead season 11, episode 13, titled “Warlords”, Aaron reached out to Gabriel for help with making contact with a new religious community holed up in an apartment complex. Given Aaron’s history with scouting out new groups for Alexandria and his work with NGO, it made sense that the Commonwealth would give him this kind of job. But unfortunately, Aaron’s diplomatic approach didn’t make a difference this time around. Not only did their group leader turn out to be uncooperative, but the Commonwealth representative that accompanied them actually had no interest in helping these people or recruiting them. Aaron and Gabriel were both pawns in a clever scheme cooked up by Lace Hornsby to recover some lost weapons.
Related: Gabriel's Walking Dead Sermon Sets Up A Commonwealth Rebellion
Interestingly, Aaron’s role in the episode featured a repeat of his season 5 debut. When he first crossed paths with Maggie and Sasha, he said “my name is Aaron”, which is exactly how he introduced himself to the people at the complex when he and the others were waiting to be allowed inside. When trying to sell their leader on the Commonwealth, Aaron employed the same tactic he used on Rick’s group. He had Rick look through some photographs of Alexandria. In “Warlords”, he handed a cell phone full of pictures of the
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