History Recap / TheWalkingDeadS05E01NoSanctuary

* ActionGirl: Carol showed signs of turning into this all throughout the previous two seasons with her noticeable shift in attitude. This episode marks the completion of her ascension to a true fighter.

* PromotedToOpeningCredits: Michael Cudlitz (Abraham), [[AbsenteeActor Emily Kinney (Beth)]], and Chad Coleman (Tyreese) are added to the opening theme. Alanna Masterson (Tara), Josh [=McDermitt=] (Eugene), Christian Serratos (Rosita) and Andrew West (Gareth) are promoted to the title "Also Starring" sequence.

The four men begin carving their way through walkers to get to a nearby boxcar to free a prisoner inside. When they do, he runs out screaming at them that they're NotSoDifferent before he's munched on by a walker. The four continue on, and Rick kills a Terminus member and takes his AK-47 before killing several others and passing out rifles to the rest of the group.

** The leader of the rapists tries telling Glenn and Daryl that they're NotSoDifferent after they free him from a boxcar, only for him to be bitten by a walker moments later.

* NotSoDifferent: Mary tries to justify her group's cannibalistic tendencies to Carol by explaining that their members were decent people who were forced to fend for themselves after their members were assaulted by a group of rapists. Carol doesn't buy it, and leaves Mary to the walkers.

* InfantImmortality:

** Glenn almost got his head beat by a baseball bat ''twice''. In the comic, it is what killed him, though this doesn't really count as SparedByTheAdaptation since they haven't reached the show's Negan arc yet.

* {{Badass}}: Carol [[TookALevelInBadass Takes a Level in Badass]], by [[OneManArmy singlehandedly assaulting Terminus by herself]] (disguised as a walker) to sabotage the compound and rescue Rick and the others.

* DarkerAndEdgier: You'd think it was impossible, but yes, the show got a ''ton'' darker as of this episode.

Inside, the two butchers are questioning whether they should go outside and help. They are surprised by Rick, who cuts through his bonds with a wooden shiv in his shoe and brutally executes both of them. He frees the others and tells them to leave the bodies to turn. Their search for weapons leads thwm to a room full of butchered human bodies. Disgusted, Rick orders his men to not hesitate to kill the Terminus people. They head outside and see carnage - walkers are everywhere, and numerous Terminus residents are being attacked.

In another flashback, Mary gets thrown into a box car while two bandits - one of them the crazy tattoo guy - select another woman to be raped. Gareth tries to comfort Mary, promises they will take back Terminus, and delineates their new ideology: "You're either the butcher, or the cattle."

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Terminus people's herding of victims into boxcars, their confiscation and sorting of personal belongings, and their brutal yet nonchalant and methodic executions are more than a little reminiscent of a [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust concentration camp]].

The fifth season premiere.

Inside, the two butchers are questioning whether they should go outside and help. They are surprised by Rick, who cuts through his bonds with a wooden shiv in his shoe and brutally executes both of them. He frees the others and tells them to leave the bodies to turn. They head outside and see carnage - walkers are everywhere, and numerous Terminus residents are being attacked.

** One of the Terminus members has his face gnawed off by a walker.

* PromotedToOpeningCredits: Michael Cudlitz (Abraham), Alanna Masterson (Tara), Chad Coleman (Tyreese), [[AbsenteeActor Emily Kinney (Beth)]], Josh [=McDermitt=] (Eugene), Christian Serratos (Rosita) and Andrew West (Gareth) are all promoted to the title sequence.

A group of people from Terminus are seen in flashback discussing how they only wanted to do right, while a woman screams offscreen. Alex, who got killed in the Season 4 finale, laments to Gareth and asks what have they become...

Mary asks Carol to kill her, but the latter instead [[{{Kneecapping}} kneecaps]] her and leaves her to a horde of walkers.

* {{Badass}}: Carol TakesALevelInBadass, by [[OneManArmy singlehandedly assaulting Terminus by herself]] (disguised as a walker) to sabotage the compound and rescue Rick and the others.

** It's also [[ImpliedTrope implied]] that the people of Terminus had previously averted this trope. When Carol was looking at the collection of things that had been taken from people who had previously arrived at Terminus, several stuffed animals are seen. But there are no children shown in Terminus. Plus Martin states he wants Carl's hat after he's been bled out.

** Glenn almost got his head beat by a baseball bat ''twice''. In the comic, it is what killed him, though this doesn't really count as SparedByAdaptation since they haven't reached the show's Negan arc yet.