SPOILER ALERT: Read on only if you have watched Sundays episode ofThe Walking Dead, Swear.
Where the hell are Tara and Heath?
But she made a friend/ally in Cindy, who helped her escape.
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That was the good news for Tara.
We spoke to Alanna Masterson to get her take on Taras big episode.
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But just the timing of it and having my daughter, I had to miss the finale.
Like, where did they go?
So did you say your goodbyes to Steven and Michael when you left last year?
No, because I was in Georgia when they shot episode 1, and I went every night.
So I got to see them up until their last scenes, which was really nice.
This script is written by David Leslie Johnson, who isnt one of our staff writers.
So the new people really stepped up and really did a great job.
What was the process like of getting to know all these new people?
Luckily, I make friends pretty easily.
Im very inclusive and very warm and open because that was how I was treated when I arrived.
Everyone was very warm and very open to me.
I had to show them the ropes a little bit and also show them how we work.
I think they really did an awesome job.
They feel like the show, and they just fit right in.
How cold was that water in that scene at the beginning where you have washed up on shore?
The water was actually really nice.
When you watch the episode, you see the little girl, Mimi, kind of slip.
It was so slippery.
The camera crew couldnt even get out there.
We got to drive six hours and go to the beach and shoot all day.
All the crew had their shoes off.
It was actually really fun.
But yeah, the water wasnt too bad.
It was just being in sandy, wet clothes all day that kind of sucked.
What does she see in these people and the way they are living and hiding in the woods?
Because Tara doesnt know that theres something more [with the Saviors] .
She thinks they got rid of them.
This isnt about you and your people in this little Oceanside.
This is a world that we have to live together in, and with zombies as well.
I dont think she just means the Saviors.
And I love that Taras kind of sussing them out.
She tells them a fake story because she wants to see what bang out of people they are.
Shes also a very good person, and shes a very honest person.
She just ended up there, and it wasnt because she was searching for them.
But she hesitates before she swears to Cindy that she will not tell their group about them.
What is that hesitation all about?
I think that she genuinely doesnt want to tell the group about Oceanside.
I think that she wants to keep her agreement, and she wants to honor Cindy.
But she also knows that there may come a time when they are needed.
But I think genuinely in her heart, she doesnt want to give it up.
Yeah, for sure.
She doesnt know that the Saviors came and took all of the guns.
Youll see throughout the season what making that promise does to her.
I may never look at a beach the same again.
They were so amazing.
You know, they were buried in the sand buried in the sand breathing out of straws.
So they got in take after take after take and didnt give up.
There was a girl walker who flew over with me.
She was so sweet and amazing.
I felt really proud of myself as an actor, but also as a new mom.
You have that scene at the end where Tara walks up to the gates of Alexandria.
And shes so excited to get back.
Thats why she pulls the sunglasses off, because she just cant believe it and cant understand.
What will Denises death do to Tara?
I really believe that Denise wouldve said, Do the right thing.
So I think that shes channeling Denise and even Glenn, really.
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