The Walking Dead Season 5 Episode Spoilers and Preview: The Terminan Will Be Revealed As Cannibals, Rick And The Group Find Ways To Escape From Captivity

By Kara Michelle Oct 11, 2014 12:16 AM EDT

The Walking Dead Season 5 premieres on Sunday, October 12, at the 9 PM time slot on the AMC network. Entitled "No Sanctuary," the first of the sixteen episodes that will be shown during this season was written by Scott Gimple and directed by Greg Nicotero. According to the official synopsis, "the true motives of the Terminans come to light; Rick and the others end up in a situation."

The first few episodes of The Walking Dead Season 5 will take off where the final scene in the finale of Season 4 left. The Terminus folks won't be able to keep Rick Grimes and his gang of fellow survivors held captive inside the train car for much longer. As quipped by Rick during last season's final episode, "They're gonna feel pretty stupid when they find out....they're screwing with the wrong people."Executive producer Gale Ann Hurd told Digital Spy, "We heard Rick make that declaration. Now we're going to find out just how badly the Terminans are going to pay... and I think that's going to be a lot of fun!"

In a talk with Entertainment Weekly, writer and executive producer Robert Kirkman previously revealed, "In our premiere episode of season 5 we're going to give a ton of answers of who the people of Terminus are, what they're doing, why they're doing it, what's going on with them. And by the end of that episode you're going to have a much better understanding of what's going on with them and why they're so important to the show." He also leaked that Rick and the gang will escape. He said, "They definitely get out of that train car. They do not spend the entirety of season 5 in that train car. It is through ingenuity and creativity and somewhat savageness that they are able to make their way out of that train car." But once they get out of the train car and possibly out of Terminus, where will Rick and his people go next? If the events in the comic book will be followed, it may be that they will likely be heading to the Alexandria Safe-Zone, a walled community in Alexandria, Virginia, that they will enter on their way to Washington, D.C.

In a more recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Kirkman was asked if the Terminans are cannibals. He replied: "I'll answer that with two statements: One, wouldn't it be crazy if they didn't turn out to be cannibals, since everything seems to be going that way? And two, all I'll say is this season is following the comic book storyline pretty closely, possibly closer than we ever have before, and there's a very popular, familiar storyline in the comic books that happened immediately following the exodus of the prison and it is entirely possible that we will be touching in some way on that very popular storyline."