The Walking Dead: Did Merle Have a ‘Hand’ in the Camp Attack?

by Roco on November 26, 2010 · 4 comments

More crazy goings-on in the latest episode of The Walking Dead beg the question: Did Merle Dixon have a hand in the camp attack?

We offer our considerations below the jump.

For: He has reason to loathe the other survivors right now – even if that is badly misplaced. nevertheless, he may feel that they abandoned him, left him out on the roof to drown in a puddle of his own racism, or get eaten by the zombie walkers. Having escaped, handless, and presumably with the van, he had both the means and motivation to head back to ‘Camp Shane‘ ‘Camp Grimes’ and possibly alert the walkers to the area.

Against: He would be in far too much pain to waste his time getting revenge. What’s more, why would he go back to the camp? Clearly he’s not a people person! Plus, he wouldn’t alert the zombies to the camp because it would put his brother’s chances of surviving in jeopardy.

VERDICT: For drama Yes, for logic, No.

Those are some of our considerations on this topic, feel free to vote your opinion:

Did Merle Have a Hand in the Camp Attack?

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buck November 29, 2010 at 12:25 AM

Of course he had a hand in it. His brother brought it back from Atlanta, right?

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Luke Fluder September 29, 2011 at 12:52 AM

I guarantee it was all that evil scum-bag’s fault. I mean seriously it’s kind of obvious, that’s why the freaking van was missing from the train tracks: he filled it with walkers, went to the camp, dropped them off so he could get his cowardly revenge on the people who went out of their way to save his worthless excuse of a life by having good people like Amy eaten alive, and then he left to become governor. He is the antagonist. He needs to be put down. He needs to die. Someone needs to step up and kill this wretch. This is why Rick should’ve have blown Merle’s brains all over the roof the first time Merle almost killed T-Dog; the only reason Merle didn’t kill T-Dog is because he wanted to get into Andrea’s pants without too much force.

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Matt October 16, 2011 at 6:59 PM

There was no way he put zombies in the back, no barrier between it and the cab

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Harry March 5, 2012 at 12:31 AM

I’m not entirely sure on this but I think it very well might have been Merle’s fault. He lost his hand and cauterized it. He’d be in weak shape, although I think that he could’ve just opened the cargo area in the truck allowing walkers to get in it. If there wasn’t a barrier he could’ve gathered supplies and made one, it seems like he had plenty of time. The Walker attack happened just shortly after the vehicle was taken. When the walkers showed up there were a bunch of them, not just one or two, its hard to believe that all of those walkers would just all conveniently travel the same way up the mountain in a group. I bet Merle gathered them and then dropped them all off near the camp and then just drove off.

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