We're less than two weeks away from seeing where Rick Grimes and company go after their heart-wrenching visit to Grady Memorial Hospital. The first half of The Walking Dead Season 5 was a tough one for the group, as they faced and evaded herds of walkers while also taking on cannibalistic humans, and their expressions in a batch of new cast portraits reflect their battle-hardened emotional states.

“After the tragic events of the mid-season finale – as well as losing the possibility of a cure in Washington, DC – Rick Grimes’ band of survivors find themselves on the road, surviving day-to-day and trying to hold on to their shredded humanity and dwindling hope. Stripped of security and without a direction for the future, some of the group near their breaking point, some find themselves hardened and cold and some just try to grasp onto what little they have left.

Though they are still breathing, the line between Rick’s group and the dead is starting to blur. Could there be anything at this point that brings them back to life?”

In case you missed it, check out The Walking Dead episode 509 photos:

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    Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.

    When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.