There’s little over a month until The Walking Dead returns to FOX for its fifth season on Monday 13 October, at 9pm just 24 hours after the US broadcast. If you weren’t already excited enough here are two UK exclusive images featuring a re-united Daryl and Carol, and a machine gun-wielding Rick who appears to be in a spot of undead-related trouble. Do these images mean that Rick and the gang make it out of that grisly shipping container intact? Or could they be a cruel piece of misdirection? We’ll know soon enough when The Walking Dead returns.

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