Seed (The Walking Dead)

"Seed"
The Walking Dead episode
Promotional image of Danai Gurira, who makes her entrance in the television series as the comic book character Michonne.
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 1
Directed by	Ernest Dickerson
Written by	Glen Mazzara
Featured music	"Noisy Sunday" by Patrick Watson
Original air date	October 14, 2012 (2012-10-14)
Guest appearances
IronE Singleton as Theodore "T-Dog" Douglas Emily Kinney as Beth Greene Lew Temple as Axel Theodus Crane as Big Tiny Nick Gomez as Tomas Markice Moore as Andrew Vincent M. Ward as Oscar
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"Seed" is the third season premiere of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead, which aired on AMC in the United States and Canada on October 14, 2012. The episode was written by showrunner Glen Mazzara and directed by Ernest Dickerson.

Set eight months after abandoning Hershel Greene's (Scott Wilson) farmland, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his group of survivors take refuge in the prison complex shown at the end of the previous episode. Meanwhile, Michonne (Danai Gurira) cares for an ailing Andrea (Laurie Holden).

The episode is the first non extended-length premiere of The Walking Dead. It received generally critical acclaim, with many critics praising its return to form in levels of gore, tension and urgency. Many also noted it as an example of showrunner Glen Mazzara's promise for a "higher level of action", as seen in the earlier episodes of the series. The episode also featured the promotion of Danai Gurira to a series regular from featured stand-in.

Upon airing, the episode garnered 10.9 million viewers and broke several records not only for the series, but television history as well.^[1]