Instead of showing Yumiko, the episode only featured Matsuura's voice, recorded remotely. Immediately, the door slides open, revealing Eugene, Ezekiel, and Yumiko lined up outside with hoods on their heads, guarded by soldiers a hood is thrown over Princess' head.Įleanor Matsuura was absent in the episode due to COVID-19 safety concerns only her voice is used for this episode.Įleanor Matsuura, who portrays Yumiko, was not present for the filming of the episode since she was unable to travel, so a body double (Courtney Chen) was used for the physical scenes Yumiko is in. There, Princess frees the beaten soldier and answers his questions in exchange for seeing her friends the soldier thanks her and knocks on the door and yells to his squad outside. She then escapes from her boxcar and is faced with another hallucination of Ezekiel, who tries to convince her to flee and leave the others behind she refuses and returns to her boxcar. Princess interrogates the soldier with Ezekiel eventually attacking and beating him, before Princess realizes that she was hallucinating Ezekiel the entire time, and she is beating the still fettered soldier. Soon afterward, a soldier (Cameron Roberts) enters the boxcar with a tray of food, but is ambushed by Ezekiel, who is able to knock the troop unconscious and then handcuffs him. Suddenly, Ezekiel opens the hatch in the roof and jumps down the two argue over what to do next. Princess later wakes up in her boxcar and sneaks out to see Eugene again, only to find that he is gone she returns to her boxcar and panics. However, Princess refuses to cooperate, aggressively demanding to see Yumiko the soldier slaps her and knocks her to the ground. Once she is checked for bite marks by an examining trooper (Erik Bello), Princess is brought into another room to be interrogated by another trooper (Jessejames Locorriere) about her group.
Later, a soldier summons her to come with him. The next day, Princess discovers an exit to Eugene's boxcar, but he dismisses her and tells her to return to her boxcar so they can appear worthy of the community's time by following their orders Princess obeys. To keep Yumiko awake, Princess tells her about her childhood traumas, while realizing Yumiko is suffering from head trauma, just before soldiers arrive and take Yumiko away. While in captivity, Princess tries to break the wooden walls separating her and Yumiko, but gets a splinter in her finger, triggering her PTSD. As she struggles against her captors, Princess watches as Yumiko is hit hard on the head by a soldier with a rifle the group is separated from each other and imprisoned in boxcars. The episode received generally mixed reviews from critics.Įugene, Ezekiel, Yumiko, and Princess are surrounded by several armored soldiers. Trapped inside a boxcar and claustrophobic with mounting anxiety, Princess struggles with memories of her traumatic past and attempts to escape. In the episode, Eugene ( Josh McDermitt), Ezekiel ( Khary Payton), Yumiko ( Eleanor Matsuura), and Princess ( Paola Lázaro) are captured and separated by the mysterious troopers that surrounded them at the rail yard in " A Certain Doom". "Splinter" was released on the streaming platform AMC+ on March 19, 2021, and aired on television on AMC two days later, on March 21, 2021. The 151st episode overall, the episode was directed by Laura Belsey, and written by Julia Ruchman and Vivian Tse.
The walking dead princess series#
" Splinter" is the twentieth episode of the tenth season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead. Jessejames Locorriere as Interrogation Trooper.
Paola Lázaro as Juanita "Princess" Sanchez.
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