According to Zap2it, the program's loyalists are going to get to see Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the prison group in a whole different light in the return episode.

Last season, the leader had been headed down a dark path following the death of his wife Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies), but started his recovery after seeing how it negatively affecting his increasingly cold son Carl (Chandler Riggs).

Lincoln spoke to the site about the inevitable conflicts that will be arising between the larger group, which took in a bus load of former Woodbury residents.

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"I think that the writers did a very smart thing by putting pressure on the group and dividing the group and bringing paranoia and divisiveness to the group because of something that wasn't human and wasn't a walker. But it's just -- if not more -- terrifying a threat, and it felt very, very real. It felt like something that would absolutely happen in those circumstances," he added.

While Rick is usually one to take out walkers like the rest, the actor explained that his character will be honing in on his farming skills.

"I've put down the gun and picked up the pigs. Strangely I got on very well with those piglets -- for not very long. They didn't last very long. But for the time that we were together, it was very touching. ... There was one particularly emotional pig called Truffle. He was the runt of the litter. Beautiful little pig. Bless him," he said.

AMC's The Walking Dead will make its return to the small screen with 30 Days Without An Accident to TV on Sunday, Oct. 13 at 9/8 p.m. Central Standard Time.

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