The Walking Dead Season 5 Mid-Season Premiere (2015)

“The Walking Dead,” AMC’s much-hyped horror series, is set to return to TV screens on Sunday, when its Season 5 continues with Episode 9, titled “What Happened and What’s Going On.”

Fans have been waiting since Nov. 30 to find out how the storylines of Rick and Carl Grimes, Glenn Rhee and the remaining characters will develop. So who could blame them if they were itching for a bit of a preview.

Beth’s gone, Rick and company are devastated, and they’re without even the shelter and fragile stability of the prison or Father Gabriel’s church. And now, they must head out on the road again, in search of a new home, a new purpose, and new people who might offer them more help than potential harm. That’s where we pick up with The Walking Dead in Feb. 8’s midseason premiere.

In “Coda,” the last “The Walking Dead” episode to air before the winter break, viewers witnessed Rick and his comrades reunited, but in the process, Dawn Lerner shot and killed Beth Greene. “What Happened and What’s Going On” opens as the group copes with that loss. The zombie apocalypse survivors will also look toward finding a new place to call home for their growing numbers.

“[They] find themselves on the road, surviving day-to-day and trying to hold on to their shredded humanity and dwindling hope,” Comingsoon revealed. “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.”

Hungry for the rest of “The Walking Dead” season five? Then slake your bloodthirst ahead of Sunday’s mid-season premiere by watching the first two minutes.

The series will likely continue to dominate in the ratings. In the first half of the season, whenThe Walking Dead was up against Sunday Night Football on NBC, TWD drew higher ratings in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic for five of its eight episodes. To repeat: The Walking Deadtopped NFL football, in the most-coveted demographic, for more than half its episodes last fall, a feat no other cable series has ever accomplished.

The Walking Dead returns Sunday, Feb. 8 at 9 p.m. on AMC.