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The Walking Dead: Season 4

16 episodes Premiered Oct 13, 2013 Updated Oct 1, 2026

The Walking Dead Season 4 continues the overarching saga across sixteen episodes. The television series explores the ongoing struggles of survivors in a world overrun by the dead as they navigate dangerous situations and face threats both from the walkers and from the living. Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a changed world, leading a group of survivors as they seek safety and try to maintain

Previously on The Walking Dead

Season 4 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma into a world overrun by the dead.
  • ⚡ Rick leads a group of survivors in the overarching saga to find safety.
  • ⚡ Survivors must fight the dead and fear the living.
  • ⚡ The television series is classified as action and adventure, drama, and sci-fi and fantasy.
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Season overview

The Walking Dead Season 4 continues the overarching saga across sixteen episodes. The television series explores the ongoing struggles of survivors in a world overrun by the dead as they navigate dangerous situations and face threats both from the walkers and from the living. Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a changed world, leading a group of survivors as they seek safety and try to maintain their humanity against mounting perils, internal conflicts, and external dangers throughout the course of the season's sixteen episodes.

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Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (13): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S4·E1 Mytharc

30 Days Without an Accident

Oct 13, 2013 · 43 min

Rick and the group are as close to an ideal life as possible at the prison. Will they be able to hold on to humanity in the face of a new evil?

S4·E2 Core

Infected

Oct 20, 2013 · 43 min

As the group faces a brand new enemy, Rick and the others must fight to protect the livelihood they worked so hard to create at the prison.

S4·E3 Core

Isolation

Oct 27, 2013 · 43 min

As one group leaves the prison in search for supplies at a local college, those who stay must deal with recent losses while preserving what remains.

S4·E4 Core

Indifference

Nov 3, 2013 · 43 min

While on a supplies mission to a local college, members of the group run into multiple hurdles. Things at the prison are getting worse.

S4·E5 Core

Internment

Nov 10, 2013 · 43 min

Multiple enemies put pressure on Rick and the group. Could this finally be the breaking point for the survivors and the prison?

S4·E6 Core

Live Bait

Nov 17, 2013 · 43 min

A familiar face returns as each member of the group struggles to find his or her humanity in a world of constant threats.

S4·E7 Core

Dead Weight

Nov 24, 2013 · 43 min

A new and scary chapter is unfolding at a camp outside the prison. Will peace be attainable with the addition of new members?

S4·E8 Core

Too Far Gone

Dec 1, 2013 · 43 min

Just when everything started to calm down at the prison, Rick and his group now face imminent danger and destruction. This time, they might not win.

S4·E9 Core

After

Feb 9, 2014 · 49 min

As Rick deals with old wounds, members of the prison have to come to terms with their new environment and ask themselves if survival alone is enough.

S4·E10 Core

Inmates

Feb 16, 2014 · 43 min

The group encounters many obstacles in their quest to find stability and safety, but sometimes all they have to guide them is hope.

S4·E11 Core

Claimed

Feb 23, 2014 · 43 min

Just when Rick thinks he's going to be able to relax, he's faced with multiple immediate threats. Other members of the group deal with their past.

S4·E12 Core

Still

Mar 2, 2014 · 44 min

Faced with the day-to-day survival of life outside shelter, a simple request by someone in the group leads to a bizarre but enlightening mission.

S4·E13 Core

Alone

Mar 9, 2014 · 44 min

As one group finds what may be an ideal shelter, another group comes to realize that the best protection comes from those around them.

S4·E14 Core

The Grove

Mar 16, 2014 · 47 min

After finding an idyllic place to establish a new shelter, the group starts to question whether it is possible to go back to the way things were.

S4·E15 Mytharc

Us

Mar 23, 2014 · 44 min

However brutal some survivors believe they must be to stay alive, we get to see that faith can sometimes be the strongest survival tool.

S4·E16 Mytharc

A

Mar 30, 2014 · 43 min

Many paths collide. Rick faces sheer brutality. The group struggles to survive.

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