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The Walking Dead: Red Machete is a six-part story featuring the origins of Mandy, the red machete used by Rick Grimes in AMC's The Walking Dead. The machete was used to brutally kill Gareth in Season 5.

The storyline takes place prior to the events of Season 1 and spans until after the events of Season 8.

Plot[]

The series starts all the way back to the beginning, when the red-handled machete was just one item on the shelf of a hardware store as the zombie apocalypse began. A young man pulled the machete off the shelf and used it to defend himself from a walker. Unfortunately for him, he didn't actually know how to kill a walker and ran the blade through his assailant's stomach rather than striking at the monster's head.

The young man died, but the machete ended up with David, taking care of two young girls named Mandy and Alyssa, presumably his daughters. David used the machete to defend himself and the children from walkers and to chop wood while they bunker in their home.

However, when the cabinets eventually ran bare David was forced to lead the girls out into the walker-infested wilds. While making their escape, a walker grabbed Alyssa by the hair and she was lost, eaten before her sister's eyes. The final scene of the episode shows David using the machete to cut Mandy's hair, ensuring that she does not suffer the same fate as her sister.

Webisodes[]

Title Writer(s) Director(s) Original Post Date
1. "Behind Us" Nick Bernardone Avi Youabian October 22, 2017
2. "Sorrowful" Nick Bernardone Avi Youabian November 19, 2017
3. "Made to Suffer" Nick Bernardone Avi Youabian December 10, 2017
4. "What We Become" Nick Bernardone Avi Youabian February 25, 2018
5. "Gone" Nick Bernardone Avi Youabian March 20, 2018
6. "We Find Ourselves" Nick Bernardone Avi Youabian April 9, 2018

Cast[]

This is a list of the Cast in The Walking Dead: Red Machete.

Red Machete
Actor Character Webisode count Status Background
Anais Lilit Mandy 4 Unknown The older sister of Alyssa and the daughter of David.
Jose Rosete David 2 Dead Father of both Mandy and Alyssa.
Sofia Esmaili Alyssa 1 Dead The younger sister of Mandy and the daughter of David.
Michael Wayne Foster Derek 2 Dead He arrives at Mandy's home with three other survivors and takes the red machete.
Jeff Kober Joe 2 Dead Leader of the Claimers. Claims the red machete after killing the walker it's stuck in.
Davi Jay Tony 1 Unknown Member of the Claimers.

Deaths[]

Awards and Nominations[]

Primetime Emmy Awards[]

Year Category Nominee(s) Result
2018 Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Alex Coley Brown, Noam Dromi, Jay Williams, executive producers; Nick Bernardone and Avi Youabian, producers Nominated

Trivia[]

  • Red Machete has the most amount of on-screen deaths out of all webisodes, the second one being Cold Storage and the least being The Oath.
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