Hush: The Tragedy at Edison's Explored | The Walking Dead Universe Lore

Are you sure the word "hush" on the wall in the room wasn't just drawn on there by red crayon? It sure looks like it to me!

My theory is that, she was with her husband/partner and took refuge in the boutique, maybe she was the owner or a employee because the front door wasn't temper with and had the lock so maybe she had the keys of the business. Maybe she and her partner thought it was going to be a good place to lay low and figure out what to do next but one day while her partner went outside probably to look for supplies, walkers came and she quickly went inside where her child and took him to hide in the back room but the child started crying. The partner could have arrived and saw the walkers at the door and open fire at them (you can see holes at the back of their heads) but maybe there where too many or ran out bullets and ran away leaving his wife and child behind.
I don't think the mother was capable to use a gun or a blunt weapon due to her cast not giving her enough balance. Not knowing what happened outside and the moaning of the walkers continue, the mother probably assumed the worst and the stress of the situation grew more as her child continue crying she got into a psychotic episode and took drastic measures. Probably she attempted to end herself or die of starvation afterwards.

Thats my theory tho and either way thats a nasty and sad way to leave.

Enviromental storytelling is fuckin great, i love it when playing dead space and actively seek those stories

Just sayin, HUSH is written in crayon lol

Looks more like crayon than blood. Blood turns black and flakes off when dried for long time

One problem with this theory is that walkers don't have much of an appetite for the dead. Likely she was bit and started going crazy with the fever. Likely, the mom died first from the bite and then consumed the toddler.

I kind of think she was infected from the fight at the front of the building then while washing her child in the sink she could have gone into a frenzy. Although judging by the age of the child I don't know if she would still do this.

That is truly a most terrible, sad, tragic yet brilliant piece of storytelling. The writers sure knew how to deduce in detail the big and little things that would happen to society and individual people with this unholy outbreak.

Reminds me of a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in 28 days later, a reflection in a car window as they're fleeing shows Cillian Murphy looking at an orderly stack of bodies next to an abandoned bulldozer at a mass grave. No dialogue, just a grizzly image that gives a glimpse of what was going on up to the apocalypse

I think she killed her toddler because he wouldn't hush (accident or not) and his crying was attracting more walkers.

One of my favorite games of all time is Left 4 Dead, and one of my favorite things about the game is the very subtle world building that’s is seen in the levels’ safe rooms and generally throughout each level. You’ll constantly see writing scribbled along the walls you pass by. A lot of the writings are funny and entertaining, but there are many that are also serious, and this really reminds me of something I’d see in a Left 4 Dead campaign. When reading what’s written in the safe room walls or in a building in passing through I imagine other characters and what they were going through as the apocalypse first started. Seeing writings from people discussing evacuating the cities and becoming more skeptical about the military’s true intentions and stuff like that really helped the world building. I can’t really remember what it was specifically but I’m pretty sure there was at least one case in one of the games where there was writing on one of the safe room walls discussing something and later on in the campaign you come across the remains of what was most likely the person responsible for the writing. You’ll also see people scribbling messages to their loved ones telling them where to meet them and stuff like that. I’ve always loved those little details that helped make the world seem like it was really falling apart. Even the funny jokes and stories written on the safe room walls added so much immersion. I feel like if there was a chapter in a L4D campaign that had a set price like this it would fit so incredibly well, and its stuff like this that makes me love zombie media so much.

She ate baby

Theres a comment on here talking about how the hush hush hush scratched onto the walls (which could have been done with childrens crayons) could have happened AFTER the childs death. I pretty much agree with youe theory but i made another i think could be interesting. Its possible that the mother realizing the child would not keep quiet and the walkers would not go away she could either hunker down and die with her child helpless or she could try and fight to make it out for the both of them. This is why we see the dead walkers. Maybe she opens the door to kill a few but there is more than she realizes or thought she could handle and she gets bit so she retreats back inside. Knowing she will turn and knowing her son cannot make it without her she tries to kill him in the least painful way she can think of (drowning is actually relatively peaceful and painless once the initial panic goes away) i would have said she would try to do this discreetly by telling him she was just giving him a bath but considering the shoe i doubt he didnt have his clothes on. It could have been also that while her son was struggling against her she kept telling him hush to try and calm him and herself down. Once he was dead she would have maybe lasted a couple days or maybe not. Either way delirious with fever from the bite and mad with grief and terror about what she had done to her child she writes hush on the wall as she cant stop thinking about it (or still be partially mad from her child always crying and always trying to hush him) fevers can also cause hallucinations so maybe she still heard her dead child crying and eventually she succumbs the bite and becomes a walker. Like i said i still think your theory and the one i actually believe besides a few minor changes is what most likely happened but its nice to think about the woman not going mad and killing her child but killing her child out of mercy and hopelessness

Do you think she put the child down or accidentally did trying to keep them quiet? Then the child would reanimate a walker and that's when she completely lost the plot. Then realizing that everyone comes back regardless is his they died. Then she Ended herself. 😭

What if she drowned her toddler they turned bit the mother then the mother killed there kid and sat in the corner until she turned ?

She couldn’t have just drowned him… he would have turned…

Man, this just makes me think of M.A.S.H and the 'chicken' episode. chills.

Stories about the undead are always more horrific when children are involved, for example in dead rising a survivor named Leah can be found crying, she theme tells the protagonist that her baby was eaten infront of her by the undead and how she’s never heard her little girl cry like that before..

So her baby likely turned right? Underwater? I’d assume so but it doesn’t seem so. This whole thing is so horrific.

Yo they shouldn't show this shit on TV tbh

Either way, the child was eaten. Maybe she didn't know that you turn without being bitten

Its a small thing but the "Hush" were definitely written in crayon and not blood, since she was collecting stuff for her kid it would also make perfect sense for her to have a box of crayons laying around

Why didnt her kid turn though? Its the only thing I can't figure out.

If the world ends I'd totally raid all the drugstores I know first and steal all of the tasty drugs; I'd seek drugs before water, food or supplies; they'd be my number one concern.

I’ll always remember the moment when they just leave Atlanta and T-Dog is scavenging inside cars. He found a kid’s car seat that was covered in blood. No body, but you can only imagine what happened for it to get like that

I always thought that the mother might’ve ate her child instead

The fact that you can watch the walking dead again and again and still find nuggets of the terror of that world setting is just mind blowing. it's like watching a Del Toro film. the director's commentary and world building as actually sometimes better than the movie itself.

I think the mother lost it and was so hungry she killed the child to eat and later was more aware of what she did she then possibly took her own life.with the walkers outside and no signs of food or ways to leave to get it she would have had to eat same with the screaming toddler.

I think she got bit while clearing out the walkers and for the child not to be eaten up by its own mother she drowned it and Theo turned. And she is sitting down because of ber broken leg wich has gone worse trying to stay alive

I feel as though your description is very in depth compared to mine as mine was that while the child was very noisy the mother had not gone insane till she had gotten bit then while trying to figure out a way to keep the child quiet and alive once she had died she had gone crazy and scratched "hush" into the wall and not wanting to consume her child once dead, decided that the better fate would be to drown the child and lay wait to her own demise.

those are crayons on the wall
especially if that walker had a child when still alive

Traveling in the zombie apocalypse is risky enough, Traveling with a baby siren is just downright suicidal.

Can you do one about the tunnel thag daryl was in. In season 11

What about that mansion Connie and Vergil went to in season 10 with those animalistic people

I was thinking about the trunk walker that Maggie came across in season 5 episode 10. I would love to her back story. The scene was just so saddening itself.

Scratched? That's obviously written in crayon

The bestzombie apocolypse game for environmental story telling is Dead State. It's a sand box, so you can decide what area to explore and when. You'll come across all sorts of scenarios and clues that you have to put together to figure out what happened. Inside a house scavenging? Whagt's that blood stain and what does it go to the bathroom? A rough made barricade that's been smashed down? How? The settlement inside is nothing but walkers? What happened? It's got that sort of stuff in it. I highly recommend Dead State.

I stopped watching this show while eating after this scene. I almost threw up that time I couldn’t eat for hours

It’s sad reality

The kid died first, turned and madness ensues.

the scratches dont look like blood, looks like crayon

I think the hush hush scratched into the wall came after she drowned her child in the sink, everyone turns no matter how they die so I imagine she drowned her child in the sink in a desperate attempt to make them stop crying and get the walkers outside to not break in but then her child would turn in the sink and being too small to get out would remain under the water gurgling/still making some noise then that mixed with the trauma of killing her own kid the mom descends into madness eventually scratching hush hush into the walls with her own fingers/blood. Mom eventually dies from starvation lack of water self attempt something and child eventually decomposes in the sink into a pot of horror soup finally hushing as they are only bones left

I never understood why she didn't sedate her kid she had to have pharmacy training, not that drugging a toddler is ok, just that she could've euthanized it better than drowning which bid do neither rand go out swinging for my kid

BRO THANKS TO YOU I ALREADY DONE WATCHING TWD BUT BECAUSE OF YOUR THEORY IN THIS SCENE IT MAKES ME FEEL HORROR LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE ADDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION EVERY SCENE THAT I DIDN'T NOTICE AT ALL

Well that makes sense... I googled this scene because initially i thought there was some kind of child abuse going on.

There's no disputing she carved "HUSH" into the wall but it can be dispute as to whether this was before or after she "put her kid to sleep".


I once knew someone who was convinced something was loose on their car because they could hear a rattling no one else could. It could be the Mother began carving the word because she was desperately trying to stop the noise in her head.

Also, the show tries to paint her as a monster but, in a way, aren't parents supposed to go above and beyond to protect their kids? Arguably, you could say this was the only way she could do it..

Don't the walkers usually give up after a while and go away?

what if the mom died from dehydration before her baby?..