Just when you thought The Walking Dead was turning a corner, here we doe again.

The premiere of Season 10 of the AMC series, Lines We Cross, was all about setting up the seasons impending conflict with the zombie-skin-wearing Whisperers. And if you didnt get that there was tension between the two groups, there was a glut of Cold War references to hammer that point home, including Michonne (Danai Gurira ) describing the Whisperers zombie herd as a nuclear weapon and even a USSR satellite crashing in the nearby woods and causing a fire. The episode culminates in an intense stare-down between Whisperer leader Alpha (Samantha Morton) and Carol (Melissa McBride), signaling shiz is about to go down.

Even with all that, perhaps the most concerning (albeit unintentionally so) moment for viewers comes with the return of a character who was perhaps better left in the past: an obviously CGI deer.