Here’s what we learned so far about the new masked villains.

Well, we saw them in last week’s cliffhanger, but not everyone met their end.

1, they are pretty insane, even by Negan’s standards.

The Walking Dead

A Reaper attacks Alden in ‘The Walking Dead’ season 11, episode 3 ‘Hunted’.Josh Stringer/AMC

The Alexandrians are quickly separated from each other.

Worse still, this is a gang of hunters.

Is Pope the group’s leader?

Although they survive, Alden is injured too severely to walk by himself.

Negan has to physically grab Maggie away so they can all escape.

This person was tied to a spike and burned alive.

All that remains is an unrecognizably charred walker whose jaw is dangling from its skull.

Gabriel actually gets to meet one of the Reapers face-to-face.

He spotted this man hobble off into the woods, wounded, leaving his mask on the ground.

He’s praying and even asks Gabriel to pray for him.

“I have been blessed,” he says.

Gabriel responds by putting a blade through his skull, declaring “God isn’t here anymore.”

Who knows if Alden will live long enough to see that.

He seems prepared to die.

Now, it’s just Maggie and Negan on the road together.

She must love that.

Kidnapped women brutally amputated, raped, and impregnated with mutant walker babies?

Maybe Gabriel is right.

Maybe God really isn’t here anymore.

The side arc of this episode was totally forgettable and dull.

You didn’t miss much.