WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for this week's episode of AMC's The Walking Dead, "Bounty," as well as the comic book source material.

This week’s episode of The Walking Dead filled in more of the mystery of what happened during the four-year time jump that led to the communities splitting apart. At this point we still know very little about what occurred, but “Bounty” provides some fresh insight.

In the aftermath of Rick’s (apparent) death, there was some sort of catastrophic confrontation that presumably involved all of the communities, and left scars both visible and invisible. We’ve seen Michonne and Daryl with X-shaped brands on their backs, and Alexandria went from Rick’s idyllic vision of inclusion and forgiveness to an isolationist compound. The biggest rift appears to be between the Hilltop and Alexandria, with both communities now so much at odds that Michonne regulates who goes in and out of Alexandria; neither community is welcoming to members of the other. The Kingdom rests somewhere in the middle, and Ezekiel is working to bring everyone back together at the upcoming fair. Up until this week, those were the only details the season had provided, but now we have a bit more to go on.

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“Bounty” opens with a flashback to Carol and Ezekiel meeting with Jesus and Tara somewhere between the communities. Tara has supplies that she stole from Michonne, who apparently wanted to give less. There’s clear tension between the two women, given how flippantly Tara refers to Michonne, and that she not only swiped supplies from Alexandria, but left the community to move to the Hilltop without telling anyone. It’s clear she doesn’t agree with Michonne’s new “Every man for themselves” philosophy, so much so that Tara also stole the constitution Michonne talked about writing in the first half of the season, but abandoned the draft after whatever crisis occurred. Ezekiel takes the constitution from Tara and Jesus, and vows to keep it safe until everyone can come back together again. In the present, the king finds a movie poster box that he grabs to use as a display case, and when we get a look at the document at end of the episode, the Sanctuary and Oceanside have been added as signatories.

Alanna Masterson as Tara The Walking Dead S9

Tara’s actions in particular provide a lot of context into her previously nebulous dispute with Michonne. Clearly both women strongly disagreed about how to proceed after whatever happened, with Michonne insisting Alexandria take care of its own rather than continue to support the other communities. It could be they had similar experiences and reacted differently, or it could be that Michonne, Daryl and anyone else with an X brands caught the worst of it. Daryl and Michonne seem to be the two characters most interested in cutting themselves off from their society, such as it is, so it could be that Tara disagreed with Michonne making the call to cut off Alexandria, because she wasn’t as traumatized. If Tara also took the constitution, that shows her disillusionment with the once legal-minded leader of Alexandria. We can’t say for certain, but it feels like whatever happened to the communities could have provoked Michonne to make a decision for the community that Tara felt was out of bounds.

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As for the constitution itself, the addition of Oceanside and the Sanctuary is curious. Were Oceanside and the Sanctuary not considered in Michonne’s first draft, or did she just not get time to add them before all hell broke loose? That element raises more questions than it answers, but it’s interesting nonetheless. Soon Alexandria will be pulled into the growing Whisperers conflict, so it looks as if both storylines will run concurrently as what happened in the past continues to define the present.

Airing Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on AMC, The Walking Dead stars Norman Reedus, Danai Gurira, Melissa McBride, Alanna Masterson, Josh McDermitt, Christian Serratos, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Nadia Hilker, Dan Fogler, Angel Theory, Lauren Ridloff and Eleanor Matsuura.