Separated from Heath, Tara contends with a community on the coast who want to keep their existence a secret.
Adapted Out: All the males, including the only named member of the community Pete, are not in this version of Oceanside.
Adaptational Early Appearance: Oceanside shows up far before its first mentions in the comic, which took place after a war and a two-year Time Skip compared to this appearance.
Adaptational Villainy: According to Pete, Oceanside is a peaceful and friendly community who welcomes other survivors in with open arms. The show's version executes strangers on the spot.
Bottle Episode: The episode largely focuses on Tara in only a handful of settings until she returns home.
Break the Haughty: Tara nearly brags about the group supposedly wiping out the Saviors, but learning the consequences of the group's actions helps humble her a bit.
Broken Bird: The entire community of Oceanside is made up of emotionally shattered women who've been abused by the Saviors.
The Bus Came Back: Heath and Tara return after having last been seen in "Not Tomorrow Yet", not counting the latter's cameo in Rick's vision in the season premiere.
Dramatic Irony: Tara and Heath are completely unaware of the dark days that have befallen Alexandria in their absence. Tara in particular has no idea that her girlfriend Denise and two of her closest friends Glenn and Abraham have been murdered by the Saviors, who have subjugated Alexandria. Eugene tearfully informs Tara at the end of the episode.
Gendercide: All of Oceanside's male group members age 10 and up were executed by the Saviors to send a message to the community.
The Idealist: Cyndie is convinced that nobody in the world is actually evil. Tara, who had the displeasure of knowing the Governor, the Terminus residents, and the Wolves, argues that some people are evil.
Lady Land: The community that Tara stumbles upon is made up of only women because all their men died fighting the Saviors. Although near the end of the episode Tara is told that the Saviors afterward killed every male over 10 as punishment for fighting them.
Mirroring Factions: The Oceanside community is a lot like Alexandria, with the group members bringing up how they were once a good-natured group that tried to take down the Saviors before suffering from a Curb-Stomp Battle that left them shattered and turning darker as time went on.
Mythology Gag: Tara falling into a river after a walker attack, while getting separated from her friend Heath, and washing up in a mysterious area full of a group of cabin survivors is a lot similar to when Clementine from The Walking Dead videogame fell off into a riverbed because of a walker attack, losing her friend Christa, and ending up taken in by a group of questionable survivors living in a hidden cabin.
Politically Incorrect Villain: This episode demonstrates more than any other that the Saviors are sexist as all get out. An outpost of them decided to kill every maleover 10 as punishment for fighting them, which would be classed as genocide under the Geneva Convention.
Red Herring: Tara sees a walker with a similar hairdo as Heath, and the musical score and flashback lead us to believe he was killed by the horde, but it turns out the zombie in question was a woman.
Secret-Keeper: Tara doesn't tell Rosita of Oceanside to honor Cyndie's wishes.
Shadow Archetype: The community of Oceanside represents what Alexandria could grow into after Negan pays them a few more visits. In fact, Beatrice points out how both her group and Tara's declared war with the Saviors before suffering a crushing defeat and growing into the troubled people they are now.
To Absent Friends: At the end of the episode, Tara, Eugene, and Rosita are together. With Glenn and Abraham dead and Maggie at the Hilltop, they are all that remains of GRETAM.
Token Good Teammate: Cyndie is the only member of Oceanside who isn't trying to kill Tara at every turn.
Ungrateful Bastard: Beatrice, who Tara spared earlier, holds her at gunpoint at the end of the episode, not being convinced by Tara's argument of having spared her, although she clearly feels bad about having to shoot Tara.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Heath vanishes at the end of the episode, but it is implied that he survived the sand walkers and drove off in the trailer after Tara falls over the bridge probably assuming that she died.
Would Hurt a Child: We learn that the Saviors murdered a number of children, including an 11-year-old, because they happened to be male.
