The latest episode of The Walking Dead, "Silence the Whisperers", begins and ends with a song from Gordi playing in the background - but it's possible this particular song could be a clue to the Whisperers themselves. So far, The Walking Dead season 10 has been setting up a massive showdown between the united communities, called the Coalition, and the Whisperers, who've now taken even more land from Alexandria and Hilltop.
Even though The Walking Dead is set a decade into the zombie apocalypse and there hasn't been any form of new media to come out in the universe since 2010, the network and producers still tend to incorporate pop songs in various episodes every now and then. That trend seemed to have died off over the past few years, but it's back now in The Walking Dead season 10, episode 4, "Silence the Whisperers", in which Gordi's "Heaven I Know" plays at the beginning and end.
"Heaven I Know" plays over the episode's opening montage, which highlights the lives of several people in Alexandria and Hilltop, and then it returns again at the end. While its use in the cold open is standard for The Walking Dead, the fact that the episode ends with the camera panning over graffiti that reads "silence the whisperers" with the song's whispering "1, 2, 3" countdown playing in the background hints at the song being a clue to the Whisperer villains.
Gordi's 2017 song itself has very little - if anything - to do with The Walking Dead, but the fact that the show specifically focused on the "silence the whisperers" graffiti, which comes straight out of The Walking Dead's comics, while increasing the volume of the whispering "1, 2, 3" countdown at the same time is too obvious of a connection to look past. It was most likely chosen because of that whispering conclusion while potentially signifying the fact that there have now been three major zombie attacks on The Walking Dead in season 10.
Now, Michonne and Judith are heading to Oceanside to figure out what's really going on. Ultimately, though, there's only one conclusion to this: the Whisperer War. Eventually, the Coalition and the Whisperers will fight each other, but exactly how that happens remains to be seen. The Walking Dead's producers are no strangers to dropping subtle hints for bigger events down the line, and the use of Gordi's song in this episode just might be the latest one. If it isn't, then it's certainly a major coincidence.
The Walking Dead season 10 airs Sundays on AMC.