I recognize the comic book goes by "everyone who dies becomes a zombie," but the more I think about it, the TV show may not. For example, there have been a number of scenes (Rick at the gas station in the first ep, the traffic jam in this season) where we see dead bodies that don't appear to have taken head shots but also don't reanimate (the corpse Carl lifted the weapons off of in the traffic jam being one example)...maybe the point is that certain things, such as being trapped in a hot car to the point of mummification, can also "kill" the zombies.
That’s the whole ting. That’s part of the fun of “The Walking Dead” is that you don’t really know all of the rules yet. What’s going on with those dead bodies? Why are they not zombies? Why are they just sitting in cars? That’s part of our specific set of rules that will be revealed over time.
So there are going to be mysteries like that: Why is that guy a zombie and the other guy isn’t? What happened with that guy, and various different things. I think by the end of Season 2, you’ll have a better understanding of what makes a zombie, and what goes into it and why those zombies in the car weren’t walking around.
