"Out of the Ashes" is the fifth episode of the eleventh season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead.
[2] In the episode, Aaron (Ross Marquand), Carol (Melissa McBride), Lydia (Cassady McClincy), and Jerry (Cooper Andrews) interrogate a Whisperer left behind in Hilltop's destruction; Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) wait at the satellite outpost for the others to regroup; Eugene (Josh McDermitt), Ezekiel (Khary Payton), Princess (Paola Lázaro), and Yumiko (Eleanor Matsuura) are accepted into the Commonwealth, as Yumiko reunites with her brother.
At the Commonwealth, Eugene, Ezekiel, Princess, and Yumiko watch an introductory video on VHS and are given their job assignments and housing information.
After Alexandria's wall is compromised and walkers breach the community before being quickly killed, Aaron, Carol, Lydia, and Jerry leave for the Hilltop, and upon arriving scavenge through the rubble left behind from the Whisperers' attack.
Meanwhile in Alexandria, Judith has been teaching the children how to protect themselves with weapons when she spots some local teenagers provoking the walkers through a hole in the wall.
Later, in a house, Judith finds the handprints Carl made with her on the deck broken, and immediately suspects the teenagers, though they deny it.
They come up with a plan to gain access to the radios secretly, but shortly after making contact with Rosita, they are cut off and arrested.
The site's critical consensus reads: "The Commonwealth gets explored and proves too good to be true while 'Out of the Ashes' is a believably fine table-setting installment, befitting a season that has been more solid than gutsy so far.