Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4854965-20141112061055/@comment-8161155-20141112233742

No, I think you're right. And episode 3s both involved inanimate objects coming to life (Well, for S2e3, sorta...), but that's probably a coincidence. I think they included zombies as a call back to the first episode, just like they included gnomes and the grappling hook in the season finale as callbacks to the first episode.