The Walking Dead Season 5: Josh McDermitt Talks How Close Morgan Is

Will Rick and the survivors meet up with Morgan Jones during the second half of The Walking Dead's fifth season?

It's one of the ongoing mysteries of the year, and if you listen to Joshua McDermitt, who plays Eugene on the hit AMC series, it sounds like it's probably not going to happen soon.

"The answer to this -- any sort of detail I'm gonna screw it up -- just, I'm not confident of the details ... as Morgan kind of showed up to the church in the last episode, and he saw the map and everything, the greenery had grown up over some of the vines to show that several months have past. I don't think that Morgan is around the corner," McDermitt explained in a newly-released Huffington Post interview.

That's a detail that escaped the notice of most fans (and this writer), but it's interesting. What was he doing during all that time, when it took Team Rick only a couple of weeks to make it from the prison to Terminus to the church?

The Walking Dead returns on February 8.