The Walking Dead’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan Blames Daryl For Spoiler’s Death

After waiting six excruciatingly long months, in the The Walking Dead season premiere, we finally found out who Negan initially killed with Lucille. But before delivering his first vicious blow atop Abraham’s gingered head, Negan made it very clear how Rick and his group could react during and after the hellish punishment. However, once Negan was done turning Abraham’s head into scrambled eggs, he took delight in taunting Rick and Rosita, who he quickly suspected was initimate with the recently departed, by sticking his “dirty girl” in their faces, forcing them to look upon the bat covered in Abraham’s blood.

Overcome with emotion, Daryl got up off the ground and punched Negan in the face. And since Daryl broke the rules and because Negan is a man of his word, he punished Daryl by picking a second victim to beat to death with Lucille. He quickly chose Glenn, smashed his head so hard that his eye popped out and reduced him to mumbling a final message to the love of his life: “Maggie, I will find you.”

Of course, some will want to blame Glenn’s death on Negan, since he was the one that clubbed Glenn’s head into a million pieces, but Daryl clearly broke the rules. Simple enough: Glenn’s death is on Daryl.

During Sunday’s Talking Dead, Jeffrey Dean Morgan echoed that opinion: “If wasn’t for Daryl, Glenn would still be alive.” You can listen to Morgan’s comments in the video below.

Based on the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics, The Walking Dead reigns as television’s most watched drama for adults 18-49 and tells the story of the months and years that follow after a zombie apocalypse, and follows a group of survivors, led by police officer Rick Grimes, who travel in search of a safe and secure home.

The series stars Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes, Steven Yeun as Glenn, Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon, Chandler Riggs as Carl, Lauren Cohan as Maggie, Danai Gurira as Michonne, Melissa McBride as Carol, Sonequa-Martin Green as Sasha, Michael Cudlitz as Abraham, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan.

The Walking Dead is executive produced by Scott M. Gimple, Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, David Alpert, Greg Nicotero and Tom Luse.

“The Kingdom” episode of The Walking Dead will air Sunday, October 30 at 9/8c on AMC.