Note: This article contains spoilers for season 9, episode 3 of The Walking Dead, ‘Warning Signs’.
Norman Reedus has said that he feared his Walking Dead character Daryl would kill Andrew Lincoln’s Rick heading into season nine.
The latest episode revealed that Cyndie (Sydney Park) and the Oceansiders were actually responsible for murdering Saviors as revenge for their previous crimes.
What’s more, Daryl and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) let the Oceansiders – who were inspired by Maggie executing Gregory – finish the job.
As the episode ended, Maggie and Daryl head off to Alexandria to finish off Negan. “We gave Rick’s way a chance,” Maggie tells Daryl. “It’s time to see Negan.”
Speaking about Daryl and Maggie’s decision to go against Rick, Reedus told TheWrap: “Both those characters have been in this world long enough where you can only follow someone so long when you don’t agree with what they’re doing.
“[Rick] is sort of blinded by grief and all these other things, and he has to make this work and for all these reasons but he’s not really listening to the people around him anymore.”
Reedus continued: “A lot of the stuff with Daryl is just, he is like, dude you’re not hearing me. Like you’re not listening to me.
“And at the end of last season, that very last scene that we shot, it looks like Jesus, Maggie and Daryl are going to turn on Rick – I wasn’t in that scene [at first].
“Maybe an hour before that, they’re, ‘We want to put you in this scene.’ And I was, ‘What are you talking about? I can’t go against Rick. What are you talking about?’ And they were, ‘Trust us, it’ll play out later.’
“And I was, ‘Wait, wait, what?’ So I spent my whole hiatus thinking, ‘Oh my god, I’m going to kill Rick, or he’s going to kill me.'”
Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang also opened up about ‘Warning Signs’, telling EW: “I’ll say that we saw Maggie and Daryl resolve something at the end of episode three, and that story plays out.
“Daryl pledged to help her in this, and that’s gonna put him into some conflict with some of our other characters. And we’ll see Maggie make her way to Alexandria, and how that story plays out.”
On what happens later in season nine, Kang said that “we obviously will get to the story of the Whisperers”.
“And for people who don’t know the comic that don’t want to totally spoil what that is, the information is out there for people who want to find it,” she said.
“But that is another mystery and an interesting problem that they run into, as well as there will be great new characters that turn the story in interesting ways.”
The Walking Dead airs on AMC in the US, and on FOX and NOW TV in the UK.
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