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The Walking Dead season 6 finale ends on massive cliffhanger as Negan finally makes his entrance

"I'm gonna beat the holy hell out of one of you"

Jacob Stolworthy
Tuesday 05 April 2016 08:20 BST
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It's happened - The Walking Dead's season six finale has aired and it was as distressing as fans were expecting with the promised arrival of Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) arriving.

*Warning: This article contains spoilers*

Much of the episode followed Rick as he ventured outside the walls of Alexandria with his son Carl (Chandler Riggs), Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green), Eugene (Josh McDermitt), Aaron (Ross Marquand) and an ailing Maggie (Lauren Cohan) to rescue their people who were caught by The Saviours at the climax of last week's penultimate episode.

Much of the discussion leading up to episode has been largely focused on the identity of the character who would die at the hands of Negan and his barbed wire baseball bat he names Lucille - a classic moment that heralds his entrance in the graphic novels the show is based on.

Sure enough, that very moment occurred and the character that got a brutal send-off is... well, we still don't know.

The season's final scene saw the violent clan capture Rick and co, lining them up alongside Glenn (Steven Yeun), Daryl (Norman Reedus), Michonne (Danai Gurira) and Rosita (Christian Serratos). Introducing them to Negan, the leader gives a memorably chilling ten-minute monologue telling the group he's about to "beat the holy hell" out of one of them.

Unable to make his decision, he resorts to Eenie Meenie Miney Mo - in what could possibly be the zombie drama's most sickeningly tense scene yet - before settling on one character. Here, the camera assumes a point-of-view shot as Negan proceeds to brutally smash the unseen character's head in. "Taking it like a champ!" he exclaims - and it's here where the episode ends.


While not knowing the identity of the deceased character, Negan's words just beforehand seem to indicate it may not be either Rick or Carl; he tells his men to "cut the boy's other eye out and feed it to his father" should anyone protest his actions.

The remainder of the episode saw Morgan's (Lennie James) search for Carol (Melissa McBride) come to a dramatic end while elsewhere, Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) assumed the role of Alexandria's protector.

The Walking Dead will return for a seventh season this October on FOX.

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