Author: Josh Wigler / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
[This story contains spoilers for season nine, episode two of AMC’s The Walking Dead, “The Bridge.”]
Early on in the Walking Dead comic book series from Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard, something unthinkable happens to Rick Grimes: he loses a hand.
For years, readers of the comics have waited to see if such an incident would come to pass in television form on the AMC drama. Thus far, no dice, though the latest episode of the series offered up a consolation: the death of another fan-favorite character’s hand in the form of Aaron, played by Ross Marquand.
In “The Bridge,” Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and other members of the communities under his leadership work together to restore a bridge, in order to ease communication and relationships between all of the disparate groups of survivors. Among the workers on the project: Aaron, whose arm is gravely injured when it’s pinned by lumber in an accident. With little time to act and with only Enid (Katelyn Nacon), a medic-in-training, on hand, the decision is made to sever Aaron’s arm below the elbow.
Aaron is certainly not the first Walking Dead series regular to suffer non-fatal dismemberment; indeed, the late Scott Wilson’s Hershel lost a leg early on in season three. But the loss of a hand, combined with Aaron’s new bearded aesthetic for season nine, calls to mind images of Rick’s similar injury from the…
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