Author: Josh Wigler / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
[This story contains spoilers for season nine, episode eight of AMC’s The Walking Dead, “Evolution,” and the Walking Dead comic books on which the series is based.]
Jeffrey Dean Morgan arrived in the Walking Dead universe with one of the greatest impacts of any one character — thanks in no small part to the double homicide his Negan was responsible for, bashing in the brains of the beloved Abraham (Michael Cudlitz) and Glenn (Steven Yeun).
Things have been very different for the fallen Saviors’ king throughout season nine. Following the end of season eight’s “All Out War,” Negan has been languishing behind bars, weakening slowly but surely over the course of years of imprisonment. His company has included a barely tolerant and since departed Rick (Andrew Lincoln), an even less tolerant Michonne (Danai Gurira) and an even less tolerant and departed Maggie (Lauren Cohan).
“It’s been a tough year,” Morgan recently told The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s been hard the last couple of years with Negan kind of putting a damper on some of the fun for our other characters — and this year, it’s a completely different spin, certainly.”
The completely different spin took its own completely different spin in the midseason nine finale, in which Negan finally breaks free from prison, thanks to Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) accidentally leaving the door to Negan’s cell open in a fit of grief and rage.
Negan’s unlocked cell comes straight out of the pages of the comic books from Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard, though there’s every reason to think what’s coming next will vary wildly from the source material. For one thing…
…in the comics, Negan doesn’t stay free, at least not yet. He takes the opportunity…
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