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The Walking Dead season 7 episode 1: Glenn's final words explained

*Major spoilers for season 7 episode 1 follow*

Jacob Stolworthy
Friday 28 October 2016 06:01 EDT
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Having endured seven long months of waiting to discover which beloved Walking Dead character Negan killed, you're now probably wishing you can etch the memory of its traumatic season 7 opener from your memory.

Sure enough, producers of AMC's zombie drama made good on their word that we'd discover which character died at the mercy of the new antagonist played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan early on into the episode.

However, quite the curveball was thrown when Negan - after bludgeoning Abraham (Michael Cudlitz) to death - proceeded to also murder original character Glenn (Steven Yeun) in what was just one of the episode's many traumatic moments.

Bringing Lucille down onto his head, an unsuspecting Glenn - bloodied and dying - looks at his pregnant wife Maggie (Lauren Cohan) before attempting to utter his final words: "Maggie, I'll find you."

Speaking on aftershow The Talking Dead, Cohan expressed what she believed Glenn's final words meant.

“In this life or the next; they’re star-crossed lovers. ‘I’ll find you, I’ll be with you, I’ll watch over you. I’ll be there'," she said, fighting back tears.

Yeun himself added: “He dies in such a Glenn way. Still not thinking about himself. It’s important that he puts those final words out as a way of saying, ‘Look out for one another.’”

The Walking Dead continues in the US on Sundays where it'll be simulcast in the UK on FOX ahead of its Monday night showing at 9pm.

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