The Walking Dead EP Explains Maggie’s Heartbreaking Decision In 11×03

The ethical dilemmas preserve piling up as The Walking Dead plows forward with its remaining season. For the second time in two weeks, Maggie (Lauren Cohan) needed to make a tough alternative to go away somebody at risk for the higher good. However whereas Maggie’s controversial decision to let the Walkers get Gage in episode 2 was one she may dwell with, episode 3 noticed her should abandon a good friend, one thing which hit her laborious.

In episode 11×03 “Hunted”, the Reapers assault, killing off a lot of the Wardens and leaving Alden (Callan McAuliffe) gravely wounded. The selfless survivor encourages Maggie to go away him behind – not less than for now – in order that she will proceed with Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) to the availability home, the place they will get sources the ravenous Alexandria so desperately wants.

Negan urges Maggie to decide, inflicting her to hit again at him, blasting the previous Savior for the way he finds it so “straightforward” to be “reckless with someone else’s life.” She says it’s his “fault that we’re right here… Since you destroyed every thing that we constructed.” Negan coolly responds, “You continue to should resolve.” Maggie elects to do the one factor she will and go away Alden, barricaded inside an outdated church with a knife and a few provides earlier than they go on their means.

Whereas talking on The Strolling Lifeless: Episode Insider, showrunner Angela Kang defined the place Maggie and Negan’s heads are at throughout this “heartbreaking” second.

“By the point we get to that large scene with Negan and Maggie on the finish, and Alden’s there, and Maggie’s going to make this heartbreaking alternative that they do should preserve going and go away Alden, which she completely doesn’t need to do,” mentioned Kang. “I feel that, for Negan, he’s a sensible man. He can see that she doesn’t really need his recommendation. That doesn’t imply he’s going to cease giving it altogether, however I do suppose he’s at some extent the place he realizes if he’s attempting to push her too laborious right here, all that’s going to occur is she’s going to get offended and it’s going to delay possibly this alternative that she is aware of herself she must make.”

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Kang went on to say that Negan believes Maggie goes to make the robust alternative right here and Maggie is aware of that, too, however it nonetheless hurts.

“He’s fairly certain that she’s going to make the selection to maintain shifting. He is aware of that she’s mission-focused,” Kang mentioned. “However she sort of has to undergo the emotion of it and it makes it even that rather more heartbreaking when the one that must be panicking is like, ‘You already know in addition to I do what needs to be finished.’”

Time will inform whether or not Alden will get out of this or not, however with this being the ultimate season, the chances are worse than ever for our intrepid band of survivors. The Strolling Lifeless continues subsequent Sunday on AMC.