We can finally stop pretending: The Walking Dead has revealed Glenn's (Steven Yeun) once and for all. Obviously spoilers follow.
In "Heads Up," we see what happened to Glenn after he and Nicolas tumbled into that crowd of zombies and it was exactly what you had theorized: Nicolas fell on top of him, already dead, and got ripped to shreds. Glenn wiggled under the dumpster and stayed there until a can (yes, a rusty can) distracted the walkers and he was able to squeeze his way back out. And then Enid was there! She gave him water and in a sneak peek of "Start to Finish," Glenn and Enid make their way back to Alexandria only to find the devastation the Wolves and walkers brought.
"We're still here. Our friends are in there, people who care about you, my pregnant wife. If you want to run away, be afraid, forget about this? Just go, but that's how you lose people, even after they're gone," Glenn tells Enid in next week's episode.
Yeun finally spoke out about the reaction to Glenn's fate over the last few ambiguous weeks. "I've been following everything you've been saying and it's meant so much to me to see all of your support and concern for Glenn," Yeun said in a message that aired during Into The Badlands. "The Walking Dead has the best fans in the world and I'm happy to be back."
He expanded on this thoughts during an appearance on Talking Dead. "I feel relieved. I feel very grateful. I feel so amazed at the response," he later told host Chris Hardwick. "I feel bad that I couldn't say anything to everyone and family and friends. I'm pretty sure I lost some friends along the way. I mean it's kind of been overwhelming. I didn't really know how to take it all…I think it proves that this world still can take that story of the good guy winning sometimes. I really like the fact that it's not this bent of always seeking out something miserable happening on television or something terrible and sulking on that and rather just really accepting the fact that sometimes good guys survive."
Showrunner Scott Gimple said he wanted to give audiences something to talk about. "I think it's wonderful," he said of the reaction over the last few weeks. "It is a dream come true to provide a collective experience, to provide something that was around when I was a kid, which is you could talk to a stranger about TV. I think that's been going on again. I think there have been a lot of conversations about this and that's been exciting. It makes the world just a little bit smaller."
Did Glenn return only to die? The Walking Dead is introducing Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan, the villain who takes out the character in the comic book source material by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard.
When we spoke to Yeun at the season six premiere in New York in October, he said this when we asked him if he was tired of getting asked when Glenn would die on the show: "We do hear that. It is written, but he is a resilient dude. I think he's gotten himself out of pretty ridiculous circumstances, but we'll see, we'll see when it's time to tell that story or if it's ever time to tell that story."
The Walking Dead airs Sundays, 9 p.m. on AMC.