Leaked audio from The Walking Dead’s season 6 finale surfaced online this week and appears to depict the final moments of the episode. (We won’t be linking to it here.)
Potential spoiler warning!
As expected, the audio sounds like Negan and the Saviors have the upper hand in a scene with Team Rick. Negan wonders which one of Alexandria’s residents he should kill in retribution for Rick and company killing several of the Saviors.
We won’t get into the details so as to not spoil what goes on, but the end of the audio clip, which also sounds like the end of the episode, appears to depict someone’s head getting bashed in. Severely. And by the sounds of it, we may not know who the victim is.
The rumor mill has previously suggested that The Walking Dead’s season 6 finale may leave us hanging concerning who Negan decides to kill. The audio aligns with this theory, because Negan spends a few minutes trying to decide which character to eliminate. From a storytelling perspective, it’d be quite the cliffhanger (yet quite cruel to viewers) to not reveal who Negan ultimately chooses out of a lineup of major characters.
You can only imagine what the ratings will be like for The Walking Dead season 7 premiere if we have to wait to find out who dies (Daryl, Abraham, Maggie, and of course Glenn are characters who many believe are most likely to die). And the next six months will be populated with various fan theories and close looks at the schedules of each actor to see if one of them is suddenly working on other projects when they should be working on Dead.
One problem with this cliffhanger is that The Walking Dead has already pulled off two similar stunts this season. Viewers have grown tired of cheap fake-outs (Glenn) and waiting for answers (Glenn and Daryl) — even if we know they survive.
The other problem with this cliffhanger is: Really? Whyyyyy. Please don’t make us wait again.
Whether or not we found out who dies in The Walking Dead season 6 finale, we do know that Negan’s deliberations will be a very terrifying few minutes for viewers.
The Walking Dead fans are currently teetering on a cliffhanger that the show left them on at the end of episode 15 titled “East”. In the final few seconds of TWD 6×15, Daryl is shot by Dwight in close range. Dwight assures viewers that Daryl’ll “be alright,” but we’re still curious to see how he survived and how Daryl reacts.
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