We will be meeting another new group of survivors very soon.
If they wish to have any chance of defeating Negan and his saviors, Rick Grimes and his extended family are going to have to extend that family further than ever before. They’re planning on taking the fight directly to Negan, but first they need to put together an army big enough to take down his massive gang. What does this mean for the show? More new characters, of course!
Entertainment Weekly just showed off a brand new image from Episode 10 of the seventh season’s second half, and it shows Rick meeting a brand new group of characters in a brand new location. The character who appears to be the leader has her back to the camera in this shot, shrouding her identity in secret. Could she be the one who was spying on Rick and Aaron?
Showrunner Scott M. Gimple teased:
I’m just going to say that Rick is going to meet this person and/or persons pretty quickly. The answers are just around the heap. I cannot wait for people to meet this character and to see this actor. There is some formidable fun coming up.
“The Walking Dead” returns on February 12th.
In the weeks to come…
The first half of Season 7 saw Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the group broken by Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), forced to fall under his will and brutally convinced to live under his rules. The second half of the season will focus on preparing for war and gathering the supplies and numbers to take Negan down once and for all.
Rick’s group will find out yet again that the world isn’t what they thought it was. It’s much bigger than anything they’ve seen so far. While they have a singular purpose – to defeat Negan – it won’t come easy. More importantly, victory will require more than Alexandria. They need the numbers of the Kingdom and the Hilltop, but, similar to how Rick felt, Ezekiel (Khary Payton) and Gregory (Xander Berkeley) do not want bloodshed. To convince them otherwise will take more than speeches. The lengths Rick and the group will have to go to in order to find weapons, food and new fighters is nothing short of remarkable.
We’ll meet new survivors in incredible places. We’ll see Rick and the group tested in ways we’ve never seen before. We’ll see treachery from people we trust. Rick is confident as he will see his group and many others band together with the common goal of taking down Negan. But no amount of planning will prepare the group for all-out war with Negan and his army.
