‘The Walking Dead’ Spoilers: Who Does Negan Kill?

The Walking Dead left fans wondering who Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) had chosen to beat to death with his barbed wire-wrapped bat Lucille in the show’s sixth-season finale. And the answer could shock everyone.

The Walking Dead Spoilers

In the season finale, Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Carl, (Chandler Riggs) Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green), Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), Aaron (Ross Marquand), and Eugene (Josh McDermitt) set off to bring an ailing Maggie (Lauren Cohan) to the hilltop to see a doctor. Driving the RV, the gang runs into a group of saviors, and then another – and then a chain of zombies. After a few more roadblocks, Abraham offers to sacrifice himself and drive the RV into the Saviors and blow them up while the rest walk the two miles through the woods. Instead, they end up on a road surrounded by dozens of Saviors, and find Eugene down on his knees.

The Saviors strip them of all of their weapons and make them join Eugene on their knees. Daryl (Norman Reedus), Michonne (Danai Gurira), Glenn (Steven Yeun) and Rosita (Christian Serratos) are dragged out to join him as well. Then, Negan finally shows his face and tells Rick he’s not happy with how many of his people he’s killed. He further explains that he doesn’t want to kill Rick’s people because he wants them to work for him – but that he’s going to have to beat someone, likely to death, with Lucille.

Negan begins to recite eeny, meeny, miny, moe, and, after landing on someone, he starts the bludgeoning. Before the victim is revealed, the screen faded to black, leaving the death a mystery. Per Robert Kirkman‘s The Walking Dead comic books, the person Negan beats to a bloody pulp is supposed to be Glenn. But a new popular theory is claiming that it’s not Glenn. In fact, it might not be anyone from Rick’s group.

It’s now being speculated that Negan opts to spare all of the Alexandrians, and instead selects a man from his own group to kill and to send a message to everyone that no one is safe, according to Movie Pilot. Regardless of who Negan killed with Lucile in season six’s final moments, season seven is going to be a grim affair.

“I can say without spoiling anything,” said showrunnier Scott Gimple, “that things are going to start of very, very, very dark.”