The Walking Dead season 7 returns to FOX on 24 October.
As for Cudlitz, that could be notched down to the way in which The Walking Dead can show a character in one episode before dropping them for another three.
Another more alarming theory is that Negan doesn’t kill just one character in season 7’s opening episode, but two.
You know the drill by now: The Walking Dead season 6 ended with new villain Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) beating a character we love’s head in with his beloved baseball bat, Lucille – only, we didn’t see which character that was leaving fans to endure an agonising wait until the show’s return in October.