The theory went that, Rick – having discovered a baby girl in the Saviours compound that he stormed with Daryl – wound up raising her as his own with the six-year-old girl in the premiere’s ‘flashforward’ scenes this new young girl (named Gracie) and not Judith.
The latest episode of The Walking Dead, while making good on its promise to kill off one of the series’ longest-standing characters, debunked a fan theory for good measure.
The Walking Dead season 8 continues on AMC every Sunday with the UK premiere arriving the next evening on FOX.
Fans had predicted that an earlier season 8 moment foreshadowed what was sure to be the AMC show’s most disturbing moment yet – the death of baby Judith.