Your eyes aren’t enjoying tips on you. Concern the Strolling Lifeless remains to be on the air and a trailer for its eighth and remaining season is right here. In it, the present makes direct reference to a significant character within the authentic sequence, offering a hyperlink that followers have been curious about since day one.

Day one was again in August 2015 and it was a really, very completely different present again then. It adopted a household, lead by Madison (Kim Dickens), on the starting of the zombie apocalypse, a time interval the primary Strolling Lifeless present by no means actually dove into. Within the subsequent seasons although, Concern has moved its timeline fairly rapidly. Folks die, come again, the setting adjustments, and on this newest season, seven years have handed bringing the present nearly up to this point with the opposite one, which you’ll get a way of on the finish of this trailer.

Wait, what the hell is that at 43 seconds? Is {that a} zombie head hooked up to a robotic arm? It seems like one thing out of Steven Spielberg’s A.I! That picture greater than anything on this trailer piques my curiosity, much more than now-star of Concern, Morgan (Lennie James) returning house to King’s County, Georgia. That’s the place he first met Strolling Lifeless star, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and since Rick is getting his personal present quickly you must surprise, wailing the 2 meet once more? We’ll have to attend and see.

As for every thing else, minus robot-zombie-head, here’s AMC’s official description of the ultimate season of Concern the Strolling Lifeless which debuts Could 14:

The eighth season begins after the conclusion of Season 7, when Morgan’s (Lennie James) and Madison’s (Kim Dickens) hopes to rescue Mo from PADRE didn’t go as deliberate. Now, Morgan, Madison and the others they delivered to the island reside underneath PADRE’s cynical rule. With our characters demoralized and dejected, the duty of reigniting perception in a greater world rests with the individual Morgan and Madison got down to rescue within the first place — Morgan’s daughter, Mo.

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