There is no assurance if "The Walking Dead" season 6 episode nine will feature feared comic book villain Negan.
His name was mentioned at the tail end of the show's fall finale but is still a question whether the AMC TV series will follow the source material wherein Negan's face was only revealed in issue 100 even if he was first mentioned in issue #83.
Andrew "Rick Grimes" Lincoln has one teaser for "The Walking Dead" season 6 episode nine titled "No Way Out." The episode is meant to end a chapter and start a new one, a dark chapter to be specific.
"It almost feels like the end of episode 9 is a chapter finish, and then episode 10 is a completely different flavor, something we've never seen before in the show," he told Entertainment Weekly's Dalton Ross.
"And then what begins to happen - because we've been looking so inwardly, and it's been much more about group dynamic and security - suddenly what happens is that the world starts to get a little bigger, and with that, we lift our heads up to the horizon, and in many instances the horizon is a beautiful in one direction, and in other directions it's a terrible, terrible nightmare. It's an exciting time."
Negan is the ruthless, all-business villain in the comic book of the same name where the show based from. He will be portrayed by Jeffrey Dean Morgan who said in an interview that he immediately agreed to appear in the show because of this character.
While a chapter ends when the show returns next year, Andrew Lincoln insists it doesn't mean they are at the end of the tunnel. He says it will only get darker for his group.
"But in answer to your question I would say yes, they're incredibly bad, far more organized, and far more terrifying than anything we've ever seen before," Lincoln said when asked about The Saviors, the group Negan leads.
"And things start to get very, very, very dark. But I mean, there is a glint of hope before that, and actually I think episode 9 and 10 are a couple of my favorite episodes. I think 9 more than anything when I read it, it kind of just blew my mind. I was like, "Are we going to be able to shoot it?" But then when it started to happen it took on a life of its own, and it felt like everything the show does well is encapsulated in that episode. Yeah it's one of my favorites we've ever done. Saying that, I think the run-in to 16 is the strongest we've ever done. It's just amazing - it just runs to the end."
