Millions tuned in to the season 6 finale of The Walking Dead for the highly anticipated moment in which the gang met up with the comic book source material's most notorious villain, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), as well as Lucille, his trusty barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat. It was widely assumed that at the end of the episode, Negan would beat someone to death with Lucille—a murder that marked one of the most famous moments in the comics. But instead of a death, the screen cut to black when Negan unleashed Lucille, and viewers were forced to wait until the season 7 premiere. Rumors swirled during the hiatus about who would die. Would it be Glenn (Stephen Yeun), as it had been in the comics? Abraham (Michael Cudlitz)?

As it tragically turned out, the answer was both. And because The Walking Dead loves to toy with viewers as long as possible, the truth wasn't revealed until about halfway into the premiere. Abraham met his grisly end first—and then just when viewers thought they could breathe a sigh of relief for Glenn, Daryl (Norman Reedus) responded to Abraham's killing by punching Negan in the face, prompting the bad guy to unleash another dose of murderous violence—not against Daryl, but Glenn. The brutality, and the teasing way in which the episode doled it out, were perfectly in keeping with The Walking Dead's overall arc...but it was all still too much for more than a few viewers to handle.