Spoilers for “Killer Within”, well, within. You’ve been warned.

This week's Walking Dead kinda-sorta had a lot of big events occur. You know, if you care about little things like gigantic character deaths. We had our weekly chat with series creator Robert Kirkman to talk about the big episode and even, gulp, how there are bigger things to come.

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Yeah, this is going to be a very explosive season and when people see what comes out of this episode, they’ll understand why we went to these extremes this early on in the season. I think that we really wanted to show that while they are in this prison, it’s not necessarily as safe as they want it to be and there is still some conflict that’s going to be coming from this location.There’re also threats there on the horizon with the Governor and Woodbury being on the scene and when those two stories are going to collide. And also, Lori’s death is going to affect Rick and Carl in particular in very serious ways. Those two characters have sort of become the heart of the show and seeing how they deal with this loss is going to be pretty interesting.I don’t know that it’s that, necessarily. I mean, in T-Dog’s case, he really stepped up and became an essential member of Rick’s strike team, so to speak. Losing him the way we did and seeing how heroic he can be was sort of a way to indicate what his being there was like over the winter. We can see that process; him coming to the forefront. And also to show how much of a loss he is to the group. [T-Dog] had become a good shot with a gun, helped clean out the prison, and become a little bit more “useful”, if you want to use that word, than he was in the second season.We don’t really know what happened to Carol, but I would assume she didn’t make it, being that far into the prison. And Lori I think was really the heart of the group. Her carrying a child had become a burden, but I don’t think any of these characters weren’t useful, and you will feel their loss moving forward.

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One of the coolest aspects of Carl as a character is the fact that he doesn’t really know what life was supposed to be like. As we move deeper and deeper into the apocalyptic setting… well, he was very young when all of this started. The other characters will always remember, “Oh, life used to be like this. Isn’t it strange that we’re now forced to these things?” Carl will just know them as the way things are. He, more than any other character, will be engaged and twisted by this world. We’re already starting to see that now.This 12-year-old kid is able to put a bullet into his mother because he knew that’s what needed to be done; I think that’s going to be hard for the audience. That’s not something someone Carl’s age should be capable of doing, but it’s something that he’s done and moving forward we’re going to see him do more and more things like that until we’re at a place where we look at that guy and go, “I don’t know who this kid is; this is insane.” That’s going to be a fun journey to go on and it’s going to be something that Rick is going to have to deal with moving forward.I think this is coming at the exact wrong time for Rick. Everyone knows that this season is building towards a confrontation between the prison and Woodbury. That confrontation would be vastly different if it had happened before these events took place. Now that Rick is in this tragic phase where he’s dealing with this loss, this relationship that’s unresolved, and this new baby that he’s going to have to take care of, he’s going to be a much different person even when this confrontation with the Governor does take place.

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I’d like to say that Daryl is actually a big softy, and I think we saw it a bit in season two and we’ll probably see more of it moving forward here. I would think that this would cause him to possibly open up even more in looking for support dealing with his loss. What this actually does to him and how his behavior changes will be something that you’ll just have to see as it occurs, so stay tuned.Info about Michonne is going to unfold at a pretty slow pace. I think that there’s definitely a lot to learn about her and you’ll definitely be ending this season with a lot more information than you had coming into this season. That’s something we’re going to keep close to the vest; we like her as a mysterious character and I think it’s cool that you don’t really know that much about her. It’s the kind of thing that’s going to be parsed out a little bit.I think that’s a really cool thing to point out. Most shows would’ve saved something like this for some kind of a finale episode, and the fact that we’re doing this in the fourth episode of a 16-episode season should indicate how we’re going to be building from this and this is going to be a pretty insane season of television.Once we get to episode eight, which is our mid-season finale, and moving toward episode 16, our finale, I think you’ll see that there’s a lot of road to travel and a lot of big events coming up. This is going to be a pretty awesome season of television and I’m really excited for people to watch it unfold. If you think we can’t top this, I’m very anxious to prove you wrong.

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