This post contains spoilers for The Walking Dead Season 9, Episode 5, “What Comes After.”

Sunday’s Walking Dead was a fateful one—not only for Rick Grimes, whose disappointing fake-out death set up a slate of spin-off films for Andrew Lincoln, but also for Maggie Rhee, who apparently said her last farewell on the series as well. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sunday night was not only Lincoln’s final episode on the flagship series, but Lauren Cohan’s as well—at least for now.

Right now, T.H.R. reports, Cohan has no future episodes planned with the series, although her fate remains open-ended. Both show-runner Angela Kang and AMC Programming President David Madden confirmed the news to T.H.R.—although both indicated that they’d love to see more of Maggie Rhee in the future. “We’ve been talking to Lauren and hopefully we’ll get to tell more story for her,” Kang told T.H.R. “We definitely have some things up our sleeve that we’d love to do. A lot of that is just a scheduling conversation, so hopefully that will all work out, because I think mutually we would like to continue with Maggie’s story, for sure.” It seems fair to guess that how soon future Maggie episodes might happen rests largely on the fate of Cohan’s ABC pilot, Whiskey Cavalier.

Cohan’s official—if possibly temporary—exit from the series was announced this spring. The actress first put herself up for pilot season when her contract negotiations with AMC stalled. (Cohan had requested a large pay raise—although it was made clear she was not seeking parity with male leads Lincoln and Norman Reedus.)

This season did introduce one final fate for Maggie: joining the traveling survivor Georgie and her group on the road to share knowledge and windmill blueprints. As made clear in an earlier episode, Georgie quite likes Maggie, and has been trying to recruit her. And as sudden as Maggie’s departure might feel, Sunday night did at least provide her closure when she finally confronted Negan. Maggie’s hatred for Negan has been festering ever since she found out that the man who murdered her husband right in front of her would not die, but instead serve a life sentence in Alexandria’s newly constructed prison. On Sunday, Maggie traveled to the town to murder Negan—but once she got into his jail cell, she realized that his life sentence was more punishing than death ever could be. The scene mirrored a similar one in the Walking Dead comics—albeit one that happens later in the source material’s timeline than where we currently are in the series. Either way, it seems Maggie ended her run on The Walking Dead, at least for now, with some closure.

As for Maggie and Cohan’s future involvement in the Walking Dead universe? As Madden put it to T.H.R., “Angela and Lauren talk. They are actually friendly. And we would like to see her come back. A lot of that is going [to] have to do with Whiskey Cavalier [which premieres midseason on ABC] and what her availability then becomes, which we obviously don’t control. But creatively, we would love to see her return to some degree.” Perhaps she, like Lincoln, can appear in a Walking Dead film or two. For now, though, it appears it’s time to say goodbye.

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