The Walking Dead 7.1 "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" Season Premiere (spoiler alert)

[Miles Archer]

14. I've read a few of the speculation articles, and...

...as I'm sure you know, a case can be built for pretty much any of the characters on a "pros" and "cons" basis. What I came away with was:

1). Rick's telling Negan "I'm going to kill you" in the Season 6 finale was a sincere statement but the more emotionally devastating the loss, the more powerful the vengeance...and the story arc that goes with it. Rick's not going to kill Negan tonight. It's going to be like Kurt Russell going after the Cowboys in "Tombstone."

2). I agree with some of the speculators who said that it can't be Carl or any of the female characters, because in the mind of a guy like Negan, killing a woman or a child would be a sign of weakness in his mind. He's going to have to take out someone who would be a fair match against him without "Lucille" in the equation.

3). It could be Glen, but as many of the speculators said, it would be too convoluted, like one of those "third set" arcs from the Grateful Dead that set out to go somewhere and didn't quite make it. Every aspect of it, from the fake death earlier to the fact that Glen was killed in the comic, makes me take him off the list.

I don't have cable at the moment so I am going to be enjoying the "process of discovery" with the rest of you folks tonight. I think I know who it is too, and soon enough, I'll find out if I was right.