What do Jesus' confrontations with Tara and Morgan mean moving forward?
SPOILER ALERT: Read on only if you have already watched Sundays The Damned episode ofThe Walking Dead.
The communities of Alexandria, the Kingdom, and the Hilltop have united to fight against Negan.
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But what about when they start fighting among themselves?
Thats what happened in Sundays The Damned episode ofThe Walking Dead.
Jesus took a stand against Tara and later, Morgan by refusing to kill surrendering Saviors.
He also decided against offing a Savior who faked surrender, attacked him, and held him at gunpoint.
What does keeping all these enemies alive mean going forward?
What do they do with them?
We asked actor Tom Payne about all that and more.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lets get into his confrontation between Jesus and Tara.
Jesus says, Im not going to shoot someone with their hands up, and neither are you.
And there has to be a purpose beyond just killing everyone, because where does that end?
And then how are we any different from the people that we are fighting?
And those people are dead and we just assume that they are?
But right now, at this point he probably doesnt know that Gabriel is still at the Sanctuary.
Maybe he thinks that hes dead.
Lets talk simple logistics: Im all for preserving human life.
What do we do next?
And so you will see in the coming episodes how that plays out.
So thats definitely an interesting problem to solve in the coming episodes.
I think hes just a bit disappointed, actually, and just a bit like Oh, God.
Okay, hows this going to end now?
And I think actually what he said, like, I think shes going to shoot you.
Because she was going to shoot him.
Thats kind of interesting because Jesus knows Rick, but he doesnt really know him.
Out of everyone in the whole group, he knows Maggie the best.
Hes not someone who in the past wants to.
Otherwise he would have just completely checked out of the whole thing and gone off and found another community.
And hes on a path to discovery for himself and within the group this season.
And yeah, I dont think this is a snap decision.
He wants to participate.
We also see Jesus have a disagreement with Morgan there over the same issue.
And in the season 8 trailer, we saw them sparring.
Could those two things be related?They could be, yeah.
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