This week’s episode of The Walking Dead: Dead City, “Feisty Friendly,” introduced a new villain, had some big Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) moments, and even ended in a sad death for a character we just met. But the most head-scratching moment — at least for me, personally — is when the show featured a heartbreaking scene of Maggie (Lauren Cohan) remembering Glenn (Steven Yeun) that I don’t believe ever happened on The Walking Dead.
To get this out of the way, you are fully allowed to scream at me in the comments below if I’m not remembering correctly. But let’s talk about the scene in Dead City first. In it, Maggie and Hershel (Logan Kim) are hanging out in Central Park with Perlie Armstrong (Gaius Charles), having a snack. He asks what food they miss, and for him it’s a bodega egg sandwich, which Perlie is correct about: they are the best. Maggie says “jelly donut,” which she’s wrong about: jelly donuts are gross. Then, to continue on her sort-of-wrong tact, she says, “Maybe a Kit Kat,” which is a perfectly fine candy bar but not the sort of thing I would opine about at the end of the world.
Perlie sings the iconic Kit Kat jingle, Maggie joins in, and then Perlie notes that “sometimes, early on, you’d luck out and find a candy bar.”
“Last time I saw a candy bar was three years in,” Maggie says. “It was my birthday…”
There, she pauses, overcome with emotion, before finishing, “…and he surprised me.”
She doesn’t say who “he” is, but based on Hershel’s pissed off reaction, it’s clear Maggie is talking about his dad, Glenn. And if we look at the Walking Dead timeline, three years in, a whole lot happened: the end of the prison, Terminus, Alexandria, leading up to Negan doing his lineup and killing Glenn. Oh, and Maggie revealed she was pregnant with Hershel.
One thing that I don’t think happened? Glenn giving Maggie any candy, or Maggie celebrating her birthday. Mind you, I haven’t gone back and done a full-on Walking Dead rewatch recently. But the only time I can really remember Glenn gifting Maggie anything is an engagement ring back in TWD Season 3, Episode 15. And I guess the baby or whatever.
Point being, unless this is a reference I missed, and if so, again: yell at me… We have a brand new reason to be sad about Glenn and Maggie, years after he died. Thanks a lot, Dead City.
