Less than a week before The Walking Dead season 2 resumes February 12th with episode 8 – “Nebraska” – someone claiming to be involved in the production has stepped forward to dish some dirt on what is to come. Big warning: Do not read on if you do not wish to be spoiled.
A contributor to the Roamers and Lurkers forum said:
Shane does not make it through the season, essentially Lori puts into his head that if Rick wasn’t around they would still be together. This makes Shane change AGAIN, (he had finally made peace and Lori [frick]ed him up again). Anyway he decides to kill Rick and lures him into the forest chasing after someone you will meet in “Nebraska”. Of course Rick isn’t stupid he realizes nothing is adding up and tries to give Shane a chance to abandon his plans. Believe it or not Rick loves Shane like a brother, anyway he finally calls Shane on it and Shane basically tells him how Carl and Lori will get over his death. Shane has a gun pointed at Ricks face and seconds away from shooting, when Rick starts to negotiate his way out of it, all along pulling a knife out. Long story short he lunges at Shane and buries the knife in his chest.
If this is true, this would ground those rumblings that Jon Bernthal (Shane) was moving into a new television series – Frank Darabont’s L.A. Noir – meaning his term on The Walking Dead was potentially over. The events described above also stays somewhat true to the comics, although Shane’s death doesn’t play out that way.
The report also states Shane would return as a zombie and be taken out by a gun-wielding Carl. Makes a bit of sense. In the comics, it is Carl who shoots a very much alive Shane, but would the TV censors approve of a scene depicting a young child shooting a man in the throat? Maybe. Maybe not. It goes down a bit smoother if the child shoots an adult zombie. Then again, as one of Shock’s readers pointed out, Breaking Bad – another AMC series – showed a kid shooting someone…
Of course, take all of this as purely rumor for now.
Thanks to Comic Book Movie and Spoiler TV.
