In the Season 8 finale episode of "The Walking Dead," the dark side of Maggie (Lauren Cohan) has come out, and she's ready to take down her adversaries. In this case, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). The scene in question shows an ominous and firm-speaking Maggie telling Jesus that Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) were wrong to spare Negan's life, and she plans to slowly work toward killing him.
Tom Payne told a panel at Fandemic Tour Atlanta that his character was initially meant to agree with Maggie and respond to her calls to kill Negan with "Yes, we will." However, after playing Jesus for quite some time, Payne thought that this statement went against the character's morals. "I had spent the whole season being kind of anti-killing Negan and anti-fighting people," Payne said, explaining why agreeing to kill Negan just didn't feel right.
Ultimately, Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) enters the conversation from the shadows of the room and says the line, and Payne was able to hold his portrayal — of a slightly less corrupt survivor on "The Walking Dead" — to a consistent standard.
