I HEAR VOICES

THE WALKING DEAD

Nerd Repository has posted a recap of Jon Bernthal’s panel at Phoenix Comic-Con 2012 where he revealed there was an alternative ending to season two that he and co-star Andrew Lincoln pitched to the showrunners. Bernthal said the alternative ending would mostly be the same leading all the way up to the encounter in the forest with a few notable exceptions.

“Instead of holding his gun out, [Rick] says, ‘You’re going to have to shoot an unarmed man’ and he throws his gun,” Bernthal said. “This makes Shane go crazy, so Shane approaches Rick, puts the gun right up to Rick’s face and says, ‘You’ve got a broken boy, a broken woman, a weak boy,’ and all that stuff. He really pushes him and says something disgusting like, ‘I know what your wife tastes like’ or something like that, really push Rick because he’s really on the deep end. He’s pushing and he’s pushing him.”

This would cause Rick to stab Shane, who then reanimates as a zombie — and this is where the real changes come into play.

“Remember the change I said, Rick has thrown his gun. So when Shane starts to pop up as a zombie, Rick grabs Shane’s gun which is right there and points it at zombie Shane as zombie Shane is coming towards Rick. Rick points the gun at Shane and it just goes ‘Click. Click. Click.’ Then out of nowhere, Carl blasts him and Rick looks at the gun and sees the gun was never loaded. So Shane brought Rick out to those woods to make him kill him.”