The Walking Dead: Morgan Was At ‘Rock Bottom’ During Season 3

It was great to see that Morgan Jones was still alive and kicking during The Walking Dead’s fifth season.  It got even better when we found out that he knew where Rick and the group were heading because of the map he found.  And it finally got really sweet watching Morgan save Daryl and Aaron from a big group of walkers surrounding a vehicle during the season 5 finale.

However, things took a bit of a turn when the first thing that Morgan saw upon arriving at Alexandria was his “friend” Rick executing Pete in the closing moments of the season 5 finale.  Despite that moment being really confusing, perhaps the most interesting Morgan moment on The Walking Dead was during season 3 when Rick, Carl and Michonne entered a block of stores that he had booby trapped.

During an interview on the AMC website, Lennie James shed a little light onto the mental state of Morgan during that time on The Walking Dead.  Here is what he said:

"“That was possibly rock bottom. That was a man you were seeing at his worst. He had lost all semblance of himself in the fact that he had lost his wife and son. Both of those relationships were defining attributes of who Morgan was. He was a husband and a father, so he lost himself. What you saw was a man who had nothing left to live for, but couldn’t find solace in dying. I jokingly describe it as him totally going cray cray. [Laughs].”"

And “cray cray” was something that Morgan definitely seemed when Rick, Carl, and Michonne met up with him.  From Morgan firing at them on the roof, to talking about seeing “people wearing dead people’s faces” and trying to “clear” everything, it was a moment of The Walking Dead that was hard to forget.

Hopefully, Morgan has moved past that stage in his life.  He appears to have adapted to his new life pretty well, calling all life “valuable” and taking a zen-type approach to life among all the chaos of the undead and vicious humans.

We’ll find out more when The Walking Dead returns from break this fall on AMC.

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