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Posted: 2018-02-26T03:23:30Z | Updated: 2018-02-26T10:59:39Z

(Warning! The Walking Dead spoilers below.)

There were no helicopters flying in with a cure. There were no healthy people pretending to be zombies. There were no zombies wearing uninfected dentures .

Despite everyones desperate attempts to theorize how Carl (Chandler Riggs ) would survive the zombie bite he received in Season 8, Episode 6, nothing could stop the inevitable from happening in Sunday nights midseason premiere: Carl Grimes finally bit the dust.

Some other things happened in the episode, like Carol (Melissa McBride) and Morgan (Lennie James) fighting the Saviors, but who really cares? Thats just superfluous action taking away from the real point of the show, which was saying goodbye to Carl, who is pretty definitely dead.

After the younger Grimes shared some emotional moments with various characters, including his baby sister, and schooled his dad, Rick (Andrew Lincoln), with a speech on making the world a better place and not just murdering all the Saviors, we hear a gunshot as Carl takes his own life offscreen. Cut to seeing him under a sheet as Michonne (Danai Gurira) and Rick prepare to bury him.

Sure, he might show up in future dream sequences or hallucinations, but thats basically it for the character.

Riggs said his farewell in a tweet.

my final episode of the walking dead airs tonight.

ill be on talking dead afterwards to elaborate on how much the cast, the crew, and the show as a whole meant to me.

i hope ill see you there.

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my final episode of the walking dead airs tonight.

ill be on talking dead afterwards to elaborate on how much the cast, the crew, and the show as a whole meant to me.

i hope ill see you there.

chandler riggs (@chandlerriggs) February 25, 2018

Plus, AMC probably wouldnt have sent out these delicious pudding bars if Carl was gonna survive.