After the season 11 B trailer dropped, we got a new episode 9 trailer that released a few days ago. It shows behind the scenes from season 11 but mainly from episode 9. It shows the scenes that transpired in episode 8. It left off with Leah shooting the fireworks trap at Daryl, Negan, and Maggie. It also showed the ending of the Alexandra scene where Judith and Gracie is stuck in the basement of the house that is getting flooded. This trailer does not show much more than the stuff I previously broke down in the season 11 B article, but it does reveal why Daryl is going to leave the show for his “Daryl and Carol spinoff”.
Daryl is going to leave the show because he has had enough of fighting. If you think about it, Daryl has been fighting a threat, nonstop, ever since season 3. First it was the Governor, then Terminus, then the Wolves, then the Saviors, then the Whisperers, then the Reapers, and now the Commonwealth. This is how AMC is going to save the Daryl (and Carol) character for their spinoff show. He is just going to get on his bike and leave because he has had enough of fighting. Maybe he will stay in the woods for awhile and the first few episodes of the show will show him leaving on his bike and traveling the United States with Carol. Carol has already left the show at multiple points because she can’t kill or has had enough with conflict too. She will just join Daryl on wherever he decides to go. Daryl confirms it in this trailer by saying, "We survived for what? To keep fighting and killing each other?" He wants to go towards the future by not destroying it. His brother, Rick Grimes would be proud of the leader that he has become today…
The only new stuff that we got in this trailer was Reaper material. First, Daryl asked Leah on the walkie if they could talk. I still believe that Leah will survive this Reaper arc and go back with them at Alexandra. Daryl will still give her another chance and she will have a part in the spinoff show. I have backed off of the Leah death in season 11. Another possibility is that Daryl will spare her like he did with Dwight after season 8. Maybe Daryl will send her away back to the house that they first lived in that we saw in season 10. I think she will survive to the end. The other Reaper content that we got was Negan vs. Carver. I assume they are going to fight in episode 9, during the final fight. I can guarantee that Carver gets killed in episode 9. I don’t think he will die from Negan but I think he is going to die from Maggie. I think that Carver is going to kill Elijah (even though I don’t want Elijah dead) and Maggie will kill Carver in retaliation. We didn’t get a lot in this new episode 9 trailer that we didn’t breakdown in the previous season 11 B article, but we got a major hint why Daryl is going to leave The Walking Dead…
Check out the new season 11 episode 9 teaser trailer below: