The Walking Dead’s Father Gabriel talks dying ‘hanging upside down, screaming’ at the hands of The Whispers’ Beta
THE Walking Dead season 10 returns to screens next week and promises to be more brutal than ever.
As the war against the The Whisperers, headed up by the brutal Alpha, rages on, the allied communities are set for heavy casualties.
One person who may find themselves in the firing line is Father Gabriel Stokes (Seth Gillam), at least if the Robert Kirkman comics upon which the TV show is based ring true.
In the graphic novels, Gabriel panics when he sees a herd of walkers, lead by a disguised Whisperer, approaching Alexandria.
Tripping from his lookout post on the water tower, he ends up dangling upside down, only to be stabbed by Beta (Ryan Hurst) and falling to a mob of bloodthirsty zombies.
Nonetheless, Gillam said he would roll with whatever fate befitted the plot.
"It's not too good for Father Gabriel when the Whisperers show up!" he told ComicBook.com.
"I don't get nervous about it... No day is promised to anyone. So when it happens, it happens,” he went on.
"I want Father Gabriel's exit from the show to be operatic. And I think his death in the comic books is definitely that... Hanging upside down, screaming."
The Whisperers have already spilled their fair share of blood in a bid to mark their territory.
At the end of season 8, they mounted the heads of their victims in a row of spikes, a gesture designed to remind trespassers what happens if they invade their turf.
Among the victims was Henry, the adopted son of Carol (Melissa McBride) and Ezekiel (Khary Payton), devastating the couple and eventually driving them apart.
One of the show's producers has teased an epic revenge smackdown between Carol and Alpha in the wake of Henry's slaughter.
Meanwhile, the first details about spin-off show The Walking Dead: 2020 emerged earlier this week, promising a coming-of-age story about those born into the apocalypse.
The Walking Dead season 10 kicks off on 6 Oct on AMC in the US, and 7 Oct on Fox in the UK.