The Walking Dead: 10 Great Moments When The Show Ignored The Comic

4. Morgan's Wife

Soon after Rick escaped from his own personal hell in the hospital, he met a seemingly paranoid man named Morgan and his son Duane. Rick was completely oblivious to the current state of the world, having only just emerged into this new age. Morgan introduced Rick to the violent landscape ahead of him, and gave him shelter in the house he had been living in. As the night came, and walkers began to crowd outside, Rick saw the other side of the zombie apocalypse. The human side. Morgan's wife, who had turned some time ago, approached the door and began jiggling the doorknob.

While the setting of the scene is present in the comics, the home of the Thompson family (although it's the Drakes residence in the tv show), this particular moment is not. It is a chilling scene, granting an unknown presence of familiarity to the mind of the normally savage walkers. By giving Morgan's wife more screen time, you give him an expanded sense of purpose. His dedication to protecting his son, and the heartbreaking sorrow he goes through in trying to put her down, is heavy stuff. In addition to being just plainly terrifying, it also gives Morgan another layer upon which actor Lennie James can build.