The Walking Dead: 15 Most Shocking Moments

7. Scars (Season 9)

The Walking Dead Michonne
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This is, without doubt, one of the darkest episodes of the Walking Dead.

Nobody is safe in this show, but even then there are things you don't expect.

When Jocelyn (Rutina Wesley), a friend of the now-pregnant Michonne, arrives at the gate, there is joy in the air. A friend from before the apocalypse shows up alive and well, what's not to celebrate?

She quickly settles into Alexandria with some children she's "rescued", and after some time, they and the Alexandrian children start to play together, have sleepovers, you know, what kids do. But then, they are gone. Jocelyn took them.

What Jocelyn had been doing is training the children to fight for her and gather supplies, as people are less likely to harm children, and they can get into smaller spaces to hide should they require it. More than that though, she manipulates them into doing disgusting things.

The group are tracked by Daryl and Michonne to their hideout, where the pair are captured, and branded like cattle. Luckily, Michonne manages to escape, but it means she has to face the child soldiers. She gets stabbed in the stomach, and in self-defence, she kills all of the kids who are attacking her, and it's visible on her face that she hates what she's doing.

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