The Walking Dead Season 4 Finale: 12 Big Questions That Need Answering

4. Did Maggie Just Sign-Post Her Own Death? Or Glenn's?

No matter how you look at it, killing Beth off is too obvious for the writers, unless it's done in a spectacular way (the barbecue) - and if that's the case, she's unlikely to be the only casuality in the finale. In grotesquely unromantic terms, Maggie and Glenn are the two characters whose deaths would leave the greatest mark, and would also be the most Walking Dead like of all. They've spent a long time in the build-up to finding each other again, and it definitely would not be beyond the show to pull an almighty cold-hearted middle-finger to our sense of romance, and have one of them die just after they get their moment. The big hint has already come from Maggie: when she burned Glenn's only photograph of her as he wouldn't ever need it again, she basically put on a t-shirt that read Dead Meat in giant flashing fluorescent letters. The minute you say you'll always be together in a show like this is the moment you sign your own death certificate. Perhaps Glenn saves Maggie and is killed himself? That would fit, and it would be an awful, but surprisingly fitting punishment for Maggie for making herself a horror movie cliche.