The Walking Dead Lori Lady MacBeth, Shane Death, Farm War?

The Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara and executive producer Robert Kirkman dissect “Triggerfinger.” We also have the Inside The Episode cast and crew interview.

The following contains spoilers if you’re yet to see “Triggerfinger” and mild upcoming spoilers

On Lori confronting Shane about Otis’ death and whether she believes Shane’s account of Rick dying in the hospital:

Kirkman: She definitely has reason to suspect that this was all a ploy on his part to get Rick out of the picture, especially considering how quickly a romantic relationship seemed to develop for them. This is in large part about her guilt, and her guilt over that entire situation. She’s going to be lashing out and in a sense blaming Shane for the decisions that she made because it will make her feel better. The audience knows that Shane wasn’t lying. A lot of people paint Shane to be this dastardly villain but he’s one of the most nuanced characters on the show. It’s really a tragic story for him because he really is trying to do good every single time he does something that seems to be crazy and irrational. He is really just a scared individual trying to feel his way through this insane world. He’s not handling it as well as Rick, who is a lot more centered and seemingly a lot more prepared. The fact that Rick can go from gunning those guys down in the bar at the end of the previous episode to being compassionate about the guy who is impaled on the spike shows that he really is more prepared for this world. I feel like you should be feeling sorry for Shane more than anything.

On Lori’s Lady Mac~~Beth~~Death turn in planting the ‘kill Shane‘ seed in Rick’s head:

Mazzara: People are very interested in seeing us develop the characters. What’s interesting is when you consider that scene, that character is now developing in a way that is going to surprise everybody, and, to me, that scene is pretty clear-cut. We know that Lori makes foolish decisions. We saw her attempt to take morning-after pills as a birth control method. That’s clearly not plausible, but she doesn’t know that. So, she is a woman who does exercise poor judgment.
So, when she drives off now, she’s trapped, and we see that she is actually surprisingly adept in this world, that she can single-handedly kill two zombies with her bare hands. Shane’s going out to save her, but she doesn’t need to be saved. Yet it’s Shane’s speech to her saying, “You know what we had was real, that you’re trying to rewrite history because you’re trying to sanitize the truth,” that strikes a chord with her because Shane is right. That frightens her and threatens her and it leads her to that whisper in Rick’s ear, à la Lady Macbeth. It’s very interesting because she is clearly playing one man against the other, and she favors things in both men. She would think the ultimate man for her would be a combination of the two.
Kirkman: She’s terrified and clearly seeing this man unravel and perceiving him to be a major threat to the group. Knowing what we know about Rick, is Rick’s reaction going to be that rash? That’s really question in the next episode. Rick is the guy who handles this kind of thing. He’s going to take that information and try and figure something out with it.

On how the group will handle their new member, Randall (Michael Zegen) and the potential threat he brings:

Kirkman: We know that he is part of a larger group. We’re peeling back this onion threat — we’ve got the guys inside the bar, then there’s the other layer of the guys who were out at the bar. Whether or not there’s this additional layer of an even larger group that they were part of is really the question that’s out there. Randall being back at the farm is really what they’re going to be concerned with in the next episode: Who’s out there, who might be looking for him and whether that’s going to draw people to the farm causes quite a bit of conflict and could possibly ruin things for them.

On whether Jon Bernthal re-teaming with former showrunner Frank Darabont on TNT‘s L.A. Noir pilot really does signal the end for Shane:

Mazzara: Let’s say this: You know the Shane character was killed off in the comic book very, very early. We are a show that is going to surprise people. People can speculate. I haven’t read the Frank script, but it is conceivable that Bernthal’s character gets offed in that pilot. I haven’t read it. So I don’t want to say anything about secrets or spoilers or anything like that, but I think fans will be satisfied with our story, and I’m just going to focus on that, not other material.

As for the mystery of Jenner’s whisper?:

Kirkman: As far as the Jenner thing goes, don’t worry, people will stop asking that question very soon.

Source: TV Guide | THR

Meanwhile, the cast and crew share their thoughts on the events that took place in “Triggerfinger,” and the ramifications going forward. Watch via the player below: