Morgan Jones You Know What It Is

Fictional character

Morgan Jones
The Walking Dead / Fear the Walking Dead graphic symbol
Morgan Jones, as portrayed by Lennie James in the tv set series (left) and in the comic book series (right).
First appearance	Comic: "Issue #1" (2003) Telly: The Walking Dead : "Days Gone Cheerio" (2010)
Last appearance	Comic: "Issue #83" (2011)
Created by	Robert Kirkman Tony Moore
Adapted by	Frank Darabont (The Walking Dead)
Portrayed past	Lennie James
In-universe information
Occupation	Comic: Cook for the Alexandria Safety-Zone Television set: Soldier for the Kingdom Member of the Militia
Weapon	Stick
Spouse	Jenny Jones (named only in the television series)
Significant others	Comic: Michonne Television: Grace Mukherjee
Children	Duane Jones (son)

Morgan Jones is a fictional graphic symbol from the comic volume serial The Walking Expressionless and is portrayed by Lennie James in the American tv series of the aforementioned name and its companion series Fear the Walking Expressionless. In both the comics and television series, he is a devoted father struggling to become over the contempo death of his married woman. He and his son, Duane, seek refuge in Rick's hometown after the outbreak occurs and are the kickoff survivors that Rick encounters subsequently awakening from his blackout. Morgan is characterized by his catchphrase "you know what it is", which he repeats regularly throughout the Boob tube evidence.

In the TV series, Morgan saves Rick'southward life from a walker and informs him about the outbreak. They part ways with the intention of reuniting in Atlanta just then lose contact. In the season 3 episode "Clear," Morgan is revealed to exist alive when Rick encounters him on a supply run back in Rick's hometown. Morgan has become mentally unstable as Duane was killed by Morgan'due south undead wife, and refuses to rejoin Rick'southward grouping insisting that he needs to stay and clear the town of walkers. In season five, Morgan is shown to have recovered from his mental break and learns that Rick is in Virginia. He eventually finds the Alexandria Prophylactic-Zone and reunites with his old friend. In season half dozen Morgan acts every bit a man of peace, insisting they can resolve threats without the use of violence, which conflicts with Rick's views, and tries to help him regain his humanity when it continually diminishes. A flashback episode "Here's Not Here" reveals that later on encountering Rick the second time, Morgan met a survivor named Eastman who helped him recover from his mental pause, teaching him aikido and insisting he doesn't accept to kill people no thing the situation. The ongoing war diminishes Morgan's delivery to peace, and he reverts to killing. By the finish of the state of war, he leaves Washington DC. It was decided to transfer his character to the companion serial Fear the Walking Dead.

Appearances [edit]

Comic book series [edit]

Morgan Jones, as depicted in the comic volume series.

Morgan's son, Duane, spots Rick wandering around their house and, mistaking him for a walker, knocks him out with a shovel. Morgan speedily comes to the realization that Rick is a living human and aids him back to health. He provides details to Rick of the outbreak and what has been happening within the earth the past couple months. Rick afterwards supplies him and his son with guns from the Sheriff'due south station to ensure their protection, and then departs from them to Atlanta.^[i]

Morgan and Duane are later shown however remaining inside their business firm several months afterward, during the winter. In an attempt to preserve old tradition and celebrate Christmas with Duane to lift his spirits, Morgan is able to find a Game Boy from a nearby store and requite it to him as a present.^[2]

Quondam within the post-obit months, Duane falls prey to the walkers, specifically his walker-turned mother, and gets turned. Morgan, unable to cope with the death of his son, resorts to locking Duane in the firm with chains. As his mental and concrete health deteriorates, he begins murdering survivors who pass by and then he can feed the boy. Rick, along with his son Carl and new 2nd-in-command Abraham, get in back to the boondocks with the plan to bring Morgan into the group, which he agrees to afterward freeing his zombie son.^[3] He quickly develops an intense fixation on Carl, who reminds him of Duane.^[4] While in the grouping, he becomes i of the primary defenders of their military camp, and deepens his bail with Michonne, the two of them both connecting due to their damaged psyches and history of loss.^[5] At the same time, he attempts to deepen his bail with Carl after witnessing kickoff-hand the boy's cold-blooded mentality.^[6] He believes himself to be responsible for maintaining Carl'southward childhood innocence and is determined to make amends for his failure to protect Duane.

In one case arriving at the new walled-in community named the Alexandria Safe-Zone, he was assigned by the leader Douglas the role of existence a chef. He and the rest of the survivors enjoyed the resources that the customs offered, however he was one of the few who constitute himself frustrated with the fake upbeat attitude of their surroundings. After he and Michonne leave the welcome party hosted by the townspeople, the two finally engage in sex.^[seven] He deeply regrets his actions the following morning, believing himself to be an adulterer and continuing to cling to the memory of his deceased wife. His burdening of ill-conceived principles and refusal to let go of the by angers Michonne, despite their growing attraction towards one another.^[8]

Morgan afterward apologizes for the hindrance in their human relationship and reassures her that he is trying the best he tin to get over all that has happened. She accepts^[ix] and the 2 are able to reunite as lovers once more.^[10] Tension betwixt the two of them develops over again however, as Michonne becomes insulted past his egocentric demeanor when he justifies their sexual activities as him deserving to be happy.^[xi]

While helping fight off zombies with Rick, Morgan is caught off guard and bitten on the arm by a walker.^[12] Michonne chops his arm off, and from there he is left bedridden. He confesses to Carl his knowledge of the murder committed past him and pleads for him non to let darkness overcome his morality.^[thirteen] Michonne later tries to make amends with him, only to discover that he has died from blood-loss. He is soon thereafter put downward by her before he has the gamble to re-breathing.^[14]

Goggle box serial [edit]

Season 1 [edit]

In the television serial, Rick's hometown - where the Jones' settle - is a small Georgia town called King County. In the series premiere "Days Gone Bye", Morgan examines Rick subsequently his son Duane mistakes Rick for a walker and hits him with a shovel. Rick later wakes upward tied to a bed, every bit Morgan checks Rick for zombie bites or fever, either of which could bespeak he is turning into a walker. Morgan initially doubts Rick's status as a living being, going so far every bit to threaten to shoot him if he does not prove his humanity. After deciding Rick is not a threat, Morgan frees him using a Buck 110 hunting knife and shares what data he has regarding the apocalypse and the walkers.

The following day, Rick tells Morgan that his married woman and son are missing and they are about likely alive, since the family unit photos take been taken from the house. Morgan and Duane tell Rick they may have ready off to Atlanta, where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has set a quarantine zone. Rick takes Morgan and Duane to his sometime Sheriff'southward headquarters, where the trio use the emergency generator to power up the station. They accept hot showers and make clean out the armory. Rick heads to Atlanta, while Morgan and Duane stay behind. Rick gives Morgan a burglarize and a walkie-talkie and promises to broadcast every morning at dawn. Morgan goes to the meridian flooring of his house, where he looks through sometime family photos before shooting several zombies. As he hoped, the racket attracts more walkers, including his dead married woman Jenny, but Morgan finds himself unable to shoot her and breaks downwards in tears.

Subsequently, Rick returns to Atlanta in order to recover the walkie-talkie he dropped in that location in order to contact Morgan. Though Rick broadcasts messages to Morgan at the appointed time, Morgan never responds. Later the decision is made to carelessness their campsite post-obit a walker attack, Rick leaves behind a message for Morgan and a map of where they are going.

Season 2 [edit]

At the beginning of "What Lies Ahead," Rick attempts to contact Morgan over the walkie-talkie one final fourth dimension without success. Rick warns Morgan that Atlanta is not condom and they are beingness forced to carelessness the metropolis in favor of Fort Benning. Rick expresses hope to see Morgan there someday and almost tells Morgan a cloak-and-dagger that Doctor Edwin Jenner at the CDC had whispered in his ear, but ultimately chooses to remain silent on the bailiwick.

Season 3 [edit]

In the episode "Articulate", when Rick, Carl, and Michonne go on a run across King County, Morgan holds them at gunpoint from a roof. They take a shootout, and while trying to pursue Rick, Carl ultimately shoots Morgan in the chest. Rick pulls off Morgan's shirt, revealing that he had donned trunk armor. They elevate his unconscious-self into his building, fugitive his traps, and lay him downwards on a bed. For safe measures, his hands are leap by Rick. While Rick is reading the strange writings on the wall, he discovers that Duane had reanimated, and decides to stay and look for Morgan to wake upward.

While Michonne and Carl proceed a run, Rick waits for him to wake up, simply Morgan grabs a knife that was taped to the side of the bed. He attacks Rick, claiming that he is non familiar with anyone anymore. He stabs Rick in the upper-left breast. Rick knocks the weapon abroad, pointing his revolver at Morgan'southward caput, and Morgan begs Rick to kill him. Morgan is tied up over again and, after patching himself upward, Rick finally manages to make him remember that the two know each other. Morgan says that he tried to contact Rick every morning for several weeks, but he never answered the radio, before explaining what happened to Duane.

He is offered the adventure to join the group at the prison, but he realizes that Rick is taking a lot of guns, meaning that they are preparing for a war. Morgan claims that Rick, Carl, and his people volition die either past bullets or past walkers, and refuses to join them, non wanting to run into anyone else die. While clearing out the walkers defenseless on his traps, Carl approaches Morgan and tells him that he is sorry for shooting him earlier. Morgan remarks to Carl, "Don't ever be lamentable." While leaving King Canton, Rick, Carl, and Michonne watch every bit Morgan prepares to burn down the corpses of the walkers he captured.

Note: Morgan Jones did not announced in The Walking Dead (season 4). ^[15]

Season 5 [edit]

Subsequently the credits in the episode "No Sanctuary", a masked man is seen approaching a Terminus sign Rick had written "No Sanctuary" on. He turns effectually and pulls off his mask, revealing himself to exist Morgan who finds a cross mark on a tree and begins following a trail of them. Morgan reappears later the credits in the episode "Coda" where he follows the tree markings left past Gareth to the elementary school where he and the Hunters had cannibalized Bob Stookey's leg. Morgan puts down a walker pinned under droppings and comes across Fr. Gabriel Stokes's church building, where he puts together a makeshift shrine and kneels in front of it, praying for a short fourth dimension earlier laughing. Morgan finds the map with a road to Washington D.C. lying on the basis (the i that Abraham Ford had previously given to Rick in the episode "Four Walls and a Roof") and reads the message Abraham had left on it for Rick. Morgan realizes that his friend is still alive somewhere.

In the flavor finale "Conquer", Morgan is in Virginia and sleeping in a car, before starting a burn. A human approaches him at gunpoint, revealing himself to exist a member of the Wolves, and after a brief conversation, demands that Morgan surrender all of his supplies as well as himself. Every bit another Wolves member lunges at Morgan from behind with a pocketknife, Morgan dodges the attack and fights the men with a wooden staff, overpowering them and knocking them unconscious. Morgan places them in the backseat of the car and blows the horn—checking if any walkers are nearby—before parting. When Daryl Dixon and Aaron become trapped in a van surrounded by walkers when they set off a trap laid by the Wolves, Morgan rescues them and Aaron offers him the gamble to come to Alexandria as a thank you for saving them. Morgan initially turns down the offering, but says he is lost only on his mode to somewhere, and shows Daryl the map to Washington D.C. with Rick'southward proper noun on it that he had plant at the church. Realizing that Morgan knows Rick, Daryl and Aaron bring him to Alexandria, where they arrive in time to witness Rick executing Pete Anderson nether orders from Deanna Monroe post-obit Pete's murder of Deanna's husband.

Flavor 6 [edit]

In the season premiere, "Kickoff Time Over again", Morgan and Rick grab up, revealing that he learned how to apply his staff from someone after the outbreak. Morgan is kept in a room for the night before Rick lets him costless, telling him he doesn't have chances anymore. Morgan accompanies Rick in going out of the Condom Zone to bury Pete, when they come beyond a rock quarry filled with walkers. Morgan helps Rick with his plan to lure the walkers out of the quarry and abroad from the Safe Zone, knowing it's merely a matter of time before they suspension gratuitous. Morgan is nowadays when they walk in on Carter (Ethan Embry) discussing his plans to kill Rick and take the Safe Zone dorsum, belongings a gun to Eugene. Rick disarms Carter, which leads him into telling Morgan that no matter what happens, people like Carter volition stop up dying. During construction on a makeshift barrier, several walkers stumble into the piece of work zone. Rick wants the Alexandrians to kill them, just Morgan intervenes, saying he doesn't risk anymore either. Equally the group are luring the walkers out of the quarry and abroad from the Safe Zone, a blaring horn is heard coming from Alexandria. This causes the herd of walkers to begin making their way through the woods and back to the Prophylactic Zone, with Morgan, Rick and Michonne running dorsum to Alexandria.

In the episode "JSS", Morgan arrives back at Alexandria after a big rig truck crashed into a tower. He finds out that Alexandria was breached by a grouping known as the Wolves who are brutally slaughtering everyone they tin can in Alexandria with an arsenal of blades. The Reverend Gabriel beingness attacked past a Wolf just is saved by Morgan. When asked by Gabriel how he learned to fight like that Morgan responded, "from a cheese maker." Morgan ran around Alexandria to fight off other wolves and found himself surrounded by five of them. The leader of the pack recognized Morgan from their previous encounter. Morgan asked the Wolves to leave, but instead the Wolves attacked him. One by one the Wolves were knocked downward by Morgan using only his staff in hand. He informs the Wolf that his people have guns and they would be shot if they didn't leave. The Wolves finally comply equally they realize they tin't win. Once the Wolves left Alexandria, Morgan surveys the carnage left backside by the attackers. He went inside a house the Wolves ravaged and was ambushed by who appears to be the leader of the Wolves. A fight ensued between them in the living room, and eventually Morgan was able proceeds an upper hand to subdue the Wolf leader and knocked him unconscious.

The episode "Here's Not Here" reveals how Morgan regained his sanity and learned his martial arts skills from a survivor named Eastman. After Rick left Morgan in King Canton, it's revealed that Morgan began attacking and killing anyone he came beyond. When he comes beyond Eastman, he was knocked unconscious and locked inside a cell in the cabin. While Morgan initially rebuffs Eastman's attempts to go to know him and help him motility past his trauma (constantly telling him, he's going to kill Eastman when he gets out), Morgan eventually calms down and listens to Eastman's philosophy. From so on, Eastman taught Morgan how all life is precious also as pedagogy him Aikido to permit him to defend himself without resorting to lethal force. The episode shows how Eastman died from a walker seize with teeth, simply Morgan carries his peaceful ways on with a hope to never kill once again. The episode ends with Morgan shown to take been telling the story to the Wolf leader (locked in his basement) in an attempt to convert him in plough.

In the episode "Heads Upward", Morgan admits to Rick and Michonne that he allow the Wolves escape, believing that people can change, though Rick doubts his ability to survive without getting his hands dirty. Morgan later visits Denise Cloyd and gains her help in treating the Wolf he captured. In the mid-season finale "Start to Terminate", when Alexandria's walls are breached by a horde of walkers, Carol and Morgan take shelter in Morgan's house. She finds the captive Wolf, and threatens him with a knife, but Morgan intervenes and they fight, assuasive the Wolf to escape.

In the mid-season premiere "No Way Out", the escaped Wolf is killed while saving Denise from walkers. When the Wolf reanimates, Morgan kills it and apologizes. In the episode "Non Tomorrow All the same", Morgan tries to talk the group out of attacking the Saviors, but Rick is adamant to kill them all. With the strike force gone on their sneak assault, Morgan is seen back in Alexandria welding bars together to make a new detention cell. In the episode "Twice as Far", Morgan is seen reinforcing his jail prison cell, telling Rick it will requite them options in the future. In the episode "East", after Carol goes missing, both Morgan and Rick set up out to find her. They find an unknown human, whom Rick decides to shoot afterwards the man asks for his equus caballus, but Morgan stops him. The man is already gone by the fourth dimension Morgan explains to Rick how everything is a cycle and by sparing the Wolf leader he kept in Alexandria, Denise was saved and was able to save Carl. The 2 then part ways with Rick giving Morgan a gun and telling him to come up back once he finds Carol.

In the flavour finale "Last Mean solar day on World", Morgan continues to search for Ballad. He finds the missing man'southward horse and is pleased to come across he was telling the truth. Presently, he finds Ballad, who has been shot twice by i of the Saviors. When the man moves to shoot Carol, Morgan kills him by repeatedly shooting him and so moves to help Carol when the man he and Rick encountered earlier returns with a friend. Morgan returns his horse and the men agree to help get Ballad to safety.

Season 7 [edit]

Morgan first appears in the 2d episode of the season, "The Well" where it's revealed that the men he encountered at the stop of last flavor brought him and Carol to a community known as The Kingdom. After Ballad wakes up from a long slumber, Morgan introduces her to the leader of the community, King Ezekiel and his pet Bengal tiger Shiva. While Carol dismisses Ezekiel's masquerade equally a truthful medieval king every bit ridiculous, Morgan seems more than open-minded. He begins to become more involved in the community, helping feed their pigs and acceleration walkers. Ezekiel, impressed past Morgan'due south skills with the staff, asks him to train Ben, a immature survivor who is very important to him. Morgan is reluctant at start as he reasons the stick couldn't take saved Carol, but he eventually agrees.

While grooming Ben, Morgan allows Ben to borrow The Fine art of Peace a book Eastman gave him and states that he is struggling with his beliefs as he was forced to impale again to save Ballad, but nevertheless continues to value life. Morgan is later on present when Ezekiel and other members of the Kingdom requite tribute to the Saviors with Ezekiel expressing his want to fight and defeat the Saviors. The episode ends with Morgan escorting Carol to an abandoned business firm outside the Kingdom where they part on amicable terms before Morgan heads back. Morgan reappears in the mid-flavor finale "Hearts Still Chirapsia", where Carol sees him leaving fruit past her door. She calls him inside and shows him Ezekiel has already brought plenty of fruit, earlier asking him how he is. When he responds that he's good, she then tells him to leave. The ii are and then approached past Ezekiel'south adviser Richard, who asks for their assistance in convincing Ezekiel to launch a preemptive strike against the Saviors. Morgan refuses every bit he doesn't desire to be the one to break the peace. When Carol reiterates that she just wants to exist left lonely, Morgan replies that she was never supposed to meet him before leaving.

In "Rock in the Route", Morgan is reunited with Rick and the others when they are brought to the Kingdom past Jesus. He tells them that he found Ballad, merely she left a short time after existence in the Kingdom. He later sits in on Rick'southward meeting with Ezekiel, where he asks the Kingdom to join their fight against the Saviors. Ezekiel asks Morgan for his opinion and Morgan admits that he believes war isn't the answer and suggests they detect another manner. This sways Ezekiel to turn downwardly Rick and the group get out the Kingdom soon after (though Daryl stays behind in club to better hibernate from the Saviors). In "New Best Friends", Morgan is present at the next tribute to the Saviors when tensions escalate between Richard and Jared. When guns are drawn, Morgan and Ben use their staffs to stop Jared who then takes Morgan's staff. Despite this, he continues to disagree with Daryl who advocates war.

Morgan'south moral conundrums come up to a head in "Coffin Me Here", when during a tribute, the Kingdom comes upward short. To brand an example of the Kingdom, Jared shoots Benjamin. They rush him to Carol'south but Ben succumbs to his injuries and dies. Benjamin's expiry causes Morgan to get distraught and brainstorm to lose his grip on reality (with flashbacks of King County flashing through his mind). When he realizes Richard engineered the state of affairs, he confronts him. Richard claims information technology was supposed to exist him, but that they can utilize Ben's death to rally the Kingdom. The next twenty-four hour period, while compensating the Saviors, Morgan snaps and attacks Richard, stunning him with his staff earlier strangling him to death (shocking both sides). Morgan explains that Richard was behind Ben'southward death and is able to placate the Saviors. He so goes to see Carol and reveals what happened as well as telling her the truth about everyone the Saviors killed. He claims he'south going to impale them all, i by 1, only Carol convinces him to stay. The episode ends with Morgan sharpening his staff into a spear, symbolizing his abandonment of Eastmen'due south ideals in favor of violence.

In "The First Day of the Rest of Your Life", Morgan is found by Ezekiel, Ballad and a grouping of Kingdom survivors en road to Alexandria, donning Benjamin's armor and wielding his spear. Ezekiel asks him if he is determined to erase who he was with Morgan claiming he doesn't wish it, merely is "stuck" (implying his inability to alive in their globe with both his life and values). Ezekiel convinces him to march with them to Alexandria. When they arrive, they join the Alexandrians in battle against the invading Saviors. During the boxing, Morgan kills several Saviors (saving Rick at one point), making liberal use of both firearms and his spear. He is after seen sitting in silence, after the battle, where he is comforted by Carol (as both have been forced into killing once again).

Flavor eight [edit]

Morgan appears in the season premiere "Mercy" where he is office of Tara and Jesus's grouping of soldiers, assigned to assault several Savior compounds. "The Damned" shows the attack commencing with Morgan leading the assault, assuaging doubts past claiming "I don't die", a reference to his loved ones constantly dying while he survives. Morgan is shown to impale numerous Savior during the attack earlier encountering Jared, Benjamin's killer, once again. He is nearly to impale him when Jesus stops him, stating they've surrendered. "Monsters" shows Morgan'southward group leading the captured Saviors back to Hilltop as prisoners. Jared continues to allurement Morgan, but he refrains from taking action. When the prisoners effort an escape, Morgan kills one of them, only is stopped by Jesus from killing the others. Their disagreement over killing leads Morgan to set on Jesus, leading to a heated fight. Despite seemingly being evenly matched, Jesus manages to disarm Morgan before returning his staff. Morgan claims "I know I'thou not right. But that doesn't brand me wrong" before leaving the grouping.

Its subsequently shown that Morgan chose to take up a postal service watching the Sanctuary instead of actively fighting in the war. In "Time for Later on," Morgan helps lay down covering fire for Daryl and Rosita's attack on the Sanctuary, helping them break through the walls with a garbage truck and allowing the herd inside. When Rick later arrives with the Scavengers, he finds the sentries dead, the Sanctuary articulate of walkers and no sign of Morgan. In "How It's Gotta Exist," Morgan is revealed to accept survived the Saviors retaliation and makes his way back to the Kingdom in time to overhear Gavin threatening Ezekiel while the Kingdom is overrun with Saviors.

In a flashback in "Honor," Morgan witnesses the Saviors escape the Sanctuary and quickly flees. At the Kingdom, Morgan teams up with Carol to rescue Ezekiel and kill the Saviors who have taken over. Together, Morgan, Carol and a liberated Ezekiel impale the Saviors and reclaim the Kingdom. Morgan captures Gavin, the high-ranking Savior lieutenant responsible for Benjamin'southward death and prepares to kill him despite the efforts of Carol and Ezekiel to convince him otherwise. Earlier Morgan can kill Gavin, Gavin is suddenly killed from behind past Benjamin's younger blood brother Henry to the 3'southward shock. After, in "Dead or Alive Or," Morgan dodges questions from Henry almost his brother'south killer and contemplates telling him the truth. After finding out that Carl died helping a stranger, Morgan lies to Henry that Gavin was Benjamin's killer and as such, Henry already got his revenge.

During "Do Not Transport Us Astray," Morgan is haunted by hallucinations of Gavin telling him that it should've been Morgan that killed him. Morgan participates in the defense of the Hilltop Colony and helps to repel the set on and so to deal with the reanimated residents who have been turned by the Saviors' tainted weapons. Afterwards, Morgan is saddened to learn that Henry is missing.

In "Still Gotta Mean Something," Morgan joins Carol in a search for Henry and continues hallucinating, this time of a dead Henry. Overwhelmed and having found a walker with Henry's fighting stick impaled through it, Morgan gives Henry upwardly for dead and abandons Carol to proceed the search on her own. Morgan tells Carol that "I don't dice, I just run into it" and feels that he tin can't save anyone he cares about. Instead, Morgan joins Rick'due south efforts to rails down the escaped Savior prisoners which include Jared. The two men are captured past the Saviors, but Rick tries to convince the Saviors to release them every bit a herd of walkers are coming. When the herd arrives, Rick and Morgan are released and then plough on the Saviors, killing several of them. Morgan has a final confrontation with Jared, ending with Morgan trapping Jared and ensuring he is devoured by walkers, getting his revenge for the murder of Benjamin. Morgan and Rick hash out their start coming together and Morgan explains that his choice to salvage Rick at the time stemmed from the fact that his son was with him. Upon returning to the Hilltop, Morgan is shocked just relieved to find that Carol institute and rescued Henry. Morgan informs Henry that he got revenge upon Benjamin'south killer, but Henry merely apologizes afterward seeing Morgan's state.

In "Wrath," Morgan's mental state continues to deteriorate, causing him to now hallucinate Jared and accidentally knock Henry over while going after Alden and the freed Savior prisoners who were returning from a legitimate errand for the Hilltop. Morgan continues his aggressive stance towards the Saviors, slaughtering a group that the Militia ambushes while Jesus tries to console Morgan to take a less fierce stance, using the edgeless cease of his stick for the living and the pointed end for the dead. During the final battle with the Saviors, Morgan almost kills a subdued Savior, merely instead decides to have Jesus' advice at the last moment and knocks out the human. After listening to Rick's speech to the gathered communities, Morgan easily over Benjamin'due south armor to exist given to Henry and decides to get his ain way for a while and so he can move on and heal away from other people. Morgan extends an offer from Rick for Jadis, the quondam leader of the Scavengers, to join Alexandria so that she doesn't have to be alone. Jadis, revealing her real proper name to be Anne, accepts his offer while Morgan stays by himself in the Junkyard that had acted equally the home to the Scavengers.

Fright the Walking Dead [edit]

Flavor iv [edit]

Presently afterwards the war with the Saviors, Morgan is visited in the Junkyard by Jesus, Carol, and Rick who all separately attempt to get Morgan to return with them. Rick warns Morgan that no matter how far he runs, he will eventually detect himself with people again. Subsequently, Morgan leaves the Junkyard and begins working his way due west, ending up in Texas where he meets John Dorie. Later running into a hostile group of survivors, the two men are rescued by a journalist named Althea and are then captured past Victor Strand, Luciana Galvez and Nick and Alicia Clark. At commencement, Morgan attempts to stay out of the affairs of his new friends, bated from attempting to convince Nick to permit go of his path of vengeance which ends in Nick'south decease. After hearing the story of John and his love for the woman he knew as Laura, Morgan decides to go after his new friends and attempt to stop their state of war with the Vultures, to no success. To salvage John's life after he gets shot, Morgan, Al, June, who is the woman John knew as Laura and a immature girl named Charlie return to the Dell Diamond baseball stadium where Alicia's grouping had formed a community before information technology was destroyed past the Vultures. Morgan helps get the needed medical supplies and uses his own experiences to talk Alicia out of getting revenge on June and Charlie.

At the beginning of the second half of the flavour, Morgan decides to return to Alexandria to tell Rick that he was right: Morgan did detect his style back to people after all. During this time, Morgan'southward group discovers that a series of truck drivers led past a man chosen Polar Deport have been leaving supplies forth the roadways for anyone who needs them. Still, a powerful hurricane hits, separating the group. While taking refuge in a semi-truck during the storm, Morgan is accidentally transported to Mississippi where he makes three new friends in Jim, Sarah and Wendell. The group makes their fashion back to Texas, leaving boxes of supplies belonging to the original truck commuter along the road for other survivors, merely come into conflict with a adult female named Martha who was driven insane after losing her husband in a car accident when no 1 would help her. Having watched Al'southward video tapes, Martha sees Morgan's argument that "I lose people and and so I lose myself" and sets out to brand Morgan strong by killing his friends.

Morgan finds himself the leader of the grouping equally they become cornered in a hospital and Jim is bitten. Blaming himself for their situation, Morgan attempts to sacrifice himself to let his friends to escape, but they come up dorsum and rescue Morgan while Jim sacrifices himself so that they can all get away. Morgan decides to lead his new group to Alexandria, but attempts to aid Martha offset who has poisoned the others with antifreeze. Unable to help his friends, Morgan once again almost loses himself, but regains command and makes an backbreaking journey to salvage the others. Morgan succeeds in reaching the others in fourth dimension and countering the antifreeze poisoning through the ethanol in beer from Jim's brewery. Upon returning to help Martha, she is discovered to take succumbed to a massive infection from an earlier untreated gunshot wound and Morgan puts her downwards and buries Martha.

Inspired by his disharmonize with Martha, a woman driven to insanity because no 1 would assist, Morgan chooses not to return to Alexandria. Instead, Morgan decides to take over a denim factory and use it and the resources Polar Carry left behind to help other survivors in demand. The residual of the group chooses to bring together in with Morgan's efforts instead of going their separate ways or to Alexandria.

Season 5 [edit]

In "Hither to Help," Morgan leads most of his friends to help a survivor named Logan. In the months since they began their efforts, the group has not had any success as everyone is either dead, missing or don't want to be institute. Morgan, Alicia, Al, John, June and Luciana go into a airplane crash that leaves Luciana severely injured, forcing the others to fight off a herd of walkers equally June frees Luciana. With the assistance of a group of kids, they manage to escape, but encounter high radiation signs and a strange walker blockade. At the nearby truck stop belonging to Polar Bear, Morgan makes contact with Logan, only to learn that he is Polar Bear's old partner who tricked them then that he could take over the manufacturing plant.

In "The Hurt That Volition Happen," Morgan'due south group searches for Al who disappeared while examining a foreign walker at the plane crash site. After encountering another roadblock alert of high radiation, Morgan dispatches two walkers, falling into a trap belonging to a woman named Grace. Once the situation is defused, Grace explains that the walker Morgan had struggled with is radioactive due to a reactor meltdown at a nearby power plant. Morgan is forced to undergo decontamination and to permanently discard his fighting stick equally information technology has go contaminated beyond cleaning. Grace is revealed to be the leader of a group of survivors that used the plant as their base until the meltdown killed the residual and turned their reanimated corpses radioactive. Morgan and Alicia help Grace check the crash site and fortunately make up one's mind that none of the walkers they had previously fought were contaminated, but they face another herd with a radioactive walker. Morgan helps Grace deal with the walker while Alicia takes care of the balance of the herd. Morgan later on talks with Alicia about her growing recklessness and they are called to a campground where John and June have establish the remains of more of the radioactive walkers and the reanimated residents who contracted radiation sickness subsequently burning the bodies. Though Morgan offers their aid to deal with the rest, Grace refuses and reveals that she has last radiation sickness. Morgan and Grace hope to continue in touch and Grace asks for Morgan to allow her know if they encounter anymore of her friends so that she can safely put them down. In the finale, he is shot by Virginia. He manages to record a concluding message to his grouping, telling them to motion on and practise good. He passes out as walkers approach him, leaving his fate unknown.

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Several weeks afterwards being shot by Virginia, Morgan has managed to escape the Pioneers' grasp, but is in bad health from his gunshot wound that has become infected and gangrenous. It'southward revealed that Morgan was rescued by an unknown person who had killed the walkers that were well-nigh to eat him, stitched Morgan up and left him a notation stating that he still had a greater purpose to live for. Virginia hires a bounty hunter, Emile, to observe and kill Morgan. While scavenging for supplies, Morgan meets Isaac, who helps him hide from Emile. Isaac takes Morgan to a hidden valley where his pregnant wife, Rachel, is located. Emile finds Morgan, only Isaac rescues him and reveals that he was previously bitten prior to meeting him. Morgan kills Emile and steals his clothes, axe, and a key he was carrying with him. The next twenty-four hour period, Morgan awakens to observe the bullet extracted and that Isaac died from his infection, but non earlier Rachel gave birth to a girl, named Morgan. Morgan leaves the head of the bounty hunter for Virginia to find, leaving her stunned. Morgan tells Virginia over the radio, "Morgan Jones is dead. Yous're dealing with somebody else at present."

Morgan subsequently dedicates himself to building a new customs in the valley and adopts a willingness to be more than trigger-happy, combining his staff and Emile'southward axe into 1 weapon. Morgan kills 2 men searching for the key that he took from Emile and begins rounding up his friends and other survivors while actively hunting Virginia and her Pioneers. Subsequently saving Alicia and Virginia's teenage sister Dakota, Morgan agrees to allow them both to join him, although Strand refuses and Alicia is shocked by Morgan's more violent methods. Morgan is later reunited with John Dorie near his cabin while on the run from a herd with Dakota and tries to convince the depressed John not to hibernate himself abroad from the earth again. John is murdered past Dakota who discovers that Dakota was actually the killer of a human that his friend Janis was framed and executed for killing. Confronted by Morgan, Dakota reveals that she was really the one who had saved Morgan'due south life subsequently he was shot equally she believes that only Morgan can impale Virginia whom Dakota hates.

Virginia threatens the life of Grace, whom Morgan has been unable to detect, in society to describe him out of hiding, but Morgan reveals Dakota'southward murder of one of Virginia'due south Rangers and Virginia's coverup of it. Led by Strand, most of the Rangers turn against Virginia, simply she sends Grace and Daniel abroad with her notwithstanding-loyal 2nd-in-command Loma, forcing Morgan to save Virginia in order to find Grace and Daniel. On the run with Virginia, Morgan reveals that Dakota had saved him and to his daze, Virginia explains that Dakota is actually her girl, not her sister, a fact that Virginia has concealed from Dakota for her whole life. Chased by the Pioneers and the Outcasts led by Dwight's wife Sherry, Morgan takes an amazed Virginia to the community that he has congenital where she reveals the truth to Dakota and offers to face punishment for her crime if Morgan is the one to execute her, knowing that Morgan will make her death quick unlike her other enemies. At the last possible 2d, Morgan chooses not to become through with the execution after remembering the other people that he's killed. Instead, Morgan convinces everybody to let Virginia live with her deportment and invites anyone who is willing to follow the rules to join his new customs. Many of Morgan'due south friends decide to join him, but Strand declines, instead opting to lead the Pioneers, insisting that a grave threat that Virginia has been preparing for is still out there. Morgan banishes Virginia and Dakota from his community, simply a vengeful June executes Virginia with John's gun, believing that Virginia is responsible for her hubby'due south murder as Virginia had covered up for Dakota fifty-fifty after knowing what she was capable of.

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Development and reception [edit]

Lennie James played Morgan in the series premiere "Days Gone Bye".^[sixteen] Mike Ryan of Vanity Off-white described Morgan in his review of the episode every bit "scared shitless of zombies breaking in, which seems like a reasonable reaction".^[17] Liz Kelly and Jen Chaney of The Washington Post commented on Morgan and Duane, "whose loss of the mother figure in their family reminded us a piffling of "Lost 's" Michael and Walt".^[eighteen] Josh Jackson of Paste described Morgan and Duane as existence "tormented by Morgan's wife walking the streets outside the suburban home where they're squatting. Unable to put her out of her misery or move on without her, they're frozen in identify, tormented by loss that hasn't actually gone away.

It's the nearly nightmarish of scenarios – hunted past the shell of a loved ane – the zombies aren't generic; this one is personal."^[19] Jackson also stated that Rick is "crush-shocked by the world he wakes upward to and Morgan serves equally his shepherd into reality".^[nineteen] Leonard Pierce of The A.V. Social club described Morgan as "beautifully played by the ever welcome Lennie James" and adding that he "adds a moment of poignancy, as he finds himself actually apologizing for having non killed his now-reanimated wife".^[twenty] Pierce describes the scene in which Morgan "tries to get together the—strength? resolve? compassion?—to destroy what used to exist his married woman" every bit a "wrenching" scene.^[20] Kris King of Starpulse noted that Morgan "has a powerful scene involving the fate of his married woman and his grizzly attempt to come up to terms with his loss".^[21] Writing for The Atlantic, Scott Meslow describes what he considers "the episode's most devastating scene", in which "Morgan aims at [his married woman's] head through a burglarize from a window, nigh pulling the trigger several times earlier collapsing in tears. Morgan'south fate is a dark reflection of Rick'due south worst fears; with his married woman and son missing, and with no way to contact them, Rick never knows if he'll plow a corner and find a grotesque perversion of the wife and son he loves."^[22]

It was confirmed on November nineteen, 2012, that Morgan would be returning in Flavour 3.^[23] In an interview with Inside TV, Robert Kirkman defines the championship of the episode "Clear", and how information technology relates to Morgan: "It means a lot of things. To a certain extent it'due south the ravings of a lunatic only information technology's besides almost him trying to clear out his life and clear out any entanglements around him. He'due south living past himself so he's trying to have a clear head. Information technology'southward basically about him getting rid of his married woman and getting rid of his son and the just way for him to survive is to articulate the surface area around him."^[24] Kirkman also felt that Lennie James was "actually playing a completely different character and doing completely dissimilar things in this episode and is just as amazing doing it. And so information technology was a lot of fun having him back and also having him do things that were so dissimilar from what he had done earlier."^[24] In his recap of the episode for the Los Angeles Times, Emily VanDerWerff chosen Lennie James a "brilliant actor", and felt that "his office is significant plenty that he essentially becomes the main supporting actor in the slice".^[25] Eric Kain of Forbes chosen the performance of Lennie James "absolutely riveting", noting that Morgan "is a changed man, and non for the better"; Kain called Morgan'south refusal of Rick's offer to render to the prison with him "a glorious scene".^[26] Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club describes Morgan's situation: "Morgan's law-breaking is that he couldn't allow go of the past; he couldn't shoot his dead wife, so his expressionless wife eventually killed his son. So now he has nothing to live for, but he doesn't take the strength of will left to take his ain life. Which leaves him trapped. He can't join upwards with Rick's group, no affair how much Rick wants him to, because that would mean connecting with people again, becoming vulnerable, risking himself and having to suffer when his new friends die. And he can't commit suicide, because that would crave a different kind of courage. So he's stuck building his traps, covering the walls with his writing, sending messages to strangers he'll never come across."^[27]

On November 26, 2017, information technology was appear on Talking Dead that Lennie James would be exiting The Walking Dead and transitioning the role of Morgan to Fear the Walking Dead.^[28]

Noel Murray of Rolling Stone ranked Morgan Jones 4th in a list of thirty best Walking Dead characters, saying, "Over the past few seasons, the survivors have had less use for such a gentle, philosophical soul, merely the show still badly needs Morgan – both to prove that it'due south possible to stay alive without sacrificing every principle and that it pays to speak softly and acquit a big staff."^[29]

References [edit]

1. ^ Kirkman, Robert (w), Moore, Tony (p), Moore, Tony (i), Kirkman, Robert (allow). "Days Gone Bye" The Walking Dead ane: [24] (October eight, 2003), 1071 N. Batavia St., Suite A, Orange, CA 92867: Image Comics
2. ^ The Walking Expressionless #34 (January 2007)
3. ^ The Walking Dead #58 (Feb 2009)
4. ^ Kirkman, Robert (w), Adlard, Charlie (p), Adlard, Charlie (inker, cover), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones, embrace colors) (i), Wooton, Rus (let), Sitterson, Aubrey (ed). "What Nosotros Go" The Walking Dead v10, 59: [22] (March 12, 2009), 2134 Allston Mode, 2nd Flooring, Berkeley, CA 94704: Epitome Comics
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11. ^ Kirkman, Robert (w), Adlard, Charlie (p), Adlard, Charlie (inker, cover), Cliff Rathburn (gray tones, cover colors) (i), Wooton, Rus (let), Grace, Sina (ed).The Walking Expressionless 81: [22] (Feb, 2011), 2134 Allston Mode, 2d Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704: Image Comics
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External links [edit]

• Morgan Jones at AMC
• Morgan Jones on IMDb

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