That certainly didn’t take long. Fans of The Walking Dead were naturally concerned that a Rick and Michonne series would take a long time to get the two characters together. However, when the couple made touch at the very end of Sunday’s AMC premiere of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, those worries were dashed like a military jet.

Although the characters had spent some time together on screen in dream sequences on a bench earlier in the episode, they also finally connected after Michonne, played by Danai Gurira, nearly killed her husband in the process.

In a Civic Republic Military chopper, Andrew Lincoln’s Rick eventually revealed to his senior officer Okafor (Craig Tate) that he was fully committed to his new goal of aiding in the CRM’s reconstruction at the start of the scenario. Naturally, Okafor died instantly after that when a rocket of some kind struck their helicopter in midair.

Rick managed to crash-land the aircraft, but an attacker quickly attacked him and the other soldiers who were on the ground. And before she tore off his helmet and saw it was her husband, the attacker had come dangerously close to severing Rick’s throat. Yes, Rick was nearly killed by Michonne.

Why then did you reconcile the long-lost couple so quickly? In an interview with EW, Gurira states, “I think it made sense.”

“Because we needed to get to the heart of the matter, which is: What transpires when these two individuals—who have clearly evolved throughout their long separation—reunite? What does that look like with the CRM standing in their way as such a huge barrier and obstacle? How do they manage to go over that? What will it be, exactly? That is not possible until we connect them.

Even though the two may have rediscovered each other, co-creator Scott M. Gimple points out that after all that time apart, they are still figuring out who they are and what kind of relationship they might have.

Gimple remarks, “They appear to be two different people.” “They are not the same person. And when I say from themselves, I don’t mean from each other. Both they and the audience have changed since the last time they saw one another. They have entirely changed from who they once were.

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The quest to discover whether and how the two might reunite has begun now that they have established a connection. Meanwhile, Gurira, Gimple, and Lincoln have been especially amused by the surprised looks on the faces of moviegoers who did not anticipate the two of them to get so close. “I adore how the audience is taken aback by the sudden realization that she is there,” exclaims Gurira.

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“Rick is found just when they thought he was lost, just when they thought he was settling and accepted that he was basically broken and would simply stay here and not fight it longer. That strikes me as good drama.

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