We need to talk about Daryl Dixon. There’s no way The Walking Dead did that to him, right? Right. Right? Warning, spoilers ahead.

In “East,” Daryl (Norman Reedus) took off on his own to go after Dwight (Austin Amelio) following the death of Denise (Merritt Wever). Since this crew runs deep, they didn’t let him go out on his own and Michonne (Danai Gurira), Glenn (Steven Yeun) and Rosita (Christian Serratos) followed his trail…only to get ambushed by Dwight and the saviors. The episode ended with a gunshot, blood on the camera lens and Dwight saying, “You’ll be alright.”

“Exactly what you see happens, happens. It’s not a trick. It’s definitely Daryl getting shot. I won’t tell you where he’s getting shot. But you see [Dwight] pull the trigger, and that’s Daryl’s blood,” Reedus told TVLine.

So this isn’t a Glenn and the dumpster situation again. Guess The Walking Dead learned its lesson there.

“You should be very worried about Daryl. At the end of the episode, there’s a comment that Dwight makes [“You’ll be alright”]—and we’re really good about throwing you off base. That comment might not even be to Daryl. It could be to Rosita—or to anybody there,” Reedus told The Hollywood Reporter. “Or it could be to something that some scuffle that happens directly afterward. Do you trust that guy? Anyone automatically assuming that’s the obvious play is trusting words that come out of that guy’s mouth and we’re really good at throwing you for a loop. So… food for thought.” MORE…