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Fictional character

Morgan Jones
The Walking Dead / Fear the Walking Dead character
Morgan Jones, as portrayed by Lennie James in the idiot box serial (left) and in the comic volume series (right).
First appearance	Comic: "Upshot #1" (2003) Television: The Walking Dead : "Days Gone Bye" (2010)
Last appearance	Comic: "Issue #83" (2011)
Created by	Robert Kirkman Tony Moore
Adapted by	Frank Darabont (The Walking Dead)
Portrayed by	Lennie James
In-universe information
Occupation	Comic: Cook for the Alexandria Safe-Zone Television: Soldier for the Kingdom Member of the Militia
Weapon	Stick
Spouse	Jenny Jones (named only in the boob tube series)
Meaning others	Comic: Michonne Television receiver: Grace Mukherjee
Children	Duane Jones (son)

Morgan Jones is a fictional graphic symbol from the comic book series The Walking Dead and is portrayed by Lennie James in the American television series of the aforementioned name and its companion series Fear the Walking Dead. In both the comics and telly serial, he is a devoted father struggling to get over the contempo death of his wife. He and his son, Duane, seek refuge in Rick's hometown after the outbreak occurs and are the first survivors that Rick encounters after enkindling from his coma. Morgan is characterized by his catchphrase "you know what it is", which he repeats regularly throughout the TV prove.

In the TV serial, Morgan saves Rick's life from a zombie and informs him about the outbreak. They function means with the intention of reuniting in Atlanta but so lose contact. In the season iii episode "Clear," Morgan is revealed to exist alive when Rick encounters him on a supply run. Morgan has go mentally unstable as Duane was killed by Morgan'south undead wife, and refuses to rejoin Rick'southward group. In flavor 5, Morgan is shown to have recovered from his mental break and learns that Rick is in Virginia. He somewhen reunites with his former friend. In flavour 6 Morgan acts as a pacifist, insisting that the group can resolve threats without the use of violence, which conflicts with Rick's views. Morgan also tries to assist Rick regain his humanity. A flashback episode "Here's Not Here" reveals that later encountering Rick the second time, Morgan met a survivor named Eastman who helped him recover from his mental break, educational activity him aikido and insisting that he never has to kill people. An ongoing war diminishes Morgan's commitment to peace, and he reverts to killing. By the terminate of the war, he leaves Washington. It was decided^{[ by whom? ]} to transfer his character to the companion series Fright the Walking Expressionless.

Appearances [edit]

Comic book series [edit]

Morgan Jones, every bit depicted in the comic book series.

Morgan'south son, Duane, spots Rick wandering around their firm and, mistaking him for a walker, knocks him out with a shovel. Morgan quickly comes to the realization that Rick is a living human and aids him dorsum to health. He provides details to Rick of the outbreak and what has been happening inside the earth the past couple months. Rick afterwards supplies him and his son with guns from the Sheriff's station to ensure their protection, and and so departs from them to Atlanta.^[1]

Morgan and Duane are later shown still remaining inside their house several months later on, during the wintertime. In an attempt to preserve one-time tradition and celebrate Christmas with Duane to lift his spirits, Morgan is able to find a Game Boy from a nearby store and give it to him as a present.^[2]

Sometime inside the following 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 house with chains. As his mental and concrete health deteriorates, he begins murdering survivors who pass past so he can feed the boy. Rick, forth with his son Carl and new 2nd-in-command Abraham, arrive dorsum to the town with the plan to bring Morgan into the grouping, which he agrees to after freeing his zombie son.^[three] He quickly develops an intense fixation on Carl, who reminds him of Duane.^[4] While in the grouping, he becomes one of the primary defenders of their military camp, and deepens his bail with Michonne, the 2 of them both connecting due to their damaged psyches and history of loss.^[5] At the same fourth dimension, he attempts to deepen his bail with Carl after witnessing get-go-paw the boy's common cold-blooded mentality.^[vi] He believes himself to be responsible for maintaining Carl'due south 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 part of being a chef. He and the rest of the survivors enjoyed the resources that the community offered, nevertheless he was ane of the few who found himself frustrated with the false upbeat attitude of their environs. After he and Michonne get out the welcome party hosted past the townspeople, the 2 finally appoint in sexual practice.^[7] He deeply regrets his actions the post-obit morning time, believing himself to exist an adulterer and continuing to cling to the memory of his deceased wife. His burdening of sick-conceived principles and refusal to let go of the past angers Michonne, despite their growing attraction towards one another.^[eight]

Morgan later apologizes for the hindrance in their relationship and reassures her that he is trying the best he tin can to get over all that has happened. She accepts^[nine] and the two are able to reunite as lovers over again.^[10] Tension betwixt the two of them develops over again all the same, as Michonne becomes insulted by his egoistic demeanor when he justifies their sexual activities as him deserving to be happy.^[11]

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 by him and pleads for him not to permit darkness overcome his morality.^[xiii] Michonne later tries to make amends with him, only to discover that he has died from blood-loss. He is shortly thereafter put downwards by her earlier he has the chance to re-animate.^[14]

Television set series [edit]

Season 1 [edit]

In the idiot box serial, Rick's hometown - where the Jones' settle - is a pocket-size Georgia town chosen Rex County. In the series premiere "Days Gone Bye", Morgan examines Rick later his son Duane mistakes Rick for a walker and hits him with a shovel. Rick later wakes up tied to a bed, as Morgan checks Rick for zombie bites or fever, either of which could indicate he is turning into a walker. Morgan initially doubts Rick's status as a living existence, going so far as to threaten to shoot him if he does not testify his humanity. Later on deciding Rick is non a threat, Morgan frees him using a Buck 110 hunting pocketknife and shares what information he has regarding the apocalypse and the walkers.

The following 24-hour interval, Rick tells Morgan that his wife and son are missing and they are most likely alive, since the family photos have been taken from the house. Morgan and Duane tell Rick they may have set up off to Atlanta, where the Centers for Illness Control and Prevention has fix up a quarantine zone. Rick takes Morgan and Duane to his onetime Sheriff'southward headquarters, where the trio use the emergency generator to power up the station. They have hot showers and clean out the armory. Rick heads to Atlanta, while Morgan and Duane stay behind. Rick gives Morgan a rifle and a walkie-talkie and promises to broadcast every morning time at dawn. Morgan goes to the top floor of his business firm, where he looks through one-time family photos earlier shooting several zombies. As he hoped, the racket attracts more walkers, including his dead wife Jenny, only Morgan finds himself unable to shoot her and breaks downwardly in tears.

Afterwards, Rick returns to Atlanta in club to recover the walkie-talkie he dropped there in order to contact Morgan. Though Rick broadcasts letters to Morgan at the appointed time, Morgan never responds. After the decision is fabricated to abandon their camp following 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 Alee," Rick attempts to contact Morgan over the walkie-talkie 1 final time without success. Rick warns Morgan that Atlanta is not safe and they are being forced to abandon the city in favor of Fort Benning. Rick expresses promise to meet Morgan there someday and about tells Morgan a secret that Doctor Edwin Jenner at the CDC had whispered in his ear, but ultimately chooses to remain silent on the subject field.

Season 3 [edit]

In the episode "Clear", when Rick, Carl, and Michonne go along a run into King Canton, Morgan holds them at gunpoint from a roof. They have a shootout, and while trying to pursue Rick, Carl ultimately shoots Morgan in the chest. Rick pulls off Morgan'south shirt, revealing that he had donned body armor. They drag his unconscious-self into his building, avoiding his traps, and lay him down on a bed. For safety measures, his hands are bound by Rick. While Rick is reading the foreign writings on the wall, he discovers that Duane had reanimated, and decides to stay and wait for Morgan to wake upward.

While Michonne and Carl go along a run, Rick waits for him to wake up, but Morgan grabs a knife that was taped to the side of the bed. He attacks Rick, claiming that he is not familiar with anyone anymore. He stabs Rick in the upper-left chest. Rick knocks the weapon away, pointing his revolver at Morgan'due south head, and Morgan begs Rick to kill him. Morgan is tied up once more and, subsequently 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, simply he never answered the radio, before explaining what happened to Duane.

He is offered the chance to bring together the grouping 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 will die either by bullets or by walkers, and refuses to join them, not wanting to see anyone else dice. While clearing out the walkers caught on his traps, Carl approaches Morgan and tells him that he is sorry for shooting him before. Morgan remarks to Carl, "Don't ever exist sorry." While leaving Male monarch County, Rick, Carl, and Michonne watch as Morgan prepares to fire the corpses of the walkers he captured.

Note: Morgan Jones did not appear in The Walking Expressionless (flavor 4). ^[fifteen]

Season 5 [edit]

Subsequently the credits in the episode "No Sanctuary", a masked homo is seen approaching a Terminus sign Rick had written "No Sanctuary" on. He turns around and pulls off his mask, revealing himself to be Morgan who finds a cross marking on a tree and begins following a trail of them. Morgan reappears after the credits in the episode "Coda" where he follows the tree markings left by 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'due south church, where he puts together a makeshift shrine and kneels in front of it, praying for a brusk time before laughing. Morgan finds the map with a route to Washington D.C. lying on the ground (the one that Abraham Ford had previously given to Rick in the episode "Four Walls and a Roof") and reads the message Abraham had left on information technology for Rick. Morgan realizes that his friend is still alive somewhere.

In the season finale "Conquer", Morgan is in Virginia and sleeping in a car, before starting a fire. A human approaches him at gunpoint, revealing himself to be a fellow member of the Wolves, and afterwards a brief chat, demands that Morgan give up all of his supplies besides as himself. Equally 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—earlier departing. When Daryl Dixon and Aaron become trapped in a van surrounded by walkers when they prepare off a trap laid by the Wolves, Morgan rescues them and Aaron offers him the adventure to come to Alexandria equally a cheers for saving them. Morgan initially turns down the offer, just says he is lost but on his style to somewhere, and shows Daryl the map to Washington D.C. with Rick's name on it that he had found 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 under orders from Deanna Monroe following Pete's murder of Deanna's husband.

Season vi [edit]

In the flavor premiere, "Get-go Fourth dimension Again", Morgan and Rick grab up, revealing that he learned how to use his staff from someone subsequently the outbreak. Morgan is kept in a room for the night before Rick lets him free, telling him he doesn't take a chance anymore. Morgan accompanies Rick in going out of the Safe Zone to coffin Pete, when they come beyond a stone 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 only a thing of fourth dimension before they break complimentary. Morgan is present when they walk in on Carter (Ethan Embry) discussing his plans to kill Rick and take the Safety Zone back, holding a gun to Eugene. Rick disarms Carter, which leads him into telling Morgan that no thing what happens, people like Carter will end up dying. During structure on a makeshift barrier, several walkers stumble into the work zone. Rick wants the Alexandrians to impale them, merely Morgan intervenes, saying he doesn't take chances anymore either. As the group are luring the walkers out of the quarry and away from the Safe Zone, a blaring horn is heard coming from Alexandria. This causes the herd of walkers to brainstorm making their way through the forest and back to the Safe Zone, with Morgan, Rick and Michonne running back to Alexandria.

In the episode "JSS", Morgan arrives dorsum at Alexandria after a big rig truck crashed into a tower. He finds out that Alexandria was breached by a group known as the Wolves who are brutally slaughtering everyone they can in Alexandria with an arsenal of blades. The Reverend Gabriel being attacked past a Wolf but 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 constitute himself surrounded past five of them. The leader of the pack recognized Morgan from their previous come across. Morgan asked the Wolves to leave, just instead the Wolves attacked him. One by i the Wolves were knocked down 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 go out. The Wolves finally comply as they realize they tin can't win. In one case the Wolves left Alexandria, Morgan surveys the carnage left backside by the attackers. He went inside a business firm the Wolves ravaged and was ambushed by who appears to be the leader of the Wolves. A fight ensued betwixt them in the living room, and eventually Morgan was able gain an upper hand to subdue the Wolf leader and knocked him unconscious.

The episode "Here'southward 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 County, information technology's revealed that Morgan began attacking and killing anyone he came across. When he comes across Eastman, he was knocked unconscious and locked inside a prison cell in the cabin. While Morgan initially rebuffs Eastman's attempts to get to know him and help him movement past his trauma (constantly telling him, he's going to kill Eastman when he gets out), Morgan somewhen calms down and listens to Eastman's philosophy. From and so on, Eastman taught Morgan how all life is precious likewise as pedagogy him Aikido to let him to defend himself without resorting to lethal strength. The episode shows how Eastman died from a walker seize with teeth, but Morgan carries his peaceful ways on with a promise to never impale once again. The episode ends with Morgan shown to have been telling the story to the Wolf leader (locked in his basement) in an attempt to convert him in turn.

In the episode "Heads Upwards", Morgan admits to Rick and Michonne that he let the Wolves escape, believing that people tin 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-flavour finale "Start to Finish", when Alexandria'due south walls are breached by a horde of walkers, Carol and Morgan accept shelter in Morgan'southward house. She finds the captive Wolf, and threatens him with a knife, only Morgan intervenes and they fight, allowing the Wolf to escape.

In the mid-flavor premiere "No Fashion Out", the escaped Wolf is killed while saving Denise from walkers. When the Wolf reanimates, Morgan kills it and apologizes. In the episode "Not Tomorrow Yet", Morgan tries to talk the group out of attacking the Saviors, merely Rick is determined to impale them all. With the strike forcefulness gone on their sneak assault, Morgan is seen dorsum in Alexandria welding confined together to make a new detention cell. In the episode "Twice as Far", Morgan is seen reinforcing his jail cell, telling Rick it volition requite them options in the future. In the episode "Eastward", after Carol goes missing, both Morgan and Rick set out to find her. They discover an unknown human, whom Rick decides to shoot after the human being asks for his horse, simply Morgan stops him. The homo is already gone by the time Morgan explains to Rick how everything is a bike and by sparing the Wolf leader he kept in Alexandria, Denise was saved and was able to save Carl. The two and then part ways with Rick giving Morgan a gun and telling him to come dorsum once he finds Carol.

In the season finale "Last Day on World", Morgan continues to search for Ballad. He finds the missing human being'south horse and is pleased to see he was telling the truth. Soon, he finds Carol, 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 then moves to help Carol when the man he and Rick encountered before returns with a friend. Morgan returns his horse and the men concur to help get Carol to safe.

Season seven [edit]

Morgan commencement appears in the 2d episode of the season, "The Well" where it's revealed that the men he encountered at the end of last season brought him and Carol to a customs 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 Ballad dismisses Ezekiel's masquerade equally a true medieval king as ridiculous, Morgan seems more open-minded. He begins to become more involved in the community, helping feed their pigs and dispatch walkers. Ezekiel, impressed by Morgan's skills with the staff, asks him to train Ben, a young survivor who is very important to him. Morgan is reluctant at start as he reasons the stick couldn't accept saved Ballad, but he eventually agrees.

While training Ben, Morgan allows Ben to borrow The Art of Peace a volume Eastman gave him and states that he is struggling with his beliefs as he was forced to impale once more to salvage Carol, merely still continues to value life. Morgan is later present when Ezekiel and other members of the Kingdom requite tribute to the Saviors with Ezekiel expressing his desire to fight and defeat the Saviors. The episode ends with Morgan escorting Carol to an abandoned house outside the Kingdom where they part on amicable terms earlier Morgan heads back. Morgan reappears in the mid-season finale "Hearts However Beating", where Carol sees him leaving fruit by her door. She calls him within and shows him Ezekiel has already brought plenty of fruit, before asking him how he is. When he responds that he's good, she then tells him to exit. The two are then approached by Ezekiel'due south adviser Richard, who asks for their assistance in disarming Ezekiel to launch a preemptive strike confronting the Saviors. Morgan refuses as he doesn't want to be the one to break the peace. When Carol reiterates that she simply wants to be left lonely, Morgan replies that she was never supposed to come across him before leaving.

In "Rock in the Road", Morgan is reunited with Rick and the others when they are brought to the Kingdom past Jesus. He tells them that he plant Carol, simply she left a short fourth dimension after being in the Kingdom. He later sits in on Rick'due south meeting with Ezekiel, where he asks the Kingdom to bring together their fight against the Saviors. Ezekiel asks Morgan for his opinion and Morgan admits that he believes state of war isn't the answer and suggests they find another way. This sways Ezekiel to plough down Rick and the group leave the Kingdom before long after (though Daryl stays behind in society to amend hide from the Saviors). In "New Best Friends", Morgan is present at the adjacent tribute to the Saviors when tensions escalate betwixt 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's moral conundrums come up to a head in "Bury Me Hither", when during a tribute, the Kingdom comes up short. To make an example of the Kingdom, Jared shoots Benjamin. They rush him to Ballad'southward simply Ben succumbs to his injuries and dies. Benjamin's decease causes Morgan to become distraught and brainstorm to lose his grip on reality (with flashbacks of King County flashing through his heed). When he realizes Richard engineered the situation, he confronts him. Richard claims it was supposed to be him, but that they can utilise Ben's decease to rally the Kingdom. The next day, while compensating the Saviors, Morgan snaps and attacks Richard, stunning him with his staff before strangling him to death (shocking both sides). Morgan explains that Richard was backside Ben's expiry and is able to placate the Saviors. He then goes to meet Carol and reveals what happened likewise every bit telling her the truth about everyone the Saviors killed. He claims he's going to kill them all, one by one, merely Ballad convinces him to stay. The episode ends with Morgan sharpening his staff into a spear, symbolizing his abandonment of Eastmen's ideals in favor of violence.

In "The Get-go Day of the Rest of Your Life", Morgan is institute by Ezekiel, Carol and a group of Kingdom survivors en route 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 information technology, but is "stuck" (implying his disability to live in their world with both his life and values). Ezekiel convinces him to march with them to Alexandria. When they go far, they join the Alexandrians in battle against the invading Saviors. During the battle, Morgan kills several Saviors (saving Rick at one betoken), making liberal use of both firearms and his spear. He is later seen sitting in silence, afterward the boxing, where he is comforted by Ballad (as both have been forced into killing over again).

Flavor 8 [edit]

Morgan appears in the flavour premiere "Mercy" where he is part of Tara and Jesus's group of soldiers, assigned to assail several Savior compounds. "The Damned" shows the assault commencing with Morgan leading the attack, assuaging doubts by claiming "I don't dice", a reference to his loved ones constantly dying while he survives. Morgan is shown to kill numerous Savior during the assail before encountering Jared, Benjamin's killer, again. He is about to impale him when Jesus stops him, stating they've surrendered. "Monsters" shows Morgan's grouping leading the captured Saviors back to Hilltop as prisoners. Jared continues to allurement Morgan, but he refrains from taking action. When the prisoners endeavour an escape, Morgan kills one of them, simply is stopped by Jesus from killing the others. Their disagreement over killing leads Morgan to assail 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'm not right. But that doesn't make me wrong" before leaving the group.

Its subsequently shown that Morgan chose to have upwards a post watching the Sanctuary instead of actively fighting in the war. In "Time for After," Morgan helps lay down covering burn down 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 Be," Morgan is revealed to have survived the Saviors retaliation and makes his manner dorsum to the Kingdom in fourth dimension to eavesdrop Gavin threatening Ezekiel while the Kingdom is overrun with Saviors.

In a flashback in "Honor," Morgan witnesses the Saviors escape the Sanctuary and speedily flees. At the Kingdom, Morgan teams upwards with Carol to rescue Ezekiel and impale the Saviors who have taken over. Together, Morgan, Carol and a liberated Ezekiel impale the Saviors and reclaim the Kingdom. Morgan captures Gavin, the loftier-ranking Savior lieutenant responsible for Benjamin's death and prepares to kill him despite the efforts of Ballad and Ezekiel to convince him otherwise. Before Morgan tin kill Gavin, Gavin is of a sudden killed from behind by Benjamin's younger brother Henry to the three'south shock. Afterward, in "Expressionless or Alive Or," Morgan dodges questions from Henry near his brother'due 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 every bit such, Henry already got his revenge.

During "Do Not Ship The states Off-target," 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 attack and then to deal with the reanimated residents who take been turned past the Saviors' tainted weapons. Afterwards, Morgan is saddened to acquire that Henry is missing.

In "Still Gotta Hateful Something," Morgan joins Carol in a search for Henry and continues hallucinating, this fourth dimension of a expressionless Henry. Overwhelmed and having constitute a walker with Henry's fighting stick impaled through information technology, Morgan gives Henry up for expressionless and abandons Carol to continue the search on her own. Morgan tells Carol that "I don't die, I just come across information technology" and feels that he can't save anyone he cares about. Instead, Morgan joins Rick'south efforts to track down the escaped Savior prisoners which include Jared. The two men are captured by 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 and so turn on the Saviors, killing several of them. Morgan has a final confrontation with Jared, ending with Morgan trapping Jared and ensuring he is devoured past walkers, getting his revenge for the murder of Benjamin. Morgan and Rick discuss their first meeting and Morgan explains that his pick to relieve Rick at the fourth dimension stemmed from the fact that his son was with him. Upon returning to the Hilltop, Morgan is shocked but relieved to find that Carol found and rescued Henry. Morgan informs Henry that he got revenge upon Benjamin's killer, but Henry just apologizes later seeing Morgan's state.

In "Wrath," Morgan'due south mental state continues to deteriorate, causing him to at present hallucinate Jared and accidentally knock Henry over while going later on 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 grouping that the Militia ambushes while Jesus tries to console Morgan to have a less violent stance, using the blunt end of his stick for the living and the pointed end for the expressionless. During the final boxing with the Saviors, Morgan nearly kills a subdued Savior, but instead decides to take Jesus' advice at the last moment and knocks out the homo. Later listening to Rick's speech to the gathered communities, Morgan hands over Benjamin'due south armor to be given to Henry and decides to go his own way for a while so he can move on and heal away from other people. Morgan extends an offering from Rick for Jadis, the erstwhile leader of the Scavengers, to join Alexandria and then that she doesn't accept to be alone. Jadis, revealing her real proper noun to be Anne, accepts his offer while Morgan stays by himself in the Junkyard that had acted as the home to the Scavengers.

Fearfulness the Walking Expressionless [edit]

Flavor 4 [edit]

Shortly subsequently the war with the Saviors, Morgan is visited in the Junkyard by Jesus, Carol, and Rick who all separately endeavour to get Morgan to return with them. Rick warns Morgan that no matter how far he runs, he will eventually find himself with people again. Afterward, Morgan leaves the Junkyard and begins working his way w, ending up in Texas where he meets John Dorie. After running into a hostile group of survivors, the two men are rescued past a journalist named Althea and are then captured past Victor Strand, Luciana Galvez and Nick and Alicia Clark. At start, Morgan attempts to stay out of the diplomacy of his new friends, aside from attempting to convince Nick to allow go of his path of vengeance which ends in Nick's death. Afterwards hearing the story of John and his love for the adult female he knew as Laura, Morgan decides to go after his new friends and attempt to stop their war with the Vultures, to no success. To save John's life after he gets shot, Morgan, Al, June, who is the woman John knew equally Laura and a immature girl named Charlie return to the Dell Diamond baseball stadium where Alicia's grouping had formed a customs before it 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 showtime of the second half of the flavour, Morgan decides to return to Alexandria to tell Rick that he was right: Morgan did find his way back to people after all. During this time, Morgan'southward grouping discovers that a series of truck drivers led by a man called Polar Carry have been leaving supplies forth the roadways for anyone who needs them. However, 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 way dorsum to Texas, leaving boxes of supplies belonging to the original truck commuter along the road for other survivors, but come into conflict with a adult female named Martha who was driven insane subsequently losing her husband in a car accident when no one would help her. Having watched Al's video tapes, Martha sees Morgan's argument that "I lose people and and then I lose myself" and sets out to make Morgan strong by killing his friends.

Morgan finds himself the leader of the group equally they go cornered in a hospital and Jim is bitten. Blaming himself for their state of affairs, Morgan attempts to sacrifice himself to permit his friends to escape, but they come up back and rescue Morgan while Jim sacrifices himself so that they can all become away. Morgan decides to atomic number 82 his new grouping to Alexandria, but attempts to help Martha first who has poisoned the others with antifreeze. Unable to help his friends, Morgan again most loses himself, but regains command and makes an arduous journey to save the others. Morgan succeeds in reaching the others in time and countering the antifreeze poisoning through the ethanol in beer from Jim'south brewery. Upon returning to assist Martha, she is discovered to have succumbed to a massive infection from an before untreated gunshot wound and Morgan puts her downward and buries Martha.

Inspired by his conflict with Martha, a woman driven to insanity because no one would help, Morgan chooses not to return to Alexandria. Instead, Morgan decides to take over a denim factory and employ it and the resources Polar Carry left backside to help other survivors in need. The rest of the group chooses to join in with Morgan's efforts instead of going their separate ways or to Alexandria.

Season 5 [edit]

In "Here to Assistance," Morgan leads nearly 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 desire to be found. Morgan, Alicia, Al, John, June and Luciana become into a airplane crash that leaves Luciana severely injured, forcing the others to fight off a herd of walkers as June frees Luciana. With the help of a group of kids, they manage to escape, just encounter high radiations signs and a strange walker blockade. At the nearby truck end belonging to Polar Bear, Morgan makes contact with Logan, but to larn that he is Polar Bear'due south former partner who tricked them so that he could take over the manufacturing plant.

In "The Hurt That Will Happen," Morgan'south group searches for Al who disappeared while examining a strange walker at the plane crash site. Afterward encountering some other roadblock warning of high radiation, Morgan dispatches two walkers, falling into a trap belonging to a woman named Grace. Once the state of affairs 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 as it has become contaminated beyond cleaning. Grace is revealed to exist the leader of a group of survivors that used the plant equally their base until the meltdown killed the residue and turned their reanimated corpses radioactive. Morgan and Alicia assist Grace cheque the crash site and fortunately determine that none of the walkers they had previously fought were contaminated, but they confront another herd with a radioactive walker. Morgan helps Grace deal with the walker while Alicia takes intendance of the residue of the herd. Morgan later talks with Alicia near her growing recklessness and they are chosen to a campground where John and June have constitute the remains of more of the radioactive walkers and the reanimated residents who contracted radiation sickness after called-for the bodies. Though Morgan offers their assist to deal with the rest, Grace refuses and reveals that she has terminal radiation sickness. Morgan and Grace promise to keep in affect and Grace asks for Morgan to let her know if they meet 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 final message to his grouping, telling them to move on and benefit. He passes out as walkers arroyo him, leaving his fate unknown.

Season 6 [edit]

Several weeks subsequently beingness shot past Virginia, Morgan has managed to escape the Pioneers' grasp, simply is in bad health from his gunshot wound that has become infected and gangrenous. It'south revealed that Morgan was rescued by an unknown person who had killed the walkers that were about to eat him, stitched Morgan up and left him a note stating that he yet had a greater purpose to live for. Virginia hires a compensation hunter, Emile, to find 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 significant married woman, Rachel, is located. Emile finds Morgan, but Isaac rescues him and reveals that he was previously bitten prior to meeting him. Morgan kills Emile and steals his clothes, axe, and a central he was carrying with him. The next 24-hour interval, Morgan awakens to find the bullet extracted and that Isaac died from his infection, but not before Rachel gave nativity to a daughter, 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. You're dealing with somebody else now."

Morgan subsequently dedicates himself to building a new customs in the valley and adopts a willingness to be more than violent, combining his staff and Emile's axe into i weapon. Morgan kills 2 men searching for the fundamental that he took from Emile and begins rounding up his friends and other survivors while actively hunting Virginia and her Pioneers. After saving Alicia and Virginia'due south teenage sister Dakota, Morgan agrees to permit them both to join him, although Strand refuses and Alicia is shocked past Morgan's more violent methods. Morgan is later reunited with John Dorie near his motel while on the run from a herd with Dakota and tries to convince the depressed John not to hide himself away from the world again. John is murdered by Dakota who discovers that Dakota was actually the killer of a man that his friend Janis was framed and executed for killing. Confronted by Morgan, Dakota reveals that she was actually the one who had saved Morgan's life after he was shot as she believes that only Morgan can kill Virginia whom Dakota hates.

Virginia threatens the life of Grace, whom Morgan has been unable to detect, in lodge to draw him out of hiding, but Morgan reveals Dakota'due south murder of one of Virginia'south Rangers and Virginia's coverup of it. Led past Strand, most of the Rangers turn confronting Virginia, just she sends Grace and Daniel abroad with her still-loyal 2d-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 shock, Virginia explains that Dakota is actually her girl, not her sis, a fact that Virginia has concealed from Dakota for her whole life. Chased by the Pioneers and the Outcasts led by Dwight'due south wife Sherry, Morgan takes an amazed Virginia to the community that he has built where she reveals the truth to Dakota and offers to confront penalization for her law-breaking if Morgan is the ane to execute her, knowing that Morgan will make her death quick unlike her other enemies. At the terminal possible second, Morgan chooses not to go through with the execution after remembering the other people that he'south killed. Instead, Morgan convinces everybody to let Virginia live with her actions and invites anyone who is willing to follow the rules to bring together his new customs. Many of Morgan's friends decide to bring together him, just Strand declines, instead opting to lead the Pioneers, insisting that a grave threat that Virginia has been preparing for is notwithstanding out there. Morgan banishes Virginia and Dakota from his community, merely a vengeful June executes Virginia with John's gun, believing that Virginia is responsible for her hubby'south murder every bit Virginia had covered up for Dakota even after knowing what she was capable of.

Season vii [edit]

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Evolution and reception [edit]

Lennie James played Morgan in the serial premiere "Days Gone Cheerio".^[16] Mike Ryan of Vanity Fair described Morgan in his review of the episode as "scared shitless of zombies breaking in, which seems similar a reasonable reaction".^[17] Liz Kelly and Jen Chaney of The Washington Mail service commented on Morgan and Duane, "whose loss of the mother figure in their family reminded us a niggling of "Lost 's" Michael and Walt".^[18] Josh Jackson of Paste described Morgan and Duane every bit being "tormented by Morgan's wife walking the streets exterior the suburban dwelling house where they're squatting. Unable to put her out of her misery or move on without her, they're frozen in place, tormented by loss that hasn't actually gone away.

It's the most nightmarish of scenarios – hunted by the crush of a loved one – the zombies aren't generic; this ane is personal."^[19] Jackson also stated that Rick is "shell-shocked past the earth he wakes upwards to and Morgan serves as his shepherd into reality".^[19] Leonard Pierce of The A.Five. Club described Morgan as "beautifully played by the always welcome Lennie James" and adding that he "adds a moment of poignancy, as he finds himself actually apologizing for having not killed his at present-reanimated wife".^[xx] Pierce describes the scene in which Morgan "tries to get together the—force? resolve? pity?—to destroy what used to be his wife" as a "wrenching" scene.^[twenty] Kris King of Starpulse noted that Morgan "has a powerful scene involving the fate of his married woman and his grizzly attempt to come to terms with his loss".^[21] Writing for The Atlantic, Scott Meslow describes what he considers "the episode'south virtually devastating scene", in which "Morgan aims at [his wife'south] head through a burglarize from a window, almost pulling the trigger several times before collapsing in tears. Morgan'due south fate is a dark reflection of Rick's worst fears; with his married woman and son missing, and with no style 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 19, 2012, that Morgan would be returning in Season iii.^[23] In an interview with Within TV, Robert Kirkman defines the title of the episode "Clear", and how information technology relates to Morgan: "It means a lot of things. To a certain extent it's the ravings of a lunatic merely information technology's also nearly him trying to clear out his life and clear out whatever entanglements around him. He's living by himself so he'south trying to have a clear caput. It's basically almost him getting rid of his married woman and getting rid of his son and the but way for him to survive is to clear the area around him."^[24] Kirkman also felt that Lennie James was "really playing a completely unlike graphic symbol and doing completely different things in this episode and is just as astonishing doing it. Then it was a lot of fun having him back and too having him do things that were and so different from what he had done before."^[24] In his epitomize of the episode for the Los Angeles Times, Emily VanDerWerff chosen Lennie James a "brilliant thespian", and felt that "his role is pregnant enough that he essentially becomes the main supporting player in the piece".^[25] Eric Kain of Forbes called the performance of Lennie James "absolutely riveting", noting that Morgan "is a changed homo, and not for the better"; Kain called Morgan's refusal of Rick'due south offer to return to the prison with him "a glorious scene".^[26] Zack Handlen of The A.V. Order describes Morgan's situation: "Morgan's offense is that he couldn't permit go of the past; he couldn't shoot his dead wife, and so his dead wife eventually killed his son. So at present he has naught to live for, but he doesn't have the strength of will left to take his own life. Which leaves him trapped. He tin can't join up with Rick'due south group, no matter how much Rick wants him to, because that would hateful connecting with people again, becoming vulnerable, risking himself and having to suffer when his new friends dice. And he can't commit suicide, considering that would require a different kind of backbone. So he'southward stuck building his traps, covering the walls with his writing, sending messages to strangers he'll never see."^[27]

On November 26, 2017, it was announced 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 30 best Walking Expressionless characters, maxim, "Over the by few seasons, the survivors have had less apply for such a gentle, philosophical soul, simply the show still badly needs Morgan – both to prove that it'south possible to stay alive without sacrificing every principle and that information technology pays to speak softly and bear a big staff."^[29]

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2. ^ The Walking Expressionless #34 (Jan 2007)
3. ^ The Walking Dead #58 (February 2009)
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External links [edit]

• Morgan Jones at AMC
• Morgan Jones on IMDb

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