The Walking Dead Director Goes Inside That Chilling Season 7 Sneak Peek

When The Walking Dead surprised fans with a sneak peek scene from the Season 7 premiere at New York Comic Con, you could hear the screams and moans of horror from fans rocketing through the Theater at Madison Square Garden.

Not just once, but multiple times throughout as they watched the villainous Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and a defeated Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) face off after the death of one of Grimes' gang.

The scene is extraordinarily tense, and not just because we still don't know the identity of Negan's victim (or victims).

For those not totally up to speed, after the Grimes Gang killed several members of Negan's gang of thugs, the Saviors, Negan marshaled all his forces to drive Grimes and 10 other members of his team of zombie survivors into a clearing in the woods.

When the sneak peek picks up, Negan has already murdered someone, and a shaken, rattled Rick -- the right side of his face splashed with blood -- is still on the forest floor.

[...] it was a very, very difficult episode to wrap my head around when I got the script because of those perspectives and how the events play out.