TWD: Dead City’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan Does His Damnedest to Plug a Massive Plot Hole

If as you’re watching The Walking Dead: Dead City, you’re sitting there wondering why Negan is letting The Dama pull his strings rather than just, you know, killing her the way he has so many other characters, you’re not alone. Jeffrey Dean Morgan tells TVLine that co-star Lauren Cohan has been bewildered, too — frequently. “She used to come to me on set almost daily and say, ‘I just don’t understand why you don’t kill her.’

“That was a question that I had, too,” he continues. “So we would ask Eli [Jorné, the series’ creator], like, ‘What the heck?’”

The Dama has an army doing her bidding but… why? What is it about her that compels these hooligans to ask “How high?” when she says “Jump”? She’s mean, sure, but does not appear to be physically strong; a stiff breeze would knock her over.

Morgan has a theory about that. “I think she’s just very smart and has a way of manipulating people,” he says. “We really see that with the Hershel of it all [and] how she screwed up [Maggie’s son’s] head.

“In a way, she’s kind of messed with Negan,” too, he adds. “He sees the situation as, there are a lot of folks that are in this Manhattan that he doesn’t know. So he’s waiting to figure things out and make his move.”