Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Sunday's episode of "The Walking Dead," "Time for After."
Sunday's "The Walking Dead" finally brought us back to Father Gabriel and it's not looking good as the priest is lying on his deathbed.
Dr. Carson vaguely reveals Gabriel is suffering from multiple infections and that his organs are slowly failing. It looks like Gabriel may not make it out alive by the end of the show's mid-season finale next Sunday.
If you're an avid reader of "The Walking Dead" comics, you may be thrown off by the show's current direction with the character.
Gabriel never acquires any sort of infection from disguising himself in walker guts in the comics. The character survives well beyond the war with Negan. He's killed in a more unexpected way.
How Gabriel dies in the comics
Father Gabriel becomes one of Rick's most trusted snipers. He grows his hair out a bit and becomes a vital member of Rick's militia in the fight against the group's next big threat.
Unfortunately, Gabriel has a nasty fall from a lookout tower. Though a ladder rung breaks his fall, it winds up snapping his ankle.
When he calls out for help, he's met by one of the comic's latest villains who quickly puts him out of his misery by gutting him.
Gabriel is then left to be torn apart by a group of the undead. Harsh.
If that scene looks familiar, it's because the end of Sunday's episode had a brief nod to it.
When Rick walks up to the Sanctuary he notices a man hanging upside down from a ladder being eaten by several walkers. It's a near mirror of the scene above with Father Gabriel from issue No. 158.
It definitely wasn't Father Gabriel. Rick notes that this was one of his snipers and he's wearing different clothes that don't match with Gabriel's.
It would have been a lot of unnecessary work for the Saviors to go and hang Gabriel upside down just for the sake of it. Negan also gained some respect for the priest after spending some time with him.
Still, things aren't looking good for Gabriel at the moment. The fact that the show inserted that little nod to Gabriel's comic death on Sunday's episode teases an ominous fate for the priest.
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