The Walking Dead season 8: Will this character drop the first F-bomb?

*Major spoilers for season 8 episode 2 'The Damned'*

The Walking Dead season 8 episode 2 has arrived making good on showrunner Scott Gimple's promise that new episodes - charting the All Out War between our heroes and Negan's Saviours - will place the lion's share of the focus on action.

Another thing that's been promised this season is more swearing following the news that AMC no longer has to censor the word “f*ck” from episodes.

The news was confirmed by Fear the Walking Dead showrunner Dave erickson who revealed last month that he discovered the guidelines had been relaxed with writers now allowed to incorporate two uses of the word into one season.

Gimple himself spoke about the development in an interview with EW in which he described the word as "a golden ticket" among cast members.

Perhaps an outside bet, but - after combining events of latest action-packed episode 'The Damned' and the comic books the series is based on - we're going to guess someone you mat not expect.

Season 8's second episode saw Aaron's partner Eric (Jordan Woods-Robinson) take a bullet to the abdomen during one of the episode's many showdowns with the Saviours, the former carrying him to cover as blood poured from his wound.

Now, this is the moment Eric meets his maker in the comics - he takes a bullet to the head - and, in a rather memorable moment, Rick later asks a mourning Aaron if he'll be okay to which he replies: “Not until every last one of these motherf*ckers are dead.”

Rick may not be present in the television version of these scenes (he's busy bumping into an old friend from season 1), but it would be no stretch to assume that next week's episode 'Monsters' could culminate in Eric's death meaning the above line could be realised with Aaron - a popular character among fans - getting to drop what would certainly go down as a fist-pumping remark.

The newly-released trailer for next week's episode teases a deadly showdown as well as the fallout of Rick's reunion with Morales.

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