Rick Grims (Andrew Lincoln) may be the main character of "The Walking Dead" as a whole, but you can certainly make the case that Jone Walsh (Jonon Bortal) is the most important character of Season 2. He was a conflicting frenemia of Rick, a man who cared for Rick, but he did. He also served as a devil on Rick's shoulder, constantly arguing against Dale (Effeefrey Demun), Rick's shoulder angel. He was not evil true, but he certainly did not see the value of playing according to the old rules of society in this new violent world in which everyone would find themselves.

But although Jane was the highest character of Season 2, the show still killed him in the seasonal penultimate episode, "Better Angels". After the tension between them, Jane tries to kill Rick, just for Rick to turn the tables and instead stab him to death. Jane returns a bit like Walker, but fortunately he was shot in the head of the confidential Carl (Chandler Riggs). It is the end of Jane in the next nine seasons, although he has been checked once in a while, and even appears in hallucination or two.

In Season 7, Rick gives an emotional monologue about how Jane knows is the real father of Ithudite Grims, but that he wants Ithudite in any case. Fortunately for everyone, Jududite grows to be more like a rick than it does Jane.

In a Interview for 2012 Talking about the death of Jane, co-creator Robert Kirkman explained:

"We knew (Jane) would die before we threw Jonon Bortal. If the first season was 13 episodes instead of six, Jane's story would have been told everyone in the first season; it would be much like a comic where Jane died at the end of the first Tom. But because we had a short season.

Asked about the specific method of Shane's killing show - with Rick stabbing him near and personal - Kirkman explained that the goal was to make his death "definite". There can be no ambiguity, there is no opening for the fans to theorizing the surprise that Jane returned along the line. Also, there was no room for Rick to play the murder as an accident. It was supposed to be a clear choice made by the main character, something that would make him forward into the darker rick we meet in season 3.

The other plan with Jane's death was to use it to discover a big element of how the zombie virus works in this universe: everyone is infected here. By dying without being bitten, just to get back from the dead for a short time, this helped to confirm the secret, the CDC doctor told Rick in the final of the season 1, that All the dead people in this world come back as a stroller. Getting a bite certainly speeds up the process, but Jane's death has made it clear that everyone will have to be shot in the head when they die, bite or not.

For fans familiar with comics, the most incredible part of Jane's death was that it lasted as long as he did. In the comics, Jane was shot by Carl at the end of the first volume. His purpose is to predict Rick's moral fall, but Jane's comic was not particularly omitted character on his own. He was quickly forgotten.

On the TV show, the keeping of Jane served several clear goals. The first is that Rick's awkward position finds himself - with a coma awakening and revealed that his best friend and wife hung up the assumption she died - doing a very messy, attractive party. The writers went to milk that is dynamic for everything worth it.

The other (better) goal was that Jane helped externalize Rick's fighting. Instead of one man dealing with the permanent series of moral quanes on his own, the show had Jane to represent Rick for a colder, pragmatic approach to survival of the apocalypse. Meanwhile, the show brought Dale a little earlier than the comics to represent Rick's desire to be a good person, to adhere to his ideals no matter how impractical. When Dale dies in "Judge, jury, Xhelator", the great thematic concern that this represents that Jane has now received an opening to bring a whole rick to his point of view.

Rick kills Jane in the next episode, but of course the ideological battle between Dale and Jane would be Anger on the head of Rick long afterwards. It has become a conflict of character that has been more subtle and internalized than it was in the first two seasons, but is probably even more attractive. Like Robert Kirkman explain in another interview After Jane's death:

"At the end of the day, what we were constantly returning was that"Walking dead ' is much more about Rick and his journey than Jane and his trip. And the holding of Jane was around, in a sense, theft from Rick. It was time to allow Rick to appear and see how Jane's death influenced him and informed his decisions. ... really sucked to lose Jonon Bertal, but it will make the show much better and much more deadly. "