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The Walking Dead: Dead City S03E03 "Emigrants": New Day, New Dangers

Maggie, Renata, and Negan have a whole lot of new problems to deal with in the trailer for The Walking Dead: Dead City S03E03 "Emigrants."

With most of the major threats from the first two seasons pretty much taken off the playing field permanently, it should be all sunshine and rainbows as we move forward with the third season of AMC and Showrunner Seth Hoffman's The Walking Dead: Dead City… right? Well, here's the thing. Now that the Statue of Liberty has been lit up to show that NYC is open for business again, a lot of new folks are on the way – and not all of them are going to be friendly. That's the issue that Maggie (Lauren Cohan) faces heading into S03E03: "Emigrants" – and it doesn't help that she's got Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Renata (Aimee Garcia) engaged in a tug-of-war when it comes to what kind of leader she's going to need to be. With that in mind, here's a look at the official trailer that was released:

The Walking Dead: Dead City S03E03: "Emigrants" Preview

The Walking Dead: Dead City S03E03: "Emigrants" – Maggie, Negan, and their new community receive an unexpected overflow of survivors. Also starring Jimmi Simpson, Raúl Castillo, Aimee Garcia, Logan Kim, and Michael Emery, this weekend's episode was written by Mira Z. Barnum.

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Jeffrey Dean Morgan on Negan Being Maggie's Protector

As we saw at the end of last week's episode, the Dama (Lisa Emery) is very much alive – and recruiting for a comeback. Unfortunately, she learns pretty quickly that guns beat rocks, paper, and scissors – and people with knives. After an attempt at a hunger strike, and Maggie's offer giving her a quicker death, the Dama chose to live and began to eat. Unfortunately for her, Negan had other plans. Not buying into Maggie's belief that the Dama is more valuable alive than dead, Negan makes use of the knife Maggie left for the Dama to kill herself to do the job for her.

"Negan is at the point where already Renata [Aimee Garcia] is kind of rubbing him a way that he doesn't like. I don't think that this is the person that should be leading us. And, you know, Negan's never done real well with people telling him what to do. And Renata is big on telling Negan what he should do," Morgan shared with EW, explaining where Negan's mind was at heading to that game-changing moment. "Maggie is going with it for now. And I'm kind of already leaning toward, 'Maggie, this should be you already at this point,'" he added, noting how Negan only sees this experiment working if Maggie's in charge.

As for Negan's decision to take out the Dama for good, Morgan believes Negan has two factors motivating him. "Sure, I think there is a certain amount of revenge there. And he enjoys it, obviously. When he walks into that the jail cell in that power room that she's being held in, there's no ifs, ands, or buts about what's about to take place. And he's enjoying it. He doesn't like this woman," he shared, adding, "He does wanna protect Maggie. And he knows the only way Maggie's gonna be able to move forward in any way – and especially with her son, Hershel – is if this woman is gone. Tuna Casserole or not, he's gonna take care of business. And he does."

Emily Kinney's Beth is returning to "The Walking Dead" universe – and not as a walker. During SDCC, we learned that Beth and her sister, Cohan's Maggie, would reunite this season. Kinney is set to return in the alternate-reality episode, with a behind-the-scenes video released. While it's great to see the two back together, Cohan's warning at the end hit our hearts: Get those tissues ready, everybody."

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