"The Walking Dead" will continue to be a deadly show this season.

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly Radio at San Diego Comic-Con, Andrew Lincoln, who plays Rick Grimes, talked about the causalities in the AMC hit.

"It is an inevitable part of this show," he said. "It's one of the great things, I think, that you have real jeopardy for favorite characters. It won't be without its share of death this season."

Robert Kirkman knows this better than anyone. As the creator of the comic book that inspired the show and executive producer and writer for the TV adaptation, Kirkman has an idea of when all his creations will see their ends. Unfortunately for Kirkman, it makes it extra hard to say goodbye.

"It's kind of worse than that because I got a pretty good idea when all of them are dying," Kirkman said in a separate interview when asked by Entertainment Weekly Radio how tough goodbyes are. "To a certain extent, if we follow the comic, like possibly even more than [showrunner] Scott [Gimple] knows."

The imminent TV deaths are constantly on Kirkman's mind.

"So I'm always like ... 'two years, three years, six months, two weeks, oh, God this is awful,'" he said. "It's really rough. Doing the comic, it was fine because it was just lines on a paper, whatever. We're killing that guy. Cool. But the show, it sucks because we all work together. We hang out and have a great time. But, you know, the story's gotta get done, and people gots to die, as I like to say."

Although Kirkman knows when actors will soon depart "The Walking Dead," the stars themselves are not notified right away.

"You can't tell 'em because we change our minds all the time, and that's the other really bad thing about it," he said. "We can't really give them that much warning because there's always a chance that we'll get into actually writing the scripts after we plan things out, and we're like, 'Nope, that character's living,' which has happened many times."

Hopefully Rick survives a while, as Lincoln says the character is extra interesting in Season 5.

"You find Rick in an incredibly dangerous and powerful place this season," he said. "He's not in any doubt about his brutality as well as his humanity, and I think he's made peace with that, but that does not negate him being a great father. I think that everything is about the children and his family. If you stand alongside him, you're his family. If you stand against him, then you're a problem."

Season 5 of "The Walking Dead" begins Oct. 12 at 9/8 c.
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