WARNING: This article contains spoilers from The Walking Dead.

The Walking Dead returns to AMC with the second half of its fourth season on Feb. 9. Recently, Danai Gurira revealed the future of her character, Michonne.

"You know [Michonne] likes to take care of business," Gurira told Entertainment Weekly. "She had just started to slip into being a member of the community and plugging in, and that is huge for her. It's revolutionary for her. So the loss is pretty extreme. So the question is, how does she metabolize this? How does she handle it?"

The midseason finale left everyone dealing with Hershel's execution as they watched their fates change.

"It could go any which way. How do we navigate this world while still trying to metabolize all these losses and grievances? This is a volatile moment," Gurira said. "This is a scary moment for everybody."

The new premiere will have The Walking Dead group split up into subgroups, again changing the dynamic of the show.

"What I love about that is that looking at it from a macro-perspective, it is fantastic storytelling-wise because in the little research that I've done I learned that one of the key elements of war is displacement," the 35-year-old actress said. "People are caught up in the concern of where people are and what happened to them and not having any way of finding out. That's such a rich, authentic component of what really happens in a war zone."

Gurira's character now faces a fork in the road. The actress said that this season, Michonne will pick her path.

"Then the trauma hit, and I think the big question is, will this clam her back up or open her up?" Gurira said. "It's a question of going back to the old her or going on a different path. That's the question sitting on her soul as she tries to metabolize the trauma that's befallen her."

The Walking Dead starts new episodes Feb. 9 at 9 p.m. EST.

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