WARNING: This article contains spoilers from the season 4 episode, Still.

Sunday's episode of The Walking Dead was very emotional, especially for Daryl Dixon. The character, played by Norman Reedus, faced his guilt from giving up the search for the Governor. Recently, Reedus opened up about this unique episode and what it meant to Daryl.

Daryl's partner in this episode was Beth Greene, played by Emily Kinney. The character is slowly becoming favored by fans.

"Well, I just think she hasn't had a whole lot of screen time and she's such a good actress and such a good character, and she's so good," Reedus told Access Hollywood. "Like, you can't imagine another Beth besides Emily ... In that episode, all I had to do was watch her. I got very lucky with the actresses on the show who I got paired up with, with her and with Melissa [McBride, who plays Carol]. I don't have to do much. I just have to watch 'em, 'cause they're both such honest people."

According to Reedus, The Walking Dead's producers, showrunners and writers are great enough to work with him in developing his character from a cross-bowing "racist" to a multi-layered, emotionally burdened man. Still was a great example of this.

"I mean, I grunted through the whole first half of that episode," Reedus said. "I didn't even talk, and it's 'cause I've shut down. I don't want to [enunciate] my words. I just want to grunt through it. I'm miserable, and it's over, and life sucks, and this sucks, and we're never gonna f***ing survive, and I'm stuck with this chick and she turns that whole thing around for him. It's the only episode that we've ever had that ends on a triumphant, positive note, and they're still f***ed, but it's triumphant. It's a very special episode for me for all those reasons."

Another big moment for Daryl and Beth was their backwards hug. Reedus revealed that it was originally meant to be a normal hug until he came up with the idea, and director Julius Ramsay jumped on board.

"Daryl, feeling her hug him from behind was larger to me than a face-to-face hug," the actor explained. "It was the support. Like, she's standing him up, and it wasn't so much the visual of it that I was thinking about, it was more of, he's lost in this -- him screaming and all of that stuff -- it's coming from a place of fear. He's afraid and to watch a tough character be afraid and lash out like that and go full circle and end in tears...and I just felt like if he could feel that behind him, it would be more of a moment..."

The next episode of The Walking Dead is called Alone and premieres Sunday at 9/8c.

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