Lori Grimes died during childbirth in The Walking Dead season 3 only the events post-obit her death were fifty-fifty more tragic. The character, played by Sarah Wayne Callies, served as a prominent figure upwardly to that point of the popular AMC serial. Not only did Lori lose her life but it was up to her young son to foreclose her transformation into a walker. To brand the situation darker, it was insinuated that a walker discovered Lori and ate her entire expressionless body. Some viewers had a hard time assertive a zombie would gobble up a whole body, leading to an intense fence whether or not the bloated walker was responsible.

Lori was the wife of the central character, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), and the female parent to the pair'southward young son, Carl (Chandler Riggs). When the apocalypse striking, Rick was even so in a coma at a local hospital and his best friend and partner on the police force, Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal), stepped upward to get Lori and Carl to safety. The trio wound up at a quarry with another group before they were reunited with Rick. At that time, a romantic relationship formed betwixt Shane and Lori but the latter tried to put a stop to it due to her husband's render. Lori discovered she was pregnant with Shane'south baby but she vowed that Rick would exist the only true father of her children.

Despite the tension that arose later on Shane'due south death, Rick led the group of survivors to an abandoned prison. By that point, Lori was gearing upward to give nascence. In the season three episode 4 episode, "Killer Inside," a disgruntled inmate wound up leading a horde of walkers back into the prison, forcing the group to split into smaller groups. This would exist the last fourth dimension much of the survivors saw Lori alive as she before long met her demise earlier being eaten by The Walking Dead flavor 3'south infamous "bloated walker."

How Lori Grimes Died In The Walking Expressionless Flavour 3

After being separate from Rick and the others in The Walking Dead flavour iii, the immense fear made Lori go into labor forcing Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan) and Carl to have her to a nearby boiler for shelter. Maggie bravely assisted in the C-section merely the labor led to Lori'south decease. After shooting his own mother to forbid her from turning into a walker, Carl tearfully presented his new baby sis to Rick. The following episode, "Say the Word," featured a traumatized Rick keep a rampage through the prison house earlier finding a very bloated walker at the site at which Lori gave nascence. There was an assumption that the walker consumed Lori, and that was later on confirmed.

Greg Nicotero Confirmed Lori Was Eaten By The Bloated Walker

When Rick entered the banality room, he followed a trail of claret leading him to an extremely bloated walker. In that location was an insinuation that the walker dragged Lori's body before indulging in its entirety. Some eagle-eyed viewers even noticed strands of Lori'due south hair around the walker's mouth. With no trace of Lori's torso, Rick killed the walker and stabbed at its stomach to search for pieces of Lori'southward corpse. He didn't let himself to fully investigate since he was overcome with emotion. That said, Greg Nicotero, the special make-up effects supervisor as well as an executive producer and director on, confirmed that the walker did indeed eat Lori after her decease. In an interview (via Daily Dead), Nicotero commented on Lori'south death in The Walking Expressionless, saying:

"The thought is supposed to be that the walker has sort of dragged her around the corner of that boiler room. There'due south actually a blood trail that continues past the walker and goes effectually the corner.Some of the picayune touches nosotros added was in that location was bits of pilus in its mouth and hair in his mitt when information technology reaches upwards towards Rick. And it was simply 1 of those things that we really wanted to show that this thing had feasted on her, equally horrible as it is."

Some viewers still questioned how a walker could accept eaten an entire torso in that short of fourth dimension. Others pointed out that walkers accept never been known to consume the bones of a victim. The series intentionally avoided showing the remains of her body since the crew thought they would be pushing the boundaries. A deleted scene actually revealed Lori as a walker, but information technology was just through a vision during Rick's hallucinations. Lori's death from childbirth was already emotional enough and the focus needed to shift to the fallout involving Rick. Instead, a walker was used to necktie up loose ends in terms of her whereabouts but it ended up creating more questions for The Walking Expressionless and Lori's decease.

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