Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Sunday's "The Walking Dead."
"The Walking Dead" finally confirmedthe ID of the mysterious character Rick shot at in the season eight premiere.
As many fans thought, the man Carl came across at the abandoned gas station citing the Quran was Siddiq (Avi Nash) from the comics.
Carl tracked him down on Sunday's episode to bring him food and water and to invite him back to Alexandria.
Actor Avi Nash said on the series' aftershow "Talking Dead" when he landed the role he wasn't told anything about his character.
"They keep it really secret. Super secret," said Nash. "So much so like as we were filming I would just sort of get on the email and email [showrunner] Scott [Gimple] and say, 'All right, you've got to tell me something. Why am I saying all these things?' And so for the first episode and for tonight's I had this long email chain with Scott to get any sort of information that I could and he's really good at giving an actor everything they need for a backstory but not telling them what's going to happen."
For those who aren't familiar with the comic character, here's what you need to know.
Siddiq in the comics
Siddiq is an Arab-American who's introduced in issue #127 of the comic.
His entry onto the show now is a little surprising, because he doesn't appear in the comics until after the current war with Negan is over. At that time, the comic flashes forward two years and Siddiq is part of a construction crew building up Alexandria's thriving community.
In addition to being a handy man, Siddiq is a skilled fisherman. It's a chance meetup with Michonne while out at sea that lands him in Alexandria.
There were multiple timelines going on in the show's season premiere. It's possible we could be watching Carl and Siddiq speaking at a different time on the show, though that would be slightly confusing to the narrative.
Why his entrance onto the TV show is interesting
In the comics, we learn Siddiq was a member of the Oceanside community. That's the very same group viewers saw on the show's seventh season.
The only difference is that the show version of Oceanside is an all-female community. Tara was told that Negan's men killed off all of the men in their group. It's not clear whether or not Siddiq will have an altered background on the show or if he'll wind up being a lone male survivor of the Oceanside community who hasn't been able to reunite with his people.
Siddiq will almost certainly cross paths with Rick this season
If you paid close attention to the season premiere, some of Rick's final words on the episode are, "Have mercy prevail over my wrath."
Those words should sound familiar because they were uttered by Nash's character when Carl ran into him.
It will be interesting to see where Siddiq's character winds up this season.
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