OnceThe walk Deadended after 11 seasonsback in 2022 , fan study comfort in the fact that not one , not two , but three new spin - offs would be coming . AlongsideThe walk Dead : Daryl Dixon , which has been renew for a third time of year , and the well - reviewedThe Walking Dead : The I Who hold out , there’sThe Walking all in : Dead City . The serial is arrange five years after the event ofThe Walking Deadand center around buff - favourite see the light villain Negan ( Jeffrey Dean Morgan ) and badass torpedo Maggie ( Lauren Cohan ) , who have both somehow ended up in New York City .
Nearly two year after time of year 1 premiered , season two is almost here , with the first episode premiering May 4 , 2025 . The eight - episode time of year is two more than time of year one , with episode issue weekly through June 22 , 2025 . With this protracted transit of clip , a recap of the events from time of year one is in purchase order .
Negan and Maggie become an unlikely pair in the Big Apple
The season begins when Maggie look for Negan ’s help . Her son , Hershel ( Logan Kim ) , has been kidnapped by a valet she believes has tie-in to the Saviors . She think Negan might be able-bodied to get through to him because of this , so she implores her honest-to-god foe to help . Feeling as though he ’s hold to do so ( he did , after all , bash Maggie ’s husband and Hershel ’s father ’s foreland in with a barbed conducting wire batand has been look for forgiveness ever since ) , and know who this mysterious man is and what he ’s capable of , Negan obliges . Plus , the Modern dominance in townspeople , the New Babylon Federation , is after Negan . He is wanted for murder for her legion kill . It ’s the perfect meter to get out of contrivance .
Off the pair go to the island of Manhattan to seek out this evil serviceman know as The Croat ( Željko Ivanek ) . A young selectively tongueless teen call Ginny ( Mahina Napoleon ) has been hanging on to Negan , but he has her set up in Maggie ’s community for condom while he ’s away . She does n’t listen , however , and in secret follows them there . Someone else follows the duo : Perlie ( Gaius Charles ) , an police officer with the New Babylon Federation who consecrate to bring Negan in to pay for his crimes at all costs .
Maggie scramble traveling alone with Negan , especially when she sees glimpse of the “ honest-to-god Negan ” shining through , like when he gut a immature man while stick out over a railing and tosses his mangled body to his ally on the floor below . Negan needs these enemies to understand that they mean business organisation . However , Negan is on Maggie ’s side this time . Still , Maggie ’s trauma leads to her nightmare .
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Through their quest , the span meets others , both friends and foes . Perlie is captured for a clock time by The Croat , but finally escapes , ironically with Negan ’s help . Perlie , Negan , and Maggie deal some heartwarming import . Perlie is all about the linguistic rule of law , but he questions it after Negan disclose that the workforce he kill had raped and beaten his married woman . Perlie fails to capture Negan and tells his leader that Negan is deadened . He also trades some utilitarian information in hopes of work up for not bring him in . Perlie reveals detail of the fuel source being produced on the island , which intrigue his boss .
Meanwhile , Negan is raging when he discovers that Ginny has followed him . Negan say her that he murdered her father , mean that one of the men who beat up and raped his married woman was her dad and that ’s why he felt oblige to take her in . It ’s unclear if he ’s telling the true statement . nevertheless , Ginny is devastate by this knowledge and takes off .
Negan and Maggie finally find Hershel ( Logan Kim ) . While The Croat might be launch the chemical group know as the Burazi , a charwoman jazz as The Dama ( Lisa Emery ) is in charge . Also , The Croat require to exchange Negan for Hershel , and Maggie lied to get Negan to help her .
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In his common “ oh well ” manner , Negan is fine with it . He probably deserves this anyway , and his priority is check that a kid is not harm . So , he goes along willingly , and Maggie reunites with her boy .
Negan gets an offer he probably can’t refuse
As it turn over out , however , The Croat , who was one of the few people Negan actually sent away from the Saviors for harming a teenager against his teaching , does n’t want to hurt Negan . He has regaled tales of this vicious , manipulative , cunning loss leader to The Dama , and she wants him on her side . He might be the only person who can help .
Atthe end of season one , The Dama sits Negan down with a drink and an go . She wants to unite all the groups on the island together to fight the New Babylon Federation , which she knows is coming . The Croat is a brilliant scientific mind , and he formulate a way to use the methane that is naturally develop by Alice Walker torso and turn it into a good source of fuel than ethanol . It ’s easy to see why the New Babylon Federation wants to get its helping hand on this worthful imagination and why the Dama wants to protect it .
Negan is not concerned , but The Dama implies that she is n’t asking . She hands him a low box , a relic of her appreciation . He opens it , and inside is a severed toe . It ’s Hershel ’s toe . It ’s a not - so - veiled threat that if he does n’t oblige , she will obliterate Hershel . Negan does n’t render his answer , but base on the squash racquet - wielding images of him in the house trailer for season two , it might convince him to do so if it mean preventing Hershel from being harmed .
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Meanwhile , back at home , something is dissimilar with Hershel . He ’s still a common brooding adolescent , but he seems more off than usual , understandable give what he just break down through . He give away to his female parent that he feel like her obsession with Negan and what he did to Glenn ( Steven Yeun ) has taken all her attention his entire life , and he ’s had enough . She agree and hope to in conclusion put that feud to bed for the saki of her Logos . But when Maggie finds one of Hershel ’s recent drawing of an older woman smiling , she realizes that whoever this mystical woman is still has a hold on her boy .
Season two will pluck up in the aftermath as Negan prepares to give his answer , the New Babylon Federation plot its attack , and Maggie somehow gets roped into it all .
StreamThe Walking Dead : Dead Cityon AMC+ . Season 1 is also available onNetflix .
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