'The Walking Dead' just altered a big scene from the comics

Warning: There are massive spoilers ahead if you're not caught up with "The Walking Dead."

Sunday's episode of "The Walking Dead" started out a little slow, but boy did it end on a high note.

Two separate groups headed out on the road from Alexandria on supply runs. Daryl, Rosita, and Denise (an unlikely trio) veered in one direction in search of medicine while Abraham and Eugene were off elsewhere.

It seemed like two pretty routine runs, but if you paid close attention to Daryl's conversation with Carol early in the episode, he references a man he ran into a while back that he let live and ponders whether it was the correct decision.

It wasn't.

Last chance to head back before spoilers.

If you thought things were a little too calm and quiet for the majority of the episode, you were probably caught off guard when Denise was abruptly killed mid-sentence after professing her love for Tara and her fears of not being able to divulge that information in the midst of a zombie apocalypse.

And she wasn't just killed. She was brutally shot through the eye by an arrow.

Who was the man at the end of the crossbow?

Dwight — the man Daryl let live back in season six episode six.

Show watchers definitely didn't see this coming.

Fans of the comic were probably surprised, too.

While this scene is very similar to one from Robert Kirkman's comic series, it's not Denise who is killed, but Abraham in issue #98.

Abraham takes an arrow to the back of the skull from Dwight and the Saviors while speaking with Eugene about his feelings for Rosita. 

Josh McDermitt, who plays Eugene on "The Walking Dead," discussed this briefly on aftershow, "Talking Dead."

"It easily could have been Eugene who died," McDermitt said. "That's how dangerous this world is. You even brought up that you thought that's how Abraham was going to go because that's obviously what happened in the comics. That's a great testament to our writers and [showrunner] Scott Gimple of remixing it and keeping things fresh and the audience on their toes who think they might know what is exactly going to happen." 

What transpired afterward may have thrown some people off. While held hostage by Dwight and the saviors, Eugene bites his captive in the crotch in order to create a diversion and get free.

That's also a scene straight out of the comics.

In the comics, this encounter happens under different circumstances. Eugene is taken hostage by Dwight and some of the Saviors. They make it back to Alexandria and order to be let inside. A giant fight ensues. 

While that's not what we see occur Sunday evening — Daryl, Abraham, and, especially Eugene send the Saviors running — this definitely isn't the last we'll see of them. We could very soon see a similar encounter from the comics play out with only two episodes of the season left.

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