Abrupt death is nothing new to The Walking Dead. It’s essentially the fuel the show runs on, the ultimate demonstration of its guiding philosophy that in a world ruled by flesh-eating corpses, no one and nothing is ever truly safe. But even for a show that takes pride in dreaming up new ways to dismantle the human body, last night’s killings were remarkably gory—the bloodiest deaths in the show’s history and perhaps television’s as well. Negan didn’t just dispatch Glenn and Abraham with a single blow to the head; the ex-military badass Abraham survived long enough to spit his last defiant words in Negan’s face, and even though the first swing of Negan’s bat shattered Glenn’s skull and popped his left eye out of his socket, he held on long enough to whimper his pregnant wife’s name and to promise, “I’ll find you.” Then, Negan turned them both into pulp, smashing and smashing until all that was left was a pile of meat for zombies to pick at.