TWD: Dead City Stars Tease Season 2's Higher Stakes, Surprising Moral and... What?!? 'I Won't Be In Season 3'

Given that Season 1 of AMC's The Walking Dead: Dead City concluded with Maggie trading the villainous Dama Negan for son Hershel, there was almost no way that we wouldn't be getting a very different Season 2 (which kicks off Sunday at 9/8c). And, in fact, it will mark a radical departure from last season, in which the nemeses were forced to team up to save the boy.

"We spend a lot of time apart" this go-round, Jeffrey Dean Morgan tells TVLine. "We've got a couple of storylines going that have taken us away from each other, but then all roads do lead back to Maggie and Negan... so when we're together, the stakes are higher."

Is there room in Season 2 for any improvement in their tense relationship? "Negan's been pretty consistent with [his attitude of] 'Can we try to work together? Maybe don't love me, but don't kill me," either.

"We've got a bumpy road at the beginning," adds Lauren Cohan, "and then I'm so excited to say there's something new at the end, but I don't want to say too much."

Lauren Cohan as Maggie Rhee, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan - The Walking Dead: Dead City _ Season 1 – Photo Credit: Peter Kramer/AMC

That's OK; Morgan is happy to do so for his leading lady. "I won't be in Season 3," he jokes.

Another new wrinkle in Season 2 is the difficulties that Maggie faces at the Bricks. "My favorite part is her and Herschel trying to negotiate their relationship and the fact that he's a teenager now," says Morgan. "I know as a father that that's not the easiest under the best of circumstances. So imagine trying to raise a teenager during the apocalypse!"

Actually, since Negan left ward Ginny with Maggie, she is trying to raise two teenagers. "It's a very tumultuous domestic life," Cohan agrees, adding with a laugh that her character finds battling the undead much less stressful. "Any day of the week, zombies over teenagers. That's the moral of the season."

"You kinda feel that from Maggie, too," Morgan says. "After a certain point, she's like, 'Oh my God, let me get back to killing zombies!' Trying to raise a child is much more difficult."