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• Warning: The episode of "The Walking Dead", season nine, episode 14, "Scars", has been the subject of serious criticism.
• AMC's "TWD" finally revealed how Michonne and Daryl had the "X" scars on their backs, and the answer was not the one you probably expected.
• A group of children, led by a woman of Michonne's past (played by Rutina Wesley), scored the "X" marks on their backs before attempting to kill them both.
• The director of Sunday's episode, Millicent Shelton, told INSIDER that three precautionary measures had been taken with the children to make sure they were safe and understood that everything was wrong.
• The children met psychologists, teachers were about to monitor them to make sure everything was going well, and the children and their parents met Shelton and the TWD team on several occasions. .

After months of waiting, the episode of Sunday's "The Walking Dead" finally revealed that the mysterious "X" scars of Michonne and Daryl were marks given to them by wild children. The children, led by one of Michonne's old college friends (played by Rutina Wesley), tried to kill Michonne and Daryl once they were tagged.

It is difficult to watch young children come to Michonne with knives and other weapons to hurt her. All this happened while Michonne was pregnant with Rick, pregnant with her child, which made the issue all the more stressful. AMC took precautions to ensure that child actors knew that everything was wrong and to make sure that they were fine throughout the shoot.

"In fact, the children all met once we had them in. During the casting, we let the parents and the children know exactly what the roles were going to involve," INSIDER, director of the school, told IRIN. episode Sunday, Millicent Shelton, the direction sensitive scenes with children. "Then we met them with a psychologist who, I believe, met all the children and talked to them about it."

An AMC representative confirmed to INSIDER that a psychologist, Dr. Jeff Weber, was on the set. Dr. Kris Mohandie is their psychological consultant.

In addition, says Shelton, Corey Reed and Vivian Tse, the episode writers, and the badistant director met with all the kids and their parents to discuss the scenes that were going to happen again.

"So there were three levels of conversation with children.The teacher who monitors the children is on the set whenever children are there.If there was a problem, we talked to them "said Shelton.

"Honestly, we did not have a problem with our main children because we lived everything, step by step," she added. "We did so much before getting on the set that when we were there, they all knew that there were rubber knives and we had choreographed all their movements so that they would know what was going to happen." So no one was surprised. "

You can read more about our conversation with Shelton, who explains Michonne's decision to kill many children at the end of the episode here. You can follow our "Walking Dead" cover here.