On Aug. 25, fans of AMC's The Walking Dead had the opportunity to view a short clip of season four, which featured Michonne (Danai Gurira) in quite the bind.

In the video footage, Michonne rides up to the prison gates on a horse, and Carl (Chandler Riggs) opens the rig to let her inside.

After getting off the horse, Michonne is ambushed by two zombies, and must use both of her hands to fight them off, as she's unable to get to her sword.

The sneak peek footage comes to a halt with Carl booking towards the fence, and Maggie staring in horror while in the prison watchtower.

Could Carl be the one to bite the dust in season 4?

In other Walking Dead news, producer David Alpert dished on the network's blog about civilization building, and whether a law enforced society could ever be restored on the show.

"What we really have here in season 4 is we dangle the carrot that civilization can be rebuilt... The notion that there's civilization and the notion that there's the possibility of there being laws and a sense of normalcy. I think we're going to see an evolution of the threat of human-on-human. Dangling the possibility of civilization will make people much more desperate and willing to do things that would have previously been unthinkable," he said.

AMC's The Walking Dead will be kicking off its fourth season on Sunday, October 13 at 9/8 p.m. Central. Be sure to keep checking back for more of the latest info on the popular program.

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