Bridge Partners Are Hard to Come by These Days

Bridge Partners Are Hard to Come by These Days
Season 2, Episode 6
Air Date	June 8, 2025
Written By	Eli Jorné
Directed By	Lauren Cohan
U.S. Viewers	0.29 million
Episode Guide
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Cast Guide
Starring Lauren Cohan as Maggie Rhee Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan Smith Gaius Charles as Perlie Armstrong Željko Ivanek as The Croat Mahina Napoleon as Ginny Logan Kim as Hershel Rhee Dascha Polanco as Lucia Narvaez** Keir Gilchrist as Benjamin Pierce
Also Starring Medina Senghore as Annie Smith* Kim Coates as Bruegel * no lines ** zombified

"Bridge Partners Are Hard to Come by These Days" is the sixth episode of the second season of AMC's The Walking Dead: Dead City. It is the twelfth episode of the series overall. It premiered on June 8, 2025. It was written by Eli Jorné and directed by Lauren Cohan.

Plot

Maggie considers making an alliance, as the outcome of Negan's actions come to a head.

Synopsis

To be added.

Other Cast

Co-Stars

• PeiPei Alena Yuan as Buraz Lookout
• Rena Maliszewski as Museum Guard
• Mu-Shaka Benson as Museum Soldier

Uncredited

• Dennis Grajeda as Substation Buraz
• Alex Kingi as Bobbie (Motion Capture)
• Unknown as Joshua Smith
• Ruby Masterson as Buraz

Deaths

• Museum Guard
• Bobbie
• Lucia Narvaez (Zombified)

Trivia

• First appearance (in Dead City continuity) of Annie Smith.
• First appearance (in Dead City continuity) of Joshua Smith.
• Only appearance of Bobbie. (Physically)
• Last appearance of Lucia Narvaez. (Zombified)
• The title of the episode, "Bridge Partners Are Hard to Come by These Days", refers to Bruegel's line when he tries to explain the card game to Perlie.
  • It's also the longest title in the TV Universe.
• Lisa Emery (The Dama) has been removed from the opening credits following her character's apparent death.
• This episode marks the first appearance of Medina Senghore (Annie Smith) in the Television Universe since she last appeared in "Family" in The Walking Dead.
• In the Episode Insider for this episode, Lauren Cohan talks about her experience directing this episode and stated that her favorite scene to direct was Negan and the Croat smoking a cigarette together in St. Patrick's Cathedral whereas the most challenging scene to direct was the fight between Maggie, Hershel, and the bear.
• In the Episode Insider, Eli Jorné revealed that Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Željko Ivanek did most of the stunts for the fight scene between Negan and the Croat.
• In the Episode Insider, Lauren Cohan sang the praises of Dascha Polanco, who played Lucia Narvaez, and even called her "the best walker we've ever had". Dascha revealed that her walker makeup involved wearing contact lenses that covered her whole eye and that she had prosthetics put on her that were "eaten up" to make her legs look devoured. Dascha also stated that she felt like the cast had become like a little family on set.

Episode Highlights

To be added.