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"The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman has revealed that she wants Michael Rooker back on the show. Rooker&amp;#039;s Merle Dixon vanished in the zombie drama&amp;#039;s first season, though the character reappeared as a hallucination of brother Daryl (Norman Reedus) in the most recent episode. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s unfortunate that it was just a vision, a hallucination of some sort,&amp;quot; Kirkman told Entertainment Weekly. &amp;quot;But having him back in the show was an absolute delight.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;Hopefully it will happen again at some point soon.&amp;quot; The writer also admitted that he was pleased to have Merle and Daryl Dixon share a scene for the first time. &amp;quot;My favorite thing was that we hadn&amp;#039;t ever seen those characters interact,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;I guess we still technically haven&amp;#039;t. But this is the first time Rooker and Reedus have been in a scene together, which is really cool.&amp;quot; Kirkman previously suggested that both Merle and Morgan (Lennie James) could return to The Walking Dead. The show airs on Fridays at 10pm on FX in the UK, and continues on Sundays at 9/8c on AMC in the US. &amp;gt; Walking Dead exec: &amp;#039;Season three is being planned Watch a promo for the next episode of The Walking Dead below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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