<P> In the penultimate season three episode `` This Sorrowful Life '' , Rick confides in Merle , Daryl , and Hershel that the Governor promises to leave the prison alone if they hand over Michonne . Rick plans to do as the Governor requests , and asks Merle to help deliver Michonne to the meeting place at noon . Merle , knowing that Rick will not go through with it , traps and ties up Michonne . However , after he and Michonne talk about personal matters , he lets her go and returns her katana , telling her he has something to do alone . He starts drinking whiskey before using loud music to lure a group of walkers to the exchange site where the Governor is waiting to ambush whoever will show up . The music also distracts the Governor 's henchmen while Merle secretly takes cover , intent on killing the Governor both for revenge and to prevent him from killing anyone else at the prison , mainly Daryl . After shooting several of the henchmen , Merle is caught and beaten by Martinez and two other men and then , injured and winded , fights one - on - one with the Governor . The Governor gets the upper hand and bites off two of Merle 's fingers . A wounded Merle then yells that he will not beg for mercy before the Governor shoots him in the chest with a pistol . Later on , Daryl , who left the prison to track down Merle and Michonne after Rick noticed them missing , finds Michonne unhurt and continues on to the exchange site , where he sees a reanimated Merle eating Ben 's corpse . Daryl breaks down in tears and pushes his reanimated brother away more than once before stabbing him repeatedly in the head , killing him for good . </P>
<P> In the penultimate season three episode `` This Sorrowful Life '' , Rick confides in Merle , Daryl , and Hershel that the Governor promises to leave the prison alone if they hand over Michonne . Rick plans to do as the Governor requests , and asks Merle to help deliver Michonne to the meeting place at noon . Merle , knowing that Rick will not go through with it , traps and ties up Michonne . However , after he and Michonne talk about personal matters , he lets her go and returns her katana , telling her he has something to do alone . He starts drinking whiskey before using loud music to lure a group of walkers to the exchange site where the Governor is waiting to ambush whoever will show up . The music also distracts the Governor 's henchmen while Merle secretly takes cover , intent on killing the Governor both for revenge and to prevent him from killing anyone else at the prison , mainly Daryl . After shooting several of the henchmen , Merle is caught and beaten by Martinez and two other men and then , injured and winded , fights one - on - one with the Governor . The Governor gets the upper hand and bites off two of Merle 's fingers . A wounded Merle then yells that he will not beg for mercy before the Governor shoots him in the chest with a pistol . Later on , Daryl , who left the prison to track down Merle and Michonne after Rick noticed them missing , finds Michonne unhurt and continues on to the exchange site , where he sees a reanimated Merle eating Ben 's corpse . Daryl breaks down in tears and pushes his reanimated brother away more than once before stabbing him repeatedly in the head , killing him for good . </P>
when did merle die in the walking dead
when did merle die in the walking dead
episode `` This Sorrowful Life ''
episode `` This Sorrowful Life ''