Angela Kang breaks down heartbreaking Eugene twist in TheWalkingDead:
For a long time, we've been planning this story with the fake Stephanie," she explained."We decided, 'All right, let's go ahead and reveal it here, because people are going to be onto the fact that things are funky at the Commonwealth'.
"They're just waiting for, 'What is it specifically?' and we thought that Eugene was just a good character to experience that story through, someone who's swept up in love." Eugene naively fell for Stephanie who was part of a covert team led by Lance Hornsby to monitor the new arrivals. He wasn't only deceived by Shira, but also Pamela Milton's assistant, Max. Max confessed that she was the woman who spoke to him through the radio… not Shira as Stephanie.