'Fear the Walking Dead' will answer exactly how fan-favorite Madison miraculously survived season 4's stadium full of zombies before the show ends this year

• Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) returned from the dead on the seventh season of "Fear TWD."
• Co-showrunner Ian Goldberg told Insider they "will answer" how Madison miraculously survived.

"Fear the Walking Dead" will reveal how Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) seemingly came back from the dead on its upcoming eighth and final season.

Eventually.

"Honestly that is a very important story point that will be addressed in this season," "Fear TWD" co-showrunner Ian Goldberg told Insider over Zoom Thursday when asked if fans can expect to learn how Madison miraculously escaped a baseball stadium overrun by the dead on the show's fourth season.

Goldberg added, more definitively: "We will answer how she survived the stadium."

When asked if fans can hope to receive that story in a flashback on the show's final season, which premieres May 14 on AMC and AMC+, Goldberg said, "They can always hope. You should always hope."

Dickens previously told Insider she discussed showing exactly how Madison survived on screen with Goldberg and co-showrunner Andrew Chambliss, saying: "I can't imagine it not being a part of the story, because I think it's just too juicy. So I don't know how that will play out or if it will, but I do kind of know the ideas they have for that."

Madison's "Fear TWD" comeback isn't just an important storyline, but one that caused much upheaval in "TWD" fandom for years.

Dickens' fan-favorite character, who served as the show's protagonist for the first three seasons, was shockingly and controversially killed off — or so fans thought — during season four after Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss took over as showrunners.

After years of fans rallying to #BringBackMadison, Dickens surprisingly returned to "Fear TWD" on its seventh season finale, something Chambliss and Goldberg previously told Insider they had considered internally for years before speaking with "TWD" universe chief content officer Scott M. Gimple.

Dubbed Madison 2.0 by Dickens, fans were introduced to a colder, more ruthless version of Clark than the one they remembered.

Fans can expect to see much more of Madison in the show's final season. With Dickens back as a series regular, we'll meet Madison as she's held captive by PADRE. Fans can expect to learn more about the mystery location that's been teased for seasons.

Though AMC announced the show's eighth season would be its last in January, Goldberg and Chambliss told Insider they knew long before starting work on season eight that it would be the show's last hurrah.

Instead of the regular 16-episode season format the show has followed since season three, season eight will consist of a truncated 12-episode run with the show split into two halves.

When asked if the shorter episode count presented a challenge or limitations to the stories they wanted to tell in wrapping up the series, Goldberg said "yes and no."

"It's just two blocks of six as opposed to two blocks of eight," Goldberg said of how the episodes are split. "We still approached it in the same way in terms of how we organized the stories and that was really it. We knew in enough time that we could tailor what we were doing to six episodes versus eight."

Of what fans can expect on the final season, Chambliss said: "I think the thesis statement really is, 'The end is in the beginning' and, for all these characters, it is really having them acknowledge where they started and then, us as an audience, experiencing where they end up and seeing who they've become over the course of however many years they've been on the show."

"They may have to face their pasts in order to move forward," Goldberg added.

The final season of "Fear TWD" premieres on AMC on May 14 at 9 p.m. ET. It will simultaneously be released on AMC+.