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(First Aired April 5th, 2020) Ezekiel (played by Khary Payton), Eugene (played by Josh McDermitt), and Yumiko (played by Eleanor Matsuura) are formally introduced to Juanita “Princess” Sanchez (played by Paola Lazaro). She’s excited to see people after a year of isolation (although she isn’t completely sure they’re real) and takes pride in walker displays…
First Aired March 29th, 2020 (WARNING: The following post contains violent images. Reader’s discretion advised.) A flashback shows Carol (played by Melissa McBride) freeing Negan (played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan) on condition he kill Alpha (played by Samantha Morton), reasoning it will help endear him to the people in Alexandria. In the present, Carol mounts…
First Aired March 22nd, 2020 Michonne (played by Danai Gurira) is shown walking in the woods with chained walkers as camouflage. She hears screams and sees Andrea (played by Laurie Holden) being attacked by walkers but ignores the screams and walks off. Michonne and Virgil (played by Kevin Carroll) arrive on the island; his slow…
First Aired March 15th, 2020 As Hilltop burns, Alpha’s (played by Samantha Morton) walkers advance; the group fights and manages to slow the advance with a makeshift barricade of walker bodies. Judith (played by Cailey Fleming) stays behind to fight but hesitates to kill a Whisperer when her mask falls off. As Hilltop burns, the…
First Aired March 1st, 2020 Beta (played by Ryan Hurst) is seen crawling into a makeshift tunnel made by the Whisperers on his mission to find Gamma (played by Thora Birch). Gamma meanwhile has arrived at Alexandria to tell them about the group trapped in the cave with the horde. Gabriel (played by Seth Gilliam)…
First Aired March 8th, 2020 Alpha (played by Samantha Morton) has Negan (played by Jeffery Dean Morgan) whip her arm in a display of overcoming pain before doing the same to him. Later Negan is given his own Whisperer mask and helps Alpha, Beta (played by Ryan Hurst), and other Whisperers lead a group of…
First Aired February 23rd, 2020. After being trapped by Alpha (played by Samantha Morton) in a cave with her horde of walkers, Daryl (played by Norman Reedus) leads the group from their ledge to another cave using rocks to leapfrog over the walkers. Alpha believes they knew where to look for the horde because they…
November 24th, 2019 A flashback shows Dante (played by Juan Javier Cardenas), a new Whisperer being told by Alpha (played by Samantha Morton) to infiltrate Alexandria. He is ‘rescued’ from walkers and brought into the community, painting graffiti about stopping the Whisperers to cause friction, poisoning the water and murdering Siddiq’s (played by Avi Nash)…
First Aired November 17th, 2019 Siddiq (played by Avi Nash) checks on sick patients, giving them all water that he doesn’t know has been tainted by Alpha (played by Samantha Morton) and dealing with hallucinations brought up by his PTSD. Carol (played by Melissa McBride) and Daryl (played by Norman Reedus) bring the captured Whisperer…
First Aired November 10th, 2019 Carol (played by Melissa McBride) goes out to find and destroy Alpha’s (played by Samantha Morton) horde and Daryl (played by Norman Reedus) tags along. Carol finds a spot where she thinks the Whisperers converge to send walkers to the communities and they stake it out. Negan (played by Jeffery…
First Aired November 3rd, 2019 Kelly (played by Angel Theory) is hunting in the woods, but her declining hearing leaves her vulnerable to approaching walkers; she barely fights them off and is left injured. Negan (played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan) has escaped into the woods as well and is met by Brandon (played by Blaine…
