#THE WHISPERER EPISODES SERIES#

As we get into the episodes to come, we’ll see both sides reeling from it, and how they’re pulling together. They both have had huge wins and huge losses. We wanted to tell a story about mutual destruction. Our people even sometimes use that language: the horde is a nuclear weapon. When we were setting this up, we were talking about a cold war. “It sets both groups back in a different part of the war.

“This is a huge loss for the Whisperers in this, but also, our people have lost their home,” says Kang. Even bigger than the blacksmith’s death, the Hilltop at large has all but irreparably fallen, a devastating blow with only four episodes left in season ten. In addition to the aforementioned Gamma, who had turned her back on Alpha and the Whisperers, there’s also John Finn’s Earl, who killed himself after sustaining a zombie bite. 'The Walking Dead': How That Surprising Sex Scene Came to LifeĪlpha is dead, and it’s doubtless a crushing blow to the Whisperers, but the heroes did not emerge without some serious losses as well. Then there are the two people chiefly responsible for Alpha’s death: Negan, who wielded the knife, and Carol, who pushed the knife into action. That’s a big part of the story in the coming episodes.” Emotionally, he was codependent with Alpha. Now he has to figure out what this all means for him. He was good at being the big, strong number two. Says Kang: “He’s the beta because he likes Alpha as the one who leads. For instance, it leaves the Whisperers without a leader - which means Beta (Ryan Hurst), fresh from killing Thora Birch’s Gamma, is incentivized to step up to the plate. But I think she genuinely had feelings for him in a way she hadn’t had before.”Īlpha’s death will have a massive ripple effect through the remainder of season ten. … She knows when she turns and looks at him that it’s game over. She wanted Negan to take over the Whisperers - this is what I played, anyway. her plan was to kill her daughter and herself, like a suicide pact. It’s a surprise to her that he’s betrayed her the way he has. In playing Alpha’s final scenes, Morton had her own very specific interpretation of her character’s death: “Alpha doesn’t know she’s going to die at hands. 'Walking Dead': How That Deadly 'Halloween' Homage Came to Life But yeah, we were always going to do Negan Alpha.” The emotional aspect of that story is so strong, the idea that they were in it together in this very particular way, but Negan takes his own path toward getting there. But we needed to have our own twist on it, which is why we have Carol. “We often remix moments from the comics, but I came into the room to break the season feeling very steadfast that we needed to do the Negan Alpha storyline,” showrunner Angela Kang tells The Hollywood Reporter. Alpha dies even earlier in the comics, after the heads-on-spikes incident but before the true escalation of the Whisperer War - but she very much loses her head at Negan’s hands after a heart-to-heart in the wilderness.

#THE WHISPERER EPISODES SERIES#

While Alpha’s death may come as a massive shock to the Walking Dead TV viewers, it’s less of a surprise to those who have read Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard’s comic book series on which the show is based. “Took you long enough,” Carol tells Negan, admiring Alpha’s zombified head. The end of episode sees Negan taking Alpha’s severed head to Carol (Melissa McBride), clearly the person responsible for breaking Negan out of Alexandria in the first place. When she spins around, she’s met with a knife to the throat, courtesy of Negan. Alpha gins up the nerve to kill her own daughter as a means of strengthening herself, only to enter the cabin with no trace of Lydia. The Walking Dead delivered three significant deaths over the course of “Walk With Us,” but it saved the most important and shocking one for last: Alpha (Samantha Morton), queen of the Whisperers, betrayed and killed by her new ally ( and occasional lover) Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).įocusing on the aftermath of the battle at the Hilltop, “Walk With Us” tells a fractured story across multiple perspectives, including one where Negan leads Alpha to a cabin in the woods where he claims to have captured her daughter, Lydia (Cassady McClincy).

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