Let’s talk about this puppet master and what the comics might tell us about his plans.
Josh Hamilton’s Lance Hornsby is playing the long game.
We still don’t know, but we have a pretty clear guess.
Josh Hamilton’s Lance Hornsby on ‘The Walking Dead’ season 11 episode ‘The Lucky Ones’.Josh Stringer/AMC
The Walking Deadseason 11’s “The Lucky Ones” nearly spelled it out.
Lance wasn’t involved in this, but perhaps the show’s Lance is different in that regard.
All the pieces are slowly starting to line up.
He also has a powerful player, Carol, doing favors for him to get Ezekiel that surgery.
The problem now is getting Hilltop and Oceanside on board.
In “The Lucky Ones,” he accompanies Pamela on a tour of all three communities.
Pamela has an “all or nothing” mentality.
If even one community doesn’t want to join, then she doesn’t want any of them.
The first visit is to Alexandria, and already she’s getting cold feet.
Oceanside, meanwhile, is a bit of a nonstarter.
They will only join the Commonwealth if Maggie and Hilltop agree to join.
Diane very much wants Maggie to accept Pamela’s deal, but Maggie ultimately declines the offer.
It goes back to something she spoke with Pamela: everything costs something.
His offer of the Commonwealth may seem shiny and safe, but there are cheap tactics behind it.
But the Commonwealth, she says, always comes first.
And if he ends up slacking in his duties, she promises there will be consequences.
