What isn’t is the current television schedule.
While the real world offers up never-ending dread and anxiety,The Walking Deaddelivers another high piece of entertainment.
Amid the chaos, Yumiko spots Magna.
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Ezekiel gathers the children to flee their crumbling home, but Judith is missing.
She joined the battle against Daryl’s wishes and managed to subdue a Whisperer.
With his mask now off, her enemy pleads to be spared.
Earl makes it to her and both escape to safety.
And then the action stops.
It’s morning, and Hilltop has fallen.
Our heroes have dispersed.
We first see Aaron.
He found Aaron instead.
Kelly, Alden (with baby Adam), and Mary are another group.
Alden is finally warming up to Mary, but then walkers overwhelm them.
Mary closes the door with Kelly, Alden, and the baby safe instead and leads the dead away.
It’s something her sister once did in the field before she was killed.
Sure enough, it proves to be a bad omen.
Before she takes her last breath she’s able to claw off a piece of Beta’s mask.
Another Whisperer nearby sees his true face and recognizes him.
This man wasn’t sure who Beta was before, though he knew his voice.
Before the Whisperer can say his name, Beta cuts him down as well.
There was a theory going around online back during the last season ofFear the Walking Dead.
Daniel and Grace were out walking when he drops a crate of old records.
He wouldn’t be the first celebrity to get wrangled into a nefarious cult.
They got separated and Magna couldn’t find Connie.
Instead, Earl led Judith and the other kids to a different cabin.
He tells them Earl has the kids and they go to find them.
When they arrive, it’s a bleak scene.
He was bit during the battle and went in the back to kill himself.
Judith was the only one who knew.
Daryl sits with her in silence.
In a different cabin in some unknown location, Lydia comes to.
She’s tied to a chair and thrashes about frantically.
She knows her mother is on her way and will kill her when she arrives.
It was a trick of the camera.
Yes, Negan was leading Alpha toacabin, just notthecabin.
When Alpha turns around upon finding an empty room, she gasps as Negan slits her throat.
Yes, Alpha is dead.
And that’s not all.
Negan carries her decapitated, growling walker head in a burlap pouch through the woods.
He rolls it on the ground before the person who tasked him with assassinating Alpha.
It’s the same person that loosed him from his jail cell at Alexandria way back when.
“Took you long enough,” she says.
It’s slightly different than the comics, but only slightly.
If the comics are any indication, this war is not over though.
There’s still Beta to contend with.
But without their Alpha, the Whisperers are left without their commander.
