Warning: This article contains spoilers from"For Blood," Sunday’s episode ofThe Walking Dead.
Instead, the show left us withmultiplecliffhangers!
With the rockets in the air, the screen went to black.
Ritchie Coster as Pope and Lynn Collins as Leah on ‘The Walking Dead’.Josh Stringer/AMC
So, naturally, we have questions.
Why did Leah turn Daryl down and then turn him in?
And what can we expect when the show returns in 2022?
Lynn Collins as Leah on ‘The Walking Dead’.Josh Stringer/AMC
Read on for insight and intel from the boss.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Let’s jump straight to the end where Daryl and Leah combine forces to kill Pope.
Why does Leah ultimately choose to not leave with Daryl but instead stay and essentially take Pope’s place?
Annabelle Holloway as Gracie and Cailey Fleming as Judith on ‘The Walking Dead’.Josh Stringer/AMC
ANGELA KANG: We felt that Leah is a character who puts her family above all else.
And there was a point where I think she hoped that Daryl was part of that family.
He just killed somebody that’s one of her own.
She knew Pope needed to die, but she was hoping that could be to spare everybody else.
She just makes a decision.
So it really felt like that was the truest expression of who Leah was.
The weird thing is she’s sort of like a dark mirror to Daryl in that moment.
And I think ultimately their relationship was never on totally solid footing.
There was a toxic element always, from the beginning.
She has a few choices about what to do after she kills Pope: She can leave with Daryl.
She can let him go but then stay with her people.
She can kill him, because he and his friends are responsible for the death of her friends.
But instead she radios the other Reapers and tells them Daryl killed Pope.
Is she giving him a chance to survive?
What’s behind the decision to play it that way?
I think she’s giving him a chance to survive.
I think Leah in her own broken way still does care for Daryl.
There is emotion there, even if it’s a very past, dead-end thing.
She understands the honor behind his intention.
It’s just that she can’t let it happen for her own people.
So tell us about this crazy fireworkarrow contraption that Leah lights off at the very end.
But I had never heard of this thing.
I can’t picture it."
And they’re like, “It’s rocket-propelled arrows flying at you out of this giant thing.”
And I was like, “Well, that sounds pretty cool!”
And we’re like, “She might’ve had like weaponry stuff in the book.
And so maybe the Reapers came upon it and built it when they got there.”
But then we’re like, “You know what?
It’s an intense storm.
And so they’re just on the receiving end of some of nature’s wrath.
Where’s her head at in this episode, besides trying to keep it above water at the end?
She’s been put into extraordinary circumstances, and how is she going to deal with that?
We tend to kind of switch up some variables in every block.
We know we’re gonna meet Pamela Milton [Laila Robins], the leader of the Commonwealth.
Any other new characters, groups, or communities?
And we are going to get to know the Commonwealth more deeply with our characters.
