In the mid-season premiere, " Adaptation", Alpha leads a group of Whisperers who captured Alden ( Callan McAuliffe) and Luke ( Dan Fogler), luring them into a trap by setting up a trail of arrows for them to follow. He subsequently delivers her head to Carol Peletier ( Melissa McBride), with whom he had been working the whole time.
Alpha is eventually murdered and beheaded herself by Negan ( Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who had formed an intimate relationship with her. The beheaded members' heads are placed on spikes, marking the boundary of the new border. The Whisperers murder and behead several key members from each community to warn the communities not to cross into Whisperer territory. In the present, she shows up at the Hilltop Colony with some members of her group, demanding that the community return her daughter Lydia, whom the community is holding as their prisoner Lydia is eventually returned. Alpha's dark past is shown in flashbacks it is revealed that she killed her husband Frank ( Steve Kazee) and their group of survivors during the initial stages of the outbreak, believing them to be "weak". She also served as the primary antagonist of the second half of season nine and whole of season ten.
Television series Īlpha is the leader of the Whisperers, a mysterious group of hostile survivors who disguise themselves with the skin of the undead in order to blend in with them and not get noticed, and the mother of Lydia ( Cassady McClincy). After Negan appears to have joined her group, he fatally slashes Alpha across the neck and decapitates her. On their way back, Rick and the group discover that Alpha has decapitated 12 residents of Alexandria, the Hilltop, the Kingdom and the Sanctuary, and that she used their heads placed on pikes to mark the border. After meeting with Rick Grimes, she allows Carl and Lydia to leave on the condition that nobody will cross the new border she marked. Alpha decides to infiltrate the Alexandria Safe-Zone and buys a sword at the fair.
When Carl Grimes chases the Whisperers, he is taken prisoner. She and several of her people approach the gates of the Hilltop Colony, where Lydia has been taken prisoner, and demands her daughter back.
Appearances Comic book series Īlpha is the leader of the Whisperers, a mysterious group of survivors who disguise themselves with zombie skin to blend in with them and not get noticed, and Lydia's mother.