A good episode if I must say. It showed us Alpha’s and Beta’s meeting and the origin of the Whisperers. The timelines now are perfectly connected between 1st and 2nd episodes and we may have a start of a new and imminent war. I’ll tell you guys all about The Walking Dead‘s, “We Are The End of The World.” But be careful, spoilers ahead.
1. Alpha
Well, it’s clear to us now that Alpha was always a freaky cold-hearted woman. This episode focused on the Whisperers side and gave us a bit of Alpha’s past. It begins with Alpha and Lydia running from a few zombies, which drive them into a building in their attempt to escape certain death. Inside, mother and daughter are scolded by a not-so-friendly big man, who allows them to stay for the night and leave in the morning.
We see a very troubled relationship between Alpha (who wasn’t Alpha yet) and Lydia. An abusive mother who shows her love and concern in very strange ways and a traumatized child, who doesn’t understand the world she lives on.
The big man (who, as you probably know by now, is Beta) allows them to stay on his territory on night. But during that night, Alpha, who’s a very authoritarian woman starts to earn Beta’s trust without much trouble. There’s a moment when Alpha’s killing a bunch of walkers and Beta shows up and help her. They finish the cleaning and then Alpha says “I like killing with you.” And from this, we see the beginning of their friendship, or whatever we call that.
2. Beta
The main conflict regarding Beta on this episode are the confused feelings of Alpha which could compromise the entire group. At the camp, Beta shows jealousy towards of Alpha as she begins to show interest in the sisters, who she says have a knack for finding more dead for the Whisperers’ army. The relationship between those two is very unclear to me yet. Do they feel something for each other? Or do they behave as cold and inside the standards as they taught the Whisperers to be? I think shoving a romance through all the complexity of the villains would add nothing in the show. It’s interesting that they play with this “tension” that exists between them.
The scenes that show Beta guiding the horde of zombies is absolutely amazing.
I was thrilled by many moments lead by him. The imposing and yet mysterious character has been drawing my attention and giving me goosebumps.
3. The sisters
Gamma lives at the camp with her sister and on a quest to attract more walkers to the Whisperers army, where she puts the operation at risk. Beta then decides to kill her, but Alpha spares the life of Gamma’s sister. On top of that, she comforts the young woman, understanding the pain of a mother who leaves a child. She returns from the meeting with Alpha and apparently, ready to devote herself exclusively to the Whisperers. This devotion, however, is momentary, when Alpha is attacked by the woman in a fit of madness in another quest for walkers. Now she puts not only their operation at risk, but also the life of the pack leader, when she gets killed by the zombies. Alpha then sees that the survivor sister has proved faithful to the group, working to save her and this is where she decides to make the girl’s naming ceremony.
4. We are all monsters now
Seven years ago, Lydia’s attempt to show her mother she’s not a child is kinda sad. The traumatized and fragile girl is one of the main points of this episode. During the night they spend at the building in which they met Beta, Lydia got out of the bed to do something crazy while Alpha was asleep. She was probably going to fight some walkers on her own to prove a point. But luckily we didn’t get there. In a fight between Alpha and Beta, Lydia shows up out of nowhere and helps her mother to finally get Beta’s trust.
Continued below5. The Border
We finally get to the point when the satellite from the 1st episode hits the woods. The Whisperers saw something falling from the sky and we had our last view on the meteor shower. And then, at end of the episode, Alpha and Beta were arguing, At the end of the episode, when they settle everything up, Beta mentions that he saw smoke by the border and Alpha says that the enemy may have crossed, suggesting The Whisperers coming back to hunt down our protagonists once again.
That’s it for this time! Did you like this episode? Let me know in the comments and I’ll see you next week!
