More 'Walking Dead' Regular Characters Meet a Bloody End
by EG
The Walking Dead is struggling to hold on to viewers, but it's not going to do so by keeping all of its regular characters safe from bloody deaths. This week's episode was the last one for several characters, including two regulars. Read on for details (and spoilers).
[This story contains spoilers for season nine, episode 15 of AMC's The Walking Dead, "The Calm Before."]
The Whisperers have made their move.
The penultimate episode of The Walking Dead season nine ended in a moment of jaw-dropping horror, one that's pulled straight from the pages of Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard's comic book series, albeit with some key modifications. Following an encounter with Alpha (Samantha Morton) and her Whisperer army, Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) and his allies came face to face with…well, a bunch of faces. More specifically: the severed heads of their loved ones, including two series regulars, beheaded by the Whisperers as a means of asserting dominance over the Alexandria Safe-Zone.
Among the dead:
• Newly minted Hilltop leader Tara Chamblers, played by Alanna Masterson since the fourth season, and currently number four on the call sheet.
• Hilltop doctor Enid, played by Katelyn Nacon, once viewed as a love interest for Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs), more recently romantically linked to Alden (Callan McAullife).
• Henry, played by Matt Lintz, the son of King Ezekiel (Khary Payton) and Queen Carol (Melissa McBride), who was already the source of so much Whisperer drama this season.
• Tammy Rose, played by Grace Under Fire veteran Brett Butler, introduced when she lost her son in the season nine premiere, most recently a new mother of an adopted Whisperer baby.
• Highwaymen leader Ozzy, played by Angus Sampson, introduced only a couple of episodes prior in a fashion that made him seem like a major new player on the board.
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