The Walking Dead 1002 recap: We Are the End of the World

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Ryan Hurst as Beta – The Walking Dead _ Season 9, Episode 13 – Photo Credit: Jace Downs/AMC /

Later, Frances walks back to the group, much to the surprise of Beta and Mary. Mary can’t believe that Alpha showed her mercy. Frances says she’ll never stray again, but as soon as she does another one of the Whisperers comes up and takes Frances’ hand, saying that she also can’t stop thinking about Alexandria and the livestock and how they could have a better life there.

Mary grabs her sister’s hand and pulls her away from the woman, who is not a good influence on her sister. Alpha stomps past Beta, who follows her into her den and asks why she didn’t kill Frances when she had the chance. Alpha doesn’t like to be questioned and promises to skin the girl alive if it happens again, but Beta tells her that Frances “unsettles” the pack and makes people talk about what they say in Alexandria. Alpha calls that life a fantasy and assures Beta that she’s firmly rooted in the mission despite the fact that he has seen her wander off alone at night.

Back in the past Alpha hums the Lydia song while she explores the recovery center. There’s graffiti on the wall with “The End” scrawled all over it. She looks down the hall to see if the man is there, but instead a walker comes in. She kills it, and then she finds that there are several more. The man, who is wearing a mask, comes and kills them. Then, together, they kill more. “I like killing with you,” she tells him.

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Later, she cuts up the dead. “Well, you’re different,” he tells her. She doesn’t think he’d see a difference had he known her before. He helps her open one of the walkers and she calls him Big Man, then Mr. B. That makes her A.

Mr. B asks if she can move with them if she is covered in their blood. She explains how to do it, saying that you have to move like them and feel nothing like they do. She goes to remove his mask but he stops her and tells her to leave at sunrise and never come back. He walks off, and she keeps working. And humming.

In the present, Mary asks Frances what it was like to be alone with Alpha. Frances has a big smile on her face as she describes Alpha’s power. She finally feels right. She believes that sacrificing her son was like Alpha sacrificing her daughter. She says that Alpha didn’t shed a tear. Frances apologizes to her sister for jeopardizing what they have there. Frances wants to know if Mary meant what she said about leaving her behind, but Mary doesn’t answer.

The next day Beta and the herd move across a field. Mary is there, and so is Alpha. They’re merging the herds together, but suddenly there’s an explosion and the satellite blazes across the sky, unsettling the herd and scattering them with the distraction. They lose control, but Alpha tells them to stay close. Frances starts to hear a baby crying when she sees a walker wearing a baby carrier.

Frances runs and jumps on Alpha, attacking her. The distraction gets the herd’s attention, and Mary runs and jumps on her sister, tearing her away from Alpha to save Alpha while her sister is devoured by the dead.

Afterwards, Alpha takes Mary’s mask off and asks if she regrets what she did. Mary says she had to protect “the Alpha.” Alpha says you’re the strongest when you kill your own blood, and that won’t be forgotten. Alpha likes what she sees in Mary.

Beta asks Mary to leave them, and Alpha pulls her mask off. He asks if Alpha is hurt, but she says she feels calm. Beta says they lost three people and many dead. “It was mayhem,” he says, but she says there is clarity. She likes that Mary fears nothing.

Back in the past, Lydia leaves her room and walks past her mother asleep on the floor. She covers herself in walker blood, repeating “we’re all monsters now” as she walks down the hall.

Alpha rewards Mary by anointing her as “Gamma.” The pack is there and whisper “to Gamma” but Beta isn’t whispering. He’s watching.

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