Siddiq’s Secrets: What is he hiding?

Siddiq was witness to one of the most traumatic events in The Walking Dead Universe but his reaction is season 10 has some fans wondering what really happened.

In case you missed it, there are rumors floating about Siddiq’s involvement in the piked head murders. Theories range from his making a deal with Alpha, to him being forced by Alpha to cut some heads himself. The truth, I think, is somewhere in the middle.

So far this season, Siddiq has experienced various forms of PTSD, often lost in thought, flashbacks, and at least once a hallucination. This doesn’t appear to be, however, survivor’s guilt (a mental condition that occurs when a person believes they have done something wrong by surviving a traumatic event when others did not, often feeling self-guilt) so much as standard variety guilt.

Last season, when Siddiq was discovered a few yards from the fence of heads, he claimed Alpha had knocked him out, and that she wanted him to deliver a message:

"“I was there. I was taken with the others. And I saw… I was supposed to die with them. I was ready to.  Then, Alpha whispered in my ear, ‘Tell them.’ Something hit me, and everything went black. And when I woke up, I was alone.”"

From all that we know about Alpha, we know, without a doubt, she would not give the courtesy of knocking someone out to spare them such an ugly, horrific sight. Alpha would want him to hear the screams, see and smell the blood, and to bear witness as the people he knew are dismembered one by one. Even more than that: putting heads on pikes is kind of a message in and of itself, so who needs Siddiq to say anything at that point? Especially an alive Siddiq. If she left him alive, it was because he could do, or did do something for her…

In “Ghosts”, Alpha says she has eyes everywhere. She knew that they had crossed the border not once, but three times. What’s most curious about that is that the first time, the Whisperers had been long gone for the winter. And yet, she knew.

How?

Why, it’s almost as if she was given a rundown by someone who was there. It’s not as if Alpha said her eyes were limited to those who wear the skin of the dead.

The most logical conclusion is that there’s a person on the inside delivering messages. The most likely individual isn’t Lydia, as some at Alexandria may begin to assume (given the preview for this Sunday’s ep), but Siddiq. I believe he made a deal with Alpha for either his survival, or Rosita’s (and his unborn child). She spared him to be her eyes. If he didn’t deliver, there would be a price to pay, I’m sure. Perhaps she made him get on his knees and brought the knife to his neck, only to hold him and tell him it was okay.

Or.

Maybe she did have him participate in the killings in some form or fashion, like luring some of the others to that barn. Someone near and dear like Tara or Henry, who wouldn’t hesitate to follow Siddiq.

I predict that the reveal will happen by the mid-season finale, and will be the official kick off of the war with the Whisperers.

What do you think?