The Walking Dead season 10’s biggest unanswered questions

Where’s Lydia?

Last week we saw Carol’s risky move to take Lydia out on a tour of the sights of Whisperville – in the hopes of revealing to Alpha’s people that she’d lied about ending her own daughter’s life – go spectacularly right and wrong in equal measures. Whisperer envoy Gamma did see Lydia and reacted with suitable world-shaking surprise, but in doing so Lydia felt horribly used by Carol and accused her of being just like Alpha before running off into the night.

So where did Alpha’s off-spring and Alexandria’s human shield go? Has she returned to her abusive mother? After all, it’s the only life Lydia knows and we know it can often take abuse victims more than one attempt to break free from the cycle.

She may find, of course, if she returns to the fold that she now has an unlikely ally in the form of Negan. Their interacts in Alexandria were surely not for nothing, and would be a good grounding for the tables to turn and Negan to be Lydia’s shield and protect her from the worst of her mother’s wrath.

It could, however, be that Lydia’s parting shot to Carol was, in fact, the totality of her plan, and she is going to strike it out for herself. She has shown herself to be capable and smart (her advice to kill the Whisperer with kindness was a perceptive one), and it’s not at all unbelievable that she could cope on her own until something takes her back into the path of the Alexandrians. Although, given the experiences of previous teenagers’ attempts at survival she’s likely either feasting on a giant can of chocolate pudding or a tortoise, and the delicious waft of bread and jam may tempt her back to Alexandria’s walls.