The Walking Dead: World Beyond: Who’s The Worst?

2) Huck

From what I can tell, just about the only thing we can trust about Jennifer Mallick, better known as “Huck”, is that you can’t trust what you know about her.

Back in episode seven, “Truth Or Dare”, we learned of Huck’s heroic story during the beginning of the outbreak, where she killed her own Marine squad, rather than let them execute “Sunset Protocol” on a bunch of innocent civilians in New York state.

…Then, in the next episode, we learned that she was she was a spy for the Civic Republic, and that the sinister Lieutenant Colonel Kublek was her mother.

This threw just about everything we learned about Huck in the previous episode into question, as now we couldn’t tell if what we knew of her was all just an elaborate cover story, cooked up by a well-trained spy. In fact, even in episode nine, “The Deepest Cut”, we hear Huck tell her mother (Who warns her some in the CRM don’t entirely trust her), to “Tell them what I did to my face!”, suggesting that the scar on her cheek, which we saw her give herself in “Truth Or Dare” (And was implied as done in memory of one of her squadmates whom she had to kill to protect the civilians), may have, in fact, just been another part of selling her cover story.

And, that’s what puts Huck on this list: Because we know she’s a double-agent, everything she says and does is suspect, and, in service of “The Greater Good”, she’s done some awful stuff, and then lied about it.

In episode eight, we watch as she all but accuses Silas of murdering Tony and Percy, letting the poor kid think he was some sort of crazed murderer, and driving him to walk away from the group, even though, as we would learn, she was the murderer, killing Tony, and shooting Percy, leaving him to die.

While she professed to Hope that she didn’t want to hurt anybody en route to getting her to the Civic Republic, the fact is, with Huck having lied so much during her mission, perhaps even having lied to us, the viewers, how can we trust that anything she’s said or shown us has been true at all?

We can’t, and that kind of betrayal…is tough to bounce back from.