Tales Of The Walking Dead, Dee: Things To Note

Tales of the Walking Dead – Dee

1) As mentioned in my opening, this is the first episode of Tales of The Walking Dead to feature an established character from the Walking Dead universe, Dee (known to TWD fans as Alpha). Technically, it features two, if you count Dee’s daughter, Lydia.

2) Speaking of Lydia, in this episode, her role is reprised by Scarlett Blum, who portrayed Lydia at the beginning of the apocalypse during her flashbacks to her father, Frank’s, death in The Walking Dead season nine episode, “Omega”. Funny enough, her older sister, Havana, would portray Lydia when she and Alpha first met Beta in the season ten episode, “We Are The End Of The World” (which we’ll discuss in detail a little bit later).

3) On top of being the first episode of Tales to feature a pre-established Walking Dead character, this is also the first (and thus far, only) episode to feature a character that is already dead in the series they came from by the time the episode aired, as Alpha died in season ten’s “Walk With Us” at the hands of Negan.

4) Additionally, this is the first episode to formally give us Alpha’s real name, as in all previous episodes of The Walking Dead to feature her before creating the Whisperers, even in her chronologically earliest appearance (The aforementioned flashback in “Omega”) she is never actually referred to by name.

5) While we eventually discover Billy’s evil intent, if we pay attention to his reflection in the barroom door, we can see him monkeying around with one of the riverboat’s perimeter lights (the same one Brooke tightened earlier?), which then causes it to blink, almost like a signal. Why Dee didn’t mention this when airing her concerns to Brooke is, quite frankly, a mystery, as it would have helped her make her case for her suspicions of Billy a lot better than her simply saying she distrusted him.