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Only one episode left the Walking Dead, AMC’s toprated drama, concluding with the November 20 episode “Rest in Peace.” But after the big cliffhanger that ended the penultimate episode of the Sunday series entitled “Family”, (almost) no one is safe anymore.
SPOILER ALERT: daryl (Norman Reedus) maggie (Lauren Cohan) and negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) will survive as they are spinoffs of The Walking Dead, set to debut in 2023. Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and michonne (Danai Gurira) will also have its own spinoff next year.
But who will rest in peace at the end of the series? We’ve broken down some of the suspects and will most likely meet a tragic ending in the final installment of The Walking Dead, counting only the characters whose fates haven’t been tainted by spinoff announcements:
JERRY
The fanfavorite former adviser to the kingdom’s monarch, King Ezekielthe shoemaker’s mistress Jerry was last seen running into the zombie horde that was threatening to overrun the Commonwealth. After amputating the arm bitten by zombies LydiaWith AaronJerry got out of a trailer full of zombies to find his friends Luke🇧🇷 Jules and Elijah🇧🇷 “I find her, I find you. Schuster’s peace,” Jerry said, smiling. “See you on the other side.”
This line was somewhat suspicious, and he even went so far as to talk to his wife about starting a “kingdom” of his own. Nabila making him a likely candidate to die for the zombie horde.
ARON
After her initial distrust and hostility toward the former Whisperer, Aaron became a father figure Lydia🇧🇷 Earlier this season on No Other Way, Lydia saved Aaron’s life, a favor Aaron repaid when his trip to Oceanside pitted Aaron, Jerry, Lydia, and Elijah’s group against dangerous strays. Aaron remembered her husband and had a tearful goodbye to her daughter. grace🇧🇷 As he told Lydia in a potentially worrying premonition of his own death: “The loss is inevitable.”
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ROSITA
In the episode “Family” Rosita takes command as the Alexandrians return to the Commonwealth to eliminate Governor Pamela Milton and find and rescue the kidnappers poop, taken to the orphanage in the Lower Commonwealth district. Nothing not even a horde of strays big enough to consume an entire town will stand between Rosita and her daughter.
Unfortunately, Governor Milton has ordered her army to divert the zombie swarm into the lower precincts and away from the main estates, meaning Rosita is in danger of being attacked all the way to Coco. Also consider the ominous dream Rosita had earlier this season about her exboyfriend’s violent death. Abraham🇧🇷 That’s how it is.
FATHER GABRIEL
pray for Father Gabriel🇧🇷 As Coco’s adoptive father, Gabriel believes they will find and rescue Rosita’s daughter. But the oneeyed priest has long outlived his comic book counterpart, which met a bloody end when he was gutted and devoured to the bone by a horde of zombies during the Whisperer War.
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Luke and Jules
In “Faith” is the tour group of Aaron, Jerry, Lydia and Elijah Luke and Juleswhich made its first appearance since Season 10 in the episode “A Certain Doom” which aired in October 2020. The pair revealed the fate of Oceanside since it was colonized by Lance Hornsby and later emerged in the Horde invading and traversing the Commonwealth’s perimeter.
Covered in blood and guts to walk the dead undetected, Luke and Jules literally smell of death after being gone for so long. The tightknit group of Connie, Kelly, Yumiko, Magna and Luke have been lucky enough to survive together since Season 9 increasing the likelihood that at least one of them won’t make it out of the series alive.
GOVERNOR PAMELA MILTON
With the grand finale closer than ever, Gov. Pamela Milton could be a dead woman before long. Milton shot Judith, turned Alexandria’s safe zone into the prison camp of Outpost 22, rigged a court to give Eugene the death penalty, convicted heroic soldier General Mercer of treason—and sentenced thousands of his own citizens to death. She ordered the city shut down close and divert the Horde to the Lower Districts. The other villains in the series, The Governor and Alpha, paid for their sins with their lives, so the question here might be: who kills Pamela Milton?
Still, Governor Milton could be held accountable for her crimes in other ways. In the comics, it’s his spoiled, miserable son Sebastian who spends the rest of his life behind bars for murdering Rick Grimes. Sebastian has become biter fodder on TV, but Sebastian’s comic destiny may fall to the Governor if she survives the final episode.
EUGEN
Eugene managed to survive, doing everything that was necessary at that time and even allying with enemies. Now that he’s found his love for Max, will he sacrifice himself to somehow save her?
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Judith
In the episode “Family”, Daryl runs through the streets of the Commonwealth with Judith in his arms while trying to get her to Ezekiel’s clinic. In seasons two and six, Rick also raced his son Carl after he was shot to save his life.
Carl survives the gunshot wound, but only after Maggie’s father, Hershel, operates on him and Rick donates his blood to his son. How will Judith survive when everyone is busy escaping the horde of zombies that have invaded the community?
CAROL
I know it’s because it’s a huge fear for fans, but Carol could also be at risk. The character was confirmed in the Daryl Dixon spinoff, but was not viable for the actress due to the transfer of the shoot to Europe. Melissa McBridewho eventually left the project.
But would she really be a part of this spinoff, or was it just a way to camouflage the character’s death in the final installment of the series? Carol has always done everything for the survivors and knowing that Judith is in danger she could sacrifice herself in any way to try to save Rick’s daughter or even her good friend Daryl.
Now it’s up to you: who do you think will die in the final episode of The Walking Dead? Leave all your theories in the comments below!