page_title: List of The Walking Dead (TV series) characters
section_title: Alpha
hierarchical_section_title: List of The Walking Dead (TV series) characters / Main characters / Alpha
caption_attribution_description: English: Samantha Morton at the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival
context_page_description: The following is a list of characters from The Walking Dead television series based on the eponymous comic book series. Although some characters appear in both the television and comic series, the continuity of the television series is not shared with the original comic book series.
context_section_description: Alpha, portrayed by Samantha Morton, is the leader of the Whisperers, a mysterious group of hostile survivors who disguise themselves with the skin of the undead in order to blend in with them and not get noticed, and the main antagonist of the second half of season nine and the whole of season ten. She is shown to be a cold, cunning, egocentric, psychopathic, sadistic, and highly intelligent woman who is a hardened, determined survivor and a strong leader to those in her group, appearing to enjoy being in a position of authority and does not take kindly to anyone who opposes her. Alpha first appears at the end of "Adaptation", aiming Alden and Luke with a sawed-off shotgun. In "Omega", Alpha's dark past is revealed in flashbacks; it is shown that she killed her husband Frank and their group of survivors during the initial stages of the outbreak, considering them as "weak people". At the end of the episode, she appears unmasked at the Hilltop Colony with some members of her group, asking the community to return back her daughter Lydia. In "The Calm Before", it is revealed that she brutally murdered and beheaded Ozzy, Alek, D.J., Frankie, Tammy, Rodney, Addy, Enid, Tara, and Henry. The beheaded members' heads are then placed on spikes, marking the boundary of a new border. Alpha does this in order to warn the communities not to cross into the Whisperers' territory. Alpha later escalates the conflict into an all-out war after Lydia rejects her completely, forming a relationship with Negan in the process. However, after capturing Lydia, Negan lures Alpha into a trap and slits her throat. Negan subsequently delivers Alpha's reanimated head to Carol, who he had been working with, as Carol had been obsessed with killing Alpha in revenge for the murder of her adopted son Henry. Shortly after, Beta finds the head, and furiously grabs one of his men and feeds part the Whisperer's face to Alpha's reanimated head; Beta takes the head with him inside a bag. Then, inside an abandoned building, Beta puts down Alpha, and skins half of her face and attaches it to himself to wear as the new right side of his own mask, declaring himself the new leader of the Whisperers.
caption: Samantha Morton
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