Amy

*"He knew we were **different**. He knew that you needed to catch the fish and I needed to throw them back."*
―Amy to Andrea about fishing with their father and how he raised them differently.[src]
**Amy** was a survivor of the apocalypse and one of the original members of the Atlanta camp. Before the outbreak, Amy was a college student. During the downfall of Atlanta at the start of the apocalypse, Amy and her older sister Andrea were saved by Dale Horvath. Sometime later, the three eventually found and joined a group of survivors at a camp outside the city.

## **Pre-Apocalypse**

Amy was born twelve years younger than her sister, Andrea, and they both grew up in Florida. Because of their different personalities, their parents gave them different upbringings. As part of a family tradition, Amy used to go fishing with her father, who taught her that fish should be returned.

Growing up, Amy became resentful of Andrea when she went to college for not visiting on her birthdays, despite promising she would. Amy eventually began attending college and lived in a dorm room. As an effort to try to reinforce their family bond, Andrea offered Amy to take a road trip.

## **Post-Apocalypse**

When the outbreak happened around the world, Amy and Andrea were heading back to Amy's college after their trip when they were stranded in Atlanta. As the city was overrun, they were saved by Dale Horvath. Sometime later, they encountered and joined a campsite of survivors on the outskirts of the city.

## Season 1

Amy was the first one from the camp to receive an emergency broadcast from a man on his way to Atlanta and desperately tried to warn him not to get closer to the city. Unfortunately, the signal was abruptly cut off before she could finish responding, and she was unable to reconnect due to the weak signal. Amy then watched in silence as Lori argued with Shane Walsh about the idea of putting some warning signs on the road. ("Days Gone Bye")

Later that day, the camp received T-Dog's distorted distress message. Amy immediately stated that they needed to send help, but Shane objected arguing that it was too dangerous at the moment. Amy was greatly upset by this and reminded him that both her sister and the other volunteers had risked their lives in going to the city to search for supplies for the group. Despite her pleas, Shane did not change his mind and Amy stormed off. ("Guts")

When the group that had traveled to the city for supplies returned to the camp, Amy reunited with Andrea with a hug and also witnessed as newcomer Rick Grimes reunited with his family. The next day, while doing laundry at the quarry lake, Amy and the other women from the camp shared what they missed about their lives. When Ed Peletier confronted them for laughing, Amy tried to prevent Andrea from starting a fight until Ed slapped his wife, and then witnessed as an enraged Shane brutally attacked him in a fit of rage while she comforted Carol. ("Tell It to the Frogs")

Some hours later, Amy and Andrea had gone fishing over at the quarry lake, where they reminisced about their childhood and how their father had raised them in different ways, concluding that he wanted them both to be special and unique. The sisters then returned to the camp with all the fishes they had caught for dinner and were congratulated for their effort. After Dale informed everyone at the camp about a paranoid Jim digging holes without an explanation, Amy witnessed as Shane subdued him and tied him to a tree until he would feel better.

That night, everyone was reunited around a campfire as they listened to Dale's stories. After calling him a weirdo for not understanding his story, Amy excused herself to go use the bathroom in the RV. When she came out of the door asking for toilet paper, Amy was taken by surprise by a walker who bit her on her arm, and her screams of agony alerted the group to the presence of the undead. Although Jim finally came to her aid, Amy was also bitten on her neck and shortly after died of blood loss in Andrea's arms. ("Vatos")

Having been left completely heartbroken due to her sister's death, Andrea remained very overprotective of Amy's corpse until the next morning and placed the necklace that she had gotten as a birthday gift on her neck. When Amy finally reanimated, Andrea apologized for never having been there for her, before shooting her in the side of the head. Amy was buried in the vicinity of the camp where a funeral was held for all the deceased campers. ("Wildfire")

## Season 3

After losing his wife during the walker invasion at the prison, a deranged Rick had a phone conversation with a young woman, unaware that it was Amy, who told him that she had been trying to communicate with anyone since that the apocalypse started. Not realizing that everything was a hallucination, Rick expressed to her that he needed the help of her group but the young woman hung up the phone. ("Hounded")

## Season 9

In a hallucination, Rick walked through a floor full of the corpses of all of his friends and loved ones, with Amy being among them. ("What Comes After")

## Death

Killed By
* Zombies *(Alive)*

When Amy came out from Dale's RV bathroom to ask for toilet paper a walker attacked from behind and bit her in her arm and shortly after her collarbone, ripping out a small chunk. Andrea tried to aid her sister, but couldn't do anything as Amy died from blood loss.

* Andrea *(Zombified)*

After Amy succumbed to the infection and reanimated, a devastated Andrea apologized for not being there for her before mercifully shooting her in the head, ending her suffering.

## Appearances

### TV Series

#### Season 1

* "Days Gone Bye"
* "Guts"
* "Tell It to the Frogs"
* "Vatos"
* "Wildfire" (Corpse/Zombified)

## Trivia

* Amy is the only recurring character to have a promotional poster in Season 1.
* Amy died the night before her birthday.
* In the original teleplay script for "Days Gone Bye", Amy's character was given the name **Rachel** (though her role remained otherwise unchanged).

## References

1. ↑ Vatos
2. ↑ Wildfire
3. ↑ Guts