Lolida Windfield

"*We're a god damn team, all of us. Figure your shit out...we don't need another Jared on our hands.*"
—Lolida to Daniel Rockwell[src]

Lolida Windfield is a recurring character and a survivor of the outbreak in Route to Paradise. He is a thoughtful, optimistic man, and a history buff for the American Civil War. Lolida is generally a friendly person that cares deeply for his friends, mainly Daniel Rockwell. He unfortunately ended up joining the wrong group, one led by Nathaniel Shepard with the promise of venturing to an island paradise across the pacific, an idea that never comes to fruition.

Lolida is someone that doesn't wish for harm against most people, even people who are ultimately against him. At the stadium (Nathaniel's base of operations), Lolida was friends with Daniel, Grant Carver, Isaac Moses and Nick Parker. While Daniel, Grant and Isaac begin to wonder if remaining with Nathaniel is the right choice, Lolida remains hopeful for the future. That is until Nathaniel tasks him, Daniel and Grant with escorting Damerae Badrick to meet his Rastas at the Willamette Docks. Badrick betrays the men and kills Grant, while Lolida sustains a head injury in the car crash, an injury that still appears to affect him seasons later.

Grant's death is something that has a major impact on Lolida. When Lolida returns to the stadium to be treated for his injuries, Badrick and the Rastas launch an attack. Vivian Finkling, a doctor looking after Lolida, is murdered by Badrick, while Lolida flees in terror, something that Lolida feels guilty over later on. His friend Nick is also killed in the attack, and even though Nick had stayed loyal to Nathaniel, Lolida still feels sympathy for him.

Lolida, Daniel and Isaac end up joining another group afterwards, and with that group they travel to Denver, Colorado, while Lolida continues to feel ashamed over Vivian, and is still shaken up over the deaths of his friends.

While in Denver, Isaac is killed under suspicious circumstances, and for the next couple of months, Lolida and Daniel come to the opinion that it must have been Jared Kellings who killed him, given he was the last man seen with Isaac. But with no hard proof, there's nothing they can do. This is before Lolida and Daniel go on a supply run with Jared and two others, where Lolida is horrified when he witnesses Jared causing Albert Hanson's death. He and Daniel try to stop Jared, but he defeats them by shoving them into a pit with no apparent way to escape.

Using everything they've got in them, Lolida and Daniel climb out of the pit and return to their group, finally revealing the true monster Jared is. Before Jared is hanged by group leader William Reynes, he confesses to causing Isaac's death, and Lolida can finally feel relieved that he's avenged his friend.

Over the next few days, Lolida spends most of his time resting and recovering from all the injuries he's sustained. Meanwhile, Daniel continues to be confrontational and needlessly horrible to members of their group, mainly Kate Bloodstone. Wanting to protect his friend, Lolida does all he can for Daniel, but eventually he can't stand it any longer, and calls Daniel out for his actions. This leads to Daniel accepting how rude he's been, and making an apology to Kate.

Later, Lolida and the rest of the group travel to Worthwood, where Lolida and Daniel take on supply running positions in the community.

## **Pre-Apocalypse**

Pre-apocalypse, Lolida was someone who did reenactments of the American Civil War as his job.

## **Post-Apocalypse**

Lolida's time after the apocalypse is clouded in mystery. His son, Lance, likely survived the initial stages of the outbreak and was with Lolida. The two of them joined Nathaniel Shepard's group at some point, and Lance would die some time after this. Lolida mentions that Nathaniel screwed over his son; whether that had anything to do with Lance's death is not known.

In Nathaniel's community, Lolida became close friends with many people, but there were two that he was the closest to: Daniel Rockwell and Grant Carver.

### **Season 3**

#### "**What Comes After**"

Lolida is first introduced when he, Daniel Rockwell, Grant Carver and Nick Parker encounter a group of strangers out on the road. Lolida is seen in his civil war uniform, and stays quiet while Daniel introduces them. After introductions are made, the two groups seem to come to an understanding, but Jon Matthews then says that he's only interested in going with Lolida's group if they'll help kill Damerae Badrick. Lolida isn't too keen about this idea, and tries to bring Daniel and the others aside to talk, but Grant tells him to grow up. One man from the stranger group, Jared Kellings, begins to act rather unusual, and Lolida whispers to Grant if Jared is being serious. Grant, growing annoyed, tells Lolida to just ask Jared and not whisper it to him. But before Lolida can get to asking him, he and the others turn their attention to a zombie horde, wiping it out. Afterwards, Jared, who's now seen as clearly drunk, confronts Lolida about his name. When Lolida talks back to him, Jared decks him in the face, causing to get punched to the ground by Daniel. Lolida holds his jaw in pain, as he gets into one of the trucks, the group of people opting to go with Lolida's team back to their community.

When they arrive at the stadium, where their community is, Lolida walks off while the strangers they picked up are suddenly held at gunpoint and put into cells.

### **Season 4**

#### "**The Promiseland**"

At the cafeteria inside the stadium, Lolida is enjoying breakfast, Grant fast asleep beside him. Daniel comes walking up to them, while complaining about how little supplies they have left. Lolida couldn't agree with his complaints more, and is insisting that they should go out for a supply run. Just then, Nathaniel Shepard is seen walking into the cafeteria and over to them, a smile on his face. He reminds the three of them that even though times are tough right now, soon they will be in paradise on the island of Banoi. Lolida, who isn't so sure anymore, asks Nathaniel if it'll really be a paradise. Grant asks the same thing, and Nathaniel is disappointed that they are losing faith. Nathaniel switches the conversation to a man that he's allowed to stay in the community - Damerae Badrick - and says that he'd like their help giving Badrick a tour of the stadium. Lolida, bored, says he's up for it. When Nathaniel walks off, Daniel stops Lolida and Grant for a second to inform them about the freak that Badrick really is - a dying man whose face is half burnt off, and a man that Nathaniel is planning on using to his advantage. Lolida sighs, sarcastically making light of the situation. Daniel tells them that they should just get this over with, but to play it cool. Lolida and Grant follow Daniel out.

After showing Badrick around the stadium for a while, they eventually arrive at a storage room, where they have makeshift cells holding their prisoners. When Badrick sees one particular group of prisoners, he freaks out and demands to have them killed. When Nathaniel refuses, Badrick loses his mind, trying to reach for Daniel's gun. Lolida runs up behind Badrick, grappling onto him and trying to pull him off. It continues like this for a short while, until Badrick spins around, slamming Lolida into the wall and holding him by the throat. To get Badrick off of him, Lolida digs his finger into Badrick's half-burnt face, causing the man to let go almost instantly, falling to the floor in pain, the bandages on his face sliding off. Lolida looks in disgust at his face, before he and Grant grab onto Badrick and drag him away.

#### "**Gunpoint**"

In the cafeteria, Lolida comes over to sit beside Grant, looking exhausted. As soon as he sits, Grant remarks about his surprised he is that Lolida hasn't abandoned the stadium yet. Lolida makes it clear that he has no intentions of leaving him or Daniel behind. Moreover, he says that Nathaniel took Lolida in when he was at his lowest, and gave him new meaning. He still believes there's good in Nathaniel, something Grant obviously disagrees with him about. Before they can continue, Daniel comes walking in, telling them that Nathaniel had just tasked the three of them with escorting Badrick to the Willamette Docks, where he is supposed to meet with his army of Rastas that just arrived. Lolida doesn't think it's a good idea. Daniel and Grant suddenly begin talking about something that horrifies Lolida -- killing Badrick. They want to drive Badrick somewhere out of town and put him down rather than take him to the docks. Lolida tells them their plan is insane, and pleads with them to reconsider. But they remain firm on their idea to kill Badrick, and Lolida is left outvoted. Shaking his head and sighing, Lolida gets up and follows them outside where a car is waiting for them.

The three of them head out to the front entrance, where Badrick is already seated in the back seat of a car. Nathaniel is there too, and he goes over the plan with them one more time, before wishing them good luck. Silently, Lolida gets into the backseat next to Badrick, while Grant takes shotgun and Daniel gets behind the wheel. Worried about what lies ahead, Lolida looks out the window as the car drives off.

The drive to the "docks" is quiet one, as there's not much to say. Eventually, Lolida, needing to start a conversation, turns to Badrick beside him and questions why he wanted those prisoners dead so badly. Badrick smiles, while saying how happy he is that Lolida asked. He then tells his story about how those prisoners, among many other groups, attacked him and his men when he came to Willamette. Grant doesn't buy his story for one second, and Lolida tells him to cool down. Lolida looks back to Badrick and tries telling him that Grant is actually a good person; he just has a hard time showing it. Nodding, Badrick then observes how different Lolida is from Daniel and Grant, and asks him about it. Lolida says that he is still holding onto humanity, and believes that they need to hold onto it, for when they lose it, the life they had before the apocalypse dies with it. Badrick tells him that's very admirable, just before Daniel starts to slow down, stating that he needed to take a leak. Badrick, growing suspicious, turns to Lolida once more, and simply says, "A man has to do... what a man has to do, right?" Lolida responds, "Right," before Badrick suddenly slams Lolida's head against the car window, immediately knocking him out cold.

The next time Lolida is seen is an hour or more later. He's likely just woken up, and has suffered a major head injury. Lolida is sitting beside Grant's corpse, a frown glued to his face. He eventually lays back, his head in so much pain. He's completely out of it, not even realizing that Daniel is speaking with another group of survivors.

#### "**Consequence**"

Daniel would eventually help Lolida back to the stadium, rushing him to the infirmary, where he leaves him in the care of doctor Vivian Finkling.

Lolida is taken care of by Vivian over the next while, all while Lolida is still groaning in pain. Eventually, Vivian is suddenly grabbed by Jon, who holds a scalpel to her throat and tells her to keep quiet. Lolida glances over, barely able to make out what's happening. He is eventually able to get out a few words, telling Jon to let her go. But just then, Fraser Stiller comes running in, telling Jon that it's okay. Jon takes away the scalpel and apologizes to the doctor, just as Daniel enters the infirmary as well. Daniel immediately goes over to Lolida and tells him that they're doing the right thing helping break the prisoners out, and leaving the stadium. Lolida, who's still confused by everything, reaches out and grabs Daniel's wrist, telling him that they can't leave Nathaniel - even if he's lost his mind. "Nathaniel turned his back on us. Remember that," Daniel says, before leaving once more, entrusting Lolida to the care of Vivian again.

#### "**All the King's Men**"

In the infirmary, Lolida remains groaning in pain, all the while a battle is raging on around them, made obvious by the explosions and gunfire. Lolida is concerned, but Vivian assures him that whatever it is, she knows that they have it under control. Out of nowhere, while Vivian's back is turned, Badrick comes charging into the room, tackling Vivian to the floor. He mounts her, pinning the doctor to the ground. Lolida yells, as he gets up and stumbles to the door, looking over. Vivian yells at Lolida to run - before Badrick suddenly jams his thumbs into her eyes. She screams, as Lolida is frozen - not knowing what to do. But in the end, he chooses to escape while he can.

Lolida moves slowly down the halls of the stadium, breathless. He finally runs into Daniel - and breathlessly tells him what happened to Vivian. Lolida can barely get the words out, not just due to his head injury, but because of the guilt he feels having left her. Daniel frowns, but then says that they need to look pronto. Lolida, confused, then asks where Grant is, forgetting for a moment that he died in the crash. As Daniel looks at him, concerned about just how bad Lolida's injury may be, a gunshot hits the wall beside them. Lolida and Daniel take cover behind a wall, and Daniel yells at Lolida to run while he holds off the shooter - who happens to be Badrick. Lolida begs him to come with him, but Daniel doesn't listen to him, focused on shooting at Badrick. With no other choice, Lolida runs on, leaving Daniel behind.

#### "**That Sweet Temptation**"

After the battle at the stadium, Lolida leaves off-screen, and goes back to the site where Grant died. He is later found by Daniel and Isaac Moses, who came there suspecting that's where Lolida was. They find Lolida kneeling in front of a recently dug grave, where Lolida had buried Grant. Daniel approaches slowly, telling Lolida that "they won", and both Badrick and Nathaniel are dead. Lolida, still traumatized and hurting from the car wreck, looks at Daniel and takes all the blame for Grant's death - saying that he should have known what Badrick was going to do, recalling how the man had been eyeing Lolida's knife the entire car ride. Isaac steps forward, and assures Lolida that it wasn't his fault. Still, Lolida doesn't feel any better. Afterwards, Isaac helps Lolida up, and starts walking him back to the stadium.

#### "**Revelations**"

Back at the stadium, Lolida, Daniel and Isaac are left on the outs, the only survivors from Nathaniel's once sizeable group. The prisoners they took back in "What Comes After" have now taken over the stadium, and aren't planning on sticking around. The three men are sitting at a table, and are talking about everything that's gone on the past few days. Lolida still can't erase the thought of Grant, and he's struggling to move past it. Daniel says that he's already spoke with William Reynes, the leader of the group, and they were allowed to join them. Lolida suddenly speaks up, thinking back on Nathaniel, and how it was Nathaniel who screwed over Lolida's son, Lance. He says that even after Lance died, Lolida **still** believed in Nathaniel's cause - but wishes he hadn't.

Lolida, Daniel and Isaac later join the rest of William's group to hear a speech - where they learn that the group will be traveling to Denver, Colorado next.

#### "**The Road Ahead**"

Early the next morning, Lolida, Daniel and Isaac head out early in the morning to find their own car to travel in. They tell William this, before the group finishes packing up and gets ready to depart. Lolida gets into the backseat of their car, before having flashbacks to the last time he was in the backseat of a car. Daniel tells him not to think about it.

While driving to Denver, a landslide causes Lolida's car to wreck. Lolida isn't nearly as injured as he was in the last car crash, but he's still in a lot of pain as Daniel hoists him up and out of the car. When he's out, Lolida sits on the ground, needing to rest.

#### "**The Beginning**"

After clearing out the rocks, the group gets back on the move, finally arriving in Denver a couple of hours later. When they arrive, they stop at a gas station on the outskirts of town. After the convenience store is cleared out, Daniel and Isaac help the injured Lolida inside so that he can rest. Once he's sitting on the floor, Lolida sighs, thinking back to Grant again, wishing that he was here with them. He wishes that Vivian was still here, and even Nick. Grunting, Isaac kneels down beside Lolida, telling him that they need to move forward - and can't stay in the past, no matter how hard it might be. He tells a story to Lolida about how one of his former students let himself get eaten by zombies after witnessing the death of his girlfriend. The point of his story is that he's worried about Lolida, and doesn't want the same thing to happen to him. Frowning, Lolida says that he's a weakling, but Daniel assures him that he's not. He then stands, tells Lolida to rest up, and walks out.

### **Season 5**

#### "**Day By Day**"

Seven weeks have passed since the last episode, and during that time, Lolida and Daniel have been growing more and more suspicious of Jared Kellings, who they think is the man that killed Isaac back in Denver. Lolida has no doubt in his mind that Jared did it, as does Daniel, but they have no proof. Nobody else from the group thinks that Jared was behind Isaac’s death, which infuriates Lolida. He wishes that they had stayed at the stadium, remarking that Isaac would have still been alive. “We need to do something,” Lolida says, which gets Daniel thinking.

Some time later, Lolida, who left Daniel alone, then sees his friend confronting Jared. He rushes over, trying to get Danny to calm down, telling him this isn’t the way to go about it. It eventually gets to the point where Daniel attempts to draw his gun, and Jon has to tackle him to the ground. Lolida grabs onto Jon, but Jon easily swats his hands away. William then comes storming over, and breaks up the fight by waving a gun around. After Daniel tries and fails to grab Jared, he and Lolida walk off.

#### "**A Good Man**"

The group moves into a motel outside of Garden City, Kansas just a day later. When the opportunity comes up to go out on a supply run, Lolida and Daniel jump on board. They go to a quiet spot and begin loading very few bullets into their pistols -- the ammo supply is running low. The two of them are found by William, who says that he’s come to talk peacefully. Begrudgingly, they allow William to say what he has to say. When William says that Jared is going on the supply run with them, Daniel stands up and protests. When William then says that they need to drop their hatred of Jared, Lolida chimes in by saying that they can’t just give up and let Isaac die without justice. Daniel insists that it’s a mistake to bring Jared along, but William is confident that Jared is innocent. Upset, Lolida and Daniel get up and walk off.

At the entrance of the motel, Lolida stands with Jared, Albert Hanson and Brenden Trevors, the three men going along with them on the supply run. Daniel goes over the plan with them, before handing out a pistol to Jared, Albert and Brenden. Lolida narrows his eyes, staring at Jared. Once everyone knows the plan, they head out.

Some hours later, they arrive at the top of a large hill overlooking the cereal factory they were going to scavenge. Quickly, Daniel pulls Lolida aside and tells him to keep an eye on Jared. Nodding, Lolida goes back to the others while Daniel addresses all of them. Albert and Brenden are tasked with clearing the outside of the left part of the factory, while Jared joins Lolida and Daniel to clear the right. Lolida reminds everyone to be careful, before they go off down to the factory.

When Lolida, Daniel and Jared reach the perimeter of the factory, Daniel climbs over the fence, killing a zombie. He tells the other two to climb over next. Jared tells Lolida to go first - but he won’t, and forces Jared to go before him. Jared grumbles and talks back to Lolida as he climbs over, shortly followed by Lolida himself. The three men continue on, taking out zombies periodically, before they spot something unusual -- a pit, at least ten or fifteen feet deep, the bottom of which is full of corpses. Lolida looks down, his stomach turning at the sight. Eventually they move on, and link up with Albert and Brenden at the back of the factory. Daniel hands out flashlights to everyone, before he goes over the plan - to open the back door and create some noise before going in, in order to draw out any nearby zombies. His idea works, and for the next few minutes Lolida and the others use their knives to kill any and all zombies that walk out of the back door. When it’s over, Lolida pats Daniel on the shoulder, happy that they get to see another day. The group then travel inside the factory, shining their lights around the pitch black building. Daniel tells Albert to go and get the generator turned on, while he tells Lolida to go scout ahead with Brenden.

Lolida and Brenden walk on ahead, making small talk. Lolida learns that Brenden played in a band before the outbreak - and that he had only just recently got separated from his band at this very factory. Lolida nods, reminiscing about his childhood, and how he tried getting into music too, but that it wasn’t for him. Suddenly, Brenden’s flashlight glimpses something ahead -- a zombie chewing on a corpse. Lolida freaks out, perhaps thinking there might be more than one zombie - while Brenden remains calm, identifying the zombie and corpse as being two of his bandmates. Lolida watches tearfully as Brenden kills his zombified friend, as he thinks back to Grant. He tells Brenden that he’s proud of him, before they continue on. They don’t get much farther until they make a horrifying discovery on the factory floor next to them: a humongous horde of zombies in the hundreds, maybe even thousands.

Lolida and Brenden haul it back to Daniel, Jared and Albert, informing them of their discovery. At first, Daniel thinks they’re over exaggerating, but after going to check for himself, he realizes the danger the zombies pose. Even knowing that, Daniel says that they should still wait for the trucks they found to fill up with cereal before they go. Jared disagrees and makes a good point that they shouldn’t take the risk, and should leave now. Lolida agrees with what Jared says, upsetting Daniel, who doesn’t budge.

After nearly forty-five minutes, something goes awry, as the tube that was being used to fill up the trucks suddenly breaks. Daniel goes up to the breaker to try and fix the situation, but only makes it worse, causing the garage doors in front of the trucks to slam shut, and the garage doors to the factory floor beside them to rise up, allowing the zombie horde to flood in. Lolida yells and curses in anger, as he flees into one of the trucks with Albert, Daniel and Jared getting in another. Brenden is the only one who runs off and escapes. As zombies surround the trucks and swarm their part of the factory, the four men climb out of the trucks and up onto the roofs. There’s nothing more they can do - except to jump for it and run for the nearest door they see, as Daniel says. Lolida nervously says that he’s with Daniel. Then, Lolida and Daniel jump off, landing in a small clearing within the horde. They spring to their feet and start shoving their way through the zombie horde. Albert jumps off and isn’t far behind them - but Jared isn’t so lucky. He gets snagged by a zombie, which Lolida and the others notice. For a moment, Lolida and Daniel consider going back to help Jared, but they decide against it, and instead barge through a door leading to a janitor's closet. Albert goes back for Jared.

In the closet, Daniel presses his back against the door to hold the zombies back, while Lolida frantically looks around. When Daniel points out to him a vent in the corner of the room, Lolida climbs up a metal shelf and pulls the vent cover off. He looks back at Daniel, expecting him to be right behind, but Daniel is still struggling with the door. As Lolida climbs into the vents, the door suddenly bursts open, as zombies flood in. Daniel climbs up the shelves, and takes Lolida’s hand, as he tries to pull him up. But the zombies have Daniel’s legs in their arms and won’t let go, no matter how hard Lolida pulls. When Daniel realizes he won’t be able to get into the vent, he forcibly lets go of Lolida, yelling for him to go, and that he’ll find his own way out. Reluctantly, Lolida starts slithering through the vents, leaving his friend behind, not knowing what his fate would be.

Eventually, Lolida makes it to another vent opening, where he has a clear view of what’s happening on the factory floor - where he sees Jared and Albert stranded on a stack of crates in the middle of the factory. He can’t hear what’s being said, but after just a minute or two, Lolida is horrified when Jared pushes Albert into the zombie horde to his death, the screams of Albert being ripped to pieces haunting Lolida.

#### "**Over and Over**"

Lolida confronts Jared outside of the factory after both of them have escaped. His gun is directed at Jared, as he stares across at him with rage. When Lolida asks where Albert is, Jared lies again and again, trying to say that he had no idea what happened to him. But when Lolida says that he saw exactly what happened, Jared realizes the jig is up. He mumbles a curse, stepping backwards until his back hits a silo. Suddenly, Lolida hears a snarl behind him, and quickly looks back to see a zombie not far away. Jared takes this chance to bolt forward and begin fighting with Lolida. The two of them punch and kick, trying to get their hands on Lolida’s gun. It’s a test of strength - and Lolida comes out on top initially, but then Jared bites into Lolida’s forearm. Yelling in pain, Lolida elbows Jared off him, who then disappears behind the silo. Lolida, in a blind rage, foolishly tosses his gun away and chases after Jared, who ambushes Lolida and stabs him in the knee. Now screaming in pain, Lolida tumbles to the ground, grappling with Jared. The two men roll down an incline, before stopping right beside the pit they saw on their way into the factory. Jared starts to push and kick Lolida towards the pit, while he desperately tries to not fall in. But with one more good kick, Lolida loses his grip on Jared, and he falls into the pit, landing on a couple of corpses, bones breaking. Lolida screams some more, while Jared looks down at him. His screams then turn to pleading when Jared takes out his own pistol, intending to put Lolida out of his misery. But Jared misses his only shot. This gets Lolida to laugh, mocking Jared for not being able to hit a stationary target. Grumbling in anger, Jared tells Lolida that he can just die a slow death down there then, before he leaves out of sight. When he’s gone, Lolida looks around, and notices a zombie crawling towards him. In a panic, Lolida reaches over and grabs Jared’s empty pistol that he had thrown down, and uses it to bash the zombies head in. The gun slips out his hand then, and as Lolida looks back up at the sky, he lets out one last desperate scream.

After a few minutes, Lolida, who’s been slowly bleeding out from his knee wound, suddenly hears someone calling his name-- Daniel. Lolida weakly calls back, and to his surprise, Daniel hears him, and comes walking over to the pit. Daniel tells Lolida to stay put, and that he’s going to get him out - but before he can, Daniel is sent flying into the pit by Jared, who snuck up on him. A victorious Jared stands at the top of the pit and laughs down at his enemies, before racing away.

Minutes, perhaps hours later, Daniel awakes, where he sees Lolida lying beside him, pale, looking like a corpse - but he’s not dead yet. Lolida can't speak straight, and he can’t feel much of his body, leading him to believe that he’s going to die. Daniel, however, promises his friend that won’t happen. A delirious Lolida then tells Daniel that he’s worried Daniel is going to end up like Grant, and that they have failed Isaac. Shaking his head, Daniel says that he’s wrong, and that they will see Jared die. Lolida tells Daniel about what happened to Albert, before he begins to drift off, happy that he’ll get to see his son again soon. Determined to save himself and Lolida, Daniel gets up and fights through the pain. Chuckling softly, Lolida remarks that they should have stayed at the stadium with the ghosts of their friends.

More than an hour goes by, while Lolida remains completely still. Daniel has been hard at work moving corpses in order to create a hill for them to use to climb out. Lolida has now started to feel numb, his body shutting down. He doesn’t even fully understand what Daniel is doing. He’s about to doze off again, but Lolida then sees something - he sees Grant, he sees Vivian and Nick, at least that’s what he claims. But when Daniel goes to look, there’s nothing. Lolida is losing his mind, and Daniel knows it, which only gets him to work harder.

Another hour passes, and the mountain of corpses is nearing completion. Lolida is in a terrible state, flicking between conscious and unconscious by the minute. He starts to feel cold, which he tells Daniel about. Not knowing whether it’s good or bad, Daniel tells Lolida that they need to try and climb out now. Using every bit of energy he has, Lolida is able to push himself to his feet - just to fall over again, his knee too weak to even stand. Daniel tells him to stay down, before he lifts Lolida up himself, putting an arm around his shoulder and dragging him along with him. Slowly but surely, they make progress going up the hill of corpses. Along the way, Lolida mentions that he can see Jared up at the top, relaxing and enjoying some food. The words strike Daniel, angering him, giving him more reason to keep going. Suddenly, Lolida feels a sharp pain in his knee, a pain that nearly makes him collapse back - but he stays strong. He and Daniel keep going, continuing to climb higher and higher until at last they reach the point where Daniel has to set Lolida down and climb out of the pit. After much struggle, Daniel is able to get out. Both of them laugh like madmen, before realizing that Lolida still needs to get out. Daniel leans over the pit and reaches down to grab Lolida’s hand. Lolida screams in pain, and he is lifted up and finally, he climbs out. They made it. After a short celebration, they realize that they can’t stick around, and need to go. With a wide smile, Lolida gets back up, using Daniel as support. The two of them limp off, looking to avenge Isaac and Albert.

Lolida and Daniel hobble through the dark woods, until they come across a shack in the woods. Desperate for some rest, they barge inside, and without even checking it for zombies first, they immediately collapse into some chairs and fall asleep.

In the morning, the two of them leave again, slowly returning to the motel. Eventually, they stumble out onto the road, not too far from the motel - where they see him. Jared - out for a walk with William. Seeing him infuriates Lolida, as he and Daniel limp towards them, fuming. As soon as they make it to Jared and William, they start accusing Jared of everything he’s done. But just then, Lolida falls unconscious, hitting the ground.

Later that night when Lolida wakes up, he’s back at the motel, his injuries having been tended to. He learns that William finally believed him and Daniel, and that Jared was going to be taken care of. Late at night, Lolida and Daniel sit down on a bench and watch from afar as William hangs Jared, a smile on Lolida’s face. “We finally got him, Isaac,” he mutters.

#### "**Before it Gets Better**"

A couple of days later, Lolida is still in rough condition, needing to spend all of his time resting. He and Daniel, who are in one of the motel rooms, hear a gentle knock at their door, and William steps in. Lolida looks over and gives a weak "hello", as Daniel begins to question why William is here. William says that he's sorry about the Jared situation, admitting his fault for giving Jared too much leniency. He states that it won't ever happen again on his watch, and to do so, he'd like the help of Lolida and Daniel. Lolida shrugs, and says that he's with whatever Daniel chooses. Daniel, after giving it some thought, accepts William's apology and shakes the mans hand, hoping that they can work together in the future. Before William leaves, Lolida thanks William one more time, not just for him and Daniel, but for Isaac and Albert too.

#### "**It All Comes Crashing Down**"

Lolida is next seen another few days later, having spent the past few days resting some more. In the time that he's spent resting, a group of survivors had arrived at the motel, just to be turned away by William, which Daniel tells Lolida about. When a commotion is heard out in the parking lot, Lolida and Daniel leave their room to go and see what's happening. Quickly, they learn that Kate Bloodstone and a few others had gone behind William's back to go after the group that was turned away. Now Kate and Brenden have returned - but nobody else has. Kate, who's in distress after having to chop off Brenden's infected hand, and having seen all of Aidan Eldridge's group get torn to pieces, says that she just wanted to help them. Daniel immediately gets hostile, telling her to keep quiet, before crossing the line and joking about Jesse Garnett's death, a child. Even Lolida is taken aback, as he glances at Daniel with concern. The arguing continues, as Lolida almost immediately goes back to Daniel's side, pointing out how stupid Kate and the others were to go after Aidan's group. When Kate lists out the people who went with her, Lolida is even angrier. Jon yells at everyone to shut up - as Layton Zimmers spots a zombie horde showing up outside of the motel. They quickly surround the motel, while Lolida and the others each take a pistol with just a couple of rounds to protect themselves. While this is happening, Daniel continues to berate Kate, which infuriates Jon, who's trying to devise a defense plan. Lolida puts his hand on his gun while looking at Jon. Jon notices, and tells Lolida to get Daniel to be quiet. Daniel soon quiets down, as the group realizes their only option now is to fight off the dead until they no longer can.

For the next while, Lolida and Daniel continuously stab zombies through the fence. Lolida admits to Daniel when they're alone that he's beyond scared. Daniel, hearing this, insists that he let him know if he's running out of energy, and he'll make sure he gets to safety. As he stabs another zombie, Lolida assures him he'll be fine. After another minute or so, the fence near Lolida and Daniel suddenly gives in, zombies cramming through into the motel. Lolida curses as he backsteps away. Panicking, Lolida and the others rush for the second story balcony, where Lolida takes the front lines, stabbing the zombies that chase after them.

Over the next while, Lolida and the others keep at it, killing zombie after zombie. Eventually, Daniel looks down into the parking lot, seeing Kate charging through zombies, trying to get to Randall Forster, who's stuck on the top of a car. Lolida and Daniel both comment about how stupid she's being, before Lolida tries to help out -- by throwing a bullet down at her, that does absolutely nothing. Jon remarks about how dumb that was, before Lolida goes back to focusing on the zombies beside him. But they're running out of room on the balcony. And Lolida is running out of energy, his weakened knee starting to give in. He falls over at one point, but quickly rolls back to his feet. All hope seems lost until they're saved by a fire engine that drives by the motel, drawing most of the zombies to it. Lolida and others take the chance to push through the remaining zombies and get into the woods.

In the woods, they come upon Kate, Randall, Brenden and Aldus Paxton, who made it out just before them. Completely out of breath, Lolida collapses next to a tree, breathing hard. Eventually they are joined by Marcus Downes, Clyde Rollins and Claire Noble. The arguing continues, and eventually Lolida can't stand it any longer - begging everyone to just stop, pointing out how this isn't the time nor the place to argue. Layton agrees with him, while mistakenly calling Lolida, "Lollice." Layton is shocked when he learns that Lolida's actual name, but Lolida says that it's alright. Eventually the group are joined by William, who had been out on a supply run. And he's not happy. Lolida stays quiet, while William scolds Kate and everyone who went with her after Aidan's group, before concluding by stating that nothing goes through without his say so going forward.

#### "**Little Man**"

After the loss of the motel, Lolida and his group move into a church somewhere outside of Garden City. Tensions are high, and eventually the inevitable happens - an argument involving Daniel. Lolida is one of the first to see the argument brewing, and so he limps over to support his friend. Out of nowhere, when things have finally seemed to calm down, Daniel throws a punch at Marcus. In retaliation, Marcus bulls forward into Daniel, tackling him to the floor. Lolida instantly draws his pistol in fear, but it gets knocked out of his hand. Lolida and Clyde both fall to the floor, and he lays there for a second, until Lolida notices Marcus wrapping his hands around Daniel’s neck, choking him. The need to protect Daniel kicks in, and Lolida scrambles over to the gun that was knocked from his hands. As he’s tossing the weapon to Daniel, Claire pushes him to the ground, causing the gun to go off, a bullet ripping through the church’s wooden walls. The gun, however, slides up to Daniel, who is free from Marcus’ grasp, and now picks up the gun, waving it around for a second, before lowering it. After things have finally settled down, and people begin to walk off, Daniel looks over at Kate and scolds her once more for causing their group to split apart. “I hope you enjoyed watching that kid get eaten,” Daniel says to her. But before Daniel can finish what he has to say, Kate loses her temper and yells while punching him repeatedly in the face. Lolida jumps in to try and get Kate away, but he too is shoved away, still in no condition to fight.

#### "**Pipe Dream**"

Three days later, Lolida is sitting outside on the front steps of the church. Something is clearly on his mind, something that is bothering him. Behind him, Daniel steps out of the church, and offers Lolida an energy bar. Lolida remains silent, eyes narrowed, not giving Daniel any attention. Daniel offers him again, calling him an asshole for ignoring him. Lolida, spite in his eyes, then looks at Daniel seriously. He finally calls Daniel out for everything he’s done over the past few days, all the needless arguing and fighting, and disgusting things he’s said, mainly to Kate. Lolida says that he doesn’t even know who Daniel is anymore, as he glances at the ground, ashamed to have stood by his side. Daniel tries to defend his actions, which infuriates Lolida. “Figure your shit out,” he says. “We don’t need another Jared on our hands.” Lolida then stands, and goes back inside, leaving Daniel to himself.

Later that day, Lolida is present inside of the church’s main hall when two sisters, who claim to be recruiters from a large community, arrive. Daniel is noticeably not by his side, and isn’t even in the main hall with everybody else. As the two sisters begin to go on about where they come from, and how luxurious their community is in post-apocalyptic standards, Lolida has his doubts, which he tells his group about. Even after the sisters, Genna Brohem and Mackenzie Brohem try to convince him and the others, Lolida still doesn’t buy it fully. When the rest of Lolida’s group decides to take a vote on whether or not they want to go with them to their community, Lolida votes no, not trusting them. But most of everyone else votes that they want to go with them, which Lolida understands, and he doesn’t complain. However, when William finally steps up to say something, he refuses the recruiters offer, and tells them to leave. Lolida and others step forward, shocked at William, and tell him that it’s not his decision anymore. Brenden tries to speak up, but William tells him to shut up, which angers Lolida. Having had enough of William, Lolida hobbles forward and gets into his face. William almost immediately grabs Lolida and slams him into the wall. Lolida grunts and slides down, his head throbbing again. Eventually William forces Genna and Mackenzie to leave at gunpoint. Lolida, still in pain and not thinking straight, stands back up and tries to rally the rest of the group with him, pointing out how much of a dictator William is being, and that they need to stand up for themselves. But by this point, most people have already given up, and Lolida sighs.

#### "**The Fanatic and the Freak**"

Later on, Lolida joins the others outside the church when William is seen returning with Genna, Mackenzie, Austin and Aldus, as well as the corpse of Brenden in his arms. He tells them about how Brenden had sacrificed himself to save William, and that William was now going to honour Brenden’s last wish and go with the two sisters to their community, Worthwood. As William is heading inside, Lolida makes a B-line for him, where he apologizes for how he acted earlier, admitting that it was uncalled for. William says that he has nothing to be sorry for, and that it’s him who should be apologizing. William admits that he wasn’t seeing straight before, but after Brenden’s death, he knows that going with the recruiters is the right thing to do. Nodding, Lolida thanks him, as he reminds William never to lose his faith; that he is the pillar of their foundation.

Lolida and Daniel later join a few others as they go out looking for some vehicles to help them get a ride to Worthwood. Along the way, Daniel walks up beside Lolida, and quietly says that Lolida was right about what he said, and Daniel knows it. He sighs, telling Lolida that he’s the one true friend he has left, and that he needs him by his side. Lolida is happy to finally hear him admitting his faults, and assures Daniel that he’ll never leave him. The two of them share a quick hug, as they continue down the road with the others.

Back at the church, Lolida is present for Brenden’s funeral, before the group leaves at night, headed for Worthwood.

### **Season 6**

#### "**A Brighter Future**"

It’s been a few days, and since then, Lolida and Daniel have taken up supply running positions in Worthwood. One morning, they’re at the storage lodge meeting with chief supply runner Allan White. Before Allan even begins to explain what their role will be, he comments on Lolida’s civil war uniform, which Lolida says he wears because it was his job before the apocalypse to do reenactments of the civil war. Nodding, Allan then goes on to explain the rules, basically saying that he expects them to search every building they go to thoroughly, and most importantly, they immediately inform someone if they’ve been scratched or bitten by a zombie. Lolida thinks that it’s all reasonable. Just then, Sebastian Dominguez and Tyson Lysaght come strolling by, making small talk with Allan. Lolida hears that they have coffee here at Worthwood, which he tells Daniel, smiling. Daniel smiles back, remarking that he didn’t think he’d ever taste coffee again. Jordan Gatlon then comes walking by, an elegantly dressed young man, with a smug expression on his face. Allan, upon seeing him, remarks that Jordan is his best supply runner. After Allan walks off, Jordan glances over at Lolida and Daniel. “A hobo redneck and a cripple…” he says, which immediately angers Daniel. He and Jordan go back and forth, while Lolida can clearly tell that Daniel is growing more impatient with him. Lolida tries to tell Daniel to keep cool, but Daniel can’t control himself, and punches Jordan in the face. Lolida is able to get a hold of Daniel, restraining him while Jordan runs away like a coward, yelling that they would regret this. When Jordan is gone, Lolida sighs, grabbing onto his throbbing head. “At least there’s coffee here, right?” he then says, trying to lighten the mood.

#### "**All Good Things**"

The next day, a welcoming party is held for Lolida and his group. He and Daniel attend the party, and while Daniel is very clearly uncomfortable, Lolida remains optimistic. As the two of them walk around, they bump into Fletcher Roland and Jordan, as well as their two dates. Lolida, sensing how angered Daniel is at just the sight of Jordan, whispers to him to play nice. But it doesn’t take long for Jordan to test Daniel’s patience. Lolida, remaining calm, introduces himself to Fletcher, the leader of Worthwood’s son, shaking hands with him. Lolida immediately comes to respect Fletcher, sensing that he’s a good person. Lolida then nudges Daniel, urging him to introduce himself next. Daniel introduces himself simply, while Lolida stays quiet. Eventually, Jordan offers everyone a drink. When Lolida hears him, he has a short vision of his son, Lance, standing there, eyeing Lolida disappointingly. Quietly, Lolida says that he doesn’t drink. Jordan and Fletcher encourage him to indulge in a drink this one night, but Daniel steps in and tells them to back off. Lolida apologizes, his breath shaky, as he sees a second vision of Lance, this time dying in front of him. Seeing how uncomfortable Lolida has become, Daniel takes him aside for a second and tells him to go get some water from the bar, and take a breather. Nodding, Lolida tells Daniel to behave himself, before he strolls off.

At the bar, Lolida orders a glass of water. While waiting, Lillian Makarov, a woman sitting beside him, takes notice of his rather unusual civil war uniform, commenting about it. She makes a joke about it, which gets a chuckle out of Lolida. The two of them get to talking, and eventually he formally introduces himself to Lillian, and she does the same. He briefly recaps where he came from and how he ended up at Worthwood. They briefly talk about Fletcher, who Lolida thinks would be a good leader. Lillian is in agreement that he’s a good person, but probably not suited to leading. As Lolida is sipping at his water, he asks Lillian for an honest answer - and asks if his uniform makes him look like an old fool. Laughing, Lillian says that it does, but a handsome old fool. Smiling, Lolida is happy to hear it. Lillian then asks Lolida if he’s interested in coming over for dinner one night. Nodding his head, Lolida says that he’d like that.

#### "**The Tick**"

Lolida walks through the streets of Worthwood with Lillian, the two of them having just finished dinner, and are now out on a stroll together. They’re having an intellectual conversation, talking about weakness, and how "weakness is your death". "But does it have to be?" Lolida wonders, as he says that there's always something that a weak person understands that a strong person fails to see -- and that is that no matter how strong you are, there will always be somebody stronger. But together, as a group, physical strength is not necessary. Lillian smirks, impressed by Lolida, and says that she'd never looked at it that way before. As they continue to walk, Lolida decides to change up the conversation, looking towards her. "You know… I was in a couple of car crashes back in the day."

## **Appearances**

Any episode with a checkmark over it signifies Lolida Windfield appearing in any way.