Alex Weiss

"*It's very honorable that you wanted to help people but you really have to see the whole picture Kate. We can't afford to lose more people. You should definitely try to sleep again. Tomorrow's always a better day.*"
—Alex to Kate Bloodstone[src]

Alex Weiss is a supporting character and a former antagonist, as well as a survivor of the outbreak in Route to Paradise. He was a struggling author who immediately befriended Randy Wheeler during the onset of the zombie apocalypse, and joined up with a group of survivors inside Willamette Parkview Mall. However, his inner psychopathic abilities are quickly brought to light when he stabs Randy after an argument, and then later comes back to murder him while he is recovering.

After this, Alex goes into hiding to avoid punishment from the survivors of the mall. Several weeks pass, until Alex grows bored and reckless, and allows himself to be captured by the survivors of the mall, who immediately imprison him. During this time, Alex starts to befriend Kate Bloodstone, who eventually allows Alex out of his cell for a chance to prove himself. Alex, however, seizes the chance and slips away from the group, threatening Clayton Freeman's life, which lands Alex a spot back in his cell. But Kate refuses to give up on Alex, even after he drugs William Reynes with sleeping pills, and then tries and fails to escape from the mall later on. Kate, going against her group, decides to give Alex one last chance to join the group. This time, it works, and Alex remains with the mall survivors up until the mall is destroyed, leaving Alex separated from everyone else.

It is later revealed that Alex was captured by Nathaniel Shepard's group and locked up in a football stadium, where he remains by himself until his old group from the mall find themselves imprisoned with him. Alex quickly forms a friendship with the wacky Layton Zimmers. Once the group manages to free themselves and take over the stadium, Alex decides to stay with them, although he remains as an outsider with many people still viewing him as the psycho who murdered a man in cold blood. Alex would travel alongside his group into Kansas, and later on to the community of Worthwood, where Alex quickly makes himself at home, enjoying the normality of the community.

## **Pre-Apocalypse**

Alex Weiss was an author, and one that struggling to pay the bills. At the time of the outbreak, Alex was at Willamette Parkview Mall looking for ideas for his next novel.

## **Post-Apocalypse**

### **Season 1**

#### "**Welcome to Paradise**"

In the Willamette Parkview Mall, Alex purchases a book from one of the shops, before heading out into the Entrance Plaza to relax. While he's sitting, he witnesses a police officer chasing after a homeless man, and thinks about writing about it.

Alex remains seated inside the plaza up until he notices a commotion taking place. People frantically run about, closing the front doors to the mall, as a horde of the undead pile up on the other side. While others panic, Alex remains calm, pacing around the plaza while he takes notes about it all. Eventually, Alex takes a seat beside Randy Wheeler, another man who's rather relaxed about everything happening around them. The two strike up a conversation, introducing each other and talking about music. However, their conversation is cut short when Kate Bloodstone foolishly opens up the doors to the mall, allowing the horde of zombies outside to swarm in like a tidal wave. Alex and Randy stand up, and hurry up a flight of stairs to the security room for safety.

Alex and Randy are joined by a few other survivors who manage to make it up to the security room, however, as soon as they enter they are accosted by Felix Quarterman, who demands to know what they're doing. Alex tries to explain it to him, but Felix doesn't seem to care. Alex then takes a seat, staying quiet as others around him are panicking, worried about everything. One man, Owen Gliefield, worries that his family might be hurt at home. Alex laughs when he hears this, remarking that his family might already be dead. Fuming, Owen goes to lunge at Alex, but he immediately retreats back into a chair when his heart pains. Alex jokes that Owen should relax before his heart gives out on him. Two more survivors join them in the security room, before Helen Cullen tells everyone to shut up, as she explains to them all that they need to calm down and go wait in the waiting rooms.

Alex joins most others inside of the first waiting room, relaxing into a chair. Curious about what's happening, Alex starts to take notes based on what William Reynes is saying about the undead that just attacked them. Afterwards, Alex gets up to go to the second waiting room.

After making his way down the hall, Alex knocks on the door to the second waiting room continuously until Randy opens it, allowing him inside with pleasure. The two of them sit down, as Alex begins to tell him about himself, and how he's an author. He tells Randy that he's come up with an idea for a new book which he has already titled as "The Willamette Apocalypse". Randy smiles, approving of the name. Soon after, the two of them start looking around the room, discovering a mini fridge filled with cold beers. Needing something to take their minds off everything, they begin to drink beer after beer. Time passes, as the two men are getting into their fourth beers. Alex, beginning to feel drunk, goes to check the percent of alcohol in the beers and finds it to be 15%. But this doesn't stop the men, who continue to drink, creating a game for themselves, where they toss the empty cans into a trash can across the room. Finally, after a while, they completely empty the fridge, having drunk every last can of beer. Randy begins to laugh hysterically out of nowhere, which causes Alex to do the same thing. After calming down, both of them begin to accuse each other of being crazy, which leads Randy into attempting to walk a straight line -- which he fails. Alex chuckles, before he helps him up slowly. Randy remarks about how the two of them are going to be best friends, as he forces a handshake with Alex. But neither of the men want to end the handshake, and before long, Randy hurls Alex into the couch, laughing. After laughing it off, Alex wonders if there are more beers in the other waiting room. With the idea now planted in their minds, they stumble out into the hallway, heading towards the first waiting room.

Alex knocks on the door to the first waiting room, and when nobody answers within the first second, Randy barges inside, with Alex following shortly after him. The two of them start to look around the room, and eventually they discover another fridge, this one with even 14 total cans, 2 more than their room did. As they chug down more beer, Alex and Randy's drunken shenanigans continue, including their game of throwing empty cans into a trash bin. When Alex shoots one of his cans, it bounces off the wall and still manages to land in the trash bin. Randy calls him a "lucky bitch" which Alex takes offense to. He asks Randy to repeat what he said, and Randy does so while laughing. Alex's smile and laughter fades away, as this infuriates him. He begins to approach Randy, who throws a drunken punch at him. Randy misses, and falls to the floor. Laughing now, Alex steps on him, before walking across the room and retrieving a baseball bat. Randy grunts as he gets back up. He picks up an empty can and tosses it towards Alex, who swings at and misses it with the bat. Randy chuckles, as he tosses another can at him. This time, it hits Alex in the head, which makes him tumble to the floor. Randy bursts out into laughter, but Alex doesn't laugh with him. Instead, he gets back up, his bat still in hand. He angrily approaches Randy while shouting at him, before he slams the butt of the bat into Randy's stomach. Randy stumbles back, confused and angered, but only for a second. He then picks up another beer, taking large chugs of it. Once he's finished, Alex demands an apology from Randy. However, instead of apologizing, Randy begins to copy what Alex is saying, which only enrages Alex more. Eventually, Alex has enough, as he brings the baseball bat down onto Randy's head. Randy falls to the ground in pain, before immediately standing back up and shoving Alex away, cursing at him. Clayton, who's been watching the mess unfold, tries to get the two of them to quit it, but Alex tells him to be quiet. Alex then hits Randy with the bat again, before Randy throws a full can of beer at Alex's head, making him collapse to the ground in pain, his vision blurry with tears. He cries out in pain, telling Randy that he hurt his feelings. A drunken and enraged Randy tells him that he started it by hitting him with the bat. They start to yell at each other, just as William and Felix enter the room. Felix is immediately pissed off when he discovers that the two men had drank all of HIS beer. He and William try to get Alex and Randy to quit yelling at each other, but it's no use. The two of them and Clayton leave the room, while Alex and Randy stay behind. After more yelling and arguing, Randy finally yells out that he's sorry. Its then that Alex suddenly loses his marbles, beginning to punch Randy as hard as he can again and again, hitting him so hard that he even cuts into Randy's head. Randy eventually is able to throw Alex off of him, and the arguing between them resumes. When the two of them finally go quiet for a few seconds, Alex reaches behind him, pulling out a knife as he wobbles around. Randy stares at it, slowly backing up, asking Alex what he wanted. Alex simply tells Randy that he really likes him, before he lunges forward, jamming the knife into Randy's hand. Alex steps back, beginning to cackle, while Randy screams out in pain. As Alex is still laughing, Randy charges at him, spearing him into the ground. They wrestle each other on the ground until Alex gets the upper hand, gripping his knife. Randy, in fear, runs towards the door, opening it.

As Randy stumbles out into the hallway, Alex rams the knife into his shoulder. Randy yells in agony, as he flees down the hallway, Alex chasing after him. The screaming is enough to finally get the attention of Helen, who comes out of her office, yelling at the two of them to stop. Randy calls Alex out as being a maniac who stabbed him, while Alex tries pinning everything on Randy, explaining that he had stabbed himself, and that he has a mental illness. Because of this, Randy attacks Alex, punching him to the ground, and then stomping on his head. Alex is able to kick him away, before clambering back to his feet. He looks on at Randy, who's back is against the wall, his hand and shoulder bleeding profusely. He starts to approach Randy, telling him that he would bleed out if he didn't get any help. He reaches a hand out to Randy, while his other hand reaches behind him to retrieve his knife once again. Randy reluctantly reaches out -- but as he does, Alex forcefully grabs his hand, before shoving the knife into his gut. Alex looks at him, sarcastically asking if he's okay, while he rips the knife out of Randy's gut. Helen rushes towards Alex, grabbing him and throwing him against the wall, which ultimately renders Alex unconscious.

#### "**The Lost Companion**"

After his attack against Randy, Alex is locked away in the second waiting room, but somehow he manages to slip out of the room without anyone noticing. He stealthily makes his way down the hall and into the first waiting room, where he finds Randy laying down on one of the beds, wrapped in bandages, with Owen sitting beside him. Alex stares at Randy, sitting off to the side of the room, while asking Randy how he's feeling. Randy tells him off, while Owen warns Alex not to try anything. Alex slowly stands up, now walking up beside Randy, telling him that he didn't want to see him suffer like this. Just as this is happening, Helen comes speeding into the room, demanding that Alex get out and go back to the other waiting room. As Owen and Helen start to approach Alex, he suddenly pulls a knife out of his bag, holding it out in front of him. He yells that he isn't going anywhere, while Owen and Helen tell him to put the knife away. In response, Alex places the knife beside Randy's neck. Helen calls him a psychopath, yelling at him to drop the knife. Alex looks around at Helen and Owen, before abruptly jamming the knife into Randy's neck. Blood immediately gushes out, as Alex rips the knife out and tries to escape.

Alex sprints into the hallway with Helen chasing after him. Panicking, Alex rushes towards the ventilation shaft, climbing inside and beginning to crawl up. However, Helen grabs hold of his leg, pulling him back down. Alex starts kicking at her, before Helen stabs Alex in the leg. The sudden rush of pain is enough for Alex to kick Helen off of him and continue crawling up the vents, escaping.

Alex, once on the roof, covers his leg wound with some cloth, before he takes the elevator down to the storage room. Once there, he hides himself in a corner of the room behind some boxes.

### **Season 2**

#### "**The Mentor**"

After spending the next few weeks in hiding, Alex eventually loses his patience and decides to go out into Leisure Park, sitting down on a bench and reading a book. It isn't long after he starts doing this that he is discovered by William, who immediately holds Alex at gunpoint, remembering what he did. At first, Alex ignores him, but William knocks the book out of his hands, forcing him to respond. While smiling, Alex follows William's instructions to get on the ground, where he is then detained with a pair of zipties. Alex questions what William is going to do with him, to which William says that he's not going to kill him - and that everyone deserves a second chance. After having his hands ziptied together, Alex is seated back on the bench, where William begins to question him. Alex explains to him that he'd been hiding in the storage room for most of the time. When William asks him about the murder of Randy, Alex says that he only did it because he felt threatened, and that William didn't know what happened between them. Shaking his head, William says that he doesn't really care, but that he'll have to bring him back to the others. Alex allows this to happen, as William begins leading Alex towards the security room.

After Alex is brought into the security room, he is immediately questioned by Jacob, who says that Alex must spend some time inside of a cell before they even consider letting him join the group after what he did. Meanwhile, Alex insists that he only killed Randy because he was threatened by him. Jacob Feldman doesn't believe him, and has Kate bring Alex to one of the shops where he'll be locked up.

The shop that Kate picks out for Alex is the book store on the second floor Entrance Plaza. While Alex is settling in, Kate closes and locks the shutters to the shop, locking him in. Kate wishes him a good day, before walking off. In his new cell, Alex finds a few storage boxes in the back, and inside of them he discovers an entire set for making tea, including a mobile heater. Alex smiles as he plugs the heater into the wall, beginning to boil himself some water.

#### "**A Common Enemy**"

A couple of days later, Alex is brewing some tea early in the morning, when he is visited by Kate, who opens the shutters and lets herself in. She explains that she's here to invite him to help look for their missing friend, Felix. Alex grins, as he takes a sip of his tea, nodding. He agrees to go with her, especially when Kate says that this could be Alex's chance to prove that he's trustworthy. After retrieving his bad, Alex follows her out and down to the first floor of the Entrance Plaza.

Near the front doors, Alex meets the rest of the team that'll be going out to look for Felix. One of them is Jacob, who reluctantly hands Alex a knife so that he can defend himself.

Alex travels with the others out onto the streets near the mall, where they almost immediately find Felix passed out and hungover inside the back of a car. But before they can all head back to the mall, they notice a horde of zombies approaching them -- along with a small group of people running away from them. It's soon discovered that this group of people are the criminals, Jon Matthews, Quincy Atherton and Monica Reynolds, who are already familiar with some of the mall survivors. After a quick greeting, the three criminals begin to open fire on the zombie horde. During all of the gunfire and distractions, Alex manages to slip away, returning back to the mall by himself.

Alex walks up towards the security room inside of the mall, approaching the door to the waiting room. He knocks on it, awaking Clayton inside. Alex asks to be let in, but when Clayton recognizes Alex's voice, he tells him to leave or he'll shoot him. Alex seemingly gives up, walking down the hallway -- but instead of leaving, he hides, waiting for Clayton to go back to sleep. Eventually, Alex goes back to the waiting room, quietly opening it and walking over to a sleeping Clayton. He stands over him until Clayton wakes up. Panicking, Clayton reaches for his pistol, but Alex beats him to it, grabbing the pistol and ejecting the magazine, before tossing the gun aside. While Clayton stands up, Alex reassures him that he wants to keep this peaceful, and he's only come here to ask Clayton to have tea with him. At first, Clayton declines the offer, but when Alex asks again, Clayton agrees. Happy, Alex waves Clayton to follow him. Clayton does so, as he grips a knife in his pocket.

Sometime later, Kate comes sprinting into the book store, where she discovers Alex and Clayton seated, the former pouring Clayton a cup of tea. Kate demands to know what's going on, as Clayton awkwardly gets up and leaves. Alex tells Kate that she should have expected him to do this, but that he really had no intentions of harming anyone. Kate is still upset at him for leaving them without warning, to which Alex says that next time he'll be sure to tell everyone beforehand. Alex then stands up, walking around the store, talking to himself about the many interesting books inside of the store, and how he enjoys it here. Kate, completely dumbfounded, says that she doesn't know what kind of game Alex is playing, before leaving the store, making sure to close and lock it. Alex retakes his seat, taking a sip of his tea.

#### "**The Calm Before**"

In the morning, Alex is sitting around inside of the book store, bored, when he hears footsteps approaching, followed by the shutters being lifted open. Jacob enters the shop, greeting Alex, before asking him if he'd like to come to the food court with him, where a group meeting is going to take place. Alex accepts the offer with a smile, as he packs a knife away into his bag. Jacob tells him that he doesn't need the blade, and takes it from him, placing it aside. Alex insists that he take it, but Jacob won't allow it. Reluctantly, Alex lets it go and decides to go with Jacob, unarmed.

Alex follows Jacob through to Al Fresca Plaza, where Alex meets Erin Monroe. When Erin asks Jacob for a moment, Jacob sends Alex ahead into the food court by himself.

Alex immediately sits down inside of the food court, chatting around to everyone, before Jacob and Erin step inside. They announce Erin's pregnancy, which Alex finds funny, laughing about it. Eventually, the group meeting begins when Jim Butterman arrives. They talk about many things, including having breakfast and dinner together as a group, and setting up traps outside the mall, both of which Alex disagrees with. After a while, the meeting is interrupted when a drunken Felix shows up. Alex begins to giggle, making fun of Felix. In response, Felix angrily questions if Alex is going to stab him too. Alex continues to chuckle, not giving him a straight answer, which leads Felix to pull out his own knife, lunging at him. People hold Felix back, while Alex laughs. Eventually, the attention is shifted away from Alex, as Felix argues with other people. During all of it, Clayton scoots over to Alex, telling him quietly that if he tried to pull anything, he'd shoot him dead. Eventually, Felix is taken away by William, ending the group meeting altogether. At the end of it all, Alex tells Jacob that he should have brought his knife since Felix wanted to stab him. Jacob tells him that things like that usually don't happen, before Kate leads Alex back towards the book store.

Along the way to the book store, Kate and Alex find William and Felix sitting and chatting about Felix's future in leading the group. After listening for a while, Alex speaks up, telling Felix that he either needs to throw away the alcohol or his position as leader, and that he can't have both. Felix simply tells them all that he needs time to think, before wandering off. William decides to take Alex off of Kate's hands, bringing him up to the book store himself.

In the book store, Alex invites William to stay and have a cup of tea with him, which William accepts. As Alex starts brewing up the tea, William tells Alex that Felix is just struggling through a lot, and didn't mean any of what he said to Alex during the group meeting. Alex says that he understands, as he pours the tea into two cups, handing off one to William. As they sip away at the tea, Alex begins to smile, revealing that he had been preparing for this moment. William looks at him curiously, asking him what he means by that. When Alex doesn't give a straight answer, William calmly suspects that Alex has just poisoned him, but Alex shakes his head, remarking that it would be bad to poison someone. Alex sips his tea, watching as William gulps down the tea without hesitation. Surprised by this, Alex then grins, telling William that he had merely put sleeping pills into his drink. William stands, backing away, as he draws his gun. He begins to back out of the shop, while Alex tells him that he has less than fifteen minutes until the drugs will kick in. Keeping his gun trained on Alex, William slowly reaches up and pulls down the shutters, locking them.

Sometime later, Alex is sitting inside of the book store while Clayton is standing guard outside. Alex tries calling to Clayton, but he won't answer him. In an effort to get his attention, Alex decides to discreetly create a fire, burning a plastic bag. He yells for Clayton to open the shutters, and although Clayton is hesitant at first, he ultimately decides to lift up the shutters when he smells the burning plastic. But immediately after Clayton opens the shutters and steps inside, Alex grabs the burning bag and tosses it at Clayton. Panicking, Clayton brushes it off of him, while Alex sprints out of the shop, making a run for it.

Alex hurries down the stairs to the first floor of the Entrance Plaza, running towards Al Fresca Plaza, passing by a perplexed Randall Forster. Clayton shouts to Randall that Alex is trying to escape, which prompts them both to shoot at Alex. However, Alex is able to avoid the bullets, running off.

Eventually, Alex makes it inside the food court, where he hops over the counter and hides inside a taco store. When Randall and Clayton catch up to him, they pull down the shutters to the taco store, locking him up once again. When Alex realizes this, he begins to pace around, sighing and cursing to himself, until he hears the shutters opening, and someone stepping in. He looks over, seeing Kate, visibly upset. She demands to know what the hell Alex is doing, and Alex mumbles to her that it was just impulse. Shaking her head, Kate tells Alex that she had put so much trust in him just to get left in the mud by him. She tells him that none of this is normal, which Alex appears to be confused about. Kate says that she's going to let him have some time to himself, before walking out of the shop, closing and locking it.

#### "**On the Clock**"

The next morning, Kate comes to visit Alex, who's in the middle of eating breakfast. She immediately makes it clear that she's only come to talk and reason with him, and that he isn't going to be let out today. She firstly asks him what his goal is, and why he keeps betraying their trust. Alex answers the question by claiming that he just has a bad impulse and does things without thinking. While Kate is explaining to him that they had given him their trust, Alex begins to pace around, adjusting chairs and tidying up. She asks if Alex is okay with being generalized as a threat, to which Alex sternly says that he is not a threat. He then asks to know what he did that broke the trust. When Kate reminds him of what he did to William and Clayton, Alex shrugs it off as being harmless. Kate shakes her head, standing up and telling him that what he does is not normal, and that he needs to sit here and think about his actions some more. As Kate walks out, Alex chuckles to himself, muttering to himself that he had done nothing wrong.

#### "**Warzone**"

One afternoon, Alex is sitting inside of the taco store when he is suddenly visited by Kate and Teddy Powell. Alex welcomes them, but is surprised to see Teddy alongside Kate. Immediately, Kate says that they've come here to give Alex an ultimatum. Kate speaks calmly and quietly, telling Alex that she's tired of going in circles, and wants to be able to trust Alex and bring him into the group. Alex asks her if they are expecting him to listen and be 'normal'. Instead of Kate answering, Teddy replies in a harsh and angered tone, telling Alex that they're expecting him to take the chance that they're giving him, and that he's lucky in the first place to have it. He then says that if Alex disagrees with this, then they'll blindfold him and drive him far out of town, and drop him off to fend for himself. Alex sits quietly, giving it some thought. During his thinking, Teddy informs him that Clayton was killed, and when Alex hears this, he simply says that he's sad to hear that, without a hint of sadness in his tone. Kate says that they don't expect him to be sad, but to understand that they're having a rough time, and need to know if Alex is with them or against them. After giving it a final few thoughts, Alex decides that he'll give it a shot and join the group. When Alex says this, Teddy makes it clear that if Alex tries anything like he's done before, he'll break his jaw. Kate nods slowly, while telling Alex that if he's doing this, he'll need to be monitored by somebody at all times for the first while. Alex agrees that this is fair. Before they leave the store, Teddy pats Alex down, taking his belongings. He and Kate then usher Alex out of the taco store, leaving Alex's bag behind.

Alex is brought up to the roof by Kate and Teddy, where a few other group members are sitting around chatting. They introduce Alex to everyone, since most people don't know him. Quincy Atherton immediately questions why Alex was locked up in the first place, and Kate simply says that it was for multiple different things, while not giving a straight answer. Teddy and Kate then walk off, leaving Alex to interact with others. Firstly, Alex goes up to Randall, who's sitting quietly by himself, looking at the ground. Alex recognizes him at the man who chased after him with Clayton. When Randall confirms this, Alex starts talking about Clayton and how he heard that he died. He asks if it was a big loss to Randall, and Randall says that Clayton was like a brother to him. Alex says that he's 'sorry' for tricking Clayton, and for everything else he did to him. Randall quietly says that it's alright.

A bit later on, Alex is walking around on the roof still, when he approaches the edge, looking down. He is then approached by Quincy, who asks if he's scared of heights, before telling Alex that he could jump off and kill himself to find out what goes through your head. When Alex says he isn't planning on doing that, Quincy says that he was only joking around. Before Quincy can question him anymore, Monica Reynolds comes walking over, introducing herself to Alex. After Alex introduces himself, he looks over at Teddy, asking him when he'd get his bag back. Teddy says that he'll be allowed to have it back once he can be trusted again. When Alex asks when they'll trust him again, Teddy tells him that that'll happen when Alex doesn't try anything stupid. Alex sighs, as he goes to sit down by the edge.

### **Season 3**

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

In the very final scene of the season, William and his group are thrown into a large makeshift cell inside of a football stadium. As they're looking around the cell, they notice a shadowy figure sitting the corner. The figure shuffles forward into the light, revealing himself to be Alex. He looks on at everyone, before greeting them briefly.

### **Season 4**

#### "**The Greater Good**"

The scene picks up right where the last episode left off, with Alex greeting everyone inside of the cell. Almost immediately, people question where Alex had been and how he ended up here. Alex states that after the mall got destroyed, he roamed around for a bit before meeting a group of travelers whom he thought were friendly, until they robbed him of all his belongings and took him to this cell. When Jon asks for any information Alex might have, he says that he doesn't know anything of use. All he knows is that the people who did this are assholes. As everyone else is sighing, pacing around the cell or sitting down, Alex approaches Jared Kellings, making conversation with him. The two joke around, until they are interrupted by William, who grabs Alex, slamming him against the wall. Alex stares at him, as he grunts in pain, telling William that they can be friends again. When William asks Alex to give one reason why he shouldn't be killed right here right now, Alex says that it would create a mess, and their captors wouldn't let it go unpunished. William glares at him, before releasing him reluctantly, calling him a psychopath, and that he isn't going to trust a word that comes out of his mouth again.

A little later on, the cell is visited by the community's leader, Nathaniel Shepard. He tells them all about his plans and how they're all going to be shipped across the ocean in due time. But until then, they're going to remain inside of the cell here. Alex asks him when they will be allowed to have food and drinks such as tea, and Nathaniel says that he'll be allowed it if he has good behaviour. After Nathaniel leaves, an argument breaks out between William and Jared, which leads into a fight. As the two men fight each other, Alex laughs, enjoying the entertainment. Once the fight is over, and everyone starts to calm down, Alex walks over, taking a seat beside Layton Zimmers. The two of them introduce each other, shaking hands.

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

Alex is seen inside of the cell through several scenes in the episode, including when they are discovered by the dying Damerae Badrick, who wants them all dead.

#### "**Gunpoint**"

Inside the cell, Alex listens in to Jon and Aldus Paxton's conversation about Badrick. Jon says that Badrick's days are numbered because of his burnt face, but Alex isn't so sure about that. Jon, however, is adamant that he's right. He begins to lay out a plan of escape to everyone, a plan that would see him injuring himself purposefully in order to be taken to the infirmary, where Jon will improvise from there. Alex says that his plan is worth a shot.

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

Alex is seen alongside the others when they are broken out of their cell. Alex, however, is not seen during the actual fighting until the very end, where he and Layton walk out onto the football field, taking a seat, exhausted.

#### "**Moment of Silence**"

Alex remains seated by Layton's side after all the fighting, catching his breath. Eventually, Alex notices the corpses of Fraser Stiller and Zac Barnes being dragged out.

A little while later, while Alex is still sitting by himself, he is approached by Kate, who he hadn't seen since the mall. She tells him that she thought she'd never see him after the mall, before asking if he was planning on staying with them for good. Alex guesses that he'll be doing that, since he has nowhere else to go. Kate nods, smiling, welcoming him back to the group.

Sometime later, Alex walks up to Dean Howards, whos looking down at the decapitated, zombified head of Badrick. Alex kneels down, patting it, while making sure the zombie doesn't bite him.

Later that day, Alex is present when the group has a funeral for Fraser, Zac and Angela Jaegar. After a moment of silence, William gives a speech, before announcing to everyone that they'll take a couple of days to recuperate, before they will be leaving the stadium.

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

The next morning, Alex is once against present during a group meeting, where William says that tomorrow they will be leaving the stadium - and leaving Willamette for good.

Later that morning, Alex goes out to the front entrance of the stadium to help clear the zombies alongside Kate and Aldus. While they're at this, Kate makes a remark about how Alex has seemingly 'calmed down' since the mall. Alex says that he has definitely changed in a sarcastic tone. Although Kate is still skeptical of him, she's willing to believe that he's telling the truth. As they continue stabbing at the zombies, they notice Marcus Downes walking away from the stadium in the distance. When Aldus sees this, he decides to go after him, taking a different side entrance out. When Aldus leaves, Alex and Kate back away from the entrance, closing the doors. Kate sighs, telling Alex that Marcus hasn't been talking to her or anyone else since Fraser and Zac died, but that she wants to be able to help him. Alex tells her that she can't help someone that doesn't want help. Kate understands, but says that Marcus is the last person who deserves to go through this, and now he's being stupid by leaving the stadium. Alex tells her that Marcus isn't stupid and that he'll be fine in the end. She nods slowly, before thanking Alex, believing that he truly is changing for the better. "You gotta change if you want to survive." He tells her.

#### "**Revelations**"

Alex is sitting out on the pitch with Dean and Jared. When Dean and Jared start talking about God, Alex tells them that there is no God, and even if there was, he's dead by now. Jared agrees with him.

### **Season 5**

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

After having traveled into Kansas with his group, Alex is seen sitting inside of one of the houses the group had cleared, eating rabbit meat. Alex makes a comment about how good the food is, as he continues to munch down on it.

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

Alex is present during Albert Hanson's funeral at the motel.

Later that night, Alex is also present alongside everyone else when William hangs Jared after it's discovered he was the reason both Albert and Isaac Moses were killed.

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

At the motel, Alex is sitting beside Layton, listening to him tell a story about himself. Layton talks about how he once drove off the road, accidently crashing into a backyard birthday party. He then asks Alex what he did before the apocalypse, and Alex says that he was an author who was struggling on money, and wasn't able to create a story good enough for his publishers. When it's Layton's turn to speak again, he reveals to Alex that he had several different jobs that he tried working as. He was a school bus driver, but got fired for running red lights, a 'rat-catcher', and even a photographer, but that didn't work out for him either when his camera flash accidently sent a woman falling off her balcony. Alex chuckles, before he quiets down and asks if Layton had helped the lady after she fell off the balcony. Layton shrugs, saying that he assumed she was fine.

Pretty soon, Alex and Layton's conversation is interrupted when a car comes speeding into the parking lot, and out of it comes Kate, Jon and Brenden Trevors, who's missing a hand. Alex and Layton approach, but stay off to the side as everyone argues with each other, until eventually Layton notices a horde of zombies coming from down the road. As everyone is discussing about what they should do, Randall comes walking over to them all with a box of handguns with two bullets in them. He hands a gun out to everyone, including Alex and Layton, which Daniel Rockwell thinks is stupid to do, especially given how untrustworthy people still think Alex is. Alex jokes by saying that the most people he could take down is two.

A little while later, Alex is standing out in the parking lot, as zombies are banging on the fences all around the motel. When the zombies eventually break through, Alex rushes up the steps to go get Layton, but stops when he sees that Layton is already there.

With zombies completely filling the parking lot, Alex and the others head up to the second floor of the motel, stabbing the zombies as they walk up the stairs and over to them. For a short time, Jon and the others throw molotovs down into the parking lot to try and thin out the horde, but pretty quickly they run out of molotovs. Alex asks Jon what they're supposed to do now. Jon replies by reminding him about the time he stabbed Randy at the mall, and tells him to do that, except stab the zombies in the head.

Alex fights the zombies alongside the others, but they continue to be backed up further and further along the second floor. When all seems lost, they are saved when a firetruck with its lights and sirens on comes driving by, distracting a large portion of the zombies and making them follow the firetruck. With not many zombies left in their way, Alex and the others use all the energy they have left, slashing and stabbing through the zombies until they reach the stairs. As they fight through the parking lot towards the exit, Alex yells out that he didn't think they'd get this far. Eventually, they make it out of the motel and into the woods across the street.

In the woods, Alex stands off to the side as Daniel scolds Kate for ruining everything and causing them to lose their home. Eventually, Lolida intervenes, telling everyone to calm down, but while he's at it he mistakenly calls Lolida Windfield 'Lollice'. Alex informs Layton that his name is Lolida, not Lollice, leaving Layton shocked. Eventually, Alex and the others are joined by the other members of their group, including William, who curses at Kate for her stupidity. William asserts his leadership over everyone, telling them that nothing goes through without his approval from here on out.

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

A day after the motel incident, Alex and the others are settling into a church deep in the woods. During the night, Alex is out wandering around, when he hears somebody sobbing nearby. When he goes to investigate, he finds Kate sitting on the front steps of the church. He approaches, asking her why she's crying. Kate tries to play it off as nothing, but Alex knows it's more than that, and is able to get Kate to admit that she had a nightmare. Alex sits down beside her, trying to tell her that it's nothing to worry about, but Kate shakes her head, telling him that everything that happened at the motel is her fault. Alex is straightforward in saying that she's right, and she shouldn't have done what she did, but that they are at least all alive. He finds it honourable that she at least tried to help the people who William sent away, before reminding her that tomorrow's always a better day. Kate remarks about how funny it is hearing that from him, asking him what changed since the mall. Alex shrugs, saying that nothing really changed, and that he only learned to adapt to his surroundings. Kate stands, heading back inside, but she stops at the door, asking Alex why he's out here in the first place. He says that he simply enjoys the peace and quiet of the night. She nods, before wishing him a good night and heading inside.

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

A few days later, Alex is present during a group meeting, where two recruiters have come to them, offering them a chance to go with them to their community. Genna Brohem and Mackenzie Brohem pitch their community to all of them and why they should go with them, but Alex is immediately untrusting, making a point that they could be trying to lure them into a trap. After they explain themselves further, Alex questions where they are able to get all of their resources from, and Genna answers. A little while later, after hearing the two recruiters about, Alex and the group begin to have a vote on whether or not they should go. Alex, who doesn't really care, decides to vote however Layton votes, and he decides to vote on going with them. However, after the vote is complete, which ends in a majority of people wanting to go with the recruiters, William steps in, declaring that they aren't going. Alex tries to reason with William, but William tells him to shut up. Eventually, William forces the two recruiters out by pointing a gun at them. When Lolida steps up to William, William grabs him and throws him to the ground. Alex sighs, as he makes a comment about William always resorting to violence in the end.

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

Later that day, Alex is present when the group holds a funeral for Brenden.

Eventually, after William finally decides that they'll go with the recruiters to the community of Worthwood, they set off on the road. During the journey there, Alex is seated in one of the cars with Layton and Ed Anderson. When Ed says that the place they're going to is 200 miles away, Alex is shocked.

### **Season 6**

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

At the Worthwood welcoming party, Alex is seen happily chatting to the guests, one being Madelyn Oconnell. Eventually, Alex steps aside when he sees Kate walking over. Kate, who hasn't seen him in a few days, remarks about how Alex appears to be settling in quite well. Alex laughs, confirming that he is indeed settling in just fine. He then tells her and Marcus to enjoy the party, and comments about how they have good snacks here.

## **Appearances**

Any episode with a checkmark over it signifies Alex Weiss appearing in any way.