Alicia Clark
Alicia Clark is a fictional character in the AMC television series "Fear the Walking Dead", created by Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson. Portrayed by Alycia Debnam-Carey, Alicia is the daughter of Madison Clark, the former main protagonist. She begins the series as a teenager who struggles with her family situation and plans to leave the city for a new life, before facing civilization slowly crumbling due to a zombie outbreak. The character has received praise, with critics calling her an emotional anchor of the series, complimenting her evolution, and naming her one of the most memorable characters  of the "Walking Dead" universe. Appearances. Season 1. Alicia becomes more worried about her brother Nick's chemical dependency. The next day, school closes early due to the high levels of absenteeism and rumors of an epidemic. Alicia's mother Madison, Nick, and Madison's fiancé Travis Manawa choose to flee to the desert, and they want Alicia, Travis' son Chris, and Chris' mother Liza to follow. Alicia finds her boyfriend Matt ill in his disheveled house. Travis arrives and sees a bite on Matt, who convinces Alicia to leave. The group returns to Madison's home to gather supplies . Travis tells Madison to take the kids to the desert without him; he will catch up. Alicia witnesses her zombified neighbor, Mr. Dawson, attacking Mrs. Cruz across the street, but Madison prevents her from intervening. A mob sets fire to the store adjoining the barbershop, forcing the Manawas and Salazars to flee. The group reaches Travis' truck and escapes, but not before Daniel Salazar's wife Griselda is injured by a collapsing scaffold. Unable to reach a hospital, the group drives to Madison's house, where Alicia, Madison and Nick temporarily flee when the zombified Mr. Dawson attempts to enter , attracted by the barking dog Nick had let in. Nick leads Madison and Alicia to the Trans' house next door, where they take a shotgun. All three families decide to stay the night and evacuate in the morning. The next morning, as the Clarks and Manawas start driving away, the National Guard arrives and quarantines the neighborhood into a Safe Zone. Later, Chris shows a video to Travis and Madison of a light signaling from the Dead Zone. Madison exchanges signals with the flashing light in the Dead Zone. She sneaks outside to investigate and finds evidence that the guardsmen  killed civilians, including the uninfected. Soldiers take Griselda and Nick to a hospital, but Nick's family protests his departure. Liza agrees to go assist the medical team, despite not wanting to leave Chris. Travis retreats to the roof and sees the signal from the Dead Zone. In the abandoned home of a wealthy family, Alicia and Chris get drunk, play luxury dress-up, and vandalize the home. In a military cell, Strand bribes a guardsman to save feverish Nick from being moved, and recruits Nick for an escape plot. The group drives to the National Guard's headquarters to  rescue Liza, Griselda, and Nick. Adams agrees to be their guide when let go by Travis. The group infiltrates the base, and Travis, Madison, Daniel and his daughter Ofelia go inside, while Alicia and Chris stay behind. The walkers breach the perimeter defenses and swarm the base. Travis' group reach the holding cells and set the detainees free before reuniting with Nick, Liza, and Strand. They try to escape through the medical ward, where they discover Dr. Exner has euthanized all of the patients. Dr. Exner tells them of an escape route before presumably committing suicide. Before they can escape , the group encounters Adams, who shoots Ofelia in the arm. Enraged, Travis brutally beats Adams and leaves him for dead. Strand leads the group to his oceanside mansion, where he tells Nick that he owns a yacht on which he plans to escape. On the beach, Liza reveals to Madison that she was bitten during the escape. Liza pleads with Madison and Travis to euthanize her before she turns, and Travis promises to protect Chris before shooting Liza in the head. Season 2. The city of Los Angeles is bombed by the military. Madison, Alicia, Nick and the others board  Strand's yacht, the Abigail, and escape the bombing. Strand refuses to pick up survivors they come across at sea. Strand informs the group they are heading to San Diego. Alicia mans the radio, hears distress calls, and she strikes up a conversation with another seaborne survivor named Jack. Alicia learns from Jack that his boat is sinking, and he asks for help. Strand rejects her plan to help Jack and threatens to throw overboard anyone who disobeys him. The group arrives at a small island where they find a family who inform them that all the cities on the  west coast have been bombed, and the borders have been closed. The group is later unable to save the family from the father's suicide plan. Nick, Alicia, Chris, and Daniel scavenge supplies from a plane crash. A herd of walkers attacks them, and the group make their escape, with two plane survivors, Alex and Jake. After debating whether or not to take the new survivors aboard, they decide to towing the survivors in their life raft – until Strand severs the tow line. The group heads to Mexico, the true destination where Strand is headed. Nick goes ashore to find  Strand's contact in Mexico. The group on the yacht allows another group in distress to board, and they turn out to be allied with Jack, the boy Alicia had communicated with on the radio. The newcomers end up taking over the yacht. When the leader of the group arrives, he taked Alicia and Travis with him and brings the yacht to shore. Nick and Luis, Strand's contact, head back to the Abigail and help free those on the yacht, and takes one hostage to get back Alicia and Travis. Alicia attempts to befriend Jack and find her way  home on her own, while Travis is locked in a cell. Madison is able to obtain Travis' release by trading him for the infected brother of the leader, and they escape in the mayhem. Alicia breaks free from Jack, and goes with Travis and Madison back to the yacht. The group arrives in Mexico. While walking to a compound, they are attacked by walkers and Madison is knocked to the ground while Chris stands by watching. Alicia sees this and kills Madison's attacker. The group arrives at the compound, where Luis' mother Celia tells them they can stay but  must leave their weapons outside. Alicia tells Chris what she saw regarding Madison's attack. Madison, now aware of what Chris did, tells Travis she thinks he isn't well. Daniel discovers that Celia is keeping the compound's dead family members in the cellar. Madison decides to sleep with Alicia that night to provide comfort and they are woken by a gunshot to find Chris standing over them, holding a knife and they chase him from the room. Chris runs off and Travis goes after him. Nick goes to find Travis and Chris. When he finds them, Travis says  he and Chris aren't coming back as he needs to help Chris, and asks Nick to tell Madison he couldn't find them. Celia takes Madison to the cellar to show her the dead, but Madison locks her inside the cell. Daniel goes to where the dead are held and sets the place on fire. Nick tells Madison that he couldn't find Travis and he isn't going with them because Celia was right about the group destroying everything in their path, and he no longer wants to be a part of it. Madison, Alicia, Strand, and Ofelia  flee north and find a hotel in the city of Rosarito. A large horde of walkers attack the hotel, trapping all four inside. Ofelia, shaken by losing her father, leaves the group and Alicia on the verge of death. Alicia suggests luring all of the infected into the sea, where the riptide current will carry them away. Madison, Alicia and Strand manage to eliminate the walkers, and together with the survivors of the hotel build a community there. Upon returning to the hotel from Tijuana for a supply run, where she heard of Nick's survival, Madison turns on the  hotel lights against everybody's wishes in hopes of attracting Nick's attention. Alicia convinces her to respect Nick's decision to choose death over their family. Madison shuts off the lights, but not before Travis, now alone, sees them. The next morning, survivors who had seen the hotel's lights begin to flock to the hotel gates, but the hotel community refuse to let them enter. Madison spots Travis among the crowd and lets him inside. Later, Madison talks with Alicia and reveals to her that her father's car crash was not accidental, but suicide, and tells her  she loves her. Madison then sees that the survivors from earlier have been allowed into the hotel compound, and are being checked if they're healthy or sick. Later that night, a new group of survivors arrive at the hotel, among them Brandon and Luke, whom Travis recognizes and asks them about Chris. Travis finds out that Chris was killed by them, and Travis beats them to death, in the process severely injuring Oscar, the leader of the hotel survivors, who tries to stop him. Oscar dies from his injuries. Travis is kicked out of the hotel, and Madison decides  to leave with him the following morning. Enraged, several of the hotel survivors break into Travis' room and attack him, forcing Alicia to kill one of them to save Travis' life. Travis, Madison, and Alicia are forced to flee the hotel while Strand decides to stay behind after helping them escape. They go to the bandits' supermarket, where Madison had traded for medical supplies, and find the entire building abandoned, Alicia questions Madison's motives when she starts searching bodies for clues to find Nick. They arrive at an abandoned community, where Alicia finds a dying Alejandro, his last words  instructing them to look for Nick at the border. Season 3. After encountering a military patrol on their way to the border, Alicia and her family are captured and taken to the military installations, where they were separated from Travis. Alicia and her mother meet a militia leader named Troy, who assures them that they would release them once they passed the test. Looking for a way to escape, Alicia lends her basilong to her mother and together devise a plan to escape. Madison assures Alicia that she will not kill again, and Alicia carries out her mother's plan . Madison holds Troy hostage until his brother Jake arrives, who asks Madison to leave his brother and takes Alicia and her group to their community. While traveling in the helicopter in the middle of the night, Alicia and her group are attacked and Travis is fatally wounded, sacrificing himself despite Alicia's pleas. Setting up a small camp for the night, Alicia and an unconscious Luciana stay with Jake while Charlene guards the area. On their way to the ranch, Alicia and Jake carry an unconscious Luciana. Once they reach the community, Alicia informs her mother of Travis' death and  Nick threatens Troy with his weapon with the intention of protecting Luciana. During her stay at the ranch, Alicia befriends Gretchen who invites Alicia to join her "Bible study." Later, Alicia, Gretchen, and four other teens meet underground, where they drink, smoke from a bong, and chat. Alicia shares some of her experiences and state of mind. Alicia later begins a sexual relationship with Jake Otto and gains the trust of the ranch community, eventually co-leading the Otto ranch. When Madison manages to make peace with the natives, they move to the ranch and Alicia questions her mother's  decisions. The problems in the ranch worsen and they are forced to sacrifice cattle to save water. When Jake asks Alicia to flee with him to the Pacific Northwest to start a new life, Alicia declines and says that she has to wait for her mother. Jake accuses Alicia of manipulating him in the same way that her brother and mother did to their relatives. Nick informs them that a horde of infected, attracted by Troy, are heading to the ranch, and Jake and Nick leave to find Troy, leaving Alicia as the sole leader of the place. Determined to  prevent the ranch from being destroyed, Alicia alerts the community of the situation, and they create motorhome barriers in an attempt to prevent the infected from crossing the ranch. The horde brakes through the barrier, and Alicia leads the ranchers to a bunker, mercy killing one of her companions. When the infected invade the ranch, Alicia locks herself with Lee, Ofelia and a number of residents in the pantry. It is revealed that a dozen residents were bitten, and there is not enough air in the pantry for the remaining people to survive for long. Alicia kills the people bitten  while others turn into walkers. After fighting and going unconscious, Alicia is the only survivor in the pantry, and is rescued by Madison and her group. Alicia is informed that Jake died and the group has decided to leave for a nearby dam due to the destruction of the ranch. She refuses to go, wanting to visit the place that Jake had previously shown her, and find her own way. Alicia ventures through a small town where she finds a fast food restaurant and grabs a bucket of potatoes. Her scavenging attracts the infected. A woman named Diana kills some  infected, and after threatening each other, Alicia and her decide to share the food Alicia found. Spending the night together, the two talk about their preference for surviving alone. In the morning, Alicia wakes up to find Diana trying to start her vehicle, and she convinces her to accompany her. As they head to the trade center to exchange the dead parts Diana had collected, a vehicle collides with her car, causing a dizzy Alicia to fight against the bandits. After driving them away with her assault rifle, Alicia takes care of Diana's injured leg while taking her to  the infirmary in El Bazar. There, Alicia is enlisted to assist in a life-saving operation on patient John, who is the leader of the Proctors, an outlaw gang opening a trade route from the Texas gulf coast to San Diego. Alicia arrives at Gonzales Dam and finds Strand, who informs her that Madison and Nick are alive and assures her that he will get them all out of the dam if she agrees to help him in the process. Troy had learned that the Proctors intend to attack the dam, and warned Nick. Strand tells Nick to get his  family out, having made a deal with the Proctors and no longer being able to guarantee anyone's safety. As the Proctors overrun the dam, Strand takes the detonator and hides Madison and Nick. John arrives at the dam with Alicia, displeased that Strand did not deliver on their deal, and Alicia bargains for Madison's safety. John intends to kill all four, starting with Alicia, and Nick uses the detonator in a standoff, threatening to blow up the dam. Alicia, Madison, and Strand escape on a raft. Nick detonates the explosives, blowing a hole in the dam and the  raft is carried by the current. Season 4. Years after the dam explosion, Alicia has taken refuge with Nick, Strand, Luciana and a new girl, Charlie, in a community established by her mother, Madison - a baseball diamond in Round Rock, Texas. While out looking for Charlie's missing parents, Alicia and Madison meet Laura, a female survivor and former nurse, on the run. Charlie is revealed to be a spy for The Vultures, a group of survivors led by Melvin and Ennis, both of whom serve as Charlie's guardians. Mel continuously harasses Madison and her family, waiting until they  exhaust all of their resources and leave to find a new home so the Vultures can enter the stadium and take all of their leftover supplies. However, Alicia convinces Madison to stay when she and Laura conceive the idea to build a medical facility at the stadium. Nick and Luciana also find fresh soil and produce to grow new crops, after Charlie secretly destroyed their previous vegetables with pesticide. Melvin accepts that Madison and the community in the stadium will continue to thrive and leaves. However, Ennis is bent on seizing the stadium and unleashes a horde of hundreds of  walkers doused in oil onto the diamond. To save Alicia, Nick, and the other members of the community, Madison herds the walkers inside of the stadium using a flare; she locks herself inside with the walkers and immolates them with the flare, causing an explosion and seemingly sacrificing herself in the process. Months later, Alicia, Nick, Strand and Luciana, determined to get revenge on the Vultures for causing Madison's death, cross paths with Althea Szewczyk-Przygocki, John Dorie and Morgan Jones. Nick finds Ennis and kills him, and is subsequently killed by Charlie himself. Nick dies surrounded by Alicia , Luciana and Strand. Alicia finds and confronts the Melvin, and it is revealed that Laura joined their group after the destruction of the baseball stadium. Enraged at this discovery, Alicia pivots and aims her gun at Laura, but instead, Alicia shoots John in the abdomen after John steps in front of Laura to protect her. A gunfight ensues, which ends with Alicia killing Melvin with her sharpened barrel shroud. Alicia makes it her mission to kill Laura and prevent her from saving John, as she believes Laura was with the Vultures from the beginning and thus had a hand in  Madison's demise. Morgan convinces Alicia to stand down, reminding her that Madison would not have wanted her to become a killer and that killing Laura won't solve anything and will only cause an innocent man (John) to die. Alicia breaks down crying and leaves the stadium with Morgan. Laura reveals her real name to be June and, after burying Nick, Alicia, Strand and Luciana part ways with her and Morgan's newfound group. Weeks later, Alicia is severely emotionally damaged and broken after the death of her mother and brother. She takes refuge inside an abandoned house during  a hurricane, and soon discovers Charlie, guilt ridden over murdering Nick, is hiding there, as well. Alicia finds out Charlie came to the house with the intention to kill herself. The two of them cannot leave the house because of the raging storm outside, so they resolve to wait out the storm together. The storm becomes too severe and Alicia and Charlie are forced to go inside the basement. However, they become trapped inside and the basement begins to flood with water. Charlie panics when she realizes she is going to drown. Not wanting to become a walker after  she dies, Charlie begs Alicia to shoot her in the head, but Alicia is reminded of the goodness that her mother and brother instilled in her and finds that she cannot bring herself to kill Charlie. A lone walker trapped atop a tree by the edge of the house falls and collapses on top of the exit hatch of the basement, freeing Alicia and Charlie. Alicia resolves to forgive Charlie. Alicia and Charlie are eventually reunited with Morgan, Strand, Luciana, Althea, John and June, and newcomers. The group are soon attacked by Martha, a woman who lost her mind  after the death of her husband. The group take refuge inside a hospital, but when the building becomes surrounded by walkers, Jim gets bitten and sacrifices himself to distract the walkers so the others can escape. Later on, Martha poisons Alicia and her friends with anti-freeze, but they are saved by Morgan, when he arrives with alcohol. Martha dies from a gunshot wound and Morgan puts down her re-animated body and buries her. At the end of the season, Alicia has found a new purpose in life and, wanting to honor her mother's memory, joins Morgan in  his mission to find other survivors and help them however they can. Season 5. Prior to the events of the fifth season, Alicia and her friends spend weeks searching for people to help, with little success. However, they are contacted by a man named Logan, who claims he is in need of assistance. Alicia, Morgan, Althea, June, John Dorie and Luciana board a plane, provided for Althea by Daniel Salazar to travel to Logan's location. The plane malfunctions and crashes in the middle of a forest. Alicia emerges from the crash site and meets young brothers, Max and Dylan . She discovers that the area they have crash-landed in is radioactive. Surrounded by walkers, Alicia and her group are rescued by Max and Dylan's older sister, Annie. It is revealed that Logan was lying about being in trouble; he only wanted Morgan's group to leave the factory they were using as a home (which was owned by Logan and his business partner before the apocalypse began) so that he could take it back. Alicia and Morgan meet Grace, a former employee of a nearby nuclear power plant. According to Grace, the nuclear power plant suffered a meltdown  shortly after the apocalypse began and everyone in the surrounding area, including her boyfriend, died from infection. Grace survived but she believes she is infected and will soon show symptoms, although she is not entirely sure about this. Grace subsequently warns Alicia and Morgan not to go anywhere near walkers that show signs of radioactive poisoning, as physical contact with any of them will likely lead to them becoming infected as well. Alicia becomes emotionally attached to Max, Dylan and, particularly, Annie. Annie reveals to Alicia that her parents died from radioactive exposure after the first meltdown of the nuclear  power plant. Annie is convinced that the only way to keep her brothers safe is for them to stay where they are. However, Alicia tells them that they will not survive for long if they remain by themselves and shut themselves off from other people. When Annie refuses to join her, Alicia becomes determined to change their minds. However, Annie knows that Alicia only wants to help them because she is trying to relieve her own conscience after all of the wrongful actions she committed in her past. While trying to protect Annie, her brothers and the children in Annie 's care from a horde of walkers, Alicia is splashed with the blood of a radioactive walker after she stabs one with her sharpened gun mount. Alicia becomes terrified that she is going to die and asks Grace for help. Grace decontaminates her, but Alicia is still afraid to touch the gun mount again and takes a hiatus from killing any more walkers. Grace tries her best to keep the power plant running, but eventually, another meltdown is triggered and it becomes imperative that everyone leave the area. Morgan rallies up the group and, together, they repair the crashed plane , using parts from another plane, also owned by Daniel Salazar. Meanwhile, John Dorie and June cross paths with Dwight (a character crossing over from the main series), who is out looking for his wife, Sherry. The three of them reunite with Morgan, Alicia, Strand, Grace, Althea, Charlie, along with Max, Dylan, Annie and the other kids. The plane is successfully repaired and, together, the group fly out of the town just as the power plant completely melts down. During their flight, Alicia witnesses John Dorie proposing marriage to June. When the plane lands in another city, Alicia is joyfully reunited  with Daniel, who has since healed from the death of his wife, Griselda, and daughter, Ofelia, and is ready to start his life over. Several weeks later, Alicia and Strand meet and help Wes, a survivor with a hobby for painting. Alicia is inspired by Wes to paint herself and she uses this as a therapeutic method to get over her temporary fear of killing walkers. Alicia and her group struggle to find a permanent home, and with resources dwindling, survival becomes more and more difficult. Their situation changes once the group are confronted by Virginia, the leader of multiple  factions of communities stationed all over Texas. Morgan does not agree with Virginia's utilitarianism, as Virginia is only interested in preserving what's necessary and disposing of things and people who do not align with her vision of the future, whereas Morgan wants to make a place where everyone is welcome and is not turned away because they are sick, have a troubled past or are deemed useless. Alicia's group resolves to decline Virginia's offer to join her and, eventually, travel to Humbug's Gulch, an abandoned Western-style theme park. However, the place is overrun by  walkers. With no resources or strength to fight them, Morgan is forced to call Virginia for help. Knowing that Virginia will separate them all into different communities, the group decide to make good use of their time together and have a wedding for John and June, in which Alicia is present. Shortly after, Virginia and her rangers arrive. Morgan tells Virginia that they will go willingly and without a fight, but only if Virginia agrees to take every single person and leave no one behind, including Grace, who is very ill from possible radioactive poisoning. Virginia agrees. Before Alicia is  taken away to one of Virginia's communities, she speaks with Strand, who tells her, "We can do more damage from the inside." Alicia and her friends leave the Gulch, and Virginia and Morgan remain at the theme park. Virginia shoots Morgan in the chest and leaves him to be eaten alive by walkers. It is revealed in the sixth season, that Alicia heard the shot from Virginia's gun and then Morgan's final message on the radio. Season 6. Alicia is stationed with Strand at Lawton, the main hub of Virginia's network of communities stationed throughout various  areas in Texas. While at Lawton, Alicia meets Dakota, who reveals herself to be Virginia's younger sister. After Strand assaults one of Virginia's rangers, Virginia sentences Alicia and Strand to work at an abandoned sugar production factory, and are ordered to clear out walkers standing in the way of a "weapon" Virginia wants to obtain and possibly utilize against a doomsday cult that is spray-painting the threatening message, "THE END IS THE BEGINNING" throughout her settlements. Alicia is reunited with Charlie and Janice, a woman who joined Morgan's group in season five. Things get more complicated  when Alicia discovers that Dakota has stowed away on the transport taking Alicia and Strand to the sugar factory. They work together with Sanjay to defeat the walkers. Unbeknownst to Alicia, Strand murdered Sanjay by using him as bait to lure the walkers away from her, Charlie and Janice so that they could kill them all. Strand claims Sanjay willingly sacrificed his life for them. When Virginia arrives to collect Dakota, she reveals that there never was any weapon and that killing the walkers was a test to prove that they were capable of fighting. Virginia promotes Strand to leadership  status and asks him to create an army of soldiers for her. Strand, realizing that he is going to have to do more reprehensible things in order to win Virginia over, sends Alicia to a different community far away from him. Having grown close to Alicia over time, Strand cares deeply about how Alicia views him and cannot bare for Alicia to forget the goodness in him. Alicia is stationed with Charlie and is bitter over Strand sending her away. When Dakota goes missing, Strand enlists the help of Charlie and Alicia to find her. Knowing that there will  be consequences for herself and her friends if Dakota is not found, Alicia journeys to locate her. Charlie and Alicia eventually find Dakota taking shelter inside of a cabin owned by former taxidermist, Ed. Dakota reveals that she fled to get away from Virginia, and claims that Virginia murdered their parents. Ed, who has been driven mad by the death of his wife and daughter, tries to keep Alicia, Charlie and Dakota trapped inside the house. He then plays music on a loud stereo rigged to his cabin to draw in walkers. Alicia kills Ed and she, Charlie and Dakota  are saved from the walkers breaking into the lodge by Morgan. Alicia is shocked, but glad, to see that Morgan is still alive. When Morgan suggests trading Dakota for their friends, Alicia is vehemently against it, as she does not want to send Dakota back to Virginia. Morgan relents and agrees to take Dakota with them back to the stronghold he is in the process of building. When Strand arrives to collect Dakota, Alicia refuses to give her up. Strand points a gun at Alicia and she holds her defense with her sharpened gun mount. Her trust in him declines  considerably due to his history of betraying people close to him and altering his position on certain matters whenever it suits his needs. Strand lets Alicia go, but claims allegiance to Virginia. Alicia later contemplates returning to the Dell Diamond Baseball Stadium and rebuilding it into her own community, just like her mother did. Alicia, Charlie and Dakota go with Morgan to the place he's building, a washed-out dam. There, they reunite with Dwight and Althea. Soon after, Morgan and Dakota cross paths with John Dorie. Dakota kills John, and reveals she was the one who saved Morgan  from Humbug's Gulch after Virginia shot him and left him for dead. Morgan has a standoff with Virginia, resulting in the capture of Grace (who is revealed to not have been sick, but pregnant and malnourished) and Daniel Salazar. Morgan takes a wounded Virginia to the dam. Strand, now in control of Virginia's rangers, shows up to kill Virginia as justice for causing the deaths of so many people, and shoots her. Alicia agrees to talk to Strand and convince him to relent. However, Virginia claims responsibility for the conflict and agrees to be executed, on the condition  that Morgan kill her himself. Morgan initially agrees, but changes his mind, not wanting for any more blood to be spilt. Instead, Morgan forces Virginia to tell Dakota the truth about her parentage: Virginia is not Dakota's older sister, but is, in fact, her biological mother. This revelation devastates Dakota. Alicia, June and Morgan unanimously agree to let Virginia and Dakota go, on the condition that they leave Texas and never return. Alicia and Morgan leave the room while June changes Virginia's bandages, and it is revealed that Virginia protected Dakota after Dakota killed one of her rangers  (John found out the truth and Dakota killed him to silence him). June is angered that Virginia protected Dakota even though Virginia knew that Dakota was a sociopath. June executes Virginia with the same gun Dakota used to murder John. Alicia and Morgan watch June as she leaves the dam. Several weeks later, Alicia goes on a supply run with Althea, Luciana, and Wes. They come across the inhabitants of an underground bunker. The group discover that they are in the midst of a doomsday cult led by Theodore "Teddy" Maddox, a former mortician, who plan on remaining locked inside  of the bunker indefinitely. Alicia burns down the embalmed walkers the cult keeps stored for processing, allowing Al, Luciana and Wes to escape. Alicia is captured by Riley and held captive, after which she meets Teddy. Dakota stows away on one of the Teddy's scout buses, posing as one of his followers. She plans on killing Teddy and asks Alicia to join her, but Alicia coldly refuses, making it clear that she and Dakota are not friends, especially since Dakota killed John, one of her closest friends. While out on a special trip with Teddy, Alicia and Dakota come  across Cole, Douglas and Vivian, survivors from the Dell Diamond Baseball Stadium who were believed to have died. However, Cole holds them hostage, demanding to know more about Teddy's underground bunker. Alicia ultimately escapes and kills Cole. Teddy is impressed with Alicia's resolve and desires her to be the new leader of his cult after he dies. Teddy reveals that he plans on launching a nuclear missile from an abandoned beached-submarine in Galveston to destroy Texas, as he believes old things have to die in order for new life to grow. Alicia warns Morgan about this, but  Riley and his crew show up and capture her. Dakota betrays Alicia and joins Teddy's side. Having destroyed his old settlement, Teddy takes Alicia to another bunker he and his followers found underneath a hotel and locks her inside. Teddy wants Alicia to run the new world after he is gone, but Alicia angrily says that she will not make the world the way he wants it to be. Teddy turns to her and says, "I know. That's what I'm counting on." He subsequently leaves. Alicia is trapped inside of Teddy's bunker for the remainder of  the season and, as a result, survives the nuclear fallout. Season 7. Immediately following the events of season six, Alicia tries to escape the bunker, but fails. She meets Will, another survivor who has been in the bunker since the start of the apocalypse. Will was formerly the aide of Democratic Senator Elias Vazquez. When the world became overrun with the dead, Will and Vazquez took shelter in the bunker. However, recently, Teddy's followers, led by Arno, found the bunker and killed everyone inside, including Vazquez. Will barely escaped. Vazquez's reanimated corpse was kept persevered by Arno as  a way of executing anyone who accidentally found their way into the bunker. Alicia meets Arno, who was told by Teddy that she was the new leader. Alicia finds files detailing another government-built settlement called PADRE. However, only Vazquez knew the location. Alicia theorizes that, possibly, Vazquez's reanimated corpse might subconsciously remember the location of PADRE. With the help of Will, she tries to find a way out of the bunker, taking Vazquez's body with them. Their attempt is foiled when Teddy launches the nuclear missile; the tunnel that Alicia is crawling through collapses and she becomes  trapped with Vazquez. Vazquez bites Alicia on the left arm. Alicia despairingly cuts her arm off with her sharpened gun mount and makes Will promise that he kill her if she shows any signs of turning. Will breaks his promise because he has fallen in love with her. Alicia is angered at this, as keeping her alive would have put more lives in danger, and spends the next few days in isolation. Alicia is running a fever that will not subside; she fears that she did not amputate her arm in time, and will soon die and turn into a  walker. Meanwhile, Teddy's followers remaining in the bunker underneath The Franklin Hotel have split into two factions. Arno has formed his own group called "The Stalkers", and leave the bunker. Will has also left the bunker. The remaining cultists stay with Alicia and keep her safe. They eventually leave the bunker and decide to search for PADRE, using Vazquez as a guide. Dwight, Sherry and their new friend, Mickey, are found by Alicia's group and are taken in. Dwight fills Alicia in on what happened since she's been gone: while Morgan's group were attempting to stop  Teddy and Riley from firing the nuclear missile, Strand tried to kill Morgan and stop Teddy himself. Strand was jealous of Alicia's loyalty to Morgan and wanted to get Morgan out of the way so that he could save the day, and then Alicia would view Strand as a hero. Strand has now found and built a stronghold for himself and is running the place as a totalitarian dictator. Strand also had Dwight and Sherry's friends, with whom they took shelter to survive the nuclear explosion, murdered in order to convince Dwight and Sherry to join him. Alicia  is disgusted with Strand's actions and no longer wants anything to do with him. Their search for PADRE proves unsuccessful when Alicia mistakes Strand's Tower for the settlement. There, Alicia discovers a zombified Will. When she confronts Strand about it, Strand admits to killing him because Will said he loved Alicia. Strand cares deeply about Alicia, and he believes this prevents him from being the person he needs to be to survive. In order to run his Tower successfully, Strand says he needs to be a ruthless leader, which he feels he cannot do with Alicia near  him. He killed Will to hurt Alicia as much as possible, eliminating all possibility of Strand and Alicia having a positive relationship. This proves to be the final straw for Alicia. Knowing that Morgan and their friends won't survive long in the beached-submarine that they've been taking shelter in, Alicia declares war on Strand and vows to take his Tower from him. Development. At the start of the series, Alicia is an "ambitious teen and model student" who is wanting to leaving home for college, and is the antithesis of her brother Nick. Showrunner Erickson said, "She  had a really specific, defined idea of who she was and where she was going", and being more "fatalistic" in her thinking, she "has to work through that and process it". Alicia becomes the only surviving character from season 1 introduced in the series premiere. In season 4, she is confronted with the decision to forgive or take vengeance on a child, a choice that gives her a new perspective and role. Liam Mathews of TV Guide described her as "a normal kid" who grows "into a wily survivor tormented by inner demons". In a 2020 interview, Debnam-Carey commented  on a potential father/daughter flashback scene between Alicia and her deceased father: "I'm always for showing some of the more revealing aspects of a character, before this whole apocalypse ... But I do think now she has had to work through so much pain and grief and we're on the other side of it in a way." Reception. Alicia became a fan favorite character as viewers have "watched her grow from a callow young woman to a confident and strong force of nature." Alicia and her brother Nick were the series' emotional anchors from the beginning, "Vanity Fair"s  Laura Bradley wrote, "especially Alicia, whose insistently open heart was a welcome presence in this cruel world". Debnam-Carey's performance in the series has received acclaim, especially for the third season episode "This Land Is Your Land" and fourth season episode "Close Your Eyes". E.A. Hanks of "The New York Times" declared the "most moving aspect" of season 2 to be "the relationship between Madison and Alicia, particularly after the fall of the Abigail compound". [Dickens and] Debnam-Carey, "whose thoughtful performance continues to deepen, are completely honest as mother and daughter." "The TV Junkies"s Bridget Lissewski said the  second season benefited from Alicia's more central role and character growth, appreciating that her storyline has evolved "without the services of any sort of romantic relationship". David Zapanta of "Den of Geek" regarded Alicia as one of the "more fully realized characters" of the third season. Emily Hannemann of "TV Insider" considered the "Bible study" meeting in the episode "TEOTWAWKI" "one of Alicia’s most profound and chilling moments on the series." Reviewing "This Land is Your Land", Paul Tassi of "Forbes" wrote, "The entire sequence with Alicia in the bunker is one of the best pieces of zombie  fiction I've seen in years." Zapanta said the episode is one of the strongest of the series, crediting Debnam-Carey's performance for anchoring a "transformative" hour of television. "Digital Spy"s Ben Lee felt the character "truly excelled in the episode." Hannemann called the episode a "love letter to Alicia's development throughout the first three seasons", with Alicia showing she has what it takes to lead. "IGN"s Matt Fowler noted that while it "wasn't an all-Alicia episode" it "still had an amazing, harrowing Alicia-centric story inside of it - one that really helped shape her character . Writing for Forbes", Erik Kain said Debnam-Carey's performance "elevated the show beyond anything it had been before." Bradley of "Vanity Fair" regarded season 4's "Close Your Eyes" as Debnam-Carey's "most powerful performance yet, one that proved Alicia still has a lot of story left", naming Alicia the series' "strongest throughline" who "can also still be the most fascinating to watch." Tassi considered it a "fantastic" episode anchored by Debnam-Carey, stating that "in Alicia she’s created one of the most impressive, memorable characters in the entire "Walking Dead" universe across either show." CarterMatt.com said  Close Your Eyes provided "a chance to dive into Alicia’s head like never before as she continued much of her isolation from the world", while Debnam-Carey gave an "outstanding" performance. Kain said the episode is one of the series' best and it reinforced his view that Alicia "should become the central protagonist of the show". ComicBook.com's Brandon Davis felt the actress "brilliantly delivered on an intensely heartfelt script", with a performance as strong as her "This Land is Your Land" work. Zapanta said Alicia is "a house divided against herself" in the "powerful" episode, with "arguably a  career-defining performance from Debnam-Carey". Ray Flook of "Bleeding Cool" considered it a "very important" episode for the character to move forward, navigating an "impressive" arch and cycle of duality and inner conflict. Praising the actress' portrayal, Flook credited her for "almost single-handedly renewing [his] faith in where [the season] was going". Ian Sandwell of "Digital Spy" called the episode a "gripping showcase" for the actress, who makes "the sudden shifts [in sentiments] work", noting that the show "soars" when it gives focus to Alicia. After the season 5 premiere, Hannemann said the series has "made a definitive  statement about Alicia's survival abilities, her toughness and her capacity to make decisions for not only herself, but those following her", and this along with her character journey makes her deserving of the group's leadership. In his review of season 6's "Mother", Tassi lamented that Alicia has become "little more than a background character" in recent years, "but she's still got the magic when the show gives her a chance like they did", deeming the episode "one of the most compelling" the series has had in a while. Discussing the recent seasons, Kain also expressed disappointment  with the character's screen time, stating that Alicia has barely featured in the story, was "neutered", and "relegated to a secondary character who ... doesn't even act like herself anymore", blaming the "short shrift" of the original cast on the series' new showrunners. "Starburst" magazine wrote of season 7 episode "PADRE", "The return of Debnam-Carey as the impassioned and resourceful Alicia is a potent reminder of how much her recent absence has been to the show's detriment." For the episode, Paul Dailly of TV Fanatic, wrote, "When your most popular character disappears for half a season, you  need to bring them back in a blaze of glory, but all we got was more torment for Alicia", adding that her arm amputation was "harrowing" and she deserves better storylines while the current one needs "a considerable payoff". Jake Gleason of "Screen Rant" said that Morgan's expanded protagonist role over the past few seasons came at the expense of Alicia's role, which the show has possibly acknowledged in "PADRE". Christine Persaud of "Screen Rant" wrote in 2021, "Alicia has had the most compelling character arc. She began as an afraid young woman living in her troubled brother 's shadow and evolved into a fierce, confident, and ruthless fighter. While Alicia has suffered through periods of sadness, unsure of herself and her abilities ... she is relatable and someone who has taken tough situations and done her best to overcome them." In January 2022, Comic Book Resources stated that Alicia's evolution from the beginning of the series "remains one of "Fear the Walking Dead" most captivating character arcs", while Debnam-Carey's performance has made her "a vital part" of the series.