The Walking Dead/Stalker

Stalker
Season 10, Episode 10
Airdate	March 1, 2020
Written by	Jim Barnes
Directed by	Bronwen Hughes
Stream
← 10x09 Squeeze	10x11 → Morning Star
The Walking Dead — Season Ten

Stalker is the tenth episode of the tenth season of The Walking Dead, and the one hundred forty-first episode overall.

Starring: Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon), Danai Gurira (Michonne) (credit only), Melissa McBride (Carol Peletier) (credit only), Christian Serratos (Rosita Espinosa), Josh McDermitt (Eugene Porter) (credit only), Seth Gilliam (Gabriel Stokes), Ross Marquand (Aaron), Khary Payton (Ezekiel) (credit only), Ryan Hurst (Beta)

with Samantha Morton (Alpha)

and Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Negan) (credit only)

Also Starring: Callan McAuliffe (Alden) (credit only), Eleanor Matsuura (Yumiko) (credit only), Cooper Andrews (Jerry) (credit only), Nadia Hilker (Magna) (credit only), Cailey Fleming (Judith Grimes), Cassady McClincy (Lydia), Lauren Ridloff (Connie) (credit only), Thora Birch (Gamma/Mary), Kenric Green (Scott), Lindsley Register (Laura)

Co-Starring: David Shae (Alfred), Anabelle Holloway (Gracie), Antony Azor (RJ), Nick DeKay (Guard), Pamela Gold (Panicked Woman)

Plot Overview

While Daryl confronts Alpha, Alexandria is offered help by Gamma.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Aaron returns to Alexandria and tells them they were separated.

Characters

• Daryl attacks Alpha single-handed, leading them both to be seriously injured. Lydia shows up to find them. Alpha tries to get her to put her down and lead the Whisperers, but Lydia refuses. After passing out, Alpha wakes up to find both Lydia and Daryl gone. She swears to the Whisperers who find her that she is stronger now..

• Gabriel and Rosita are hesitant to trust Mary until she confesses to killing her sister and reveals the whereabouts of the cave. Gabriel believes that the Whisperers can be turned away from Alpha. This is demonstrated when Beta infiltrates Alexandria to retrieve Mary and she tells him that Alpha lied to her. She agrees to go with Beta only to stop him from killing Rosita. Outside they are ambushed by Gabriel and others, leaving Beta to flee. Gabriel spares her and Mary later shares a carriage with Rosita on the way to Hilltop.

Referbacks

• Mary tells Alexandria that her nephew was the baby left at Hilltop (Bounty) and that she killed her sister for Alpha (We Are the End of the World).

• Gabriel recounts to Mary about killing Dante (The World Before).

Trivia

Allusions and References

• Alpha sings to Lydia the song "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady" from the 1939 Marx Brothers film At the Circus.

Quotes

• Rosita: Let me lay it out for you: you're gonna work very hard in this room. You're gonna have to convince us that you're different from the ones who lie and walk with the dead and eat worms.

Mary: And what if I can't?

Rosita: Then you die. No torture. No games. No second chances. You'd be the third one, by the way.

Mary: All's I've done is tell you the truth.

Gabriel: You haven't. (pointing to his collar) This is not for show. I am a servant of God. I've taken many confessions and I can tell when people are holding things back.

Rosita: Holding things back is the same as lying.

Gabriel: Outside at the gate, the story you had about being the aunt of the baby.

Mary: It's not a story.

Gabriel: It does tug at all the right heartstrings, but you're hiding something, which makes the whole thing a lie.

Mary: Ask God if I'm lying.

Gabriel: I've spoken to God. He told me to hang you.