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He blasts his songs for all of the surrounding walkers to hear. In the episode, we watch as Beta consults both Alpha’s severed head and his old records to figure out what he’s supposed to do now that his leader is dead. At some point during the ensuing chaos, Half Moon lost his mind and became the killer monstrosity who joined Alpha to form the Whisperers. Who was Beta before he became Beta and walked with the Whisperers? What is his real name?Īs confirmed in “Look at the Flowers,” Beta was a famous country singer who performed under the stage name Half Moon before the zombie outbreak that brought about the end of civilization. But we knew little about his character’s backstory before the penultimate episode of the season, “Look at the Flowers,” which finally confirms a long-standing theory about Beta’s identity. We all know the actor behind the mask, of course. Even a fall through an elevator shaft that would have killed any normal man seemed to barely leave a scratch on Beta. While the ending of the episode left us with a few questions about Alpha, Negan, and just how the Whisperer War will proceed for the rest of the season, “Walk With Us” did tease the answer to one of this story arc’s biggest mysteries: who is Beta? Whose face is behind the mask worn by Alpha’s hulking second in command? Alpha’s most devout follower has moved through the episodes like a supernatural force able to cut through ranks of Alexandrians and Hilltop warriors, all while taking a beating. From the fall of the Hilltop to the high-profile deaths throughout the episode, “Walk With Us” is undoubtedly the best episode of the latest season of the zombie drama. “Walk With Us,” the 12th episode of The Walking Dead season 10, changed the course of the rest of the season in a single night. Relive the moment: See Daniel try to gather up some of his vinyl, including the one with Beta's face 22 minutes onto 'Fear TWD' season five, episode 14.This Walking Dead article contains spoilers. It suggests that Beta may not have been happy that after becoming famous, it didn't mean anything in a zombie apocalypse.

That's an interesting comment from Hurst. 'All I can say at this point is that maybe Beta was a large personality in the world before the apocalypse and sort of letting go of that may have been tragic to his psyche,' said Hurst. 'Ryan, do you want to comment on, there's a little bit of an Easter egg in 'Fear 514' that might be suggestive of Beta's past?' Hardwick asked Hurst on air. In October 2019, 'Talking Dead' host Chris Hardwick inadvertently spoiled the surprise for fans who weren't watching 'Fear' or who weren't watching the spin-off closely by teasing there was something in the episode relating to Beta. An overhead shot during the scene momentarily shows an album with a familiar face on the cover. When they're ambushed by a few walkers, one of the undead knocks the vinyl records into the road. Daniel was traveling with his cat, Skidmark, and his collection of vinyl records. During season five, Daniel and Grace are traveling on the road. If you don't watch 'Fear TWD,' you may have missed this one from September 2019. He then saw the person he was killing was wearing his band's T-shirt and that really affected him.Ī scene from season five, episode 14 of 'Fear The Walking Dead' shows Beta's face without a mask on. On 'Talking Dead,' Hurst said he imagined that someone broke into his home and he defended them, killing the intruder. Hurst pushed back since the character never reveals his identity in the comic until his death and was interested in exploring the reasons behind that.

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'I just sort of threw out all these ideas, not really expecting them to use any of them and then they sort of called me back and said, you know, what else you got?'Īfter Hurst was first cast on the show, he previously told Insider they considered showing Beta's real face on the series so he wasn't hot under the mask all the time. And that that's sort of how the Whisperers were born,' Hurst continued. 'So I just wrote up all these ideas of him being a country music singer and having a best friend whose face that he sort of took with him. 'So these weird little things happened where I was meditating one day and I was just like, 'Oh, I think he's a country music singer.'' 'When I read the comic and I knew that his backstory was the basketball player, it almost felt more like a gag than anything else,' Hurst told Insider.

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