For once, the show actually acknowledges what a dumb move this is, since the team comes up completely empty. No, this episode’s Dumb Move Award has to go to the newbies (Yumiko, Magda, Connie, and Kelly), who decides to disobey Tara’s orders and go searching for Luke themselves. Henry can be irritating, but he still manages to get through to Lydia (even eating a worm for the team), so maybe there’s hope for him yet. He’s understandably hurt when he finds out Daryl was using him to get information from Lydia, but he’s able to get it together and convince Daryl that he can still be useful even when he’s in on the plan. A Shred of Humanityĭespite a serious early error where he reveals the existence of the Kingdom to Lydia, Henry does pretty well for himself this episode. I’d rather have a “Walking Dead” where positive change is possible. And Lydia’s come-to-Jesus moment is pretty pat – she hears a baby crying and immediately has a breakthrough – but these are pretty minor quibbles about a story where empathy brings about character change. There are visual holes in Lydia’s story from the get-go (note Frank’s disappearing and reappearing beard), leaving us to wonder when the real truth will out. While the turn is interesting, the actual execution is a little ham-fisted. Daryl sums up this revelation with his typical brevity: “Some people ain’t meant to be parents.” Through years of gaslighting and abuse, Alpha made Lydia believe a different story.
What’s more, her mom killed Frank because he didn’t subscribe to her “every person for themselves” philosophy and tried to take Lydia away. Once Daryl and Henry join forces to get through to Lydia, her resolve breaks and she realizes that her mother was the abusive one.
Naturally Lydia’s lying about a lot of this, but the interesting wrinkle “Omega” presents is that Lydia’s lying to herself in addition to her captors. Frank eventually died protecting Lydia after the murdered man turned. Her father, Frank, was abusive and cynical, while her mother would go to any lengths to protect them, including killing one of their fellow survivors who became hysterical. She and her parents were stuck in a group emergency shelter shortly after the zombie outbreak. “Omega” wastes no time in revealing this to be true, as she gently presses Henry for information on the other settlements while filling him in on her tragic backstory. It was proposed in last week’s review that Lydia was putting on an act and she was much tougher than she let on.
It’s a solid episode, but the real question is which “Fantastic Beasts” cast member will join “The Walking Dead” next? Fingers crossed for Colin Farrell. The slow drip of information about the Whisperers continues in “Omega,” as Samantha Morton is rather convolutedly introduced as this season’s heavy, Alpha.
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