In case you haven’t heard yet, the latest threat to the survivors on season nine of The Walking Dead are the Whisperers, and we’ve just gotten out first proper look at their leader, Alpha.
The Whisperers are a clan who wear zombie skin as a disguise and walk among the walkers. Their leader, Alpha, is the big villain of the second half of season nine. We’ve already seen a picture of her in a poster, but now the show’s creators have shared a head-to-toe clip of the mysterious big bad.
Last month, showrunner Angela King prepared us for the Whisperers with a horrifying explanation of what it really means to be one of them.
“What is really interesting about them is that to put on the skin of a dead person and walk around in the world and walk around amidst walkers, that really takes a certain kind of person,” she said.
“We really delve deep into what that means. It really takes a pretty brutal philosophy to believe that it’s not even worth trying to be something that approximates human in the way that we think of it. I think that really brings them right up against the things that our people are thinking about as they’re trying to rebuild something that’s like a civilization, and just the fact that this group just doesn’t even think any of that is worth preserving.”
She added: “It’s something that’s really dangerous for our people to grapple with.”
Season 9 will return February 10th on AMC.
