Warning: This article contains spoilers about Sundays Stalker episode ofThe Walking Dead.
That allowed Beta to murder several Alexandrians and then capture Gamma, who had defected to the other side.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lets start with theDaryl versus Alpha fight.
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Why did you decide to have these two face off at this point?
ANGELA KANG:It was actually something that we questioned like, Should we?
But its also complicated between the two of them.
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Thats where the story started from.
It really became a showcase for those performances, which I thought was really exciting.
Tell me about deciding to do the point-of-view shots with the bloody obscured vision after Alpha slices Daryls face.
Oh, you know what?
The funny thing is, is that sequence changed a few times in the course of things.
I think that it came out of discussion with my writer Jim Barnes.
We were trying to fake something actually.
Shes in a cat and mouse and hes like, I just want to kill you.
We had a little fun with doing some new types of VFX and the sequence.
Is she trying to make her take that final leap and replace her as the Alpha?
It feels like what she wants.
That would be the only way that she wants to die.
What kind of a thing is that to lay on your teenage daughter?
We see her with the mantra.
Its all going to fall.
And she was trying to sabotage it, right?
But now I think shes at a point where she realizes that her daughter might be lost to her.
So thats gonna change the equation quite a bit.
The idea of Beta entering Alexandria through the grave that Dante dug.
It was like a classic horror move.
Tell me where that whole concept came from.
Yeah, its really fun.
I was like, I love this idea, but how does he get in?
So we threw out a lot of ideas.
He killed this woman Cheryl and then he dug the grave because whos going to look in a grave?
We also wanted to see to it our people didnt look dumb either.
Once they knew that Dante had been sabotaging things in Alexandria, they would have looked.
But youre not going to check in a grave necessarily.
And how do we also make the Whisperers clever, because they are really good bad villains?
Its in a fun way that all these things ever developed, amongst the writers in the room.
It was all sort of a group project, to figure it out, and just a good image.
Okay, give us a quick preview for whats coming up next?
So now everythings going to change, and this war with the Whisperers is really going to heat up.
And then all of the fallout from that happens as our two societies really clash in a big way.
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