Lynn Collins teases what's next for her character after 'The Walking Dead' premiere: 'I'm scared of her'
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Kirsten Acuna
Feb 21, 2022, 09:33 IST
Leah (Lynn Collins) loses a lot on Sunday's "TWD" premiere.Josh Stringer/AMC
Warning: There are spoilers ahead for "The Walking Dead" season 11b premiere, "No Other Way."
Leah (Lynn Collins) is on her own at the end of Sunday's episode.
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Sunday's "The Walking Dead" premiere turned violent when Maggie (Lauren Cohan) decided to go rogue, killing every last member of the Reapers.
Well, almost every member.
Leah (Lynn Collins) narrowly escaped Maggie's shooting spree to be the sole survivor of her group. Every one of the men she considered a brother is now dead.
When Daryl (Norman Reedus), Leah's former flame, catches up with her, he tells her this wasn't what he wanted. Without looking at her, he tells her to go before he changes his mind. Daryl then returns to Maggie and his group.
If you think this is the last we've seen of Leah, don't count her out just yet.
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"Leah, right now, she's just a woman scorned in her mind, I think, and this is quite dangerous," Collins told Insider of Sunday's episode. "I always think a woman scorned is a mighty mighty force — like any sort of revenge — eye for an eye. And I think that's where she's at."
Daryl and the survivors may have seen the last of Leah for now, but that doesn't mean she couldn't pop up on the show's final 15 episodes.
"I'm scared of her. I'm scared of what she's gonna do," Collins added. "She's got nothing to lose, literally, nothing to lose ... It's gonna be interesting to see how she comes back if she does."
How could we see Leah again? There is another army out there in the vast 'TWD' universe.
At the end of Sunday's premiere, Daryl and his group are approached by the Commonwealth military and are welcomed back to their community, a place that houses thousands.
The episode flashes forward six months to surprisingly show Daryl suited up in the Commonwealth's white Stormtropperesque gear.
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Insider told Collins we're hoping she stumbles upon another massive group, the Civic Republic Military (CRM), that was explored in the spin-off, "TWD: World Beyond."Dressed in black, the group almost feels like the antithesis of the Commonwealth.
Now that we've seen Daryl teased as part of the Commonwealth militia, we're thinking there's a chance we could see Leah down the line form a bond with former "TWD" star Jadis (Polly McIntosh) and join the ranks of the CRM.
When we mentioned we could see Collins finding the CRM and then heading straight into a "TWD" movie or march right to the Commonwealth, she said, teasingly, "We're gonna see that Commonwealth. They got a lot of people after 'em."
Back in season 10, episode 18, "Find Me," where Leah was introduced, Daryl vaguely told her he lost someone close to him in an accident and never found the body, referring to Rick (Andrew Lincoln) who was taken away by the CRM on season nine.
Wouldn't it be something if Leah was the one to run into Rick?
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