Leah's Death Finally Ends The Walking Dead's Reaper Story
By spilling Leah's brains, The Walking Dead's Reaper storyline is finally done — here's how her demise sets up the last block of season 11. Introduced in the «COVID» episodes of season 10, the Reapers arrived in The Walking Dead as transitory villains, but Pope and his gang wound up becoming main antagonists of season 11's opening third regardless. Thanks to the violent delights of Daryl, Gabriel and Maggie, the Reapers were defeated by the end of The Walking Dead season 11, part 2's premiere… save Lynn Collins' Leah. She resurfaced sooner than expected, joining up with the Commonwealth's Lance Hornsby for an assault on Hilltop.
The Walking Dead season 11's «Acts of God» puts the final nail in the Reaper coffin, with Daryl Dixon shooting Leah before she can take revenge on Maggie. With every last member of Pope's crew now excommunicated to the afterlife, the Reapers' presence on The Walking Dead comes to an end, but that end risks feeling a little abrupt. Following a drawn-out confrontation against Maggie, the entire arc ends with Daryl walking in, one bullet to the head, onto the next. It's a minimum fuss, no fanfare farewell to a character who barely had time to find her old locker before Daryl suggested she clear it out permanently. Despite her storyline skidding to a halt, however, The Walking Dead handled Leah's exit the right way.
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Though The Walking Dead doesn't draw attention to the location of Leah and Maggie's final showdown, the cabin is actually where Leah first appeared in The Walking Dead season 10 (the shack she and Daryl almost settled down in before her disappearance), which brings a poignant resonance to Lynn Collins' final minutes in the zombie
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