Unable to find a way to get Alicia and Nick (and Mel) out of their walker-surrounded vehicle, Madison took on the role of the pied piper, using a flare to lead the undead herd into the stadium for an all-inclusive immolation.
Alicia, who watched the aformentioned tape, finally revealed what happened to Madison, and it wasn’t a happy-go-lucky tale.
It was revealed that Madison and Althea had crossed paths before anyone moved into the stadium, and that she’d given Al her story.
Madison’s selfless sacrifice is almost cheapened by Nick’s previously revealed death, but in a vacuum, those final scenes were among the show’s most beautiful and heartbreaking.