Hmm, is Beta actually Jason Voorhees, and is the Whisperers’ storyline actually a stealth Friday the 13th crossover?
We know Greg Nicotero loves bringing horror movie references into The Walking Dead, and we know that the Whisperers’ masks were inspired in different ways by both Halloween’s killer Michael Meyers and Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s cannibalistic Leatherface.
So after seeing Beta’s apparent ability to ignore pain and death during this episode, I now posit that his “true” identity will be revealed to be Jason Voorhees.