Unfortunately, given that Samantha Morton’s casting was only just announced, details about how exactly she’ll contribute to the next season are unavailable.
The big casting news was announced at the Walking Dead panel at San Diego Comic-Con, not too long after the trailer for the ninth season debuted and showed off what was clearly the Whisperers, although folks without a knowledge of the Whisperers from the comics may not have caught them and understood their significance.
That said, we have one (admittedly dark) theory about a key role she could play in Season 9, and it’s not a theory that means good things for Rick, who is on his way out of the zombie apocalypse one way or the other.
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