AMC synopsis lies. If there was any reservations about certain someone, it's not in this episode. Instead all about Alpha and she makes me think that she's criminally insane. Well, maybe not completely bonkers, as she clearly has some reasoning skills, but not very far from what should be the normal in Kirkman's world. I know I previously claimed she's more like a warboss than a tyrant.
In fact, I still don't see her as a tyrant, because there's no real landmass that she rules over. But she ain't a warboss either. There is another term that nobody has brought up, and that is a cult leader. Like Manson. The people, including Siddiq (apologies for spelling his name wrongly for so long time) were brainwashed. The only people in her camp that might have retained some faculties are Lydia and Beta. The rest, they are all mad and should be locked up. Especially the man at above shot.
I don't even know his name for real. The TWD wiki says he's name is Dante. I've been calling him Trevor, but I'm happy to call him Faux Doctor. I don't even believe he's a real doc, but someone skilled with medical knowledge. Another problem with this is his Iraq tale, as that story would have made him to underage, when he supposedly were taking a part in the Gulf II operations.
This story begins around 2011, well beyond Fallujah's operations. And it goes on at least 8 years as there has been time jumps in between. If he's 35, then that would put him in 18 category just at the beginning of the conflict. If he's younger than he has been a very young when he went over there and got damaged. But to commit a cold blooded murder of best friend says that he's as effed in the brain department as the doctor he currently wasted.
I don't give him a long lifetime as soon as Rosita finds out about the truth of Siddiq's death, the Faux Doctor is going join the Dead. There certainly isn't any use for him in the Alexandria's prison, because he cannot be trusted. Not with the patients. Not with anyone sick or wounded. Which makes this whole thing very tricky as now the Ricklandia is without anyone to treat the people.
There might not even be anyone in the training program as Mr Dante was supposed to be it.
It makes me wonder did we consciously pick him up from the chaff as there has always been something in him that I don't trust. We thought he was a manifestation and Siddiq had been doing something in his disturbed mental state. But then again it makes me wonder how did Siddiq escape from the Whisperer's and how the Faux Doctor got into Alexandria?
Is he the spy, the one who told Alpha that they'd been crossing the border over the winter? If he shows his face in the Whisperer camp, will Negan put an end to his tale? Taking their doctor away would certainly balance the scales.
Is Mary (Gamma) going to leave the Whisperer camp and tell Alexandrian's where the horde is?