The Walking Dead – The Ones Who Live: This “Lost” star wants to take on Rick Grimes in the new TWD spin-off

Since season 9 of “The Walking Dead,” Rick Grimes has not only been bitterly missed by viewers. His partner Michonne has never given up hope that Rick is still alive and goes looking for him in the spin-off “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live”.

The details about the latest “The Walking Dead” spin-off are scarce, but we already know that Rick Grimes is in the clutches of the Civic Republic Military, or CRM for short, after being kidnapped by Jadis. He is being used as a test subject for some crude experiments by the military organization. And so he also has to deal with the most important person in the CRM: Major General Beale.

In the first trailer for “The Ones Who Live” we see Beale and Rick talking. Beale asks Rick, “Why are you here? Do you want to kill? Or do you want to die?” To which Rick replies, “Look me in the eyes, sir. Tell me.” This conversation suggests that Rick only has two options: kill or die himself. A desperate situation for Rick.

Major General Beale could become Rick’s greatest enemy

Terry O’Quinn, best known as John Locke from the cult series “Lost”, will play the leader of the CRM in “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live”. As Major General Beale, he has military responsibility for the Civic Republic, a settlement that has around 250,000 inhabitants and is therefore significantly larger than the Commonwealth.

Beale’s name has already been mentioned in “The Walking Dead: World Beyond”, but we haven’t seen the CRM boss yet. What is known, however, is that the CRM can act quite independently of the government of the Civic Republic and is not averse to testing on people. Beale himself is highly respected because he has a long military past. He served in the Vietnam War and was in officer training school (via Entertainment Weekly).

Beale has had to make many questionable decisions in his military career in order to ensure the good of the Civic Republic. But we already saw in “World Beyond” how unscrupulous the CRM’s approach was: entire settlements were wiped out by the armed forces in order to secure supplies for the Civic Republic, for example. With his 2,000-strong army, Beale quickly becomes the strongest opponent Rick has ever had.

After all, Rick has been held captive by the CRM for many years and has not yet managed to escape on his own to travel back to his family. But with Michonne’s help, everything could be different.

“The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” starts streaming on MagentaTV on February 26, 2024. The series premieres in the USA on February 25th on AMC and AMC+.