Last night’s episode of The Walking Dead helped throw fuel on the fire of a popular fan theory that’s been circulating since last week, when Rick infiltrated a Savior base and accidentally orphaned a little girl.
Spoilers for the current episodes follow, and if you believe this theory, it might spoil a future plot point if it comes to pass.
Walking Dead fans have been trying to make sense of some weird scenes we saw in the premiere, a pair of flash-forwards where a red-eyed Rick appears to be mourning a grave, and then one years later where Rick has a bushy grey beard and lives in an idyllic farming community. We see how much time has passed not just because of Rick’s age, but because Judith has grown from a toddler into a child who looks about 7 or 8.
But…what if that’s not Judith?
Here’s the crux of the fan theory: Somewhere during the Negan war, Judith is killed, probably by accident. That’s who Rick is mourning in the one flash-forward, and then the little girl seen in the far-future vision is instead Gracie, the now-fatherless child that Rick apparently takes to raise as his own. This theory has been amplified by the fact that the girl in the vision is clutching a stuffed rabbit, and there is also a stuffed rabbit in Gracie’s crib when Rick finds her.
The comics are not at all reliable when it comes to figuring out if this is true or not. Yes, Judith is dead in the comics, but she was killed as an infant by the Governor’s Woodbury squad along with Lori years earlier. The show never really follows the comic path at all when it comes to kids.
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