The Walking Dead Season 11: Leah Twist Explained (2024)

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Why did Leah betray Daryl? ›

Leah then betrays Daryl, blaming him for Pope's murder, insisting that she needs to protect her family. Leah allows Daryl to flee as she turns the hwacha on the herd, destroying it and accidentally killing Fisher.

However, this allows Maggie to get free and the two engage in a fight. Though Leah bests her, she ends up being shot by Daryl, the man she used to love, dying in the cabin they used to live in.

Daryl's one actual romantic relationship was with Leah (Lynn Collins). As we learned in Season 10's "Find Me," they met during the six-year period back in Season 9 when he retreated to the woods and searched for Rick.

The two of them fought until Daryl showed up to shoot Leah in the back of the head, moments before she would have fatally stabbed Maggie. But Leah's death wasn't mourned because her character never really worked.

The Walking Dead has never allowed Daryl (Norman Reedus) to have a genuine romantic relationship, but The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon spinoff highlighted that the character still has feelings for Connie (Lauren Ridloff).

Then, when a horde of walkers is preparing to attack the communities, Daryl and Rick split up with the latter presumably dead. After a six year time jump, everything has changed and Daryl now lives alone with a dog.

Before, they were close friends who could rely on each other during the worst situations -- but ever since Maggie killed Leah's family, Daryl is seeing Maggie in a different light. Truth be told, Maggie had every right to seek revenge; the Reapers attacked her community and group for no reason.

Much to Daryl's surprise, Maggie viciously killed them when their backs were turned. Leah, on the other hand, got away with a non-fatal wound. Maggie clearly saw Leah escape with her life, but didn't give chase. One possible explanation is that she spared Leah because of Daryl's relationship with her.

Not only was he captured and tortured by the Reapers, but he learned that one of his captors was none other than his former cabin girlfriend (and Dog owner) Leah (Lynn Collins).

Viewers saw tell-tale signs that Carol and Daryl have a thing for each other as far back as the first two seasons. Since then, they've grown together as the best of friends, despite many hurdles over the years.

Does Daryl ever hook up with anyone? ›

Summary. Daryl Dixon's love life in The Walking Dead remains a mystery, with no confirmed relationships or clear romantic interests. The show deliberately keeps Daryl's romantic desires under wraps, refusing to give him the same kind of relationship as other main characters.

Leah asks Daryl who he lost and he says, "my brother." This wasn't the first time Daryl called Rick his brother. At first, you may have thought he was talking about his actual brother, Merle, but then Daryl explains that they never found his body. Daryl saw Merle when he was turned into one of the undead.

Over multiple flashbacks spanning 27 months, fans watched as Daryl grew close with the mysterious stranger who lived alone in the woods with a dog. The two were together for 10 months before Leah disappeared and re-entered Daryl's life years later in season 11.

At some point, the Reapers discovered a location known as Meridian and attacked Maggie Rhee's group who resided there despite having no previous conflicts with her group, forcing her and her surviving group members to flee back to Virginia, in which the Reapers followed them to finish them off due to them being "marked ...

She was in the military and served overseas. The zombie outbreak kicked off, and Leah reunited with her squad as they banded together for survival. She never went into detail about her group, at least not to Daryl. But as it turns out, the Reapers are what's left of her old squad.

She was shocked that he had lied to her for so long, and wished that she had not trusted him from the beginning. Daryl's only explanation was that he had lied to protect his family, which he was sure that she could relate to.

When Leah discovers that Daryl's been lying to her about his allegiance to Maggie, she turns on him. Likewise, she faces a similar betrayal from The Walking Dead's Pope, who not only continues to lack concern for the lives of other Reapers but even leaves her inside a burning building with Daryl.

The following morning, Daryl finds Dog sitting next to a Reaper, who reveals herself to be Leah, Daryl's former romantic partner and Dog's former owner.