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You go if you want...Lydia stays with me.
―Frank to "Alpha" about their daughter.[src]

Frank is a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's The Walking Dead. He is Alpha's husband and Lydia's father.

Overview

Although he only appeared in one episode, Frank was shown to be a caring and protective father of Lydia. Frank was a victim of Alpha's sociopathic nature, being controlled while making herself out to be the victim and Frank the abuser.

Pre-Apocalypse

Mid-Atlantic, United States

Nothing is known about Frank's life prior to or as the outbreak began other than that he had a wife, "Alpha", who previously went by her real name, and a daughter named Lydia. It's likely him and his family lived somewhere in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States given they were near Baltimore

Post-Apocalypse

Season 9

"Omega"

Frank, along with his wife, Alpha, and young daughter, Lydia, survived the initial stages of the outbreak together. After 23 days of surviving the initial outbreak, Alpha was eager to leave a shelter with other survivors, but Frank maintained that they stay put for Lydia's well being. Alpha eventually cut her hair off to spite him, defending that she could do what she wanted since it was the end of the world.

After 43 days, the undead began to overrun the outside of the building. A fellow survivor, Matias, started to have a panic attack and wanted to leave the basement. Alpha, knowing noise could draw them in, smothered Matias to death, citing that he was too weak to survive this world anyway. Frank comforts Lydia by singing to her as he watches scared at Alpha.

Later that night, unknown to the truth about the virus infecting the living, a reanimated Matias began to attack the group. In the middle of the chaos, Alpha starts prying boards off the windows and says they're leaving. Frank doesn't want to leave their friends but Alpha says they're idiots they got stuck with and they're putting them in danger. Frank refuses to leave and says Lydia is staying with him. He then tells Lydia to wait for him while he checks the stairs. Alpha follows and stabs him in the neck.

In the years that followed, Alpha would tell Lydia the reverse of events in the beginning, that Frank was the abusive one and she was the one trying to protect Lydia, that Matias killed her father and not Alpha herself.

As his brain was not known to be destroyed, it is unknown if he ended up reanimating or not.

Death

Killed By
  • Himself (Caused)

Frank refuses to leave the shelter with Lydia and Alpha, because he couldn't leave his friends behind.

Alpha, claiming him to be weak, stabs him in the neck and leaves him to bleed to death.

Killed Victims

This list shows the victims Frank has killed:

  • Himself (Caused)
  • Numerous counts of zombies

Relationships

"Alpha"

Frank was a victim of Alpha's sociopathic nature. Controlling him while making herself out to be the victim, it's also shown she had little love for Frank, going as far as stabbing him in the neck and leaving him so she and Lydia can escape.

Lydia

Frank loved Lydia, as she was his daughter. He would take it upon himself to protect her from his abusive wife and the hardship of the early outbreak. He would sing to her to comfort her. Lydia would later forget this due to the lies of her mother

Appearances

TV Series

Season 9

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