Franklin's group is a group of survivors introduced in Season 10 of AMC's The Walking Dead.
Overview[]
Franklin's group consists of mostly experienced doctors who are in the possession of medicine and drugs. They go around in their RVs before finding a place to camp out, usually with fake decoy guards to disorient outsiders. However, they are shown to be kind-hearted people, such as Franklin giving Negan medicine for his wife despite him just trying to rob them earlier. However, their medicine makes Franklin's group a target for other greedy survivors, such as Valak's Vipers who capture and beat Franklin until he tells them where the drugs are.
Pre-Apocalypse[]
Little is known about this group aside that it is largely made up of former medics.
Post-Apocalypse[]
Season 10[]
"Here's Negan"[]
Two or three days before encountering Craven and Valak's Vipers, Negan, armed with a pistol, makes his way to a small campsite with RVs and two armed guards. Negan emerges and demands that the men drop their guns while Franklin tries to calm him down. Disorientated, Negan notices that the two guards are both dummies just before Laura knocks him out with a baseball bat.
Attached to an IV bag, Negan awakens in the clinic, handcuffed to the chair. Negan and Franklin introduce themselves and after checking that they won't have any problems, Franklin releases Negan. Handing him a bowl of food, Franklin comments that Negan has exposure, exhaustion, dehydration and malnutrition and asks why Negan is in that state and trying to rob a bunch of doctors with an empty gun. Negan explains that his wife has cancer and was in the middle of her treatments when the world ended and Negan has been trying to keep it going since then. Franklin asks if Negan's a doctor, but Negan clarifies that he's a high school gym teacher and that, having been given a calendar of what had to be done and when, he had to find the drugs and figure out how to do infusions. Franklin is shocked that Negan was able to teach himself how to give someone chemotherapy, but Negan states that the pumps aren't that complicated unless something goes wrong which has happened.
With Franklin, Negan explains that that was about six weeks ago and Negan had figured that he would scavenge along the way, but it was worse out there than he'd thought and he ran into some problems with the dead and here he is. Franklin reveals that he found Negan's note and he sent Laura out to the warehouse to see if they have what he needs. Laura enters, having found the drugs that Negan needs. Franklin tells Negan that they have a lot and just want to help. Walking with Franklin and Laura outside, Negan expresses surprise at the kindness that they have shown him without expecting anything in return. Franklin returns Negan's gun while Laura warns him that a gang owns the roads at night and asks if the empty gun is his only weapon. After Negan confirms it, Laura gives him her baseball bat which he is pleased with, commenting that the bat packs a wallop.
Negan returns to the bar where Craven and his men are torturing Franklin for the location of his drug stash. As Craven shoots at Negan, Franklin breaks free and smashes his chair over the man's back and Negan enters and subdues Craven with a blow to the face with the bat, now wrapped in barbed wire. As Franklin binds Craven, Negan tells him that he thinks he got all of the bikers. Giving Franklin his gun, Negan tells him to go find Laura and make sure that she's ok.
Members[]
- Franklin (Leader)
- Negan Smith
- Laura (Medic/Supply Runner)
- A few unnamed members
Killed Victims[]
The following is a list of victims Franklin's group has killed:
- Numerous counts of zombies and possibly unnamed people
Appearances[]
TV Series[]
Season 10[]
- "Here's Negan" (Flashback)
TV Series Groups
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| Major Groups | Rick's Group • Woodbury Army • The Saviors • The Militia • The Scavengers • The Whisperers • The Coalition • The Reapers • Commonwealth Army |
| Minor Groups | Vatos Gang • The Living • Michonne's Group • The Prisoners • Brady's Group • Tyreese's Group • The Governor's Militia • Abraham's Group • The Claimers • Rapist Group • The Hunters • The Wolves • Georgie's Group • Civic Republic Military • Magna's Group • Jocelyn's Group • The Highwaymen • Jen and Wayne's Group • The Nomads • Eugene's Group • The Wardens • Valak's Vipers • Franklin's Group • The Ferals |