| “ | Young lady, I know I've been responsible for the deaths of innocent people. But we have an opportunity here - if we can get out of here with our skin intact, we can complete the trials. There's no guarantee the vaccine will work. But isn't it worth dying? I'm asking you to trust me. I have no right to ask this of you. But remember, I did hold up my end of the bargain with the children. I'm asking you, Lilly. Trust me. Please.
―Nalls trying to convince Lilly to cooperate with him.[src]
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Raymond Nalls is an antagonist and a survivor of the outbreak in Thomas Dunne Books' The Walking Dead. He is a slender, older man with silver hair residing in Atlanta Medical Center, and is the leader of the research team. He served as the primary antagonist of Search and Destroy.
Pre-Apocalypse[]
Richmond, Virginia[]
Nalls used to live in his father's farm.
Norfolk, Virginia[]
Nalls went to Virginia medical school. He used to date a girl named Violet.
Post-Apocalypse[]
Search and Destroy[]
During his life in the outbreak, Nalls has been developing a cure for the plague after stumbling across Bryce's militia. He uses the surviving militia members to collect children to his tests, and demanding them to kill every adult on sight.
After discovering Woodbury, Bryce and his men kidnap the surviving children and take them to the Medical Center, using them for tests and researches. Lilly is able to find the place, and takes Nalls as a hostage, demanding him to let the children go and take her instead. Nalls accepts the deal, and drugs and tests Lilly for six months, until the center gets overran.
Lilly and Nalls are able to flee from the infested hospital.
After Nalls' attempts to cure his bite fails, he dies and reanimates. The zombified Nalls attacks Lilly who repeatedly strikes at him, breaking off the entire lower part of his head and one eye, but fails to put Nalls down, although he is rendered effectively harmless by the blows. In order to escape from the Pendragon Theater, Lilly drapes them both in a witch's cowl - one of the theater's costumes - and uses Nalls as camouflage to pass through the massive herd gathered outside. Although it works at first, Lilly's constant coughing eventually draw the herd's attention with her stopping to look at a message left for her on the Interstate 20 bridge breaking her camouflage completely. No longer needing Nalls, Lilly releases him into the herd and flees.
Death[]
- Killed By
- Sixteenth Street Ikea survivors (Indirectly Caused)
- Zombies (Alive)
Nalls is bitten when the Atlanta Medical Center is overrun by walkers during a raid by the Sixteenth Street Ikea survivors. He reveals his bite to Lilly much later on, drugs her and harvests her blood to see if he could survive the bite. His hypothesis turns out to be false, and Nalls dies soon after this. Nalls turns within minutes, and Lilly uses him as a disguise to get out of her hiding place. She never puts Nalls down and he is left among the rest of the walkers, roaming the city of Atlanta.
Killed Victims[]
This list shows the victims Raymond has killed:
- Harold Stauback (Caused)
- Clint Sturbridge (Caused)
- Linda Sturbridge (Caused)
- May Carter (Caused)
- Rudy (Caused)
- Ian (Caused)
- Jack (Caused)
- Mike Bell (Caused)
- Numerous counts of zombies and unnamed people (Caused and Direct)
Appearances[]
Novel SeriesSearch and Destroy
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