| “ | Test subject A402. That's good there, thank you. Test subject displayed no detectable responses to psychological stimuli. Necrotic plasma and brain fluid are being drawn for further testing results to be compared to test reform during and immediately following reanimation. Tomorrow we'll begin the climate variations test as scheduled. Again, this is test subject A402; known in life as Dr. Samuel Abbott from Portland, Oregon.
―Dr. Lyla Belshaw reporting on the zombified Dr. Samuel Abbott.[src]
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Dr. Samuel Abbott is a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's The Walking Dead: World Beyond. He is a resident of Portland.
Pre-Apocalypse
Location Unknown
Nothing is known about Samuel's life prior to or as the outbreak began, except that he had supposedly had a sister.
Post-Apocalypse
Portland, Oregon
At some point in the apocalypse, Samuel joined a community in Portland along with his sister, where he became a prominent researcher. He later presumably traveled to the Civic Republic of Philadelphia to assist them in their research, where he met fellow scientists Leopold Bennett and Lyla Belshaw.
When he learned the true nature of the project he and others were working on, he attempted to notify the CR, but the military stopped him. He was killed and became one of Lyla's many test subjects.
Season 1
"The Wrong End of a Telescope"
At the Civic Republic Research Facility, a reanimated Samuel is experimented upon by his former colleague, Dr. Lyla Belshaw. Lyla notes that he has displayed no detectable responses to psychological stimuli and that necrotic plasma and brain fluid are being drawn for further testing, which will be compared to tests performed before and immediately following Samuel's reanimation. Lyla plans to begin the climate variation tests the next day and notes his identity as Dr. Samuel Abbot of Portland, Oregon, before having the next test subject brought out. While Lyla experiments on Samuel, a picture of Lyla, Samuel, Leo Bennett, and another scientist sits on her desk.
"Shadow Puppets"
Samuel appears in a photograph on Lyla Belshaw's desk with her, Dr. Leo Bennett, and another man.
"In This Life"
In a flashback, Leo Bennett asks Lyla Belshaw if she has heard anything from Samuel since he supposedly returned to Portland. After a moment's hesitation, Lyla lies that she hasn't and that they were sorry to lose him. Leo comments on how sudden Samuel's departure was, since before Samuel left, he wouldn't stop talking about how much he loved it at the research facility and the opportunity to mold the best young scientific minds. Lyla claims that Samuel had gotten word that his sister wasn't well and quickly changes the subject.
In the present, Samuel's strange departure, along with Will Campbell's disappearance, has caused Leo to become suspicious that the CRM is lying to him and Lyla.
Season 2
"Foothold"
In a video message recorded by Leo Bennett to the Civic Republic and shown to Hope, Samuel is working on attaching a viral recorder to an empty alongside several scientists, including Leo and Lyla Belshaw.
While Lyla is talking to Elizabeth Kublek about Leo and Hope in her lab, the zombified Samuel is displayed on the other side of the observation window. After Elizabeth leaves, Lyla looks at her former colleague.
"Who Are You?"
In a flashback, Leo, Lyla, Will, Romano, Samuel, Dr. Ebersol, two other scientists, and a squad of CRM soldiers led by Corporal Diane Pierce run through the woods, fleeing a small herd. However, the soldiers, Will and Romano, are able to put all of the nearby empties down. Leo jokes that it's just another day at the office while Diane apologizes, stating that a small herd they'd been tracking had dipped south a little too close for comfort. Diane tells the scientists that they'll wait it out there for a few minutes until the CRM's disruption charges turn the empties around. Will warns that the charges might draw more empties from the south, and he leaves with Romano to scout it out.
Leo jokingly asks if all of her research expeditions are this exciting, and with a laugh, Lyla tells him that they are almost never. Another empty approaches, but Lyla stops the soldiers from shooting it as it's one of their test subjects. The soldiers capture the empty instead, and Leo begins recording with a video camera. Approaching the empty, Lyla states that its geo tracker must've malfunctioned again, while Ebersol had thought that the hard reset coding would've fixed the issue. Ebersol activates a command on his control pad, but the empty's bio recorder just shorts out. Ebersol has the soldiers hold the empty while he runs a diagnostic, and Lyla reassures Leo that they had the bio recorder's data box fireproofed just in case.
"Blood and Lies"
Lyla Belshaw shows Hope and Iris a camera view of Samuel in his cell. As a demonstration of the dangers of the undead, Lyla releases a rat into the cell, and Samuel chases it around and eventually devours the rat. Watching as Samuel chases it around, Lyla tells Hope and Iris that the rat will eventually get tired, but the dead won't ever. The dead are perpetually in motion, and none of them will be safe as long as this exists in the world.
Hope demands answers about Omaha and how this ties into the genocide there. Lyla explains that she developed an intracerebral injection of algae-derived chemical extracts that showed promise in delaying the time between death and reanimation, but Lyla needed a lot more test subjects to be sure. The CRM told Lyla and Samuel about a secret military operation in which tens of thousands would die. They were assured that this operation was critical to the survival of the human race and that they were being let in on something that almost no one outside of the military knew about, and it was their chance to test the formula out in the field. Lyla and Samuel were horrified by it, and the Civic Republic's civilian government has no idea what its military does outside of its walls. Samuel threatened to tell the government about it, so they made sure he never would.
"Death and the Dead"
Samuel and a number of the CRM's test subjects are sent into the old mining tunnels beneath the research facility by the Endlings. Mistaking them for the group, the CRM soldiers in the tunnels open fire, putting down Samuel and the other empties. However, the Endlings have attached C4 to five of the zombies, one for each tunnel, and detonated them, killing the CRM soldiers in the tunnels.
Season 1: The Ones Who Live
"The Last Time"
A zombified Samuel appears in a flashback as Major General Beale tells Rick Grimes about how the CRM used to supply test subjects for study into the Wildfire Virus.
Death
- Killed By
- Himself (Caused)
- Civic Republic Military (Caused)
- Zombies (Alive)
After having begun to doubt what his research was being used for, the Civic Republic military caused Samuel to be bitten by a walker, which resulted in his reanimation.
- Leopold Bennett, Iris Bennett, Hope Bennett, Percy, Felix Carlucci, Terry Ellis, Dr. Ebersol, and Amanda Siegel (Zombified, Caused)
- An unnamed CRM soldier (Zombified)
As part of their plan, the Endlings send the zombified Samuel and several other test subjects into the mining tunnels, where they are shot by CRM soldiers.
Killed Victims
This list shows all the victims Dr. Samuel Abbott has killed:
- Himself (Caused)
- Mrs. Plaskett (Caused)
- Ruth (Caused)
- Daniel (Caused)
- Margaret (Caused)
- Dani (Caused)
- Phoebe (Caused)
- Jan (Caused)
- Mr. Kapadia (Caused)
- Izzy (Caused)
- Marco Voci (Caused)
- Dr. Bavolar (Caused)
- Dwyer (Caused)
- Kallenbach (Caused)
- Dre (Caused)
- Eric (Caused)
- Kayla (Caused)
- Destiny (Caused)
- Adult Administrator (Caused)
- Campus Student 1 (Caused)
- Campus Student 2 (Caused)
- Campus Student 3 (Caused)
- 97,403 unnamed Omaha residents (Caused)
- 9,651 unnamed Campus Colony residents (Caused)
- 2 unnamed Portland representatives (Caused)
- 1 rat (Infected)
- Possibly a few zombies
Relationships
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Enemies
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Appearances
World BeyondSeason 1
Season 2
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The Ones Who LiveSeason 1
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Trivia
- Samuel is tied with Elizabeth Kublek for having the second-largest kill count out of any character on World Beyond and the entire Walking Dead franchise, with a total of at least 107,075 victims.
World Beyond Characters
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| Campus Colony of Omaha | Iris • Hope • Silas • Felix • Elton • Will • Leopold • Romano • Marco • Mr. Kapadia • Dani • Phoebe • Jan • Dr. K |
| Lincoln | Isaac • Amelia • Kari • Cliff |
| Civic Republic of Philadelphia | Elizabeth • Tiga • Grady • Mason • Terry • Ian • Diane • Marjorie • Amanda • Tucker • Jadis • Dr. Ebersol • Cohen • Robertson • Lowery • Armadi • Nolan • Betts • Murrow • Dennis • Jennifer • Frank • Webb • Lyla • Samuel • Mills • Barca |
| Illinois | Percy • Tony • Walter |
| Military Personnel | Dawson • Drake • Owens • Wilkins • Powlowski • Farmer • Simms |
| Omaha | Mrs. Plaskett • Ruth • Galbraith • Daniel • Margaret • Gary |
| The Perimeter | Indira • Asha • Robin • Brody • Dev |
| Miscellaneous Survivors | Candice • Beta • Edwin • Sabina • Mr. Mallick |
| Animals | Teresa |
| Alive characters appear in green. Unknown characters appear in blue. Dead characters appear in red and italics. Undead characters appear in gray and italics. | |