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'The Walking Dead' Season 9, Episode 12 'Guardian': Alpha's Forbidden Fruit [PREVIEW]

Last week's episode of AMC's The Walking Dead saw a resolution to Alpha (Samantha Morton) and Daryl's (Norman Reedus) standoff over the fates of Lydia (Cassady McClincy), Alden (Callan McAuliffe), and Luke (Dan Fogler) – and it didn't go well. Daryl's inital reaction to let Lydia stay and take the fight to the Whisperers was met with the harsh reality of the extent to which Alpha will go to get her daughter back. He learns pretty quickly, as Alpha not only offered up Alden and Luke for the chopping block but proved she was willing to sacrifice a baby to the walkers… just because she can.

It's a sacrifice Daryl isn't willing to make, and though he knows giving Lydia back to Alpha is a mistake… this round goes to Alpha.

In the following preview for this week's episode "Guardians," Alpha tries to get back into Lydia's good graces (and by "good graces" we mean her head) with the combination of not-so-veiled threat and the offering of fruit.

We'll leave it up to you to make the serpent/apple/Eden analogy… and make sure to follow that up with the trailer – where Michonne (Danai Gurira) still resists reaching out to the other communities.

The Walking Dead s09e12 "Guardians": While one community struggles to ease tensions that threaten to divide from within, the true nature of another group comes into focus. A mission to rescue a friend has deadly consequences.

Now that AMC is done being all "nice and stuff" by giving away episodes of The Walking Dead season 9 ahead of time, we're back to our little slice of communal live-blog love on Sunday nights.

That's right! Bring Out Your Dead: Bleeding Cool's The Walking Dead Live-Blog is back each and every Walking Dead Sunday night – starting with a little "pre-game" at 8:30 p.m ET (live-blog goes live on our website) before charging head-long into our live-blog coverage beginning at 9 p.m. ET. After the show, hang out with us a little longer as we share our thoughts on the night's developments and offer up some predictions on what's still to come – and to see if Chris Hardwick has any news to break on Talking Dead.

The second half of "The Walking Dead" Season 9 finds our groups of survivors, both old and new, continuing to deal with the impact of events that took place during the six years that have passed. Since the disappearance of Rick, many of these characters have become strangers to each other, and in some ways, strangers to themselves.

What they do know is that they are in undeniable danger. They will soon realize the world just beyond does not operate as they thought. The group's rules and ways of survival no longer guarantee their safety. A whole new threat has crossed their paths, and they soon discover it's unlike any threat they have encountered or endured before. The group will start to question what they think they see. What may appear to be normal in this post-apocalyptic world could actually be more disturbing and terrifying than when the apocalypse first broke out. All that is certain is the stakes are high and numerous.

Based on the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics, "The Walking Dead" tells the story of the months and years after a zombie apocalypse and follows a group of survivors who travel in search of a safe and secure home. The series is executive produced by chief content officer Scott M. Gimple, showrunner Angela Kang, Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Dave Alpert, Greg Nicotero, Tom Luse and Denise Huth.

AMC's The Walking Dead season 9 airs Sunday nights at 9 p.m. ET.

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