How does beth die in walking dead

Losing this character is incredibly tragic, awful and painful. Not working with Emily is massively rough. I loved working with Emily.

We wanted to tell a story about a character that found out that she was strong all along. What ever that was thrown at her brought out that strength. In the end, someone who wanted to appear strong — a compromised person [Dawn], wound up taking her out, which is just a tragic story. A lot of things happen on this show that are tragic. How do these characters go on after that? What would motivate them to go on after that?

Is that part of why it was her time to go? It unlocks her. So Maggie would be asking to go have gone back to Terminus, back down the precarious route they took to Terminus to go to a place where Daryl, who had given everything he had and had skills in tracking, had lost her vehicle.

What about for Maggie going forward? This is something that Maggie is going to have to deal with and something that might just break her. After Zach's death, she spends her time dealing with the new crisis surrounding the prison. Beth keeps hope alive, while struggling with herself not to break down emotionally.

After her father's death, Beth is distraught but grows stronger and finds new strength in herself. Beth becomes more independent and more skillful at killing walkers. After she escapes from the prison assault with Daryl Dixon , the two become very close, and Beth's faith becomes stronger.

She believes there is still hope and good people somewhere, even in this cruel world. She also thinks that since walkers used to be human, they shouldn't be treated cruelly or be made fun of, but instead, respectfully put out of their misery to preserve their humanity. When she is taken to Grady Memorial Hospital , she becomes even more independent, being forced to help care for patients at the hospital whilst planning an escape with Noah.

Beth was born the youngest to two half-siblings, her older brother Shawn , who belonged to her mother, and Maggie , the eldest, who belonged to Hershel and his late-wife, Josephine. As Beth grew older, Maggie initially resented her and her side of the family, but through her father and beliefs came to love Beth, Annette, and Shawn.

Beth also became close with family friend and farmhand, Otis , and his wife, Patricia. Hershel still had his habit of drinking alcohol, but strictly forbade her ever to drink. Hershel also raised her to do good things in life, and to believe in God and faith. Hershel always protected Beth from the harsh reality from the outside world and not to follow the bad things he had done in his past life, such as going to jail and drinking alcohol.

Her family raised her to have good manners and behavior, and were usually overprotective of her. Unlike Maggie, Beth was oblivious to the outside world.

She perceived things in a different perspective, and as a result she believed that there's goodness and hope in everything, even in the most desperate situations.

As evident, when Beth was twelve and Maggie had returned for her first summer from college, she found birth control pills in Maggie's bag. In horror, she threw them in the lake and was caught by Maggie who was horseback riding. The two began to argue, later involved by Shawn, and the commotion caused Maggie's horse to cover all of them in mud, making them laugh and resolve their issues.

When Hershel asked what had happened, Beth lied for Maggie. As a young child, she had a passion for singing and playing the piano and guitar. She attended high school, along with Jimmy , and began a casual relationship with him roughly three months before the outbreak. Jimmy was often protective of Beth. As the outbreak went global, Beth's mother and Shawn were bitten by the infected locals. The two later died from the infection.

Hershel had Otis take them to the barn where they reanimated. Due to what they saw on the news, Hershel believed the infected were still alive and while dangerous, needed to be cared for as he believed the pandemic would end and a cure would save them. Their ignorance was a mixture of grief and being mostly spared by the apocalypse on their isolated farm.

Hershel barricaded his remaining family, Jimmy, Otis, and Patricia within the farm. Beth was devastated by her mother and brother's deaths, and her typically positive outlook on the world slowly started changing to a more grim and hopeless one.

Over time, Otis began to bring more infected to the barn, in which Beth and the others were in charge of helping put them in and feeding them with live chickens. Among those in the barn were their cousin, Arnold Greene , their neighbors the Fischers , and friends Lacey and Duncan.

Beth is first seen coming out of the farmhouse with her family and boyfriend Jimmy when they see a man approaching it, carrying a lifeless body. Hershel leads Rick inside the house to treat Carl and Beth helps by gathering some towels for the boy and putting them on the bed. Afterwards she can be seen with Jimmy while Otis goes to his wife.

Beth is first seen gathering some rocks for Otis' funeral. She stands outside with everyone else when both groups greet each other. She and the others attend the funeral where everyone piles up the rocks in memory of his contributions to the group and, more specifically, Carl's survival. She stands next to her sister, Jimmy, and Patricia quietly. Beth approaches Rick to let him know that her father wants to see him.

She runs outside along with everyone else when they hear Andrea shoot Daryl Dixon. Beth and everyone else eat their meal and she ends up sitting at the "kids" table with Jimmy, Maggie and Glenn Rhee.

She cleans the table and does the dishes after everyone has finished eating. Beth and Patricia approach Rick and Shane, announcing they would like to take part in gun training. Rick says he first has to ask Hershel and, with his approval, he takes Beth, Patricia, and others to the shooting range. Beth and the others slowly learn how to shoot. Beth is not seen until the end of the episode, while she is watching a round of checkers between Carl and Patricia.

She witnesses Shane handing out guns to his group and notices her father, Jimmy, Rick, and two walkers: Louise Bush and Doug. She runs towards the barn with the others and watches as the Survivors shoots the walkers that were kept in the barn, including her mother and half-brother. She and Jimmy hold each other and watch as all their zombified friends and family are shot.

After seeing her mother Annette and half-brother Shawn get shot, Beth becomes hysterical. She hovers over her mother's corpse, unaware that she is still undead. She turns the body over and is subsequently attacked by the zombified corpse of her mother. The group manages to pull her away before she is bit. Hershel comforts her as their family walks back to the house, with Shane throwing his accusations at them along the way. She then attends the funeral for her mother, brother, and Sophia.

Later, she is seen washing dishes and suddenly collapses to the kitchen floor. Maggie, Patricia and the others then lay Beth on a bed in the guest bedroom thinking she might be in shock of what she had seen earlier that day.

Rick and Glenn then travel into town and accompany Hershel and tell him about Beth. In the farm house, Beth is still in a state of shock, not being able to react to anything. Maggie tells Andrea a story about Beth finding her birth control pills, and how she lied to their father to keep her out of trouble. After Hershel returned from Hatlin's Bar, he gave Beth a sedative to keep her body from working too much. Maggie angrily told Hershel that she didn't know what to do with Beth when he was gone.

Beth is the center of a dispute between Lori, Maggie, and Andrea. After she woke up from her coma, she was given a plate of food by Lori. After a while, Lori checked on Beth and found her crying. Lori comforts her, saying that she has to be strong as there are people that care about her. When Lori was washing up Beth's plate, she found out that the knife was missing. It is revealed that Beth wants to commit suicide, having lost hope in the world. Maggie scolds Beth for making such a cowardly decision.

Beth tried to make her sister commit suicide together with her, much to Maggie's dismay. While the sisters are fighting, Andrea argues with Lori about Beth and wants Beth to have the freedom to make her own choice, while Lori and Maggie try to prevent the suicide from happening.

After being given the opportunity by Andrea, Beth attempts to kill herself with a broken shard of glass from the bathroom mirror. She realizes how painful it is and ultimately decides it was a mistake.

Lori and Maggie and her father help her after they find her. Beth also finds out about Lori's pregnancy in this episode, and that Maggie had sex with Glenn, something that Beth was afraid for Maggie when she was younger. In the farmhouse, Glenn finds Hershel checking up on Beth. Glenn asks how Beth is feeling and Hershel states that she is doing much better, Hershel then leaves Beth to have a conversation with Glenn. Having made a full recovery, Beth attends Dale Horvath 's funeral, and is later seen moving some of the Atlanta group's things into the house.

She is then later seen fixing up and barricading the farmhouse for the group to move into. She is with the group when they discover that Randall is missing and retreats to the farmhouse for safety.

Beth is waiting in the farmhouse for Rick and Shane to get back. Once they notice walkers coming toward the house, Beth, Patricia, Lori, and Carol opt to stay in the house for safety. Beth is the first to notice the barn ablaze and alerts the others about it. Lori, knowing they have to leave, flees the house with Beth and the other girls. However, while Beth is running with Patricia, a walker manages to grab the older woman. Patricia is killed by a group of walkers, whilst holding Beth's hand.

Later, the survivors, with the exception of Andrea, regroup on the highway where the Atlanta survivors left supplies for Sophia. Beth told the others about Patricia's fate and she is devastated when she discovers Jimmy did not make it off the farm alive.

When Rick discusses about their next plan on the highway, Beth stated her worries about walkers or a hostile group who may come and give them troubles. She was shocked to learn that the virus resides in everyone of them and that they will immediately turn into a walker after they die.

That night, she camps out with the group just off the side of the highway with a prison in view behind them. Beth is first shown scavenging an abandoned house for supplies after the house has been cleared from walkers. Carl was going to share the dog food he found with Beth and the others, but Rick threw it away. Later, she is guarding the group while they figure out what to do next. When they find the prison, Beth helps clear out the prison yard by killing many of the walkers.

That night, they camp right outside the prison. Beth told Lori that this place is great for having the baby because it's secured. At first, she is shy about singing the song as there are lots of people, but Glenn asks "Why not?

Maggie assists her sister while singing once they are halfway through the song. The next day, Beth is seen helping the group kill walkers by the fence with Carl, Lori, Hershel and Carol. After Rick and the others cleared out a cell block, Rick called the others to come over.

They finally enter the prison and choose a cell to sleep in for the night. It is shown that Carl may have a small crush on Beth as he is planning to share a room with Beth, but Hershel arrived and Carl left the room. Later, Beth stays behind with Carol, Lori, and Carl while the others go and search for the cafeteria.

As the group brings the wounded Hershel into the cell block, Beth immediately becomes distressed at the mere sight of her unconscious father.

She is seen multiple times at Hershel's side throughout the episode. She also cut her father's pants on the right side so that he could move easier. She hoped that her father survives the amputation and yelled at Maggie for being so pessimistic. When Carl told his mother to "get off his back," Beth scolded him, saying that he should not talk that way to his own mother so Carl walks away.

After that, she watches over her father and at one point begins screaming hysterically for help when he stops breathing, summoning Lori who comes in and does CPR on Hershel, successfully resuscitating him. After Hershel woke up the second time, she and Maggie hold each other while crying and finally things calmed down. In this episode, Beth is first seen smiling at Carl as she walks with Lori to Hershel's cell.

She helped her father get up from bed with his new crutches. After that, she escorted Hershel into the prison yard with the others.

As the group looked at each other happily, walkers invade the prison yard. Beth immediately ran to the upper level of the prison and locked herself there with Hershel. She stayed there with Hershel for the entire episode. When Rick, Daryl, Glenn, Axel , and Oscar arrived in the prison yard, Beth and Hershel told them about the directions the others had ran.

At the end of the episode, Beth and Hershel got out of the cage and the group found out that Lori had died giving birth. Beth is first seen looking at Carl and the baby. Beth, along with Hershel, console a grief-stricken Carl over the death of Lori. Beth waited inside the prison for Maggie and Daryl to return from their errand while she continues to watch over Carl.

When Daryl and Maggie arrived with supplies for the baby, Beth helps get the bottle ready when they get back, and then gives it to Daryl. When Carl says all the possible names for the baby girl, Beth listens in grief along with the others. Daryl then suggests the name "Little Ass-Kicker" and the group, including Beth, laughed. Beth is mostly seen by her father's side and along with the rest of the group.

When Rick appears in cafeteria for the first time since Lori's death, Beth can be seen holding the baby and sitting with the others. Beth appears when Rick returns to the group for a second time. Beth is busy heating up more formula for the baby while Rick holds her for the first time. Then, Beth, Rick, Carl, Hershel, and the baby are then seen walking out into the prison yard while Rick walks down and sees a mysterious woman holding a basket full of baby formula and ignores her.

Beth was also happy when Carol got up from her bed. Beth then proceed to hand Judith over to Carol. When she found out that her sister was kidnapped, Beth becomes even more assertive. When the group bickers over whether or not to rescue Glenn and Maggie, she asks why they are even considering this, Maggie is her sister. Then, when the group was planning a rescue mission to recover them, she volunteered to accompany the group.

She opens the gate into the prison courtyard and Michonne asked her if the group really takes over the prison which was overrun with walkers, with just the few of them.

Beth said there were others. Beth appears mostly by her father's side. In the prison cell, she is seen holding Judith as Axel tries to flirt with her before being called out and reprimanded by Carol. Later when Beth is reloading guns, she, Carl, and Hershel hear the screams of Donna , Carl goes and finds out where the screams came from.

Beth and Hershel wait at the cell block for him to return and when he does, he locks up the unexpected group in the common room.

Beth suggested to Carl that they should help the new group, and he replied that he did. Beth is seen holding Judith in the common room, while Hershel attends Allen 's wound. Sasha believes that Judith is Beth's baby, but Beth informs her that Judith isn't hers.

Beth and Axel take shovels to Tyreese 's group when they go to bury Donna. Later, when Rick and the other group members arrive at The Prison, Beth runs up and kisses Rick on the cheek for saving Maggie's life. She then hold hands with Maggie as they walk to the prison.

After that, she gives Judith to Rick, and stated that she has Lori's eyes. Rick feels uneasy hearing the statement and feels headache as Judith's cries echo through the room and fill it with disturbance around his mind. Later on, Beth is walking with Judith and she comes up to Carol. Carol says that Judith reminds her of Sophia when she was still a baby. Beth told her that she always wanted a child.

They bond with each other while doing laundry. They also discuss the situation with Daryl, and Beth states that she is angered at Daryl for abandoning the group, also states that Merle sounds "like a jerk.

She and the others are present when Rick decides the fate of Tyreese's group. She and the others worry about the current state of Rick's mind. Beth is shown talking with the group in the beginning.

She believes that Woodbury won't attack because they had been scared off. After Glenn and Carl announced that the boiler room is infested with walkers, Beth and the others argues about the safety of the prison. Later on, Beth is seen holding Judith. Beth asked Maggie to hold Judith for a while as she wanted to make Hershel something to eat.

She sits down with Maggie and gives the baby to her. Beth instructs Maggie how to take care of Judith properly and held Maggie's hand. They smiled and Beth proceeds to make food for her father.

At the end of the episode, she is shown walking with Carl when The Governor attacks. Carl quickly protects her by leading her to a table for cover, where she hides behind Carl. While the Woodbury soldiers reload, she and Carl run behind a wall for cover. Maggie runs to hand her and Carl guns. Carol then runs to them and Beth hands a gun to her. Beth and Maggie were relieved when Hershel made it out alive and the group glanced with distraught at the prison field, now overrun by walkers.

Beth is seen along with the rest of the group when they discuss the Woodbury situation. Beth stops Maggie when she lashes out at Merle, wanting the group to come to a decision rather than assigning blame. When Andrea arrives at the prison Beth is seen along with the others running out to protect the prison then Beth is not present until near the end of the episode when Andrea leaves the group, as she is taking care of Judith or possibly keeping watch.

Beth is seen with a gun protecting the prison along with the others. Later that night, Beth sings the Tom Waits song, "Hold On", by the candlelight while the rest of the group listens on. Beth stayed at the prison as she is waiting for Rick, Daryl, and Hershel to come back from their negotiation with The Governor. She is later seen helping put extra ammo around the prison. When Glenn and Merle are fighting, Beth shoots into the air to stop the fight between Merle and Glenn and glare at them without saying anything.

She is later seen listening to Rick's briefing about the meeting between him and The Governor. Beth is seen helping the other survivors by driving them back up to cell block after they set up traps ready for the attack in the field. She is later seen praying with Hershel and Maggie.

When Hershel stopped praying, she asked her father if he's okay and he replied that he would do anything to keep her and Maggie safe. She is seen at the end of the episode listening to Rick's speech about how they are all equal. Beth is seen at the beginning of the episode loading clothes and other belongings into a car for the prison survivors to leave. She and Carl load a bag into the back of the car garage hastily, and she gives him a confused look as to why he's throwing a tantrum. Later, during the attack, she is with Hershel and Carl in a forest close by the prison.

Together, they hide and wait. However, Lew revealed that his canned serial killer storyline would have seen Axel lure Beth out into the woods and brutally murder her, two seasons prior to her actual on-screen exit. Related: Walking Dead spin-off World Beyond finally gets update on premiere date. That was why I kept buttoned up [in costume], he was gonna come undone and be totally Henry Rollins tattooed. Digital Spy now has a newsletter — sign up to get it sent straight to your inbox. Looking for more TV recommendations and discussion?

Head over to our Facebook Group to see new picks every day, and chat with other readers about what they're watching right now. Type keyword s to search. Rick Grimes and the rest of the survivors took refuge on the Greene family farm. Beth wasn't mentally equipped for the post-apocalyptic world, nearly committing suicide after coming face to face with walkers. In time, she found the courage to carry on and became a vital member of the group.

Beth was present when the group relocated to the abandoned prison and emerged as a primary caregiver for baby Judith as well as Hershel when his leg was amputated. Related: Where's Heath?

When the Governor killed her father and led an attack on the prison, the survivors split into groups when they fled the area. Beth and Daryl Dixon stuck together on the trek. Whereas she forced Daryl to open himself up emotionally, he taught Beth how to defend herself. It was no question that the two bonded but before they could reunite with the others, Beth was kidnapped by a mysterious group.

In season 5, it was revealed that Beth was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital by a group of police officers.