Alexandria Safe-Zone

Alexandria Safe-Zone
Created by	Robert Kirkman Charlie Adlard Cliff Rathburn
Type	Walled community
Ruler	TV: Aaron (current) Gabriel Stokes (formerly) Michonne (formerly) Rick Grimes (formerly) Deanna Monroe (formerly) Comics: Magna Rick Grimes (formerly) Douglas Monroe (formerly) Alexander Davidson (formerly)
Notable locations	Alexandria, Virginia Washington, D.C.

The Alexandria Safe Zone is a location in the Image Comics series The Walking Dead, as well as a location in the AMC television series of the same name.

Comic book series

In The Walking Dead comic book series, The Alexandria Safe-Zone, or just Alexandria, is a few blocks of cleared streets in Alexandria, Virginia, about six miles from Washington, D.C. When Rick Grimes' survivor group arrived, Douglas Monroe stated that the community had existed for less than a year. To date, this is the longest lasting location the survivors have lived in, with a lifespan of almost three years. In the war against Negan, Alexandria suffered considerable damage and was overrun and temporarily abandoned. After the war's end, the survivors came back to Alexandria and started to rebuild it. Two years after the war, Alexandria was completely rebuilt and has been vastly improved, with the addition of new houses, crops and orchards.

Inhabitants

• Magna (de facto leader of the community/soldier)
• Eugene Porter (head of ammunition)
• Heath (soldier)
• Mikey (student/delivery boy)
• Annie (farmhand/soldier)
• Julia (seamstress)
• Vincent (soldier)
• Yumiko (soldier)
• Kelly (soldier)
• Connie (soldier)
• Siddiq (builder)
• Marco (soldier)
• Laura (soldier)
• Barbara
• Anna
• Carlos (lookout)
• Paul
• Tanya
• Aiko
• David
• Wesley
• Delbert
• Nathaniel
• Alex Cooper
• Annie's father

Dead residents

• Rick Grimes (Former Leader of the community)
• Dwight (former leader of the military)
• Paula
• Andrea Grimes (former lookout)
• Gabriel Stokes (former priest)
• Kershaw
• Rosita Espinosa
• Luke
• Erin
• Josh
• Olivia (former armory/inventory manager)
• Nicholas
• Denise Cloyd (former community doctor)
• John
• Charles
• Mr. Orson
• Mrs. Orson
• Betsy
• Holly (former construction worker)
• Eric (former recruiter)
• Spencer Monroe
• Glenn
• Abraham Ford (former foreman)
• Douglas Monroe (former leader of the community)
• Jessie Anderson
• Ron Anderson
• Morgan Jones
• Tobin (former foreman)
• Bruce (former construction worker)
• Peter Anderson (former community doctor)
• Regina Monroe
• Scott (former supply runner)
• Beth
• Barnes
• Richards
• Jessica
• Carter

Former residents

• Maggie Greene
• Sophia Grimes
• Carl Grimes
• Aaron (former recruiter)
• Paul Monroe
• Michonne Hawthorne
• Juanita Sanchez
• Darius (former lookout)
• Alexander Davidson (former leader of the community)

Television series

In The Walking Dead television series, the Alexandria Safe-Zone appears in the fifth season and is led by Deanna Monroe (a female adaptation and counterpart of the comic book series' Douglas Monroe). The Safe-Zone was created after refugees were directed there during the initial outbreak. Rick Grimes and his group find this safe haven after they encounter Aaron, whose job is to recruit new residents in order to make Alexandria stronger. At first, Rick's group is apprehensive upon arrival due to the many horrific things they have witnessed during their long sojourn outside The Safe-Zone's walls. After some time, however, the group appears to sink in and feel more comfortable in this new environment, with the exception of Daryl Dixon and Sasha, who are struggling after the recent losses of Beth Greene, Tyreese, and Bob. Rick and his group think that settling into this place will make them weak, and that the Alexandrians are already weak and do not know what they are doing. Rick plans to change this. He says, "If they can't make it, then we'll just take this place".

Rick, Daryl, and Carol devise a plan to get weapons from the armory and slip out with the others, unbeknownst to the rest of the group, who are feeling comfortable in Alexandria. The three take advantage of the naivete of Alexandria's people to the extent of the dangers surrounding them, and use this to sneak out their weapons. After finalizing a plan, the three behave as normal residents. Eventually, Rick gets into a fight with an abusive surgeon named Pete Anderson after finding out he has abused his wife, Jessie, and ends up pointing a .38 Colt Detective Special revolver at some of the Alexandrians. Rick is thrown in jail, for a "cooling-off" period, and Pete is forced to live separately from his family. The people of Alexandria hold a forum to decide what to do with Rick, with Deanna leaning toward banishment, but after Pete shows up and murders Deanna's husband, during Pete's attempt to assassinate Rick, Deanna orders Rick to execute Pete and decides that Rick should stay. Rick's group ends up staying and more closely integrating with Alexandria and its residents.

In the sixth season, Rick is now the co-leader of Alexandria alongside Deanna and starts to take precautions to keep the community safe. Alexandria is soon attacked by "The Wolves", leaving many of its residents dead or emotionally harmed, but makes some of its residents stronger, learning that "If you don't fight, you die." This is closely followed by a herd that is led to the walls of Alexandria on a mission to get the herd away that had gone wrong. Inside, the residents are panicked, but Rick assures them that the walls will stay up. However, after a while, the church tower falls down due to damage inflicted on it during the Wolves' attack and crashes through the wall, letting walkers swarm in. Rick and the group along with Deanna, Jessie, and her family seek refuge in the houses, but are forced to leave after they too are overrun. Deanna was bit when the walkers came through, and stays behind. Rather than committing suicide, she opts to use her remaining bullets to take out several walkers, giving the others a better chance at escaping. They attempt to leave Alexandria through camouflaging themselves in walker guts but their plan comes unstuck when Sam (Jessie's youngest son) panics and, by drawing attention to the group, is consumed alongside his mother. The last of the Anderson children aims his gun at Rick but is killed by Michonne before he fires, but as he dies accidentally shoots Carl in his right eye, wounding him terribly. Rick, Carl and Michonne make it to the infirmary where Carl is given emergency treatment. Consumed by rage Rick exits the surgery and begins slaughtering walkers and is joined by most of the rest of the town. After the horde is defeated, the townspeople build up the town and form a relationship with the Hilltop Colony and come into conflict with the Saviors.

In the seventh season, Alexandria falls under the control of Negan and the Saviors who confiscate all of the community's weapons and destroy all of their mattresses. After the escape of Daryl Dixon from the Sanctuary and the murders of Spencer Monroe and Olivia, the residents start fighting back again, forging an alliance with the Hilltop, the Kingdom, Oceanside and the Scavengers. In addition, several of the main characters leave Alexandria and settle at the Hilltop and the Kingdom instead. In the season finale, the Saviors launch an attack on Alexandria with the help of the defecting Scavengers, but the attack is pushed back with the help of reinforcements from the Hilltop and the Kingdom.

In the eighth season, many of the residents join the Militia in fighting the Saviors. However, after the Saviors block out of the Militia's blockade, they assault the communities, bombing Alexandria and destroying much of the safe-zone. With the help of a distraction by Dwight, most of the residents evacuate into the sewers while making the Saviors think that they fled into the woods. On Dwight's suggestion, the residents remain in the sewers until the bombing is over and then evacuate through a swamp to the Hilltop for safety. As Carl Grimes was earlier bitten and is dying, Rick and Michonne remain behind in the devastated town with him as Carl dies. After burying Carl, Rick and Michonne leave as walkers, drawn by the bombing, start to overrun Alexandria. Despite this, in the season finale, Alexandria's residents return following the defeat of the Saviors and rebuild their town. A captured Negan is imprisoned in Alexandria rather than being killed.

In the ninth season, Alexandria has been fully rebuilt and is thriving under the leadership of Rick who tries to lead the communities into a new era of peace. After the supposed death of Rick and the eventual fall of the Sanctuary, Alexandria becomes home to several former Saviors and is now led by a governing council headed by Gabriel Stokes and with Michonne having a veto power as the head of security. It is also thriving more than ever and has been greatly built up over time. Flashbacks reveal that a hostile group led by Michonne's old friend Joycelyn kidnapped the town's children before Michonne and Daryl rescued them. As a result, Alexandria has developed a more isolationist mentality and is largely estranged from the other communities although Aaron works with Jesus to keep some relations open in secret. Judith Grimes brings in a group of survivors led by Magna who Michonne refuses to let stay, but eventually relents and leads them to the Hilltop instead. During this time, Negan has remained imprisoned with Gabriel working to try to rehabilitate him. A new threat known as the Whisperers starts to draw the communities back together while Negan eventually escapes, but willingly chooses to return to his imprisonment rather than be alone. Michonne eventually relents and allows the council to send a delegation to the Kingdom's trade fair after being reminded of their close ties by Judith. The council agrees to grant Lydia, the daughter of the Whisperer leader Alpha, asylum in Alexandria and the communities sign a charter that Michonne had been creating before Rick's disappearance tying them together once more. However, Alpha infiltrates the trade fair, kidnaps several people and massacres them. Using the threat of a horde of tens of thousands of walkers, Alpha establishes a border that the communities cannot cross without drawing her wrath. Months later, the Kingdom falls to old age and Alexandria helps to evacuate the residents to the Hilltop during a massive blizzard. During the same blizzard, Negan risks his own life to save Judith after she runs off in search of Daryl's dog. Once the blizzard is over, several residents of the Kingdom move to Alexandria including Carol, Daryl and Lydia.

In the tenth season, Alexandria and the other communities struggle under the threat of the Whisperers while training to fight back against them. Alexandria faces repeated walker attacks over a several day period and a cholera outbreak that is caused by the Whisperer third-in-command Mary, also known as Gamma, contaminating their water supply while a Whisperer spy inside of the community spray paints "Silence the Whisperers" graffiti, stokes paranoia and sabotages the water filters so that the contaminated water can get to the residents. During a fight with a group of bullies to protect Lydia, Negan accidentally kills Margo, the leader of the Highwaymen who settled in Alexandria following the fall of the Kingdom. Negan then mysteriously escapes and eventually joins the Whisperers. After leaving with a new survivor, Virgil, in search of weapons, Michonne discovers a clue to the possible location of Rick and sets out in search of him. Siddiq eventually discovers that the new community doctor, Dante, is actually the Whisperer spy and is murdered by Dante to cover up the secret. Captured, Dante is eventually killed by Gabriel for his crimes. Shortly thereafter, Beta infiltrates the community in search of the defecting Mary using a hidden tunnel established by Dante. Beta kills several residents, including councilmember and former Savior Laura, after the other Whisperers draw many of the armed defenders away, but Beta is drawn out of Alexandria by Mary and he is forced to flee empty-handed by the returning defenders. The Hilltop falls to a massive Whisperer attack, but Alpha is assassinated by Negan who was in fact released by the vengeful Carol and infiltrated the Whisperers. After taking over, Beta leads the Whisperer horde to Alexandria, only to find it abandoned by the residents save for Aaron and Alden who are secretly observing from the windmill, the surviving communities having evacuated to an abandoned hospital that they had dubbed the Tower. Following the final defeat of the Whisperers, the residents return to Alexandria, accompanied by Maggie and her group, only to find that the Whisperers had burned the wall and destroyed the community's crops before leaving, forcing the residents, now joined by many of the Hilltop survivors, to scramble to find food. With tensions rising between Negan and Maggie, Carol banishes Negan from Alexandria, but he subsequently chooses to return to stay for good despite the threat of Maggie killing him if Negan remains.

In the eleventh season, Alexandria is struggling with the residents facing possible starvation due to the damage that the Whisperers' had caused to their food supply. The damaged wall also results in herds occasionally getting in and causing chaos. A mission to Fort Connors retrieves enough MREs to buy the community some time, but not much. As a result, Maggie, Negan, Daryl, Gabriel, Alden and several other residents launch a mission to Maggie's old village of Meridian in order to reclaim it and its supplies from the Reapers. However, most of the team are killed in a Reaper ambush while the remainder struggle to defeat their military-trained enemies. At the same time, another team returns to the ruins of the Hilltop in an attempt to recover some blacksmithing supplies to try to repair the damaged wall. There, they learn that a few Whisperers had survived and are trying to make a living in the ruins. Their leader, Keith, directs the group to where they had recently seen the missing Connie, allowing her friends to rescue Connie and Virgil who returns to Alexandria with them. Shortly after their return, a massive storm strikes Alexandria, blowing down a part of the damaged wall and causing a herd to invade the community who desperately tries to deal with the walkers while also weathering the storm at the same time. Despite the dangers, the community manages to eliminate the herd and put out the fire without suffering any loses. Shortly thereafter, the surviving members of Maggie's team return with the food from Meridian and Eugene arrives with Lance Hornsby and the Commonwealth. A number of Alexandria's residents move to the Commonwealth or join Maggie in rebuilding the Hilltop. As part of their new alliance, the Commonwealth provides Alexandria with much needed resources and aids the community in rebuilding.

Inhabitants

• Aaron (Leader/Head Councilmember)
• Kyle (Councilmember)
• Gracie
• Barbara (Babysitter)
• Scott (Supply Runner)
• Adam Sutton
• Virgil
• Vincent
• Kim
• Nora (Councilmember)
• Alice
• Mrs. Robinson
• Marcus
• Jonah
• Jen
• Wayne
• Bill
• Andy
• Donna

Dead residents

• Frost
• Agatha
• Duncan
• Cole
• Gage (Soldier)
• Laura (Councilmember/Prison Guard)
• Alfred
• Siddiq (Community Doctor/Councilmember)
• Cheryl
• Margo
• Frankie
• D.J. (Former Guard)
• Russ (Former Guard)
• Bob Miller
• Carl Grimes
• Kent
• Anna
• Mikey
• Eric Raleigh (Former Recruiter)
• Francine (Former Construction Worker)
• Olivia (Former Inventory Manager)
• Spencer Monroe (Former Lookout)
• Glenn Rhee (Former Supply Runner)
• Abraham Ford (Former Construction Foreman)
• Denise Cloyd (Former Community Doctor)
• Ron Anderson
• Jessie Anderson (Former Pantry Worker)
• Sam Anderson
• Deanna Monroe (Former Leader)
• Pascal
• Ted
• Lucy
• Maya
• Nicholas (Former Supply Runner)
• David
• Tommy (Former Construction Worker)
• Annie (Former Supply Runner)
• Betsy
• Will (Former Supply Runner)
• Sturgess (Former Gardener)
• Barnes
• Stacy
• Bobby (Former Guard)
• Michael
• Holly (Former Gate Duty)
• Erin
• Samantha
• Jeffery
• Dinesh
• Dan
• Charlyne
• O'Hara
• Adrian
• Richards (Former Guard)
• Park
• Natalie Miller
• Shelly Neudermeyer
• Carter (Former Construction Worker)
• Pete Anderson (Former Community Doctor)
• Reg Monroe (Former Community Architect)
• Noah (Former Supply Runner)
• Aiden Monroe (Former Supply Runner)
• Carter Dilley
• Jeremy Freeborn
• Alvin Jerry
• Annabel Culver
• Brian Struzan
• Kim Myso
• Jessica Molla
• Elizabeth Browne
• Lucy Wong
• Bruce (Former Construction Worker)
• Tobin (Former Construction Foreman)

Former Residents

• Daryl Dixon
• Judith Grimes
• R.J. Grimes
• Rosita Espinosa
• Socorro Espinosa
• Carol Peletier
• Gabriel Stokes (Former Priest/Head Councilmember/De-Facto Leader)
• Magna
• Connie
• Kelly
• Jerry (Former Soldier)
• Nabila
• Ezra
• Aliyah
• Mariam
• Maggie Rhee (Former Govern Assistant)
• Hershel Rhee
• Elijah
• Dianne (Former Soldier)
• Lydia
• Negan Smith (Former Janitor/Supply Runner)
• Michonne Hawthorne (Former Leader/Head of Security/Councilmember)
• Eugene Porter (Former Engineer)
• Rick Grimes (Former Leader)
• Morgan Jones
• Heath (Former Supply Runner)

Dead

• Davidson
• Dante (Former Doctor)
• Brandon (Former Prison Guard)
• Tara Chambler (Former Supply Runner)
• Enid
• Sasha Williams (Former Guard)

Development and reception

In a review of the fifth-season episode "Remember", in which Alexandria first appeared on the TV series, Tim Surette of TV.com noted that "Alexandria is no Woodbury, and that's a good thing, because we certainly don't need a repeat of that storyline. Not only Andrea is no longer around to screw things up with her love for bad boys, but overall, Alexandria appears to have its shit together much more than Woodbury ever did. That difference is important, because 'Remember' approached the idea of joining a new civilization in a much better way, by focusing on the survivors' psyches after a hot shower rather than just presenting them with the mere prospect of safety." Surette concluded that "A return to normalcy is Alexandria's biggest selling point, and it's hard for Deanna to imagine anyone turning that down". Rebecca Hawkes of The Daily Telegraph described Alexandria as "brilliantly realised, with houses that would have been luxurious by any standards, let alone post-apocalyptic ones, and a veneer of all-American suburban 'normality' that rendered the entire place somewhat surreal."

In a review of the next episode "Forget", Sean McKenna for TV Fanatic felt that Sasha's outburst at the complacent townspeople shows that "Alexandria really seems like a surreal fantasy." McKenna added that "the sort-of dreamlike atmosphere that surrounds the walled-in town and the survivors figuring out how to live there (and still hold onto their outside skills) has been intriguing."

In reviewing the fifth season finale "Conquer", Jason Hughes of TheWrap commented that before the attack by the Wolves, "Alexandria has been an oasis of innocence isolated from this dark and twisted world, but it's an innocence that has not yet been tested." Erik Kain for Forbes commented that after the attack by the Wolves, "we're left with an Alexandria Safe Zone that doesn't feel that safe, with its numbers much diminished, but at least maybe now the inhabitants are awake to the real threat---and to the value of Rick and his crew."

In reviewing the season six mid-season finale "Start to Finish", Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club comments that as the walls fell and a horde of walkers pours in, "Alexandria is most likely dead. Which should be a shame, because this is a town that offered the promise of a fresh start, a hope for the future, but then, that's kind of what this show is all about, really."

References

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