Lizzie Samuels

"People kill people. But they still have names." -Lizzie to Carl Grimes after he admonishes her for naming walkers.

"I'm sorry for pointing my gun at you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry!

-Lizzie to Carol Peletier moments before Carol shoots her.

Lizzie Samuels is a survivor of the outbreak and later an antagonist in AMC's The Walking Dead. She is the daughter of Ryan and Ellen Samuels, the younger sister of Alexis Samuels and the older sister of Mika. After her father's death, Lizzie looks to Carol Peletier as a parental guardian. She served as the primary antagonist of the episode "The Grove".

Overview
Lizzie is seen to be a disturbed young girl, unable to completely come to terms with the world around her. Though she tries her hardest to be polite and altruistic, Lizzie nonetheless is prone to acts such as lashing out at people and torturing animals. She is often pessimistic, frequently assuming absent people (such as Daryl Dixon and Sasha Williams) to be dead. While Lizzie can also be seen exhibiting normal childlike happiness and playfulness, these moments quickly give way to her character's increasingly dark turn throughout the fourth season.

Lizzie's most notable quality is her obsession with the 'walkers'; she sees them as being "just different," and thus not a threat to humans. She shares an eerie connection with them, naming them, describing them as her "friends," and saying that she can "hear them" talking to her. Lizzie most likely is mentally ill in some capacity, as evidenced by the fact that Carol is aware of her coping mechanism (looking at the flowers when she's feeling upset). Interestingly, she seems to "flip-flop" her position on walkers; sometimes she recognizes that they're dangerous and attempts to keep herself and others away from them without hurting them, and other times she sees them as friends at best, harmless presences at worst. (She leans strongly towards the latter policy after her father's death and the downfall of the Prison.) In "Internment," Lizzie appeared to be fascinated with a pool of congealed blood for some reason. This was also a case where she had attempted to help by leading her reanimated mother away, but seemed stunned that she had tried to hurt her as she thought he was listening to her. In the end, Lizzie was a very disturbed girl, suffering from severe psychological problems. She showed no remorse or insight in killing Mika or the near killing of Judith. In another case, Lizzie appeared to consider suffocating Judith Grimes to stop her from crying and appeared to be in an almost trance-like state as she did it, not reacting at all to her sister's cries for help from directly behind her.

Jacksonville, Florida
Very little is known about Lizzie's life prior to or as the outbreak began, except that she has a father, Ryan, mother, Ellen, and two sisters, Alexis and Mika, and they lived in Jacksonville, Florida. She joined the community at the West Georgia Correctional Facility with her family sometime between the Season 3 finale and the Season 4 premiere.

"This Sorrowful Life"
Ryan, Alexis, Lizzie, and Mika were mentioned on a list of survivors Rick was reading. Later, a woman who is being eaten by a walker calls out for "Lizzie". This was Ellen Samuels, her mom.

"30 Days Without An Accident"
Lizzie is first seen in the prison courtyard, with other children, naming the walkers on the fence, when Carl Grimes and Patrick approach them and Carl says that they shouldn't name walkers because they are not people and because they kill people. Lizzie then argues that people also kill people and they still have names. She also brings up the fact that she herself has witnessed the turning process of her mother. Lizzie accompanied Mika, Patrick and the other children for storytime and Carol's lesson on knives and how to be safe with them. Lizzie then goes into a back room of the prison where Alexis was reading a book in a crate, and tells her that their mom is dead.

"Infected"
Lizzie is first seen running and shouting out of the prison, notifying others for help, as walkers have breached the cell block. She is later seen when Carol brings her and her sisters, Alexis and Mika, to speak with Ryan, their father, before he dies and he tells Alexis to look after Lizzie and Lizzie to look after her Mika, before passing away; causing the three girls to be saddened by the loss. At first, Lizzie wants to make sure that Ryan doesn't reanimate, but Carol ends up doing it herself, while Alexis and Mika try to calm Lizzie down. Later, Lizzie and Mika are at the fences, where Carol comes to talk with them and tells the two that Ryan asked her to look after them, before telling Lizzie that she is weak. Lizzie then runs off crying because Nick the walker has been killed. At some point after that, Carol comes to the two girls again and tells Lizzie how she has to be strong, before putting a flower in the girl's hair, while Lizzie takes Carol's knife and puts it in her belt.

"Isolation"
Lizzie comes over and tells Carol that she isn't feeling well. She asks if Carol can tuck her in, but Carol realizes that she might get infected herself. Heartbroken, Carol gives her a hug and sends her inside the cellblock to find Glenn Rhee, telling her that he can tuck her in instead. After closing the door, Carol tears off her mask and begins to cry.

"Indifference"
Lizzie appears briefly at the beginning of the episode, as Carol talks to her before departing on a run with Rick Grimes. Carol tells Lizzie that she has to be strong since she will be gone and Lizzie accidentally calls Carol "mom". Carol makes sure that Lizzie has her knife on her at easy reach. Carol tells her to do what she has to do if a tragedy occurs.

"Internment"
Lizzie is quarantined in Cell Block A with Luke. She saves Glenn by distracting the reanimated Ellen away from him by calling out to her and walking down the upper-level corridor. While luring Ellen, Lizzie trips and the walker falls on her, attempting to bite her, but Hershel saves her. Lizzie tells Hershel she called Ellen "nice" and she didn't scratch Glenn so she believed him harmless, and Lizzie tries to tell this even more because it is her mom. Hershel locks Lizzie in Luke's cell and lures the walkers away before killing them. As Hershel and Maggie treat Glenn, Lizzie approaches and asks if its over to which Maggie responds "I hope so." As Lizzie watches them, she purposefully rubs her boot in a pool of congealed blood.

"Too Far Gone"
Lizzie is shown to have made an almost-full recovery from the flu. When the prison assault begins, Lizzie tries to convince Mika, Molly, and Luke to be strong like Carol told them to, and not to be scared and weak. Later, she and her sister, Mika, gun down Alisha and another soldier, saving Tyreese Williams' life. They then run back to the prison at the sight of walkers, as the bus with the survivors left them behind, with Tyreese chasing after them telling them its the wrong way. They manage to escape, but Luke and Molly keep running into the prison, not appearing again.

"Inmates"
Lizzie is shown to be traveling with Tyreese, Mika, and Judith. Mika laments that she misses Carol and that she's afraid, and Lizzie tries to reassure her. During the episode, Lizzie displays some psychopathic behavior as shown when she mutilates a group of rabbits. When Tyreese leaves Mika, Lizzie, and Judith alone, Lizzie covers Judith's mouth to stop her crying and appears to be trying to smother her to death. Lizzie is so focused on the smothering that she doesn't hear Mika asking for help. Carol finds the girls and they meet up with Tyreese.

"The Grove"
Lizzie is seen talking with Carol and keeping watch, while Tyreese sleeps on the rails. Lizzie and Carol talk about Sophia, Carol's daughter. Carol then orders Lizzie to rest with Tyreese and Lizzie hugs Carol and tells her that she loves her. Lizzie stops Tyreese from killing a mutilated walker that is immobilized on the train tracks, telling him that she understands that they have to be killed sometimes, but sometimes they don't.

When the five of them stumble upon a pecan grove in the woods, Tyreese and Carol go inside to clear it out, and Lizzie sullenly realizes that they will kill any Walkers that are inside. Just then, a walker falls over a railing and begins crawling rapidly towards Lizzie. Unable to kill it, Lizzie freezes in fear with Judith in her arms. Carol shoots the walker in the head, saving their lives. Lizzie cries at the death of the walker, and Carol tells her to look at some nearby flowers and count to three, just as she had before Carol killed Ryan to prevent his reanimation at the prison.

Lizzie screams at Carol after she kills a walker that Lizzie was playing tag with, calling the walker her "friend" and even asking Carol, "How would you like it if I killed you?".

Later, Lizzie runs back to the walker that's trapped in the tracks and opens a box that contains a mouse. She picks it up by its tail and feeds it to the walker. As Mika runs up to her, she says that 'you will understand' and raises the hand to the walkers mouth in an attempt to reanimate into one. Before she can do so, a group of burned walkers begins to chase them. Mika grabs Lizzie and they run away together. The two scream, attracting the attention of Carol and Tyreese. Lizzie reluctantly kills a few of the walkers alongside Mika, Carol and Tyreese, until all of them are dead.

Later, she and Mika help Carol cook pecans. As Carol and Tyreese leave them, she stabs Mika in the chest in an attempt to show Carol and Tyreese that walkers aren't different. As Carol and Tyreese return, they see her with a bloody knife in her hand, Mika dead behind her and a guiltless look on her face. Lizzie explains that they will see that for themselves and Mika won't hurt them, and that she was just about to do the same to Judith. Fearing for Judith's life, Carol talks Lizzie into giving her gun to her and convinces her to allow Tyreese to take Mika away to reanimate, although her real intention is to prevent it.

After deciding with Tyreese on how to handle the situation, Carol later takes Lizzie away from the house to the grove. Along the way, Lizzie notices that Carol is upset and starts crying. Lizzie asks if Carol is mad at her for pointing her gun at Carol and Tyreese, pleading for Carol to not be mad at her. As she is crying, Carol tells Lizzie to look at the flowers. While she is, Carol takes her gun out and shoots her in the head. Tyreese and Carol then bury her in the yard of the house they were staying in. Tyreese and Carol leave yellow flowers on the graves and Carol mourns the loss of both Lizzie and Mika.

Death

 * Killed By
 * Carol Peletier

After realizing that no one is safe around Lizzie due to her inability to perceive the difference between the living and the dead, Carol takes Lizzie out under the ruse of picking flowers for her sister Mika.

Lizzie begins to cry, believing Carol is mad at her for pointing a gun at her earlier. In order to calm her down, an emotional distraught Carol tells her to "look at the flowers", then lifts her gun and fires a fatal shot into the back of Lizzie's head, killing her.

Coda
Beth saw Lizzie standing behind Dawn as Lizzie told her "Don't worry, it'll be quick". Seconds later, Dawn shot Beth in the head, killing her almost instantly.

What Happened and What's Going On
Lizzie, along with her sister, appears during a hallucination of Tyreese assuring him that "It's better now". Lizzie reappears with Mika after Tyreese has been bitten, now with their wounds (Mika with stabbing wounds and Lizzie with a gun shot wound). Finally, during the car journey at the end of the episode, Lizzie along with Mika, Bob, and Beth appear smiling and reassuring him that everything is going to be okay.

Spend
As Noah was being eaten alive by walkers, Lizzie, Beth, Mika, Sophia, Summer, and Noah's brother's ghosts appeared in front of him trying to reassure him it would be okay.

No Way Out
Lizzie appeared next to Sam and Jessie as they walked through the horde, but only Sam saw her. Lizzie told Sam "Don't worry, you'll be gone soon. You won't have to face The Saviors."

The Day Will Come When You Won't Be
Lizzie, Mika, Sophia, Beth, Summer, and Sam spoke to Glenn and Abraham as they were beaten do death with Negan's baseball bat, telling them it was over now.

What Comes After
When Rick sees a pile of bodies, Lizzie is among them.

When Rick is about to blow up the bridge, a hallucination of all his friends says "good luck" before disappearing as the bridge explodes. This is the last appearance of Ghost Lizzie.

Ghosts
Lizzie, Mika, Sophia, Sam, and Summer appear on a cookbook Carol was looking at. The next thing she knew, it was gone and just a hallucination.

Lizzie did not appear again, not even at the death of Carol. As stated by Brighton Sharbino, she said:

"A ghost can only appear for so long before it's soul is dragged to the netherworld. Lizzie's spirit was fading and Carol didn't leave a sugar skull offering. Don't bring her back--she's in the netherworld. Bring Sam back though. He died a full two seasons after Lizzie."