| “ | Everything I have done, everything I've built... was so that nothing like what happened to me would ever happen to you. (...) I thought not knowing would protect you, the same way I thought Lawton would. The ugliness of this would, I tried to turn you away from it. To give you a different world to see. But what that took, that was ugly. I just saw it as work, as what I had to do. I've always loved you. I have always loved you, and I think I've found a way to give you a second chance that you deserve in the place you deserve, but you have to want it. You're gonna have to work for it, do you hear me? | „ |
| ~ Virginia to her daughter, Dakota. |
Virginia is the main antagonist of the second half of Season 5 and the first half of Season 6 of AMC's Fear The Walking Dead.
Virginia is the leader of the Pioneers, a collection of survivor communities who employs brutal methods to unite her people behind her, killing anyone who is of no use to her or refuses to join her. Virginia is behind Logan and his crew's search for Tank Town, murdering them once they succeed and taking the oil fields for herself. Virginia then doggedly pursues Morgan's group with the intention of forcing them to join her, ultimately succeeding and attempting to kill Morgan himself which failed. However, Virginia would then face threats from the inside and the outside from Morgan's group and a doomsday cult which targets the Pioneers and other survivor groups for extinction. After the revelation of how far she went to protect her daughter Dakota, Virginia was ousted from her position and was later executed in revenge by June Dorie for Dakota's murder of her husband John.
She is portrayed by Colby Minifie who also portrayed Ashley Barrett in The Boys.
Biography[]
Past[]
When she was young, Virginia gets pregnant with her daughter Dakota, but her embarrassed parents force Virginia to hide the truth from Dakota whom they instead raise as Virginia's sister.
As an adult, Virginia becomes a corporate efficiency expert whose job is to assess what is redundant in a company and to eliminate jobs that aren't necessary.
When the apocalypse begins, Virginia kills her parents, she later claims because they failed to protect Dakota from the world. Virginia goes to become the leader of a survivor organization known as the Pioneers, uniting hundreds of survivors in at least two states under her leadership. However, Virginia is a particularly brutal leader, killing anyone that refuses to join her or whom she no longer needs. One example is when the survivors at one of the Humbug's Gulch pioneer towns refuse to join her, Virginia slaughters them all, over two hundred people, leaving Humbug's Gulch effectively destroyed and filled with the zombies of the people that she had killed. At least one group of people, the Outcasts, form to rebel against Virginia, made up of the people that she has rejected from her communities but has not killed.
Hunting for Tank Town[]
Virginia comes upon Logan at a time when he has become suicidal and offers to let him join the Pioneers in exchange for Logan finding her Tank Town, the oil fields established by Logan's former partner Clayton which would provide Virginia, whose people are forced to ride horses, with a source of gasoline for her vehicles. Logan's pursuit of Tank Town brings him into conflict with Morgan Jones and his group who had taken over Clayton's base of operations and came into ownership of his journals following Clayton's death. After learning of Tank Town's existence from Logan himself, Morgan's caravan take over control of it for their own use, but are continually chased by Logan.
Eventually, Logan locates and takes over Tank Town, but the threat of a herd and a fire force his people to work together with Morgan's people. The combined effort reinvigorates Logan's old spirit of helping and he prepares to work with them. Witnessing this and no longer needing Logan, Virginia has her people kill Logan and his men and announces herself directly to Morgan. Having the high ground, Virginia demands to be shown how to make gas, threatening to kill them as well if they refuse. Finally, Luciana Galvez makes a deal with Virginia where she stays behind to teach the Pioneers and Virginia lets everyone else go with a tanker of gasoline.
Chasing Morgan's group[]
Now in possession of gasoline, Virginia and her Pioneers are able to move around much more easily and she soon turns her attention to bringing Morgan's group into the fold. While on a mission, Morgan and Al meets Tom, the former leader of the Paradise Ridge settlement who was forced out by Virginia. At Tom's request, the two travel to Paradise Ridge in search of Tom's missing sister Janis, but discover that she was able to escape after killing the man sent to kill her. After tangling with the now-zombified Pioneer and seeing a map of Virginia's various settlements, Morgan and Al are captured by Virginia who attempts to sell them on joining her, but they refuse. Virginia chooses to release them and even has a woodworker amongst her settlements repair Morgan's broken staff, but she is obviously upset by her failure to peacefully convince them.
Shortly thereafter, Virginia starts spreading a propaganda video that she had shot with Al's video camera selling people on her vision of the future. To counter this, Morgan and his caravan work to record their own video with Tom, who was reunited with Janis after she was rescued by Wes, dedicating himself to the effort in particular. As the caravan is about to cross a bridge, Virginia arrives with her men and again presses them to join her. When they refuse, Virginia summons a herd and takes off, resulting in the loss of Tom and the gasoline tanker when the bridge collapses. Forced to abandon their vehicles, the survivors make their way to Humbug's Gulch where they intend to settle, only to find it destroyed. With no other choice, Morgan contacts Virginia for help.
Morgan and his group plot to turn the herd against Virginia when she arrives, but are forced to send it down water rapids instead, discovering the Pioneers role in the town's fall from undead Pioneers amongst the walkers. With no form of defense left, Morgan's group enjoys the wedding of June and John Dorie before Virginia arrives and begins separating them amongst her various communities. Once everyone else is gone, Virginia reveals her intention to kill Morgan due to the amount of influence he has. After a brief struggle, Virginia disarms Morgan and shoots him in the left shoulder, but her gun fails to fire a second time. After a moment, Virginia decides against killing Morgan, telling him that she hopes he dies, but that is no longer the point. With a small herd approaching, Virginia takes off, abandoning Morgan to die.
Escalating Troubles[]
Six weeks later, Virginia hires bounty hunter Emile LaRoux to hunt down Morgan and to kill him if he's still alive. Although Morgan has survived due to an unknown survivor rescuing him following his shooting, he is left with a gangrenous wound and is slowly dying. Morgan and Isaac, one of Virginia's former Rangers who had taken off on his own with his heavily-pregnant wife, are chased by Emile to the potential new home that Isaac has discovered behind a former dam. Morgan ultimately kills Emile, decapitating the bounty hunter with his own battle axe and leaving his reanimated head in a box marked "Morgan Jones" for Virginia to find. Upon seeing this, Virginia threatens over the radio to kill all of Morgan's friends if he reveals his survival to them. His wound having been properly tended to by Isaac before his death from a walker bite, Morgan warns Virginia that "Morgan Jones is dead. And you are dealing with somebody else now."
Soon after, Dakota runs away and Virginia sends Alicia Clark, Victor Strand and Janis to find her, resulting in the deaths of several people, but the successful rescue of Dakota. Virginia reveals that she is building an army to fight against a threat that she refuses to identify and she needs them to be ready for a big fight that is coming. While on a scouting mission for Virginia, Dwight and Al find an office building infected with the bubonic plague by a mysterious doomsday cult, the threat that Virginia is preparing for and meet the Outcasts who attempt to set a trap for Virginia using the survivors that Dwight and Al had found. The trap fails, partially because Virginia fails to show up herself and partially because Dwight keeps his estranged wife Sherry from attacking. Reunited with Morgan, Dwight and Al successfully fake their own deaths and take the survivors that they had found to the community that Morgan is building rather than to Virginia.
Following the murder of the Ranger Cameron in Virginia's home base of Lawton, Oklahoma, John Dorie insists upon investigating with Dakota supporting him in undermining Virginia's authority. Virginia focuses the investigation upon Janis, who was Cameron's girlfriend, and John becomes convinced that Virginia is covering up for someone. However, Janis eventually falsely confesses and Virginia has her executed by setting Janis up to be devoured by walkers. Virginia promotes an increasingly-depressed John who begins plotting to run away and return to his isolated cabin in Texas while Victor Strand apparently becomes one of Virginia's loyalists.
At the Logging Camp, one of her settlements, Virginia and her men catch Paige, a spy for the doomsday cult, preparing to spray paint the group's "The End is the Beginning" message upon several trees. Paige ultimately commits suicide rather than answer any questions and shortly thereafter, a new well explodes at Tank Town placing the entire operation in danger. Virginia leads a force to try to save Tank Town from destruction, torturing Wes for answers after discovering that someone had painted "The End is the Beginning" in Tank Town and that Wes is a painter. During the conflict, Virginia is bitten in the right hand and is left at the mercy of June Dorie who considers killing her. Virginia convinces June that there is a greater danger, promising to explain about it to her and that everything Virginia is doing is for Dakota. June chooses to amputate Virginia's hand rather than killing her, preventing the further spread of the walker infection. Unfortunately, Tank Town is destroyed, leaving everyone without a further source of fuel. With Virginia promising to build her a real hospital, June refuses to leave the Pioneers and John sadly departs on his own.
Concerned about Dakota's safety, Virginia sends some of her men to take her to a safehouse, only to have them all be killed by Morgan and Dakota disappears. Dakota makes her way to a nearby hunting lodge where she reunites with Alicia Clark and Charlie and becomes embroiled in a conflict with the lodge's owner, Ed. Morgan eventually rescues the group and agrees to allow Dakota to join them after she reveals that Virginia had murdered their parents. Strand locates them and refuses to join the group, but allows them to leave. Furious with her recent setbacks, Virginia reveals that she has Morgan's pregnant love interest Grace secretly imprisoned and demands that all of the people that she had taken from Humbug's Gulch be recovered.
Open Conflict[]
Virginia has her Pioneers openly hunt for her missing former captives, separating Morgan and Dakota from Alicia and Charlie. Chased by a herd, Morgan and Charlie flee across a bridge upon which they barricade the herd and become trapped in a nearby general store by a few walkers, Morgan's gunshot wound having reopened in the process. Luckily for the pair, the bridge and the store are located close to John Dorie's cabin and with walkers washing up there, he investigates and rescues his friends. One of Virginia's Rangers, Marcus, finds the store, but John refuses to kill him. Although Marcus is initially about to leave empty-handed, he spots John's signed movie reviews on a clipboard nearby and alerts Ranger Hill of his discovery. The three return to John's cabin where he refuses to join them, only to have Virginia call Morgan over the radio. Virginia gets Morgan's attention by putting Grace on and threatens to kill Grace and his friends if he doesn't turn Dakota back over to her. Shortly thereafter, Marcus locates the cabin and lassoes Morgan, but John kills Marcus to save his friend.
Intending to confront Virginia directly, Morgan, John and Dakota fight their way through the herd on the bridge, the only way north and Morgan contacts Virginia and sets up a meeting at John's cabin, both to face her and to force John out of hiding. John informs Dakota that he intends to return alone and kill Virginia even if her Rangers kill him, having become suicidal in his depression. When Dakota puts down a walker, John discovers that her knife is the murder weapon for Cameron and he realizes that Virginia was actually protecting Dakota after she had murdered Cameron. Dakota, who hates Virginia, admits that she had murdered Cameron after he revealed her escape route from Lawton to Virginia, keeping Dakota from being able to get away again. Dakota shoots John in the chest with one of his own guns and shoves him off of the bridge into the river before revealing to Morgan that she was the one to save his life after Virginia shot him as Dakota believes that only Morgan can kill her. Desperate to save his friend, Morgan radios Virginia who has reached the cabin to have her search for John. As Virginia's Rangers search, John washes up outside of the cabin, but he has died and turned, forcing June to put him down. Morgan warns his friends to prepare for the likely war that is coming down upon their heads now.
With John dead, Virginia desperately attempts to contact Morgan over the radio and allows June to bury her husband. June recovers John's second gun and considers killing Virginia with it, but is stopped by Hill. June attempts to get answers from Virginia about why Dakota would murder John, but Virginia claims not to know which June doesn't believe.
Returning to Lawton, Virginia lines up Grace, June, Sarah, Daniel Salazar and Luciana, threatening to kill them one by one unless Morgan turns over Dakota. As she prepares to kill Grace, Morgan rides into Lawton and reveals that Virginia had covered up Dakota's murder of Cameron rather than dealing with the threat to their safety, something that goes against her own rules for the Pioneers. Morgan's efforts stir doubts in the surrounding people with Virginia attempting to remind them of the good things that she has done for them. Virginia demands that Strand kill Daniel, but he instead turns his gun on Virginia instead, agreeing that Morgan is right and that they will all end up like Cameron if they continue to follow Virginia. Strand reminds Virginia that she had him build an army, but never directed him who to use it against and several Pioneers join Strand in turning on Virginia and her loyalists. Strand shoot Virginia in the left shoulder and a gun battle between the two sides erupts with Virginia's loyalists heavily outnumbered. Taking Grace and Daniel hostage, Virginia has Hill take them to another location in order to have leverage over Morgan. Morgan captures Virginia, but is forced to flee with her in a van due to her possession of Daniel and Grace.
Morgan takes Virginia to his former hideout which had been destroyed by Emile LaRoux while he was hunting for Morgan under Virginia's orders. Morgan tends to Virginia's wounds and the two enemies have an relatively friendly conversation where they discuss Morgan building the hideout for Grace and her baby and Virginia admits that she hadn't gone through with killing him at Humbug's Gulch because Morgan reminded Virginia of herself in some small way. Spotting a map with their location marked on it, Virginia informs Hill of where they are, but has him stay put rather than attempt a rescue and allows Morgan to talk to Grace who confirms that she and Daniel have been left unharmed by Hill. Morgan reveals that it had Dakota who had saved his life after Virginia shot him, much to her disbelief as Virginia doesn't believe that Dakota could reach the Gulch after running away. Morgan presents Dakota's letter to him as proof with Virginia recognizing her handwriting. Virginia begins desperately begging to see Dakota, stating that she has something to tell Dakota that must be done in person, not over the radio. Virginia finally reveals the truth to Morgan that Dakota is actually her daughter and not her sister as she had previously claimed. Morgan questions if Virginia is telling the truth as knows that Morgan is a father, but Virginia insists that she wouldn't lie about it, convincing Morgan that she's telling the truth.
Their conversation is suddenly interrupted by the arrival of the Outcasts who had overheard Virginia informing Hill of their location. Fleeing, the pair's van is disabled, but Morgan takes down Sherry when she tries to kill Virginia and they manage to escape. Reaching Morgan's new community, Virginia is stunned by what Morgan has succeeded in building as well as to see Isaac's wife Rachel and Al and Dwight who had she had believed to be dead. Virginia is taken to an imprisoned Dakota where she finally reveals the truth to her angry daughter, insisting that everything she has done has been for Dakota. With the Outcasts and the Pioneers arriving and demanding that Virginia be turned over to them, Virginia offers Morgan a deal: she will have Hill return Daniel and Grace to Lawton in exchange for Morgan allowing Dakota to stay in his community and for Morgan himself to carry out her execution, knowing that Morgan will make it quick while everyone else will take their time. Morgan agrees and Virginia has Daniel and Grace returned before Morgan prepares to publicly execute Virginia by decapitation outside of his community. As Morgan swings his axe at her head, he remembers killing Emile and two of the doomsday cultists and stops at the last possible moment, sending Virginia back inside. Instead, Morgan convinces Strand and Sherry to banish Virginia and to force her to live with what she has done as a sign of the peace that he is trying to build. Morgan drives his axe into the ground and proclaims that it will remain there until the day that it is needed again, something that he hopes will never happen. Morgan then invites everyone that wants to live in peace to join his community with many of his friends doing so.
Death[]
The bullet is removed from Virginia's shoulder by June and Morgan explains to Virginia that he has spared her for the sake of Dakota who needs her mother, not the community. Morgan provides Virginia with a back way out so that she can avoid her former Rangers and she understands that if Morgan and his friends ever see her again, she will be killed. Virginia is thankful for the chance that she is being given and June remains behind to tend to Virginia's wound further as the others go to get Dakota for her.
Left alone, June reveals that she too had a daughter who had killed people, albeit after she had died of pneumonia and turned. June presses Virginia if she had known what Dakota was capable of after Cameron's murder and still protected Dakota and Virginia confirms it, firmly stating that everything she has done has been for her daughter. Becoming angry, June presses Virginia for why Dakota had murdered John and she believes that it was because of Virginia herself and Dakota's hatred for her mother. Stating that she hadn't protected her own daughter when she killed someone, June draws her husband's gun that Dakota had used to murder John and announces that Virginia is and always has been the reason for John's death. As Virginia pleads with June, June shoots Virginia in the head, killing her with the same gun that her husband had been murdered with. June departs as her friends are shocked by her actions and Dakota is horrified by her mother's execution despite her hatred for Virginia.
Legacy[]
Despite Virginia's defeat and subsequent death, the threat to the various communities was not ended. Strand warns Alicia that the enemy that Virginia was having him build an army against, the doomsday cult, is still out there and is a danger to everyone, a warning that soon proves to be true as they ramp up their attacks on survivor communities. As the threat increases, Dakota suggests that the Morgan's group search for them in Dallas, Texas as Virginia had stated that she'd believed that the cult had gone underground and as such, had been having her people search Dallas for them. Virginia's intuition in this matter proves to be correct as Alicia, Wes, Luciana and Al are able to locate their underground base in a parking garage in Dallas.
Victims[]
- Her Father
- Her Mother
- Logan (Caused or Direct)
- Doris (Caused or Direct)
- Tom (Caused)
- Morgan Jones (Shot and attempted to kill)
- Ridings (Caused)
- Jeb (Indirectly Caused)
- Janis (Caused)
- 4 unnamed members of Logan's Crew (Caused or Direct)
- 263 Humbug's Gulch survivors (Caused, Alive)
- Numerous Tumbleweed Sugar Producing Factory laborers (Caused)
- Numerous counts of zombies and unnamed people
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