uses her transmitter to call others to her in order to help them clear out the oncoming horde of radioactive walkers. However, her illness gets the best of her and she faints. Strand rescues her and she is reunited with her group just before the herd reaches the tower, while he stays behind. As Alicia's group prepares to the leave the fallout area via rafts, Alicia hallucinates the young girl again. The girl claims she knows the location of PADRE, but that she needs to find her "friend" before she goes there. With the help of her friends, Alicia clears out the walkers surrounding the entrance to the tower, but resolves to enter the burning building on her own. She finds Strand inebriated on the top floor, and they talk about their failures and hopes. Alicia is about to shoot herself with her only bullet before her hallucination saves her from doing so. She realizes that the girl she has been hallucinating is a younger version of herself and a manifestation of her own subconscious. Alicia rescues Strand, whom she considers family, and they head back to her group at the beach. Unwilling to risk putting them in danger when she succumbs to her illness, Alicia elects to stay behind while the others escape in the rafts. After saying goodbye to them, she stays alone on the beach and collapses. Alicia is then shown awaken and healthy at the beach. She speaks to her unconscious manifestation of her younger self, telling her she finally feels like herself. She decides to go find the people who heard her broadcast message and are on their way to the burning tower, and redirect them to safety. She puts on her gas mask and makes her way there. A lone walker approaches her and she uses her last bullet on it. Development At the start of the series, Alicia is an "ambitious teen and model student" who is wanting to leave home to get away from her dysfunctional family and start college. Co-creator Robert Kirkman described Alicia an "atypical teenager", excelling at school and being self-sufficient and self-reliant; "she’s kind of the model child". Showrunner Dave Erickson said Alicia "had a really specific, defined idea of who she was and where she was going", and being more "fatalistic" in her thinking, she "has to work through that and process it". Alicia is the antithesis