join her, but Alicia refuses, making it clear that they are not friends and she will not accept Dakota due her actions despite Alicia having helped her. While out on a special trip with Teddy, Alicia and Dakota come across survivors from the baseball stadium whom Alicia believed to have died. However, Cole holds them hostage, demanding to know more about Teddy's underground bunker. Alicia ultimately escapes and kills Cole. Teddy is impressed with Alicia's resolve and desires her to be the new leader of his followers after he dies. Teddy reveals that he plans on launching a nuclear missile from an abandoned beached-submarine in Galveston to destroy Texas, as he believes old things have to die in order for new life to rebuild. Dakota betrays Alicia and joins Teddy's side. Alicia warns Strand and Morgan about Teddy's plan, before his crew capture her. Teddy takes Alicia to another underground bunker he and his followers found at a hotel and locks her inside. He wants Alicia to rebuild the new world after he is gone, but Alicia angrily says that she will not make the world the way he wants it to be. Teddy turns to her as he leaves and says, "I know. That's what I'm counting on." Alicia is trapped inside the bunker for the remainder of the season and, as a result, survives the nuclear fallout. Season 7 As shown in flashbacks, following the events of season six, Alicia fails to escape the bunker. She meets Will, a survivor who has been in the bunker since the start of the apocalypse, and a former aide of Senator Elias Vazquez. Teddy's followers, led by Arno, found the bunker and killed everyone inside, including Vazquez, while Will hid. Alicia meets Arno, who was told by Teddy that she was the new leader. Alicia finds files of a secret government-established settlement called PADRE, of which only Vazquez knew the location. Alicia hopes with Will that Vazquez's reanimated corpse can subconsciously remember the location of PADRE and help lead them there. Alicia and Will try to find a way out of the bunker through its tunnels, taking Vazquez's body with them. As Teddy launches the nuclear missile, the tunnel collapses and Alicia becomes trapped with Vazquez. Vazquez bites Alicia on the arm, and after making Will promise that he kill her if she shows signs of not healing, she despairingly amputates