The Walking Dead Season 5 Spoilers: Beth’s Fate, Alpha Male Power Struggle, & Likely No Time Gap

During an appearance on Larry King Now, The Walking Dead showrunner Scott Gimple tried to avoid revealing a lot of details about Season 5. However, he did strongly hint at a couple of potential spoilers for Season 5.When asked if next season would take place right after the Season 4 finale or if time will have passed like in previous seasons, Gimple said, “That is a fair question. I’ll say this. I’m not going to tell you definitively one way or another, but I would say, ‘It would be very difficult with such a cliffhanger to skip over what happens next.’ You know, right next.”When asked if we would find out what happened to Beth in Season 5, Gimple responded, “Absolutely.”When asked if Season 5 would follow the comics as closely as Season 4 did, Gimple answered, “I think it will continue to be a remix. There’ll be stuff that you’ll see, ‘Wow, that’s directly from the pages of the comics.’ And then, you’ll see things that are like, ‘Wow, that’s inspired by the comics, that’s a whole remix of what was there.’”When asked what Terminus is, Gimple replied, “Terminus, as we know, is a compound that has a good amount of people that are very, very formidable.”When asked if there would be a power struggle with so many alpha males in the box car, Gimple said, “I do not believe there will be a power struggle in the box car, but moving into the season, I think that’s a great question to ask.”The Walking Dead returns to AMC in the Fall.