The Walking Dead: What Really Happened To Beth?

When AMC’s fifth season of The Walking Dead kicks off in October, Rick Grimes’s group of survivors will find themselves not free men living on a prison, as they were at the start of season four, but prisoners in the “sanctuary” of Terminus.Not joining them will be Beth Greene, sister to Maggie and erstwhile companion to Daryl Dixon, who was whisked away by a mysterious blue Lincoln while Dixon fended off a group of walkers a few weeks before the season finale.”She got taken, she’s not back yet,” series creator Kirkman said in a postmortem conversation about last night’s episode at the official website for The Walking Dead comic books. “I can say that Terminus has a lot of signs out there and it’s certainly possible that all kinds of different people out there could make their way to Terminus in some way, so maybe Beth shows up to Terminus in Season 5… maybe not. I think I can say that Beth’s story is not over. We’ll see her again, maybe in Season 5, maybe not.”There have been a lot of theories floating around since she vanished, some of which have been debunked over time. Kirkman’s comments above seem to suggest she isn’t already at Terminus, so the idea that she’d been kidnapped and brought there for some reason is out the window — as is the popular fan-fiction variation that she will next be seen on a cannibal’s dinner table in some recognizable form or another.Fan anxiety around the whereabouts of Beth’s character was heigtened, incidentally, when in the days leading up to the season finale of The Walking Dead, actress Emily Kinney (who plays Beth) was killed on The Following and graphic images depicting her character’s death on that series started to pop up online, ostensibly showing her death on The Walking Dead.So with a few candidates eliminated, some circumstances changed and not much of anybody added back in as far as specific suspects, who’s still left form our list of potential abductors?