Lydia seemed fairly good at giving her captives the "run around". I dont know how long she can keep it up.

 

I know absolutely nothing about Lydia except what we were shown last night. It reminded me a little bit of Carol when she and Maggie were held hostage at that outpost. That fear she displayed might be genuine, but it's obvious she was lying through it all, so you gotta believe there's an entirely alternate side of her. Maybe they should call Carol and have her show up with a plate of cookies and a bouquet of flowers

 

Maybe Liam Neeson playing Beta and being sent out by Alpha to get Lydia would be very appropriate.

 

I think, at this moment, her display of fear is a fake. In one scene, she was sitting calmly on the chair and then right after Daryl entered the jail, she moved quickly from the chair to the corner of the room and began her act. To me, this looks very much like an acting. I would think, a girl having a walker mask and herding a group of walkers to attack (Michonne + Daryl) is unlikely to have a faint of heart.

But I think her being captured is not a planned trick by Alpha. For one, this is not a James Bond movie and it seems too risky to send your daughter in under this circumstances (ie an initial contact with an enemy group).

 

This is an excellent supposition! I Buy it totally.

 

And if the Whisperers HAVE been covertly studying our people, they're in even deeper crap than they realize.

Information is power.

 

I think Lydia had shown genuine fear when Daryl entered the cell. She gave up some real information to protect herself from him but ultimately reverted back to lying which he caught onto which was why he allowed Henry to do the rest of the work for him.

 

I think some of it must be genuine, why wouldn't a teenage girl be scared of her captors? I agree she may be overplaying it, which is why it reminded me of Carol when she was held hostage by the redhead at that outpost ( sorry, can't think of her name right now) I remember her line to Carol after calling her a "nervous little bird"....You were her, weren't you? or something like that. That's kinda the vibe I got from those scenes. Lydia might be a frightened teenage girl, but she knows how to use that display of emotion and fear to disguise her true intentions and capabilities. Just a thought, like I said I don't know anything about her but what we were shown in the episode.