The key to the future of The Walking Dead could be ties between Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Virginia (Colby Minifie), the leader of settlements sprinkled throughout the west in Fear the Walking Dead. Maggie recently returned to The Walking Dead after years on the road with Georgie (Jayne Atkinson), the Hilltop benefactor who entrusted her with a "key to a future" in season 8 episode "The Key." An evolving document containing plans to unlock "medieval human achievements," Georgie's "A Key to a Future" gave Maggie blueprints to develop the Hilltop colony before she accompanied Georgie on a years-long expedition taking them far away from Virginia.