The Walking Dead star Khary Payton is left wondering what's next for King Ezekiel after his grim cancer diagnosis earlier in Season 10. When checked out by doctor Siddiq (Avi Nash) in episode 1005, "What It Always Is," Ezekiel revealed he was secretly battling thyroid cancer, a disease that his grandmother and his father fought off when the sickness had a 98% survival rate. But that was the time before the zombie apocalypse when thyroid cancer could be treated by chemotherapy, iodine, radiation therapy, and thyroidectomies — none of which are presently available to the king, who must first survive being captured by a small army.