It seems that Whisperers brewing with all the communities. But despite every character going through their own issues at the moment, one of the biggest mysteries has been with Ezekiel, who had lost The Kingdom in the season 9 finale.
Ezekiel tells Siddiq that he has a tumor in his neck - thyroid cancer. It's something that his grandmother and his father both suffered through. But while there were treatments for this cancer for them, Ezekiel isn't so lucky. With the zombie apocalypse still in full swing, he knows that the chances of him surviving are slim to none, unlike the 98% survival rate he tells Siddiq that his family had.
It's been clear that Ezekiel has been going through something deeply personal in season 10, and only Jerry appeared to know what that was when he expressed his concern for the King when the tree came down at Hilltop. However, the reveal that Ezekiel has thyroid cancer was an unexpected twist - for fans and for comic book readers alike - since nothing like that happens in the Walking Dead comics. In fact, the TV show's version of Ezekiel has already lived past when he was supposed to die in the source material.
In The Walking Dead comics, Ezekiel is killed by the Whisperers and his head is displayed on a pike along with the rest of the people who died at the fair. That happened towards the end of the previous season, so giving him a disease that seems impossible to overcome is strange, especially at this point. Perhaps the producers wanted to differentiate the pike deaths from the scene in the comics while also still planning Ezekiel's exit in the near future. Or perhaps not. Stranger things have happened in The Walking Dead universe, so Ezekiel finding some way to treat himself and continue living may very well happen.