Alvin and Carver

godmadethunder

Is there an actual backstory? Or does carver just hate Alvin cuz he impregnates Rebecca

Nightmare9990

Carver mention that Alvin killed someone named George In cold blood. But telltale for some reason never really built up on that to explain why Alvin did it.

Davissons

There is a backstory. We just never hear about it after it's mentioned like, once or twice in S2E2.

H-hurray for dropped plot points.

godmadethunder

Wow well that's a perfect example of really bad writing

DabigRG

Yeeeeah, that's an astounding example of how disappointing Carver and the third episode in general were.

From what I could gather, Carver and Alvin may have been friends at some point since he and Bonnie both talk about George as if he meant something to Alvin as well: if Alvin was killed by Kenny, Bonnie specifically notes that, whether he didn't mean for him to die or not, Alvin still killed George while the Cabin Group, Nick's mom, and Reggie were in the process of making their escape.

Not only that, but Rebecca clearly knew George as well if Carver used that name when he met Clementine and she sums up the reason he's after them as "he has trouble letting go." Given that she says this after almost letting on that he's after her specifically, it's entirely possible that George probably knew about what Carver did with Rebecca when he got in the way during their escape and so was [fatally] wounded by Alvin, which gave Carver yet another reason to be so cross with Alvin. After all, the only payoff that we get from Carver himself about this is if he has Alvin's tortured body sitting in the corner when he lets Clementine in, handwaving his "bullying" of him with a smug," We've got history."

DabigRG

Did I write that? My bad, I copy and pasted that from a previous conversation and must've gotten Kenny and Carver mixed up.