Ponytail Lady¶
Ponytail Lady is the fan name for the blonde, holstered staffer at Robert Bigelow's rented big house, who greets the task force with sweet tea, shows them the camera footage, lends them bicycles and later shares a night watch with the replica of Andrew Howard.
| Type | NPC |
| Aliases | blonde guard; unnamed security woman; woman at the big house |
| Affiliation | Bigelow's research operation |
| Status | Alive (as of Walkers 07) |
| First appearance | Walkers 02 |
| Played by | Andre |
Description¶
She is a blonde woman in sunglasses and a ponytail, with a hip holster. When Zack asks whether she is attractive, Andre rules "Reasonably." She is never named; "Ponytail Lady" is the players' label for her (Walkers 02, Walkers 07).
History¶
When the party arrives at the big house in Walkers 02, she is waiting by the door and greets Walt, asking "These the feds?" She asks them to leave their weapons at the door. Kurt Larson answers "No," so they talk on the porch, where she goes to fetch Bigelow and offers sweet tea; the party asks for well water, and she brings out fresh buttered bread and a pitcher of sweet tea. She tells the party she recognizes "your friend from Leno." Her house rules are that the most important thing is to keep Bigelow happy and the second is to keep the goose Nancy happy. She then goes back inside to make sure the roast does not burn (Walkers 02).
In Walkers 04 the party hikes back to the big house after their rental disappears, and Andre describes her as the woman they met "the other day." She has already looked at the camera footage and takes them to a bank of TVs with the tape cued up. The blurry image shows the car as a slightly different patch of gray beside the house, which seems to rise but is too indistinct to point out to anyone. She tells them the electromagnetic meters spiked, and that the spikes line up with the substation pop and the earlier moment the car shifted, although the graph is noisy. She then lends the party dusty road bikes for the trip to Roosevelt, asking them to "bring these back, or pay us back for them" (Walkers 04). See also Bigelow's recordings.
In Walkers 07 the group sets shifts at the big house, and Andrew takes the first watch with the Ponytail Lady while the rest sleep upstairs. By this point Andrew is the replica, which Rita has been secretly playing since the end of the gym scene earlier in the same episode; she mulls over "blowing myself up." The watch carries past midnight into November 3rd, Election Day (Walkers 07). See Andrew Howard (duplicate).