Fear The Walking Dead [Season 1, Episode 1]
Pilot (90 min)
Shown 23 Aug 15
Nick Clark (Frank Dillane -
Harvest (2024)
) is a drug addict in Los Angeles.
He wakes up in a drug den, having just shot up with a new narcotic.
One of his fellow junkies must have overdosed,
because she starts to eat the others.
Nick gets out, but ends up in hospital.
In hospital, Nick refuses to cooperate with the cops.
However, he does talk to his stepfather Travis Manawa (Cliff Curtis -
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
). But when Travis checks out the drug den, there are no zombies or corpses.
Has someone cleaned up the crime scene before the cops could find it?
We also meet Nick's mother Madison (
Kim Dickens
) and sister Alicia (
Alycia Debnam-Carey
). Since the zombies are in the background,
as they are in the later events portrayed in
The Walking Dead
, this is mostly a soap opera establishing the characters.
In the second half of the story,
Nick escapes from hospital and goes looking for his drug dealer.
His assumption is that the zombie outbreak was caused by a new drug.
A running joke among fans is that it was the blue meth from Breaking Bad.
There is an incident that is televised on the news channel,
and it goes viral on the Internet video-sharing sites.
Of course, nobody realizes that it is actually the start of a zombie apocalypse.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 1, Episode 2]
So Close, Yet So Far
Shown 30 Aug 15
Travis (Cliff Curtis -
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
) goes into town to save his son and ex-wife.
The LAPD try to keep the zombies under control.
However, the sight of cops using their batons on the walkers
reminds the local citizenry of the Rodney King beating,
so the locals attack the cops to protect the zombies.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 1, Episode 3]
The Dog
Shown 13 Sep 15
The riot has gotten out of control.
Travis (Cliff Curtis -
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
), his son Chris and ex-wife join up with the Salazar family.
Back in the suburbs, Madison (
Kim Dickens
) has to defend her home from zombies.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 1, Episode 4]
Not Fade Away
Shown 20 Sep 15
This starts with a recap by Chris,
as he narrates a video diary on his camcorder.
The National Guard have controled the suburb for the last nine days.
This should be a good thing, because they have secured the perimeter.
However, something is just not right.
When the kid refers to those soldiers as our Saviours,
this is a clear indicator that something is wrong.
Dr. Bethany Exner (
Sandrine Holt
) examines the family for infection.
She takes one of them away to a quarantine facility.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 1, Episode 5]
Cobalt
Shown 27 Sep 15
Nick ends up in a prison cage with Victor Strand (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
). Luckily Melvin the soldier on guard is quite corrupt,
and Victor is a great one for bribing people.
The National Guard have been using the codeword Cobalt.
Daniel Salazar (Rubén Blades -
Predator 2
) wants to know what it means.
Unfortunately for his daughter's boyfriend,
no good deed goes unpunished.
Chris and his step-sister Alicia (
Alycia Debnam-Carey
) start to bond.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 1, Episode 6]
The Good Man
Shown 04 Oct 15
The family decide to retrieve their missing member from the National Guard base.
As a distraction, they decide to unleash a massive horde of zombies on the soldiers.
Victor Strand (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
) has a plan to get himself and Nick to safety.
Melvin the corrupt soldier is their ride out,
but Victor is a cold-blooded SOB.
Travis (Cliff Curtis -
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
) lays a beat-down on a victim
that is reminiscent of what Uncle Bully got in Once Were Warriors.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 2, Episode 1]
Monster
Shown 10 Apr 16
This takes up a few hours after the end of the previous Season.
The survivors get to the beach, and try to board the boat.
Unfortunately the zombies are on the loose,
so we have a minor action scene to kick off the new Season.
All low-key stuff, however, but it is that kind of show.
There is an homage to the
Lucio Fulci
Italian zombie movies, involving an outboard motor.
Aboard the boat, the characters try to get along.
Things slow down, but this is a drama rather than a thriller.
The daughter Alicia (
Alycia Debnam-Carey
) gets in touch with a stranger on the CB radio.
Is he genuinely in need of rescue,
or is he baiting her into a trap?
The boys go for a swim near a fog bank,
despite having no idea what dangers it contains.
It turns out that although zombies cannot swim,
they can certainly have enough bouyancy to float.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 2, Episode 2]
We All Fall Down
Shown 17 Apr 16
The survivors are being hunted by another boat.
It is bigger, faster, and equipped with military-grade weaponry.
Perhaps it is a coastguard cutter, now in the hands of pirates.
The survivors see a light in a nearby house, so they investigate.
A family lives there – the father is a survivalist type, his wife is
Catherine Dent
, and they have a couple of young children.
Their plan is to sit things out behind a secure perimeter fence.
The father, an amateur anthropologist, correctly identifies Travis (Cliff Curtis -
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
) as a Maori from New Zealand.
Yes, Curtis actually plays his own background instead of a Latino.
Daniel Salazar (Rubén Blades -
Predator 2
) does not trust the boat's captain, Victor (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
), and insists on staying aboard so the others do not get marooned.
He also takes the opportunity to poke around.
Captain Victor (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
) certainly has something to hide.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 2, Episode 3]
Ouroboros
Shown 24 Apr 16
The boat has a problem in its engine.
Travis (Cliff Curtis -
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
), the only trained mechanic, deduces the problem is the water intake under the hull.
He then volunteers to SCUBA under the boat to clear the blockage.
Since they are in zombie-infested waters,
it is obvious what will be responsible for the blockage.
While Travis is messing about with the boat engine,
the tweenagers decide to go for a scavenger hunt on the beach.
A plane crashed nearby, and the scattered baggage has washed up on the shore.
Daniel Salazar (Rubén Blades -
Predator 2
) goes along to sheepdog them, but they all wander off and get into trouble.
After all, they have forgotten a couple of things.
Firstly, there is unlikely to be much of practical use in a pile of airline baggage.
Secondly, the passengers are not going to be far away.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 2, Episode 4]
Blood in the Streets
Shown 01 May 16
Madison's son swims ashore on a mission from Captain Victor (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
). His job is to make contact with Luis,
the man who has arranged to smuggle them across the border.
The survivors find a dingy with a couple of people in it.
One of them is a pregnant girl.
What could possibly go wrong?
Captain Victor (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
) has a hockler submachinegun.
Unfortunately Daniel Salazar (Rubén Blades -
Predator 2
) took the magazine when he rifled the locker,
which renders it useless as an anti-pirate device.
The flashbacks start with Captain Victor (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
) meeting Thomas Abigail (Dougray Scott -
Mission Impossible 2
) in a hotel bar.
Their relationship was a complicated one,
but the combination of great actors and a great script bring this together.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 2, Episode 5]
Captive
Shown 08 May 16
A couple of the regulars have been press-ganged by pirates.
Alicia (
Alycia Debnam-Carey
) is assigned the role of contacting medium-sized boats that pass by
so they can be lured into a trap.
Travis (Cliff Curtis -
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
) was supposedly selected for his skill as an engineer.
Instead, he is caged as a punishment.
It turns out that the pirates actually rescue people,
such as the girl who was abandoned in the dingy a couple of episodes ago.
Madison (
Kim Dickens
) has control of the the boat.
She only has twelve hours to rescue her family members.
Luckily she has one of the pirates as a bargaining chip.
Daniel Salazar (Rubén Blades -
Predator 2
) is good at getting infomation out of prisoners.
Will the kid live long enough for an exchange?
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 2, Episode 6]
Sicut Cervus
Shown 15 May 16
A Mexican priest tells his congregation that the zombie plague is the work of the devil.
They then arm up so they can go to war against ... Satan?
Thomas Abigail (Dougray Scott -
Mission Impossible 2
) tries to talk some sense into them,
but they start to bleed from the eyeballs.
Is this a new symptom of the plague, or something worse?
Either way, it seems that Baja might not be the paradise it was supposed to be.
The survivors on the boat get to the Mexican border.
Luis had one job, to get them past the border patrol.
Things do not go the way they were planned.
Eventually the survivors get to the compound in Baja.
There are a couple of problems.
First, the survivors are traumatised by their struggles.
Daniel Salazar (Rubén Blades -
Predator 2
) is out of sorts, and Nick Clark (Frank Dillane -
Harvest (2024)
) the junkie boy has flashbacks.
The worst hit is Chris, who freezes up on Madison (
Kim Dickens
) and then gets aggressive with Alicia (
Alycia Debnam-Carey
).
The other problem is that Celia,
the Latina woman who runs the compound,
has a Mexican Catholic Day of the Dead faith
that is reminiscent of Hershel's Georgia Baptist religion.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 2, Episode 7]
Shiva
Shown 22 May 16
Chris runs off, and Travis (Cliff Curtis -
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
) goes after him.
A couple of strange things happen.
Firstly, Travis manages to get a horrible injury to his foot
but this event happens off-screen somehow.
Secondly, although Travis spends an apparently short time searching
this plays out as a very long time for Nick Clark (Frank Dillane -
Harvest (2024)
), who crosses vast amounts of territory on foot while this is happening.
Celia is now in command of the compound.
She wants the newcomers to leave, especially Captain Victor (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
). Luckily, Nick does her a favour and wins her favour in return.
They can all stay, except for Victor of course.
As soon as he finishes with the grave, he is gone.
Daniel Salazar (Rubén Blades -
Predator 2
) becomes obsessed with his wife's ghost.
He tries to get his daughter to leave,
but Celia's men use force to stop him.
Yes, everyone else needed special permission to stay -
but Daniel was held to a different standard.
The climax is a bit confused.
Motivations and geography are unclear.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 2, Episode 8]
Grotesque
Shown 21 Aug 16
Nick Clark (Frank Dillane -
Harvest (2024)
) decided to stay at the compound.
However, the inhabitants chose to split up and go their separate ways.
Nick has to option but to walk north, so he can go home to the USA.
The real danger seems to be from other humans.
Finally, Nick decides to go with the flow and live among the zombies.
After all, they only kill the people that deserve karmic justice.
The rest of the cast are credited, but the only one to appear on-screen is Madison (
Kim Dickens
) who pops up in a flashback of a time when she visited Nick in rehab.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 2, Episode 9]
Los Muertos
Shown 28 Aug 16
Nick Clark (Frank Dillane -
Harvest (2024)
) the junkie boy has found shelter in a border favela.
The locals seem to be a bit religious, like the people at the compound.
They seem themselves as the faithful, the chosen people,
who have to withstand the zombie apocalypse to inherit the Earth.
Well, an apocalyptic event would naturally bring forth religious fundamentalism
because average people need superstition to explain the world they live in.
Madison (
Kim Dickens
) insists on going back to search for Travis.
Nick is not mentioned at this stage -
presumably she respects her son's decision,
or she has given up on him.
Eventually Alicia (
Alycia Debnam-Carey
) and Captain Victor (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
) persuade her to take them back to the boat.
However, the Mexican military have gotten there first.
Nick goes shopping with the beautiful young woman who leads the survivors.
The store is a warehouse controlled by a former narcotics cartel.
Not a good place to be caught shoplifting.
The idea of a young woman being the leader of a survivor group
is not the only thing that makes this show reminiscent of
The 100
, another show that Alicia used to star in.
In comparison, that show looks like
Spy Kids
.
Madison and Strand take their group to a disused hotel.
The adults get drunk in the bar, while the tweenage girls go exploring upstairs.
What could possibly go wrong?
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 2, Episode 10]
Do Not Disturb
Shown 04 Sep 16
Travis (Cliff Curtis -
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
) has a hard time connecting with Chris while searching for some shelter.
They meet up with some young men who offer help,
but Travis does not feel comfortable with them.
Alicia (
Alycia Debnam-Carey
) meets a lonely woman with a bloody past.
She was a manager in the hotel,
but had to quarantine the place and sacrifice some of the guests.
Now the survivors want revenge on her.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 2, Episode 11]
Pablo & Jessica
Shown 11 Sep 16
The hotel is not uninhabited, as the survivors first thought.
In fact there are two competing factions - the staff and the guests.
Alicia (
Alycia Debnam-Carey
) and Madison (
Kim Dickens
) try to bring them together.
Nick Clark (Frank Dillane -
Harvest (2024)
) draws upon skills from his past to take on a new role at the Colonia.
Chris bonds with the other guys.
Travis (Cliff Curtis -
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
) tries to act like the sole responsible adult,
telling them to eat the eggs and spare the chickens,
but the guys do not listen to him.
They are also merciless towards anyone who might be dying or bitten,
which brings them into further conflict.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 2, Episode 12]
Pillar of Salt
Shown 18 Sep 16
At the Colonia, Alejandro reveals his darker side.
A hotel resident becomes violent. Madison (
Kim Dickens
) springs into action and lays down the law.
She bans violence.
This is a very simple rule, but she may regret making it.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 2, Episode 13]
Date of Death
Shown 25 Sep 16
Madison (
Kim Dickens
) struggles to cope with the situation as numerous refugees flood into the hotel,
including a familiar but unexpected face.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 2, Episode 14]
Wrath
Shown 02 Oct 16
Nick Clark (Frank Dillane -
Harvest (2024)
) faces a decision about whether to leave the Colonia
or stay with Luciana (
Danay Garcia
).
Madison (
Kim Dickens
) struggles with things at the hotel,
especially with the return of Travis (Cliff Curtis -
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
). The place is besieged by new refugees,
including a couple of familiar faces.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 2, Episode 15]
North
Shown 02 Oct 16
Madison (
Kim Dickens
) is the one who instituted the No Violence rule.
Now she must decide whether she will support Travis (Cliff Curtis -
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
) after his rage and anger cause turmoil at the hotel.
Nick Clark (Frank Dillane -
Harvest (2024)
) assumes leadership at the Colonia as The Narcos close in.
He has a plan that involves letting a gang of well-armed men
face off against a relatively small horde of zombies.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 3, Episode 1]
Eye of the Beholder
Shown 04 Jun 17
The trio get to a sanctuary,
and get captured by some guards.
Madison (
Kim Dickens
) and Alicia (
Alycia Debnam-Carey
) are put in the hands of Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman -
The Fix (2024)
), who seems nice enough.
Of course, they plot violence against him.
He stupidly underestimates them,
when he should know that anyone who survived a zombie apocalypse
must be more than just a pretty face.
Travis (Cliff Curtis -
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
) gets stuck in gen-pop under the control of Dale Stuckey from SVU.
The good news is that he finds Nick Clark (Frank Dillane -
Harvest (2024)
) and Luciana (
Danay Garcia
). The bad news is that they are being experimented on
to see how long it takes to become a zombie.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 3, Episode 2]
The New Frontier (70 min)
Shown 04 Jun 17
Travis (Cliff Curtis -
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
) and Alicia (
Alycia Debnam-Carey
) got a lift with Jake Otto (Sam Underwood -
) in the helicopter.
They get shot down by persons unknown,
and have to walk home.
Not all of them make it.
Madison (
Kim Dickens
) and Nick Clark (Frank Dillane -
Harvest (2024)
) got a lift with Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman -
The Fix (2024)
) in the truck convoy.
Without Jake around, Troy has no need to look after them.
Luckily Mr Otto (Dayton Callie -
Deadwood
) takes a liking to them.
Victor (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
) is in charge of the hotel,
where he pretends to be a trained doctor.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 3, Episode 3]
TEOTWAWKI
Shown 11 Jun 17
Madison (
Kim Dickens
) and Mr Otto (Dayton Callie -
Deadwood
) start hanging out.
But this show is not the one they shared with Al Swearengen.
It is more like a pre-emptive pastiche of Yellowstone.
Alicia (
Alycia Debnam-Carey
) goes to Bible Study with the ranch's tweenagers.
Victor (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
) visits an old friend who is now Evil Overlord of Tijuana,
by control of the city's water supply.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 3, Episode 4]
100
Shown 18 Jun 17
This episode follows Daniel Salazar (Rubén Blades -
Predator 2
) on what he did after he was last seen in Season Two.
He went north and bypassed the hotel,
going to the city of Tijuana
and then to the dam that supplied its water.
For some reason the area has a drought,
so the water supply is vital.
With the help of a few friendly people,
he manages to get recruited by the Evil Overlord.
This joins up with the previous episode's storyline,
as Victor (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
) gets to the dam.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 3, Episode 5]
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
Shown 25 Jun 17
Madison (
Kim Dickens
) and Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman -
The Fix (2024)
) go on a mission with some of the Militia.
They discover that the Natives are revolting.
Victor (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
) takes Daniel Salazar (Rubén Blades -
Predator 2
) to the hotel in search of Ofelia Salazar (
Mercedes Mason
). Of course, Victor is a BS merchant
and Salazar sees right through him.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 3, Episode 6]
Red Dirt
Shown 02 Jul 17
The Clark family are fitting in on the ranch.
Jeremiah Otto (Dayton Callie -
Deadwood
) teaches Nick Clark (Frank Dillane -
Harvest (2024)
) how to use a revolver.
Alicia (
Alycia Debnam-Carey
) is getting together with Jake Otto (Sam Underwood -
).
Madison (
Kim Dickens
) and Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman -
The Fix (2024)
) return with the survivors.
The Native Americans are on the warpath,
and put the ranch under siege.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 3, Episode 7]
The Unveiling
Shown 09 Jul 17
Jake Otto (Sam Underwood -
) goes to the Native American camp
to make a peace deal with Walker.
Alicia (
Alycia Debnam-Carey
) comes along, and agrees to stay as a hostage.
Walker sends Ofelia Salazar (
Mercedes Mason
), last seen in Season Two.
Madison (
Kim Dickens
) wants her daughter back.
She talks Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman -
The Fix (2024)
) into leading a Militia raid to take her back.
Yes, she deliberately escalates things.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 3, Episode 8]
Children of Wrath (70 min)
Shown 09 Jul 17
The intro follows Ofelia Salazar (
Mercedes Mason
) on what she did after she was last seen in Season Two.
She bumped into a certain old redneck
armed with an AK-47 fitted with a picatinney rail.
He gave her water and advice, but not a ride in his truck.
In contrast, a certain Native American man stripped her naked
and gave her a cooling bath to treat her sunburn.
This explains why she showed such loyalty to Walker.
Victor (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
) gets back to his home in Mexico.
The mega-yacht is still there,
but she has run aground and filled with zombies.
Madison (
Kim Dickens
) tries damage limitation on the escalation she caused.
She has a final confrontation with Jeremiah Otto (Dayton Callie -
Deadwood
). While Otto is meant to be a bad guy for putting his family first,
Madison is a murderer and a selfish one at that.
Walker is a bloodthirsty killer too,
a stereotype of why White people did not trust Native Americans.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 3, Episode 9]
Minotaur
Shown 10 Sep 17
As part of the peace treaty,
Walker and the Native Americans move onto the ranch.
Of course, some of the locals are unhappy about this.
Walker and Jake Otto (Sam Underwood -
) each get one key to the armoury,
so they must both cooperate if the zombies attack.
When tensions boil over,
Walker demands he monopolise control of the weapons.
Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman -
The Fix (2024)
) objects to all this.
Nick Clark (Frank Dillane -
Harvest (2024)
) gets dragged into his situation.
Troy wants Madison (
Kim Dickens
) to do him one last favour.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 3, Episode 10]
The Diviner
Shown 10 Sep 17
Madison (
Kim Dickens
) and Walker go to a market to get a tanker of water.
They find out what happened to Victor (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
).
Back at the ranch, water is rationed.
The Native Americans are in charge,
and there are rumours they are double-dipping at the well.
Nick Clark (Frank Dillane -
Harvest (2024)
) gets dragged into the remnants of the Militia.
With Troy gone,
Nick is the nearest thing they have to a leader.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 3, Episode 11]
La Serpiente
Shown 17 Sep 17
Victor (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
) leads Madison (
Kim Dickens
) and Walker to the dam.
Daniel Salazar (Rubén Blades -
Predator 2
) is desperately trying to defend the place.
Lola wants to just give the water away to the peasants,
but they always want more.
She needs convincing to trade water for guns from the ranch.
Salazar knows that Victor is planning something.
As long as they both benefit, he will look the other way.
In other words, Salazar just wants his cut.
Not a percentage of profits,
but other non-tangible benefits like his daughter's safety.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 3, Episode 12]
Brother's Keeper
Shown 24 Sep 17
Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman -
The Fix (2024)
) has been eating rattlesnakes
and hanging out in the disused outpost.
He is a trained survivalist,
and there are a lot of things there he can scavenge.
Nick Clark (Frank Dillane -
Harvest (2024)
) starts culling the ranch's herd of cattle.
Yes, they have already given up on Madison's mission to get more water.
A massive herd of zombies is en route to the ranch.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 3, Episode 13]
This Land is Your Land
Shown 01 Oct 17
The survivors barricade themselves into the ranch's pantry.
It is standing room only, and the air vent is blocked.
Alicia (
Alycia Debnam-Carey
) realises there is only one way to conserve air.
She must find out anyone who has been bitten,
and convince them to let her kill them.
At least this gives her a leadership position,
since she steps up to do a necessary job nobody else wants.
With great responsibility comes great power.
Ofelia Salazar (
Mercedes Mason
) crawls through the air ducts to locate and remove the blockage.
At one point she has to discharge a handgun,
and is temporarily deafened by the noise in a confined space.
This is a wonderful attempt at realism in firearm depiction.
However, in the next scene someone uses an AR-15 indoors
with no apparent ill effects from the noise.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 3, Episode 14]
El Matadero
Shown 08 Oct 17
Madison (
Kim Dickens
) and Walker take Ofelia Salazar (
Mercedes Mason
) to the trading post.
Victor (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
) is cynical about how happy Daniel Salazar (Rubén Blades -
Predator 2
) will be to see his daughter in her damaged condition.
Nick Clark (Frank Dillane -
Harvest (2024)
) and Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman -
The Fix (2024)
) meet up with Alicia (
Alycia Debnam-Carey
), but she convinces them she is better off on her own.
They head to the trading post, not the best place
for someone with a history of substance abuse problems.
Alicia meets another survivor.
They are both female, so they have enough in common to bond.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 3, Episode 15]
Things Bad Begun
Shown 15 Oct 17
Nick Clark (Frank Dillane -
Harvest (2024)
) and Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman -
The Fix (2024)
) are hanging out at the trading post.
They discover a biker gang, the Proctors,
are about to launch a major attack.
They are equipped with boats,
so it must be the only main location with lots of water.
At the Dam, the defenders start to turn on each other,
They spend far more time on conflict with themselves
than they do fighting the Proctors.
Daniel Salazar (Rubén Blades -
Predator 2
) interrogates Nick, hoping to fix the blame on someone.
Madison (
Kim Dickens
) discovers the secret deal that Victor (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
) made in the trading post.
Not to mention Troy's secret.
Alicia (
Alycia Debnam-Carey
) takes a friend to the nearest medical specialist.
Then she finds herself conscripted
to serve as medical assistant in surgery on Proctor John,
head of the biker gang.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 3, Episode 16]
Sleigh Ride
Shown 15 Oct 17
The Proctors seem to have been made up at the last minute.
They did not appear in any previous episodes
prior to the penultimate one.
Now they come from nowhere, without foreshadowing,
to be the Season's Big Bad.
Their leader, Proctor John,
claims to see the big picture
and plans to create a trade route from California to Texas.
However, he claims to be genuinely surprised
and disappointed when Victor (Colman Domingo -
Assassination Nation (2018)
) over-promises and under-delivers on his deal.
With Victor, this is pretty much standard.
Proctor John decides to execute all the dam workers,
even though they are the only ones
who know how to work the equipment there.
Without them, the dam'd water levels cannot be controlled.
Any hope of mastering the hydro-electric power generation system
is completely out the window.
So much for Proctor John being a big picture guy.
The Proctors took the dam without much of a fight.
Yes, all the preparations seem to have been for nothing.
However, the dam is still wired to blow.
This leads to a Mexican standoff,
ironic since the dam is in Mexico.
This is an old-fashioned high-stakes conclusion to a Season.
If the main characters can be easily written out,
as in a massive explosion or something,
it gives the actors less leeway to renegotiate their contracts
for the next Season.
Fear The Walking Dead [Season 8
, Episode 1
]
