Fear the Walking Dead, Season 1
Summary:
The Season 1 finale of Fear The Walking Dead, The Good Man
Travis and Madison realize its time to run. They are packing up, going back to their original plan to flee east as soon as they can. First they need to find Nick and the Barber’s wife. The plan is to take Andy (the soldier the Barber tortured for info) and use him to get the others back from the compound.
At the medical center the doctor has called in a Chinook to airlift the sick. Travis’s ex wife tries to bargain to take more people. The best she could do was her son Chris & her ex husband (Travis.) I have a bad feeling about the inbound flight.
When they get to the compound the Barber walks right up to the fence, leading the horde from the stadium as casually as could be. The Barber regroups with Team Travis and they start to make their escape attempt.
Inside the detention center Nick and the Instigator hear the gunfire start as the soldiers engage the undead. As Team Travis is trying to come in to rescue them Nick and his new friend are also trying to make their escape.
As the infected are surrounding the compound the Chinook decides the risk is too high and they flee. The doctor tells the other staff to go. She tells Travis’s ex to run too. She’s going to stay and take care of the patients.
Nick and his new friend Strand get out of their cell and start to look for a ride. Until they hear something at least and try to hide inside the vehicle where they should have been to start.
Meanwhile out in the garage several soldiers have found Chris & Alicia. They just want the car keys so they can flee. Alicia gives up the keys but one of the soldiers gropes her and Chris tries to defend her – which gets him knocked out.
Outside the fence has failed. The walkers are pouring in and soldiers are dying, getting eaten alive. One of them gets bitten and walks into the rear rotor of a helicopter (which was totally awesome!) which sprays blood onto Travis’s ex wife.
All hell is breaking loose. The compound has been overrun and the soldiers are breaking. They have stopped being a fighting force and have turned into individuals and small groups trying to flee for survival.
Strand and Nick have reached a dead end. They are trapped in a hallway as a horde shambles at them. 
Team Travis shows up on the other side of the door but can’t open it. Nick tell his mom to go just as Travis’s ex wife shows up with a key card to save the day. And thus the party grows as Strand joins Team Nick.
Now rescued Team Nick makes it into the kitchen only to find the walkers are already there. There is a brief, brutal fight before Team Nick continues to flee.
They find the doctor. She’s just finished giving mercy to the last of her patients. They tell her she can come with them. She doesn’t believe there is anywhere to go. As Team Nick leaves her behind I think she’s getting the piston gun ready to end her own life.
When Team Nick makes it out of the back of the hospital we find what is left of all the people who turned. The soldiers had been burning them. There was a lot of ash.
When Team Nick makes it back to the garage they find Chris & Alicia but the soldier Travis let go shows up with a gun. Andy is pissed. He wants vengeance on the Barber for being tortured. Only he shoos Ofelia instead, and we see Travis go hulk for the first time. He tackles the soldier and then beats the shit out of him. Ofelia is wounded, but I don’t think too badly because we see her walking with the Barber’s help a few scenes later.
The team has a new plan. Strand says he has a house by the water and it is stocked with supplies. Team nick is cruising through a dead city. They use the overflow drains to cut through the worst parts of town and finally make it to Strand’s house. He still has power. He must have been loaded. He has generators that kicked in when the power went out.
Nick and his mom have a moment on Strand’s patio. Nick feels like everyone else is finally living his life. Every moment is uncertain, the future unplanned and not clear. It is actually a very scary insight into an addicts life.
When we come back from commercial Travis’s ex wife tells the Barber his daughter is going to make it. The bullet went clear through her. She’s going to survive. Meanwhile Strand is packing his things. He plans on trying to make it to the cruise ship he sees out in the bay.
Meanwhile Madison follows Travis’s ex down to the beach. She was bitten and knows she needs to take care of business before she turns. Travis’s ex asks Madison to do the deed for her. Of course Travis then shows up. He wants to treat her. She knows the antibiotic won’t help. The infection is going to kill her and then she’ll come back. She doesn’t want Chris to see her turn. Travis promises to protect their son.
Now we just have to wait until Season 2 to see if Travis remains a bad ass and if Nick becomes a leader.
Things I loved about this episode…
- The Barber just casually walking the horde up to the military fence as calm as could be.
- The soldier that runs into the rear blades of the helicopter. That was just awesome CGI.
- Andy shooting Ofelia. Not because he shot her, but because I get it in a weird way. He’s pissed at the Barber for torturing him. But he blames Ofelia for luring him in.
- Travis going hulk after the soldier shoots Ofelia. Finally he is showing some balls.
- Strand’s house. Holy shit. What did the guy do for a living?
Things that I didn’t like about this episode…
- Travis is an idiot. Why would he let the soldier go? Wouldn’t he want to get Nick and his ex wife back first?
- Chris deciding to get out of the car. And then Alicia follows him. They should be hunkered down and hiding in case any soldiers decide to flee through the garage.
- Why would Madison let Travis shoot his ex wife? That’s the new girlfriends job!
- How does strand know if the cruise ship is safe? What if its full of the infected? how many people does it take to crew a boat that size? How much fuel to get from one place to another? It seems like a bad plan to me.
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Main Characters:
- Nick Clark – Starts the season off by finding his girlfriend turned into a walker in a church. Has a addition problem.
- Alicia Clark – Nick’s sister. Has already lost her boyfriend to the virus.
- Madison Clark – Mother to Nick and Alicia. She worked at the high school where she met Travis Manawa, her boyfriend.
- Travis Manawa – School teacher and Madison’s love interest.
- Chris Manawa – Travis’s son.
- Daniel Salazar – The Barber who shelters Team Travis in Episode 2.
- Ofelia Salazar – The Barber’s cute daughter.
- Strand – The Instigator who Nick met in the detention center in Season 1, Episode 5.
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