Fear the Walking Dead, Season 2
Summary:
The Season 2 premiere, Monster kicks off the new season of Fear the Walking Dead tonight! I can’t wait to see how Nick’s story moves forward.
Monster kicks off the the usual little recap of where last season left off. Strand has convinced them to make the run for Abigail, the boat out in the water by his house. Strand, Nick and a few others make it to the boat but the rest of the family is left on the beach as a horde appears. Things aren’t much better out on the Abigail, it looks like some other survivors might have had the same idea about getting off the mainland.
Everyone makes it aboard the Abigail and Strand guides them away from the mainland as it burns behind them.
Strand must have had a lot of cash before the ZA started. The Abigail has a range of 3000 miles and Strand is sure that they can survive a good long time on the boat.
Of course Team Nick is just getting under way when they come across a raft full of survivors. Madison wants Strand to stop the boat but he wants none of it. Strands’s a survivor and he knows that the more people they take on board the less time the supplies on the Abigail will last.
Strand points the boat towards San Diego and leaves the other boats behind.
Everyone is suffering and dealing with their stress in their own ways. Alicia clings to the task Travis gave her and works the radio until she stumbles onto a young man’s voice begging for someone to talk to him.
While Chris and Daniel (The Barber) fish Alicia is pouring her heart out to her new Radio boyfriend. He’s on a little boat, not like the Abigail. You can see the moment that Alicia starts to think that his suggestion of Hawaii might be a good idea. So the big question is – Who is this guy? Is he for real or just trying to lure Alicia in so he can steal their boat?
Madison and Daniel end up on the back of the deck, both of them wondering what makes Strand tick. Why was he packing and ready to run before the bombs were dropping? Did he have some foreknowledge of what was coming?
A little later the families get together to bury Travis’s first wife at sea. Chris stands a little apart, struggling with the loss of his mother and the knowledge that his father had to put a bullet in her head before she turned. Chris grabs the table and drops his mother into the sea in a rage.
After the funeral Strand overhears Alicia talking about Jack and looses it a little. He’s pissed that Alicia may have given up any information about them and reminds everyone in no uncertain terms that Abigail is his.
Everyone is about to eat when Chris decides to go for a swim. Nick jumps in, stopping him before he can get too far, and as he’s swimming he comes face to face with one of the infected.
While this is going on Alicia is getting a scary reply from Jack. Alicia tells him its too dangerous, they can’t come pick up him and his family members and he tells her its okay. He already “has” her and he’ll see her shortly.
Chris and Nick are in the water with a lot of the undead but Nick hears something. Someone is stuck in the overturned boat that apparently put the infected in the water. As Nick is heading for the boat we see that it has been shot up. It looks like Jack and his pirates have already been up to no good.
Nick comes face to face with a biter in the upturned boat and comes back out with the boats logbook before Strand sees something coming on the radar. It’s time to haul ass but the Abigail can only pull 20 knots and whatever is coming at them is doing 25.
Which leaves us hanging until next week. Did Alicia screw them over by talking to Jack? Who is burning fuel to bear down on them? What do they want?
Things I loved about this episode…
- Nick using the outboard on the zombie that tries to get them when they are on the dingy. (Its been done before but its still a nice touch.)
- Strand not picking up the other survivors. It sucks, but it is a realistic call.
- Alicia finally saying “I’m here,” to the guy on the radio.
- Fishing. I was just wondering why no one was fishing for food when Chris and Daniel and started to fish.
Things that I didn’t like about this episode…
- When Nick comes back with the dingy why are they taking the woman’s body with them?
- Madison getting pissed at Travis for leaving the boat people behind. After everything they’ve lived through she seemed naive.
- Ofelia was shot in the upper chest. How the hell is she walking around?
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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.
- Jack the Radio Dude – Alicia radio boyfriend.
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