Fear the Walking Dead, Season 2
Summary:
We All Fall Down starts with a super eerie beach scene. A few innocent kids are playing in the sand as the undead wash up on shore and begin to wander in their direction only to be stopped by some chain link fencing someone put up.
When we come back from the first commercial break we are back on the Abigail. The logbook Nick pulled from the hull of the shot up boat has bad news for Strand’s San Diego plans. The city is already gone. Firebombed by the military in an attempt to control the infection.
To make matters worse the ship that is following them isn’t giving up and its tracking their every move.
Strand decides to hug the coast while the others convince him to stop in at an island refuge. When they get there they see lights but the walk up to the house is quiet and tense. The homeowner comes out but he tells them the light was an accident. They didn’t mean to signal anyone. The ranger at the station lets them come in and goes through the map, telling Travis the rangers stations at the national park went out one by one.
Inside the house the rest of the families mingle, the kids excited to meet other survivors. The island family has something just a little bit off with them. Nick is worried about the kids while Madison thinks the mom might be afraid to ask for help.
The next morning Chris is stalking about and sees one of island families son going down to the beach to do “maintenance”. It’s time to kill the beach walkers with a pick ax. When Travis wakes up he immediately starts to look for Chris. He finds Chris on the beach helping to clear the fence.
Travis ends up going out with the survival families dad to repair other fencing. There is a community on the other side of the island and if they came to the ranger’s house they’d be up sheet creek.
Then things turn super sad as Nick goes on a scavenging hunt, looking for meds and drugs. He finds a bag of yellow pills before the little girl finds him and drags him away to draw.
Back on the boat Strand sees that their shadow boat had passed them by. It’s time to go back to the open ocean. He plans on leaving with the tide. We then cut to Madison helping the island wife working in the garden. Madison asks her if the signal was an accident. The island wife says she saw them and that maybe her kids would be safer on the boat. Madison asks if they would come with them. The mom wants them to take the two little ones.
While Madison and Travis are talking about possibly taking the two little kids Daniel is searching the main cabin and finds an MP5. While this is going on Strand is on a sat phone or radio, telling someone else that he’ll be there.
When Nick finds his mom and Travis he tells them he thinks George (island dad) is planning on poisoning his family. He thinks the pills he found are poison.
Back in the house the mom appears to have convinced Team Travis to take her kids. You think it’s going to be a fight when the little kid comes running down the steps – something is wrong with his sister. She took her “power pill”. Her mom ends up getting her throat torn out when the little girl turns.
Team Nick tries to take the little kid but his older brother stops them. He takes the kid back onto the pier just in time to kill see their mom, already turned, stumbling towards them.
The last thing we see before the episode ends is Team Nick waving from the boat while the island families oldest son is forced to shoot his own mother.
Things I loved about this episode…
- The uber creepy feeling of watching the undead crawl out of the sea and start to shamble towards the kids.
- Daniel (The Butcher) keeping himself and Ofelia on the boat to make sure Strand doesn’t just leave them behind.
- Little Kid when Nick asks him why the one action figure has a hole in its head. “It’s what has to happen now when you get sick.” Sad but honest.
- Nick – “I know my pharmaceuticals.” Darkly funny.
Things that I didn’t like about this episode…
- Chris being such a d*ck to his father. Wouldn’t a part of him cling to his father because its all he has left?
- Madison & Travis really think that the island family husband is going to let them take their two little kids? Come on.
- The poor little girl taking her power pill. Come on George, you should have hidden them better.
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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’s radio boyfriend.
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