Fear the Walking Dead, Season 2
Summary:
Shiva kicks off with Celia yelling at Strand, mad that he shot Thomas, which brings her to throw down an ultimatum. She wants Strand and everyone else gone. They have one day.
In the sunlight both Travis and Daniel look for and find the best weapons they can find – which are edged weapons.
On the balcony Madison tells Nick and Alicia they need to gather food and whatever else they can find. They need to get the truck and get back to the boat. Nick is skeptical, he doesn’t see Celia as the bad guy.
Outside the compound Travis is trying his best to track Chris. He appears wounded (I missed how…) but he does have an edged weapon to defend himself. He hears a noise and goes into a house, maybe thinking it was Chris. Inside he is almost clubbed to death by the home’s owner. When Travis takes his shoes off his feet are covered in blood.
Back at the house Nick is just returning, covered in blood. He’s brought back Thomas for Celia. Nick wants Celia to let his family stay, and she agrees as long as Nick agrees to take responsibility for their actions. He agrees. They can stay, except for Strand. Celia wants Strand out.
When we come back from the commercial Strand is digging a grave. Daniel warns him not to do it – no to bury Thomas. The ground is not holy.
We then move from confrontation to confrontation. Madison is mad that Nick went out to get Louis and he’s mad that she doesn’t understand that he’s not afraid of the undead. Something in this new world calls to him. We then see Daniel lose his sh*t. He thinks his wife is at the gates, which leads to him trying to drag Ofelia away, but it doesn’t go well. Some of the locals try to stop him which leads to him pulling his box cutter – which leads to him getting the crap beat out of him. While this is going on Travis is outside the walls, tracking his son – only Chris doesn’t want to be found.
Near midday there is a small funeral. Thomas is buried.
Life at the house is growing more tense. Almost as tense as things at the little house where Travis and Chris end up going at it. Chris thinks everyone looks at him like he is worthless. Travis manages to disarm him, but it’s not clear where things are going. Which is just when Nick finds them. Travis tells Nick he didn’t find them. Travis can’t bring Chris back yet, and that means Madison can’t know Nick found them. Nick hands him his knife and walks away.
All the while the drama continues at the house. Madison confront’s Celia as they fight for Nick’s heart & mind and Daniel has flash backs of his violent past while he hears hid dead wife talking to him in his head.
While Daniel is still talking to his wife Celia is trying to convert Madison by taking her into the cellar and asking her what she wouldn’t do for his own children. Things take a dark turn as Madison backs out of the zombie cell and locks the gate – leaving Celia behind.
Things start to go bad as night falls. Strand is forced out of the compound and Daniel has decided he must kill the walkers in the cellar. He does this by pouring some gas and lighting himself on fire as he hallucinates that his wife and he are together again.
Strand shows up just in time to save Madison, Ofelia, Alicia and Nick – but Nick isn’t happy. He bought into Celia’s crazy talk.
The mid season finale ends with Team Strand driving back to the boat while Nick walks away through the fire and smoke, surrounded by the undead. Travis and Chris are still on the loose.
Things I loved about this episode…
- Strand dropping the truth bombs on Madison about Nick and his addiction and how Celia sucked him in with her crazy beliefs.
Things that I didn’t like about this episode…
- Daniel losing his sh*t. He was supposed to be strong. The Butcher shouldn’t be so fragile.
- The pyscho babble bit when Celia is talking to Daniel when he’s tied to the chair and he’s hearing his wife in his head.
- Why in the world would Celia go into the cellar?
- Daniel hallucinating that he and his wife are together again. His story arc took a hard left which I felt made no sense.
- Nick being mad that his mom and friends did what they had to do to survive. Come on Nick.
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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.
- Thomas – Strand’s significant other.
- Celia – Thomas & Louis’s mother.
- Jack the Radio Dude – Alicia’s radio boyfriend.
- Connor – Jack’s boss and the leader of the boat pirates.
- Louis – Strand’s friend. The one who was going to get Strand into Mexico.
- Alex – Female from flight 462 plane shorts.
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