Fear the Walking Dead, Season 2
Summary:
The mid season finale is finally over with Grotesque picking up with Nick waking up next to a few corpses? He is with a young mother and her son as they are about to head out – trying to find the boys father.
Nick wants to go north, but the woman says it’s too dangerous for her to go with him. She heads off with her son while Nick begins to trek across rocky, open ground. He’s got a jug of water and a pack, but not much else. As he walks he passes a sign that says Tijuana 100 miles.
When we come back from break we see a flashback to when Nick was in rehab and and old girlfriend is trying to coach him about how to deal with the family court judge. Nick continues to walk until he finds a little house, makes a fire, and relaxes for the night. At least until a woman and a little girl wake him up. The woman doesn’t appear to speak english and proceeds to swing her bat until Nick runs for it.
Come morning Nick is thirsty and there is very little water to be had. He risks getting bit for a sip left in a water bottle and a radio that still has some working batteries in it.
As he’s tuning the radio a group of men pull up in a Jeep and kill a walker before finding a survivor – an old man in a car. The leader of the three men spikes the old man just as the radio turns on, giving away Nick’s position.
The men open fire as Nick runs but he makes it into some tall brush and escapes only to find himself hot, thirsty, and lost in a desert of scrub brush.
He keeps walking until he gets desperate enough to go after some prickly cactus for some liquid. It doesn’t work out quite like Nick hoped and he ends up having to drink his own pee. It is enough to keep him going until night falls. As he’s sleeping we see another flashback to his rehab and his mother telling him his father isn’t coming, he was in an accident – which was fatal. Nick is upset – which is when he wakes up to a dog munching on his leg.
Nick scrambles onto the top of an old vehicle and watches as the dogs are eaten by a horde. For a moment we think he’s going to be stuck on the roof of the vehicle after the horde eats the dogs but he uses his gore trick to join the horde and shamble along with them.
Things get super bad when the three men in the Jeep show up and start shooting into the horde. Nick continues to walk with the horde as it is getting blown away – and gets super lucky that the horde reaches two of the gunmen before they shoot everyone. Shortly after surviving the shootout Nick passes out on the road until it starts raining, waking him up.
Come morning he stumbles into town and is found by a small group of survivors. The female leader, Luciana decides to take Nick to see their doctor who treats the dog bite on his leg.
When the doctor lets Nick up they are in the middle of a bustling town. There are people everywhere and it looks like the town is surrounded by a wall – at least on one edge.
Things I loved about this episode…
- Nick eating cactus in his desperation for fluid before going full Baer Grills and drinking his own pee.
- Nick being forced to eat left over dog. It was a great way to show just how desperate he was.
Things that I didn’t like about this episode…
- Dried blood makes clothing very stiff – and Nick put blood & guts all over himself to mask himself from the undead – but the woman her son don’t seem to care about the smell.
- Isn’t Mexico on the metric system? Wouldn’t that sign have said kilometers not miles?
- Nick starts a fire and just falls asleep on the ground? Really, at least sleep on the roof.
- Come on Nick, your leaning against a car instead of sleeping on top of it. Remember? Its the ZA stupid.
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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 S1, 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.
- Luciana – Female who ends up helping Nick in S2, Episode 8.
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