Nicholas Clark (Fear)

"Everyone was dead... There was blood."

- Nick explaining his sighting of a walker

Nicholas Clark, often referred to as Nick, is a main character that appears in AMC's Fear The Walking Dead.

He is the son of Madison Clark and a father who died when Nick was 13. He has a sister named Alicia. Nick has had a troubled past and has always chosen the wrong road. He is a very intelligent but flawed individual with his severe addictions to Heroin, Cocaine and PCP his major problem. Despite his flaws, Nick is a very intelligent young man, and is shown to care for his mother and his sister but not as much for Travis as he believes he's trying to replace his father.

Description
"Madison's screwed up teenage son. He’s too old to stay home, too scared to flee... pretty much a parent’s worst nightmare. He has flunked out of college, had a lot of trouble, got mixed up in some bad elements, and is definitely the problem child. And it’s exacerbated for him to be next to this perfect sister who seemingly doesn’t have anything going on in her life that is negative." - Kirkman

Los Angeles, California
Prior to the show, Nick's biological father died and his mother started dating Travis Manawa. He started using drugs and was kicked out of school.

Pilot
Nick plays a large part in the first episode; he awakens alone in an abandoned church after taking drugs with his "friend" Gloria and possibly others, the night before. While searching for Gloria he finds blood, the dead body of a young man and then Gloria herself who has died from drug overdose, turned and is now eating the body of another young man.

Nick escapes before she can attack him but is then hit by a car and ends up in hospital with minor injuries and possible concussion. In hospital he is treated for his injuries but is detained and given a psych evaluation because of the things he was saying when he was admitted. (Nick was apparently telling people what had happened in the church) He is also restrained because it's thought he might harm himself.

The police try to question him about what happened the night and are told to leave by his mother, Madison Clark when she and Travis Manawa arrive. Whilst in the hospital he tells Travis enough about what happened at the church for Travis to go there himself. Later, Nick convinces a nurse to release the restraints on one hand and immediately dresses and leaves the hospital, taking the clothes from the belongings bag of the patient in the next bed. Nick leaves the hospital without being challenged and without telling his family where he is going.

Once out he goes through the pockets of the clothes he's stolen and takes shelter under a bridge. The next day he buys a mobile phone and arranges to meet Calvin, his drug dealer to try and find out what had happened at the church.

Calvin tries to kill Nick by taking him to a secluded spot and shooting him. Nick realizes what is happening, fights back and in the struggle Calvin's gun goes off and Calvin is fatally wounded. Nick leaves Calvin's body and the gun by the car and calls Travis for help, making Travis promise that he won't bring Madison.

Travis arrives with Madison and they all go to look at Calvin's body. The body is gone but the car and gun are still there.

When Travis reverses away from the scene with Madison and Nick in the car Calvin appears in the tail lights of the pickup. Madison and Travis get out to try and help what that think is someone that needs help.

Nick knows already that Calvin is dangerous and runs him over with the pickup, repeatedly. Calvin's body, still reanimated and trying to attack them, ends up horribly damaged at the bottom of a concrete ramp.

"So Close, Yet So Far"
Nick arrives back home with Madison, Travis and Alicia in the Travis' pickup from the Sale home. He goes straight into the house and is looking through the blinds when Madison comes in. He asks if she is going to the the Cruz family (who live opposite the Clark home) what is happening and she eventually agrees to tell them something. She reassures him that he did what he had to do for good reason (killing Calvin, she means) and they acknowledge that Nick is about to go through an extremely hard time withdrawing from heroin.

Quite soon Nick starts to feel sick and begins to go into withdrawal, he vomits and is not able to do anything. Madison tries to contact his Doctor but, that failing, decides after talking with Alicia to go to the school where she works and take some drugs from there.

While his mother is out Nick has an argument with Alicia because she wants to leave and check on her boyfriend Matt, has a seizure and then is cared for by her.

Much later, when Madison returns with Oxycontin from the school for him, he lies to his mother about Alicia. He doesn't appear to notice, even though it's quite obvious, that Madison has been through a bad time while she was out.

When Alicia attempts to go out and help Joanna Cruz because she's being attacked by Peter Dawson, Nick stays on the couch and does nothing, leaving his mother to take the responsibility for stopping Alicia from trying to help Joanna.

Killed Victims
This list shows the victims Nick has killed:
 * Calvin (Alive, Accidental)

Relationships
(To Be Added)

Season 1

 * "Pilot"
 * "So Close, Yet So Far"
 * "The Dog"
 * "Not Fade Away"

Trivia

 * The casting call for this character used the name Nick Tompkins.
 * This character's official name was revealed in a press release by AMC on May 11, 2015 as Nick Bennett, though his surname was later changed.
 * He is the first living character to kill another living character in the companion series.
 * He is the first named character to come in contact with a walker who was the reanimated Gloria.