Season 3 (Fear)

Season 3 of AMC's Fear The Walking Dead consists of sixteen episodes, that aired with a double episode premiere on June 4, 2017.

Background
The show was renewed on April 15, 2016, and filming began on January 10, 2017. The majority of the main cast from the second season; Frank Dillane, Kim Dickens, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Cliff Curtis, Mercedes Mason and Colman Domingo all returned, whilst Rubén Blades, who plays Daniel Salazar and last appeared in "Shiva", is also confirmed to be returning. Danay Garcia, who played Luciana Galvez throughout the second season, was upgraded to the main cast. Two main cast members will not return, Elizabeth Rodriguez, who played Elizabeth Ortiz and made her last appearance in "Monster", and Lorenzo Henrie as Christopher Manawa, whose character died in "Wrath". It is unknown whether Michelle Ang, who played Alex and has not been seen since "Captive", is to return.

The third season continued from the second season, with all main characters - aside from Victor Strand - moving away from La Colonia or Rosarito Beach Hotel, the two main locations of the latter half of the second season, towards the United States. Other cast which returned from the second season included Karen Bethzabe, Brenda Strong, Ramses Jimenez and Dayton Callie. Callie, alongside Daniel Sharman and Sam Underwood joined the regular cast of the third season as the Otto family, owners of the Broke Jaw Ranch, a new primary location of the third season. Furthermore, Lisandra Tena joins the main cast as Lola Guerrero, whilst Emma Caulfield was cast in the "mysterious" "guest role" of Tracy Otto. Further supporting additions to the cast included Lindsay Pulsipher and Hugo Armstrong.

Production remains unchanged for this season, however this will be Dave Erickson's last season as a showrunner, being replaced in the fourth season by Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg, who will also be joined by the new addition of Scott Gimple. Filming for this season has taken place at Baja Film Studios, whilst scenes have also been filmed at the Rosarito Beach Hotel. Further, a major filming location has been Broke Jaw Ranch, which is fictionally set in Southern America, but undertaken in a valley near Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, with the Otto ranch being built around an existing smaller house. According to production designer Bernardo Trujillo, the existing house "looked very Mexican as opposed to Southern American", so it was used as an "anchor"; production "building around it" to create a "huge house" so "as you walk in, you’ll actually end up inside the tiny house!".

The Otto family are a "group of preppers who prepared for the end of democracy, [but] not necessarily the rise of the dead" according to Erickson, who noted that this series will resonate politically, with the focus on the land border between the United States and Mexico and the real life domestic policies of Donald Trump. He adds, "They're going to find a modicum of sanctuary and security, but it's going to come at a great price. Fundamentally, the question for Madison this season is what happens if you align yourself with somebody you know has reprehensible traits. We'll come to learn with Otto that even though there seems to be a benevolence to him at times, there's a darker and uglier side to him as well, and it's frankly racist". In what Debnam-Carey and Curtis have described as a "notch[ed] up" and "energised" season, this season will also explore Madison's backstory, with Erickson stating that in this season viewers will "start to get a better picture of where she came from, who she is and, you know, why she has become this person". Erickson also revealed that a main character will die in the season three premiere, adding that the death is after a "heroic arc", and that it is intended to be "sudden" and "jarring", with it being a "pivotal moment that drives the rest of the season". He added, "That’s the goal whenever you lose a character, especially one that important. It needs to resonate". This death was confirmed as Travis Manawa, the last surviving member of his family to die.

Cast
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Deaths

 * Steven (Alive and Zombified)
 * Willy
 * Travis Manawa
 * Charlene Daley
 * Ilene Stowe
 * Geoff (Confirmed Fate)
 * Tracy Otto (Confirmed Fate)
 * Pablito
 * J.C.
 * Othón
 * Dante Esquivel
 * Martha Brown (Alive and Zombified)
 * Russell Brown
 * Phil McCarthy
 * Mike Trimbol
 * Vernon Trimbol (Alive and Zombified)
 * Kathy Trimbol (Alive and Zombified)
 * Gretchen Trimbol (Alive and Zombified)
 * Jimmie (Alive and Zombified)
 * Joseph (Alive and Zombified)
 * Qaletaqa Walker's Uncle (Confirmed Fate)
 * Qaletaqa Walker's Father (Confirmed Fate)
 * Jeremiah Otto
 * Terrance Shafford
 * Bruce (Confirmed Fate)
 * Jake Otto (Alive and Zombified)
 * Klah Jackson
 * Cooper
 * Gabe Dille (Off-Screen)
 * Mrs. Twomey (Off-Screen)
 * Stan (Off-Screen)
 * Kerry (Off-Screen)
 * Dax Daley (Off-Screen)
 * Blake Sarno
 * Pat Daley (Alive and Zombified)
 * Bob
 * Christine
 * Erin Twomey (Off-Screen)
 * José (Off-Screen)
 * Marta (Off-Screen)
 * John Hogan (Off-Screen)
 * Kerry's Father (Off-Screen)
 * Kerry's Son (Off-Screen)
 * Paul (Off-Screen)
 * Ofelia Salazar
 * Troy Otto
 * Efraín Morales
 * Lola Guerrero
 * Proctor Eleven
 * Rico
 * Proctor Nineteen
 * Everardo (Off-Screen)
 * At least 4 unnamed captives
 * 1 unnamed man
 * At least 7 unnamed Broke Jaw Ranch militiamen (Confirmed Fate)
 * 1 Horse
 * 1 Pig
 * 1 Cow
 * Many unnamed Broke Jaw Ranch militiamen
 * Many unnamed Black Hat Reservation residents
 * Many unnamed Broke Jaw Ranch residents
 * At least 5 unnamed Gonzalez Dam bodyguards
 * Many unnamed Gonzalez Dam workers
 * Many unnamed Proctors

Trivia

 * These were the changes to the main cast in season 3:
 * Danay García (Luciana) and Dayton Callie (Jeremiah) are promoted to series regulars after being guest stars in the previous season.
 * Daniel Sharman (Troy), Sam Underwood (Jake) and Lisandra Tena (Lola) are series regulars from their first appearance in the season.
 * The season features the most main character deaths of any season in the television continuity, with a total of six deaths: Travis Manawa, Jeremiah Otto, Jake Otto, Ofelia Salazar, Troy Otto and Lola Guerrero.
 * This is the last season in which Dave Erickson is showrunner for Fear The Walking Dead.