Victor Strand (Fear)

"You see, Madison? People don't change. When pressed, when cornered, when artifice falls and the curtain drops. They always show you who they really are."

- Strand to Madison after revealing her about his contingency plan.

Victor Strand is a main character and a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's Fear The Walking Dead. Before the outbreak, he was a conman who met and fell in love with Thomas Abigail. He is a former medic for the Rosarito Beach Hotel. Sometime after the Gonzalez Dam destruction, Strand decides to change his selfish ways and becomes a resident of the Dell Diamond Baseball Stadium community. He is currently a member of Morgan's group.

Overview
Victor is a mysterious character who has acquired great personal wealth as immediately indicated by his suit and jewelry, then later by his gated coast-side estate, Aston Martin and luxury yacht. He appears to already have some knowledge of the outbreak and how it manifests itself in humans. It is unknown how long he was imprisoned at the temporary hospital set up in Raynard Community College before Nick arrived. He is calm and does not panic when confronting the walkers, even when he was trapped at the end of a locked corridor as a herd approached. He appears to have adapted quickly to the new world, telling Nicholas Clark that the only way to survive a mad world is to embrace the madness.

Victor has a good sense of judgement, dismissing Douglas Thompson quickly as weak, yet believing that Nick has the skills to survive, identifying his heroin addiction as a precursor to the behavior necessary for survival.

He appears to have some elements of a sociopath, such as lack of empathy when he refused to release the other hospital prisoners, when he mockingly upset Douglas further by making taunts regarding his wife with another man, and leaving Melvin Allen, who was being devoured, to die, telling him to keep the watch he used as a bribe. This is elaborated on as he seems very controlling on board of the ship, refusing to take in survivors he encounters at sea, claiming that his mercy quota has been filled and that it is his ship. Despite this and refusing to help with Travis' plight, Victor intervenes to save Madison, Alicia and Travis' lives when he didn't have to and helps them escape.

Following the events at Gonzalez Dam, Victor shows a change in personality for the better. He openly admits to wanting to change from who he once was and though tempted to revert to his old ways when things get back, Victor chooses to do the right thing.

New Orleans, Louisiana
Early on in his childhood, Strand's mother had abandoned him and his father. His father was barely able to hold a roof over their heads due to making a living out of preaching at local strip-malls. Strand eventually worked his way through college to become a businessman where he was able to build his fortune through real estate investment and debt buying. He ended up suffering a massive financial blow after a large portion of his local investments in New Orleans were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. This led him to resort to money-theft schemes on random strangers. One of the victims of his money-theft was a powerful businessman like himself named Thomas Abigail. Thomas was impressed by Strand's scheme and, rather than turning him in, began a partnership and eventual romance with him.

Shortly after the outbreak began, Strand traveled to Los Angeles to close one of his big land deals. He had went against Thomas' wishes, who had pleaded for him not to travel and for the two to go into hiding instead.

Los Angeles, California
As the chaos in the city began to spiral out of control, Strand was able to bribe the military into ensuring his protection.

"Cobalt"
Victor Strand is seen at the beginning of the episode inside a cage in the hospital, talking to Douglas Thompson and giving him confidence. Agitated, Doug wrestles with the fence, forcing the soldiers to take him out. Strand later turns to Nick and asks about who he is.

Later on, the soldiers check the temperatures of the people in the cages. Strand's temperature is at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit while Nick is at 101.6. The soldiers try to remove Nick from the cage fearing that he might be turning. While Nick struggles, Strand talks to the commanding officer and asks him about the watch he gave him, which the officer likes. Strand then offers him a diamond cufflink so that they'll leave Nick in the cage, the officer agrees but only if he gives him the second matching cufflink. It is revealed by Strand at the end of the episode that he saved Nick because he needs his skills to help him escape. He shows Nick a key that he has acquired that will help them get out.

"The Good Man"
Victor and Nick make their escape with the soldiers are distracted taking down the captive walkers that Daniel Salazar has released and led to the entrance as a diversion. Running down the hallway, they are unable to escape the corridor due to the doors being electrically locked, but are found by Madison Clark, Travis Manawa, Daniel, and Ofelia Salazar. They are saved by Liza Ortiz, who finds them and uses her card to open the door. Successfully escaping the facility, Victor has plans to find "Abigail" and leads the group back to his ocean front home where they can tend to the injured Ofelia. Nick talks to Victor, who is packing up a briefcase and preparing to leave, saying the group cannot stay there when he leaves. Victor gazes through binoculars at the ocean and motions Nick to look also. As Nick sees a yacht in the ocean, Victor indicates that Abigail is his boat.

"Monster"
Victor takes command of the ship Abigail and offers it as temporary residence for the survivors as they hurriedly leave the coast, carrying Liza's body with them. He offers to take the group to San Diego and insists that the ship is his to do as he wants. He becomes agitated when he learns that Alicia has been keeping radio contact with strangers. His stance is that people can't be trusted in the current situation.

At the end of the episode he notices another ship approaching (presumably the one Alicia had contacted previously) and feels certain that they can not outrun it.

His communication with the other survivors is generally tense, to the point that he seems to avoid sleeping entirely. The only exception seems to be Nick, who he pays some attention to.

"We All Fall Down"
Strand monitors the unknown ship on the Abigail's radar. He speeds up the boat and they lose it.

Travis informs Strand that, according to the log, the military has already burned San Diego to the ground. Strand proposes they hide from the fast-approaching ship by retreating to the coastline. Travis suggests Catrina Island, which has a ranger station that may offer supplies and a short-wave radio.

In the wheelhouse, Daniel accuses Strand of wanting to offload members of the group to conserve his resources. Strand deflects Daniel's accusations.

While on the boat, Strand makes a phone call to someone promising to "be there" soon.

When Madison and Travis bring Harry Geary onto the boat, he is against it and wants him off the boat as he states children are the definition of dead weight. However, the boy's brother comes back to retrieve him.

"Ouroboros"
On the Abigail, Strand tries to call his contact via satellite phone to confirm that he is coming. The phone cuts out. The boat creaks to a stop. Travis determines that the engine malfunctioned due to a blocked water intake. He says the problem will require him to look under the boat. Madison urges him to wait until sunrise, but Strand and Travis agree that they cannot waste time.

Later in the engine room, Travis begins removing backed-up sludge from the filtration system and informs Strand that the repairs may take all day. Strand snaps that they cannot wait this long.

Madison confronts Strand about his secret plans and demands to know what is in Baja. Strand reveals that he has a safehouse with food, water, and concrete walls in Rosarito, Baja California, but explains that he has precious little time to get there. She demands that he take the entire group with him. They cautiously make a pact to trust each other. With this new information, the couple realize they have no choice but to trust Strand.

Back at The Abigail, Madison informs the group that Strand has invited them to join him at a compound in Baja with food, power, and water. Strand refuses to let Alex and Jake board the ship. Travis insists that they at least tow Alex's raft to San Diego and the group gives them provisions.

Inside the boat, Strand paces up and down. Eventually, he dashes outside and cuts the raft loose despite Madison's objections. Strand returns to the wheelhouse in silence.

"Blood in the Streets"
Strand instructs Nick to swim ashore to meet a colleague that will help give everyone passage into Mexico.

Travis condemns Strand for cutting Alex's raft loose, but claims he was in the right.

When Reed and his group invade the boat, he rushes to the wheelhouse to get his MP5, only finding the magazine removed by Daniel. Out of ideas, Strand jumps ship on a raft and attempts to row away from the yacht. However, Reed sees him escape and shoots. He misses Strands but manages to shoot holes in the raft which will make it sink and Strand risks drowning for hypothermia.

While on the ocean hypothermia and fatigue take their toll on Strand as the raft slowly deflates. He tries to dry his satellite phone by blowing on it but later, Strand accidentally drops the phone.

As he drifts on the ocean remembers his encounters with Thomas Abigail. The first time they met was at a bar in Baton Rouge soon after Hurricane Katrina. Thomas tells Strand that he's in town to buy property. Strand explains that everything he owns is underwater. Strand assists Thomas to his hotel room, where Thomas passes out. Strand borrows Thomas' credit cards.

The next day, Thomas and a companion, Luis Flores, confront Strand about the credit cards. Instead of calling the cops, Thomas tells Strand to meet him at the bar to discuss how Strand can rectify the situation. Strand says he always intended to pay him back — with interest.

Strand and Tom sunbathe at the Baja house. Tom urges Strand to put off his work trip to L.A. but Strand says it's too important to their business. They hold hands.

As the outbreak begins to occur, Thomas tries to dissuade Strand from going to L.A., given reports of its severity. Strand promises to return in two days. They kiss.

Strand cannot stay afloat any longer and begins to sink. Madison grabs him just in time and hoists him aboard the Zodiac.

"Captive"
Strand recovers in the wheelhouse. Daniel tells Madison that they can use Reed's relationship to Connor as leverage over Connor. They locate Connor's base by scanning the radar for a cluster of five boats. Strand allows the group to recover Travis and Alicia with their word that they go straight to Mexico and Madison steers the Abigail north.

In Spanish, Luis tells Strand someone is waiting for them and they need to go, but Strand says "he" would understand. Luis counters that he only has enough money for two people to cross the border. "Everything is a negotiation," replies Strand, as Daniel listens in.

Strand begins to move about. Madison forbids Strand from sending Nick on any more errands. Strand argues that Nick knows how to survive and that he saw Nick's potential within minutes of meeting him. Madison says Strand has never seen Nick in the throes of addiction and worries that Nick is using again.

Strand spots a cluster of five boats docked along the shore and tells Daniel that they've arrived at Connor's base. He and Nick monitor the pier through binoculars during the exchange.

"Sicut Cervus"
In the wheelhouse, Luis prepares to meet with his military contact on the flotilla and pay for their passage. Strand sees military officers approaching in a boat. Concerned that a second officer is coming along with Luis' contact, he orders Madison to hide everyone below deck.

From the engine room, Madison's group listens to the conversation between Strand, Luis and two military officers. Gunfire erupts after the officers insist on searching the boat to make sure no Infected are aboard. Luis is killed during the shootout. The military don't bother with them and Strand steers the Abigail toward the Mexico coastline. When asked by Madison on what went wrong, he says, "Someone said asshole in Spanish."

Once on shore, they make their way to a church. Strand begins to panic and calls out for Thomas before going into the church. Zombies begin to appear and he assists in fighting them.

Strand drives the group to Thomas' gated estate where Celia, Luis' mother, greets them. Strand informs her that Luis is dead. "He's one of them now," Strand says. "Then he'll find his way back," she replies. Strand rushes to Thomas' bedroom, a blood-soaked bandage on his bitten arm. Strand helps him into bed.

Madison brings food to Thomas and Strand in their room. Thomas asks Madison to look after Strand when he dies.

Alone together, Strand urges Thomas to end the suffering and let go of life. "I could go with you," Strand says, offering to kill himself so that they can remain together after death. Thomas, however, gives the impression that he doesn't want to live like an Infected.

Celia brings the wafers to Strand and Thomas and commends Strand for deciding to die with Thomas. She leaves the room and locks it. Thomas stops breathing and Strand kisses him. Strand searches Thomas' bedroom drawers. Strand picks up the gun and shoots his lover with a pillow covering Thomas' face. Strand sits next to Thomas with a gun.

"Shiva"
Everyone runs to Thomas' room, where Strand has just shot Thomas in the head. Celia screams at Strand for shooting Thomas instead of allowing him to turn. Celia forbids Strand from burying Thomas and attacks Strand when he declares that Thomas wasn’t her son. Celia orders Strand and those he brought along with him to leave by the next day.

Strand digs a grave for Thomas. Daniel urges him not to bury Thomas in such an unholy place. Strand notices Daniel's unusual behavior and asks what's wrong with him but the old man does not answer.

Madison tells Strand that she's worried about Nick. Strand is unsurprised that Celia was able to indoctrinate a young and vulnerable addict. He invites Madison to join him on the Abigail but she refuses to leave without Travis.

When night falls, Strand with the estate as promised despite Madison's pleas to Celia to allow him to stay. However when a fire suddenly consumes the estate, Strand sneaks back in and steals a pick-up truck. He picks up Madison, Alicia, and Ofelia. Strand forces Madison into the truck as Nick refuses go with them. They watch a blood-slathered Nick walk away untouched among the Infected as they flee.

"Los Muertos"
After driving around north and south of the compound for days with Madison, Alicia, and Ofelia, searching for the others especially Nick. Victor suggest that the ground needs to go back to the Abigail for shelter and resources like water, telling Madison they can't just keep scavenging. Once Madison agrees and the group heads back to the boat, Victor is distraught that the Abigail is no longer docked where they left it believing the Mexican military took the boat after they docked.

Following Alicia's suggestion the group goes to a abandoned hotel and Alicia and Ofelia go off to scavenge supplies. Victor offers to make an upset Madison a vodka martini at the hotel bar. Over martinis they talk about Madison's past and she reveals she used to bartender to put herself through college. She calls out Strand's martinis as "bullshit" and starts to pour tequila shots for both Victor and herself.

Once intoxicated Victor talks with Madison about their past lovers, and also scenarios where Madison and him could have met in the real world before the apocalypse. He freely admits he would have hit on Madison if he saw her sitting at the bar and told her nothing of his partner - much to Madison's shock. Victor admits to Madison he is simply "a seducer of people" and he would have with her if the world was still the world before everything happened.

After Madison smashes glasses against the wall, Strand begins playing on the piano and ultimately the noise begins to attract the undead to them. Victor stands on the bar kicking many of the undead in the face while fighting them off with Madison. He ends up trapped behind the bar with Madison with the infected swarming him.

"Do Not Disturb"
After being feared dead in the overrun ballroom, Strand and Madison suddenly appear to save Alicia, Elena and Hector from an underground tunnel they are trapped in. As Alicia and Madison embrace, Strand joins Elena and Hector in blocking the door.

"Pablo & Jessica"
In the bar of the Rosarito Beach Hotel, Strand and Madison fight off an Infected herd. Madison hears Alicia calling for her. She kills an Infected and opens its belly. She and Strand cover themselves in the Infected's blood.

Strand and Madison walk unnoticed among the Infected. They exit the bar and barricade the door behind them. Outside, they find the truck missing. Strand presumes Alicia and Ofelia fled together. they both take refuge inside the hotel's spa building. Madison tells Strand that Alicia would never abandon them. Madison and Strand hear a loud knocking sound. They follow the sound to a locked door and hear Alicia screaming for help on the other side. Madison breaks the lock with a fire extinguisher. Alicia, Elena and Hector pile out.

Strand stands in front of the hotel with Madison and call for Oscar, the groom. Oscar appears on a balcony and allows them inside after they drop their weapons. Madison and Strand meet with Oscar and Ilene, the mother of the bride. Madison proposes they join forces to make the hotel their home and secure it against Infected and enemies.

After the meeting, Madison and Strand predict that they will have trouble convincing Ilene. Hector, Alicia and Strand begin their sweep of the hotel. Hector opens the door to a hotel room, releasing an Infected. Alicia stabs it in the head. Meanwhile, Strand and Elena open all the doors to the hotel rooms, releasing the trapped Infected.

As the Infected are let out, Madison bangs on a metal bowl, using the sound to lead them to the connecting foyer. She's joined by Strand, Elena, Alicia and Hector, all leading herds from different sections of the hotel. When the herds meet, Madison leads the unified pack of Infected out onto the pier.

Strand finds Oscar guarding the honeymoon suite. Oscar admits that his undead bride, Jessica, is inside. Strand tells Oscar that the infected Jessica is not his wife anymore. "Death parted you," he says. "Let me help you."

"Pillar of Salt"
In Elena's room, Strand, Madison, Alicia, and Elena decide to run the generator for just a few hours a week, enough to make ice and boil water. Strand answers a knock at the door. Ilene stabs him. "You took my daughter from me," she says and runs. Madison tends to Strand's wound in bed. Oscar brings over Andreas, a medical school student. Andreas examines Strand's wound and says he needs a suture kit, antibiotics, and erythropoietin. Elena suggests a place that might have such medicine.

At the hotel, Alicia lays a blanket over Strand and compresses his wound. She explains that she helped Nick through his detox withdrawals and says that Madison still doesn't fully see her. "Then make her," Strand suggests.

"Wrath"
After recovering from his wounds, Strand is inform by Madison that Brandon and Derek are in the parking garage and that she suspects Chris is dead. Strand discourages her from telling Travis, as it would destroy the only thing that keeps him going. It's the same hope Strand lost when Thomas died. Madison agrees that the news about Chris would break Travis.

"North"
After Travis beats Brandon and Derek to death, Madison insists they need to leave the hotel with him but Strand refuses to have anything to do with the plan. Later, after the residents try to kill Travis when Oscar Diaz dies of his injuries, Alicia kills Andres and Strand appears to help them and forces Hector and the residents to leave Madison, Alicia and Travis alone at gunpoint. Strand helps the three escape, but insisted staying at the hotel.

"The New Frontier"
Strand is with Elena and Hector outside the refugees clamor at the gate of the Rosarito Beach Hotel, demanding to see the doctor. Elena denies them entry, insisting that she can't help them. Strand sees this all unfortunately. He delegates a plan in Spanish, telling everyone he is a doctor. The group calms and listen to him. He shows them he is injured, as well, and gains their trust. He insists they let people in and accommodate them, as well as an upgrade to his own room. Elena and Hector are angry at Strand, but he tells them that he just saved them, the refugees would have killed them all if he didn't let them in.

At the hotel, Strand treats a child with minor wounds, as he removes a bullet from a young man's leg. Later, he sits on his own, looking out the window. As he rests, Elena urgently summons him to treat someone in dire need of a doctor. She brings Strand to the medical tent, where a woman is about to give birth. Strand insists he is not that kind of doctor, but he agrees to assist when the patient's husband threatens him with a knife.

Having delivered the baby, Strand is handed a bottle of liquor and he's covered in blood. The people with him are ready to help him continue the lie about being a doctor in an effort to protect themselves, but because of this, Strand is told by Elena that he must leave immediately, sending him out on foot, but Hector tells Strand there is another patient in need of his services before he goes. He brings Strand to Ilene's room and asks him to convince her to eat. She has been holed up there since she stabbed Strand.

Strand enters a room with a sandwich. It smells horrible. He calls out for her but hears no response. Walking further into the room, he finds a mannequin but is caught from behind by Ilene. She apologizes for stabbing him. He opens the door to let some air into the room. He preaches stories of hope to her and she comes around to it. He is going to leave this place and has somewhere in mind. She offers him a box which was supposed to be a wedding gift. He thanks her before, she does the same for him, and walks off the balcony to her death. Strand is surprised.

Strand finds that the key Ilene gave him operates a car in the hotel's parking garage, and he swiftly sneaks out in a Maserati. "My style and my color," he says before driving away in it.

"TEOTWAWKI"
Strand drives to a water depot at Gonzalez Dam, where he finds a long line of thirsty Tijuanans trading for water. He cuts to the front of the line and asks to speak with Dante. A guard orders him to wait in line and shoves him to the ground. Dante Esquivel, Strand's former business associate, emerges and greets Strand, indirectly saving him from being executed by his own men. A while later, Dante sits down and invites Strand to chat about the old days, back when they were both fierce businessmen that controlled the market with a fierce hand. As the discussion progresses Dante eventually brings up Victor's business associate and lover, Thomas, asking Strand if he knows his status in this new world to which Victor simply stands in silence, Dante understanding that means he probably didn't make it.

Dante leads Strand to a walkway on the dam and surprises him by double-crossing him. Strand watches as Dante's men push a prisoner over the edge into a pit of Infected. Dante makes it clear that he didn't consider him a friend and that the whole drink they they shared earlier was just a ruse so that Dante could get Strand's guard down. He expresses his wish to feed Strand to the walkers down below, because he considers Strand a thief that can't be trusted, he almost gives the order for him to be dropped before Victor states that if he doesn't spare him, he will regret it.

In an attempt to make himself indispensable, Strand tells Dante that people will turn against him if he keeps serving water too close to his source. He offers to help organize an off-site water depot. Dante agrees to spare his life, and in exchange, Victor will become a worker for him: "You will feel just like the people you have taken from. You will feel powerless," he tells Strand.

Strand sits in a cell. Someone hands him water through a window. He chugs it, then looks through the window to see that the offering was given to him by Daniel Salazar, who survived the fire estate.

"100"
Strand is brought water by Daniel and asks if Ofelia is alive. Strand tells him Ofelia is waiting for him at a hotel down the coast. He begs Daniel to help him escape so that they can go to Ofelia. "She's waiting for you," says Strand. Daniel calls Strand's bluff: Ofelia wouldn’t be waiting for him if she believed he was dead. Daniel leaves Strand to rot in the cell. Strand angerly calls him out, saying he owes him for saving his life.

Dante and J.C. take Efraín, Lola, Strand and Pablito to the dam catwalk for execution. Dante pushes Pablito over the edge despite his pleas of innocence. Lola is next up to be executed, but Daniel has a different plan. He head-butts J.C., shoots him, then kills Dante, saving Strand's life.

"Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame"
Strand and Daniel sit in Strand's car as a herd crosses the road ahead. Strand warns Daniel to prepare himself in case Ofelia is no longer at the hotel when they arrive. Daniel's suspicion of Strand grows, as he orders him to drive through the herd.

At a pit stop on the way to the Rosarito Beach Hotel, Daniel asks Strand why he left the hotel. Strand explains that he wanted to broker a deal with Dante for water. Daniel doubts Strand's story, causing Strand to lash out.

Daniel and Strand arrive at the hotel only to find the entrance abandoned. Strand assumes that the hotel must have been taken by the Dead. He warns Daniel not to go inside, but he insists they look for Ofelia.

Daniel and Strand enter the hotel and find blood all over the ground. Daniel points his gun at Strand and rings a bell, bringing the Dead upon them. With the dead closing in, Daniel pressures Strand to tell the truth about where Ofelia is. Strand finally admits that she left the hotel while he was still there. He leaves Victor behind and his words echo as Victor watches him speed away: "Let's see how you get out of this one."

The Infected attack Strand. Daniel drives off in the car, abandoning Strand. Strand then runs away from the dead.

"Children of Wrath"
Strand is first shown scavenging for food and is dodging walker threats. In the distance, he sees the Abigail yacht, still afloat. He is ecstatic to see it, quickly going out to it across the water. Once aboard, he finds multiple dead officers, so he backs away slowly to look for a weapon. The best he has is a harpoon gun and knife. He kills one walker then an officer and uses his gun to take out the rest. Strand searches the yacht for supplies. He comes across empty bottles before heading to the top of the ship. The yacht is out of order and not going to work. He searches every crack but finds nothing. Atop the ship, he puts on a white suit jacket, pops champagne, and calls out, "It's good to be home!"

Stand is drunk, messing with his radio. He makes contact with a Russian cosmonaut who’s stuck in space. The Russian mocks Strand's curiosity about if this virus has effected the rest of the world. The man says he is speaking to Strand from space. They begin quoting literature in their conversation, agreeing that champagne and vodka are what they need. "Last words are for fools, they are not said enough," Mr. Vaschanko said. The signal begins to cut out. "The world is dead," Strand tells him. "The world will not die until you die," the astronaut tells him. "Do not wait until your death bed to enjoy your champagne." The signal is lost and Strand breaks down. He talks to the sky.

Strand prepares himself on the boat. He pours alcohol all over it on the way out and grabs his sunglasses before lighting it on fire. He walks along the beach with a smile as it burns. He starts to make his way north.

"The Diviner"
After making it to El Bazar, Strand is shown getting roughed up by a gang of men who work for Proctor, the man who runs the trading post. Madison witness this and rushes to his aid. Maria Lu calls off the deal once she realizes that Madison is friends with Strand, who owes a debt to Proctor. Madison uses a shovel to start a fight and free Strand. The men end up getting the upper hand but Walker comes to their rescue. Strand gets them to a safe place. Strand leads Madison and Walker to a hideout. Strand tells Madison that he is trapped here until his debts are paid. He starts trying to smooth things over with flattering words to Walker. He reveals that he plans to reconnect with a friend who controls a dam near Tijuana and reveals the dam's existence and tells Walker there is a good reason he has survived this far.

Madison wakes up in Strand's place. He gives her water and sits beside her. They catch up with each other. He asks about her, then about Nick. Madison reveals she found him before telling him Alicia is north. "My children are alive," Madison said. Strand is relieved and learning of Travis' death, He embraces Madison. Guards barge in with Walker as their captive. Walker says the guards had threatened to kill them. A guard tells Madison that Strand must pay off his debt to Proctor by defending the front gate from Infected while chained up. Strand urges Madison to leave him and return to Nick and Alicia. "The whole world is lost," Strand tells her. "My mother named me Victor because she knew I'd always win. I'll be fine." Strand is escorted out with the rest of the prisoners. "Don't worry your pretty blonde head," he tells her.

Outside the stadium, Strand is escorted to the gate. A man shoots down an infected and uses its chain to keep Victor on the post. He removes Victor's handcuffs and leaves him there with a pipe for a weapon. Strand will have to spend the night here defending the location. Strand grabs a hammer as a group of Infected approaches. Meanwhile, Strand has become surrounded, He uses a hammer to take them down. He is surrounded just as Madison and the men who put him out there gun down the undead and help him up. "Your debt is paid," Madison tells him. Walker confronts Madison about using his gold to pay off Strand’s debt. She reasons that the water tanker was just a short-term solution and that Strand can lead them to a longer-term solution: a dam.

"La Serpiente"
Strand, Madison and Walker cruise down a highway in their truck. They are 30 kilometers from Tijuana. Walker insists they won't go there and Strand promises they are not. After a while, they come upon a herd of walkers blocking the road near abandoned cars. Strand, however, has a plan. He tosses a beeping key on the side of the road and the noise attracts the infected. Slowly, Walker pushes the truck forward and literally through the cars.

Strand leads Madison and Walker through sewage tunnels but appears to lose his way. Strand tells Madison and Walker that he's looking for a symbol that Proctor's scouts used to mark the tunnel that leads to the dam. Walker decides to head back to the surface and leaves them. Strand tells Madison that Daniel is at the dam but that Daniel is angry with him for misleading him on Ofelia’s whereabouts. Strand breathes a sigh of relief when Madison informs him that Ofelia is alive and safe at the ranch. As they head down the tunnel they run into Walker who is fleeing from a group of Infected.

Strand finds the symbol and points out the pipe that leads to the dam. As they crawl to their destination, they run into an Infected blocking the way. Madison kills the Infected with a hatchet then hacks its body into pieces to unplug the pipe, but as she does so the blocked up sewage is released and gushes over them.

Strand emerges from the sewers, to see Daniel and his group/ He is not happy to see him but Madison emerges and asks Daniel to lower the gun. Walker lowers his first. Madison is surprised to see Daniel is alive. He tells her he is better now before asking about Ofelia. "She's alive, Daniel," Madison tells him. He is reluctant to trust her because of Strand, but Madison reveals Walker helped her and now they need Daniel's help. They need water. Daniel takes Madison's group to see Lola, who is the leader of Gonzalez Dam. They wait outside as Daniel speaks to Lola. Madison assures Walker, Daniel will help them. Madison asks Lola for water in exchange for resources such as cattle or guns. Lola refuses to make a deal and orders Madison to leave the next morning.

Elsewhere, Walker tells Strand that he intends to kick Madison, Alicia, Nick and the ranchers off the ranch since Madison has ruined their chance to replenish the water supply. Strand offers to help Efraín treat Everardo's wound. He doesn't want to trust Strand, though, because Daniel calls him "the snake." Strand starts getting to know them, though. They debate different outlooks of the world. Strand rules, "Uneasy lays the head that wears the crown."

In their rooms, Madison and Strand have a moment together. Strand suggests she leaves the Ranch. Madison, however, insists the dam is not safe because Lola refuses to defend it. They open up more deeply. Madison reveals how much she has done for the kids and how much they have seen. Strand wants her to remove the kids from the picture for a moment and think about what she wants. Madison says that she wants to keep living at the ranch, saying it has problems, but it's the closest thing to what she know. It's where she wants to be. She asks Strand what future he sees. "One where I don't fail my friends," Strand said.

Strand carefully watches Lola's crew prepare a tanker for the water run. Daniel senses that Strand is plotting something and offers to look the other way if his scheme benefits them both. Madison joins Strand at the gate to head back to the ranch. Strand tells Madison to stay away from the water tanker. Moments later it explodes, blowing open the gate. Infected, burning in flames, stumble towards the dam. Strand and Madison look on. Lola’s men kill the Infected with help from Madison and Strand. They walk past the wreckage of the truck putting down infected. Daniel aids their efforts. Lola is down there, now. Daniel says all but, "I told you so." People are heard chanting at the dam as they approach. Daniel calls Strand and Madison over so the crew can fix the fence.

Inside, Lola is finally will to bargain. She is going to trade water for guns and ammo. Daniel writes down exactly what they need. Madison can deliver the demands and asks for 10,000 gallons of water per week and a truck full now. Madison rules the trading post Bazar will be the meeting point. Lola says Ofelia must attend the meeting.

Daniel sends off Madison and Strand in a water tanker provided by Lola. As they drive back to the ranch, Strand admits he rigged the explosion. Madison asks how Strand pulled off making the truck explode. "Trick I saw in an old movie," he said. "I had my doubts!" She thanks him. "You would've done the same for me," he insists. Madison and Strand spot Walker on the road. Walker smiles and gets inside the cab.

"This Land Is Your Land"
Strand arrives back at the ranch with Madison and Walker to find it overrun by walkers. After Ofelia and Crazy Dog blow up the ranch's fuel reserve to destroy the horde, Strand joins Madison, Walker, Nick and Troy in rescuing Alicia from the pantry. However, they are too late to save the majority of the ranch's residents and Natives who either died in the walker attack or suffocated in the pantry. Strand and Madison gazes upon the decimated ranch. With Broke Jaw Ranch destroyed, Madison decides to return to the dam accompanied by Strand, Ofelia, Walker and Crazy Dog while Alicia goes her own way followed by Nick and Troy to ensure her safety. Everyone heads off in their own directions as Strand is shown driving the truck with Madison, Ofelia, Walker and Crazy Dog in it.

"El Matadero"
Strand, Madison and Walker drive a tanker to the trading outpost to meet with Lola and Daniel. Strand worries that things might go south when they show up to the trade empty-handed. Madison is confident that handing over what they have will be enough to convince Daniel to continue helping them, even after the attack on the Ranch cost them so many supplies. If Daniel refuses, Madison argues that they at least have Ofelia.

While on the back of the truck, Ofelia grows weak and and falls off the truck. Strand and the group notices a bite mark on Ofelia's collar bone. She got bitten while clearing the vents. She begs Madison to take her to her father, and Madison says she will make it happen. Madison's group arrives at the outpost a day early. Strand tells Madison that the outpost guards will kill Ofelia if they think she’s sick, but Madison insists they must enter to get Ofelia a bed and medicine. Madison's group hands over their weapons at the checkpoint. Ofelia steadies herself, and a guard waves her through. Madison sells part of their rifle stash to pay for entry. They're allowed entrance even though the exchange rates have gone up, much to Strand's frustration. Madison sets up Ofelia inside a room then goes to find painkillers. Walker stands guard over Ofelia.

Strand confronts Madison and says that they just gave away their bartering tools for Ofelia to say goodbye. Strand tells her she is giving up all of their resources without thinking of the consequences. Madison asks if he's afraid of Daniel, but Strand says that she shouldn't assume and that he’s going to help them when they show up with no weapons and a dead daughter and he walks away.

Elsewhere in the Bazar, Strand explores various corridors. People are heard having sex, others are gambling, and other inappropriate acts are being carried out. As Strand tries to head to a locked area, he is approached by the men who were holding him earlier. He wants to talk to Proctor John, but the men insist he'll just have to stay with them until Strand says he has something that John will want.

The next day, the group heads to the trucks, splitting up from Nick and Troy, and Madison asks Strand if he's ready. He says he is "always" ready, looking back at the security guards who he may or may not have worked out some sort of deal with.

"Things Bad Begun"
Strand joins Madison at the dam and tries to comfort her about Alicia and Nick's departures. She recalls old holiday memories with her kids and reveals she thought she would have that at the Ranch. Strand insists they can have that here and they'll build such a paradise here that her kids will want to come home. He offers her some scotch.

Madison and Strand drink heavily together. Strand tells Madison that he's never killed a living person. Madison says that it's just a matter of time. Daniel informs Madison that Nick has arrived at the dam.

Troy and Nick are quick to reveal to Strand, Lola and the others that the Proctors are going to attack the dam. Daniel reveals there are three entry ways. They come up with a plan to defend the dam which calls for C4 and teamwork. Strand urges Madison to leave with Nick, but Madison insists on staying to help. Troy volunteers to help set up the explosives.

Strand orders Nick to take his mother and leave. He is going to stay behind because he has "obligations" here. Nick calls him out for sweating, and forces Strand to confess that he made a deal with Proctor John to facilitate a takeover of the dam in exchange for a role as steward of the dam. Strand explains that Proctor John agreed to spare Madison and Nick as part of the deal but worries that once Daniel and Lola resist the attack, the deal will no longer be honored by the Proctors. At the dam, Daniel talks with Strand. He is unhappy about how the water is pumping in the wrong direction. Strand insists Lola has it taken care of.

Strand approaches Daniel and Lola with a gun when Lola was to fix the levers and orders her to step away. She realizes the entrance in unprotected. Strand reveals his plans and turns the gun to Daniel who eventually attacks him and they fight for the gun. Strand shoots Daniel in the chin in front of Lola. Daniel slowly rises up with a bullet hole in his cheek, spitting blood and teeth from his mouth. Strand escapes, while Lola escorts him out of the room.

The Proctors infiltrate the dam through the unguarded tunnels. Daniel's men ambush the Proctors. Gunfire breaks out, killing Efrain. A Proctor brother confronts Strand about the ambush. Strand assures him that Lola and Daniel are dead.

Strand brings Madison and Nick to a remote room and promises to try and keep them safe. He takes the detonator, locks their door and leaves.

"Sleigh Ride"
Strand is at the bottom of the dock, greeting Proctor John arriving with Alicia and his men. Strand exchanges quick glances with Alicia. John admonishes Strand for the unanticipated resistance from dam guards. Strand quietly assures Alicia that Madison and Nick are alive and in hiding. He vows to help them escape if she agrees to work with him.

Strand checks in on Madison and Nick. Madison holds him at gunpoint and accuses him of ratting out Daniel and Lola, but releases him when he reveals that Alicia is at the dam with John. He instructs Madison and Nick to change into worker uniforms so that he can sneak them out. He admits that he shot Daniel but didn't kill him. Without other options, Madison and Nick reluctantly acquiesce to his plan. Nick tells Strand there's "hope" for him since he didn't kill Lola.

Strand walks Madison and Nick across a bridge on top of the dam. John's men kill Lola's guards and throw them over the bridge. Strand tells John's men that their boss asked him to kill Madison and Nick personally. The escape is short-lived as Lola attacks the group and guns down several of John's men. John shoots her dead and discovers Strand trying to smuggle Madison and Nick. Strand is terrified to see him.

Moments later, John has brought Strand, Madison and Nick into an office. He pistol whips Strand. Alicia tries to calm him but is ordered to be silent. Strand doubles down on Daniel being dead despite John discovering Lola having been alive. Madison vouches for him and introduces herself. John orders Alicia to her mother. One of John's men recognizes Nick from the trading post and recalls that he was with another man. John decides to kill Nick, who he deems untrustworthy, and must therefore also kill Madison and Alicia, knowing they'll seek revenge for Nick's murder.

Strand, Madison, Nick and Alicia walk across the dam bridge together. Nick hugs Strand goodbye then gets in position for his execution. Strand tells John that the dam is rigged with explosives and reaches into his pocket to pull out the detonator, but comes up empty. Nick reveals that he took the detonator while hugging Strand.

Nick threatens to detonate the explosives unless John allows Madison, Alicia and Strand to escape. Alicia urges Nick to come with them, but John points out that Nick cannot leave the detonator's range. Nick calls the negotiations his "suicide note." John agrees to his conditions. Strand, Madison and Alicia run from the dam and they reach the Zodiac and launch into the water. Strand, Madison and Alicia fix the motor and power ahead.

Nick flips the switch and detonates the explosives. The dam breaks apart as John and his men flee. Madison, Alicia and Strand struggle to escape the current created by the imploding dam. The boat is sucked into the dam.

Season 4
After the events of the dam, Madison found Strand near death and nurse him back to health.

"What's Your Story?"
After surviving the Gonzalez Dam explosion and somehow reuniting with Nick and his group, Strand appears, alongside Nick, Alicia and Luciana, ambushing Morgan, John and Althea on the road.

"Another Day in the Diamond"
In the past, Strand, Nick, Alicia and Luciana wake up at their new home in a baseball stadium. They begin their daily routine and then start working on projects around the stadium. Strand joins Nick and Alicia for breakfast, talking about celebrating the day. Cole, a resident at the stadium, sits with them.

When Strand and the others go on a search mission, Cole tries to join them, but Strand tells him to stay behind for watch duty. Strand, Madison, Alicia and Luciana leave without Nick. On the road, Madison jokes with Strand about Cole's crush on him. Nick contacts them via walkie and informs them that weevils are destroying the turnips, just before losing connection.

Strand's crew arrives in a deserted town. They split up to find Charlie's family. Strand and Luciana enter a store that has been picked clean. Luciana predicts that Madison won't go back until she has performed a thorough search. Strand points out that he would not be alive if it weren't for Madison's determination. To this day, he's not sure why she saved him after he betrayed her at the dam. Strand and Luciana receive three static bursts and realize that Madison is in trouble.

Strand, Luciana and Alicia stop a survivor named Naomi, who snatches Madison's keys and starts to leave, before they cut her off. She runs to the top of an oil tank and falls through the roof. Madison jumps in after her and helps Naomi fight Infected in a pool of oil. Strand and Alicia pry open the hatch to the tank and kill the remaining Infected. Alicia rescues Madison from an Infected. Strand's crew returns to the stadium and rams into the Infected with their truck, saving Nick in time.

Strand, Douglas and Cole push Nick's truck back toward the stadium. Luciana sees something in the distance and yells at them to ditch the car and get back inside. A convoy of trucks pulls up behind them. Luciana sees something in the distance and yells at them to ditch the car and get back inside. An army of trucks and a group called the Vultures parks in the lot, refusing to leave until they give them all of their supples.

The next day, Strand, Alicia and Cole stare at the newcomers outside. They hear Madison hammering in the dugout and decide to join her.

On the road, Strand, Nick, Alicia and Luciana hold Morgan, John, and Althea at gunpoint. Luciana finds a white "51" flag in the SWAT vehicle and accuses them of belonging to Mel's group. Al insists she doesn't know the significance of the flag, but Alicia orders them to show them where they found the flag. They get on the SWAT truck and drive.

"Good Out Here"
Strand, Luciana, Nick and Alicia hold Morgan, Althea, and John prisoner in the SWAT truck. Al reveals that she only gave them partial directions to the location with the numbered flag. She agrees to provide the rest of the directions on the condition that they tell her their stories. She escapes from her bonds and attacks Nick, causing him to jostle Luciana in the driver's seat. Luciana swerves off the road and crashes.

John and Althea hold Strand and his group hostage. They unsuccessfully try to extract the SWAT truck from the mud. Luciana offers to locate a tow truck, but demands that she and her friends be released. Al cuts their bonds but holds Nick hostage. Morgan offers to stay with Nick while the others find the tow truck.

Strand, Alicia and Luciana set out with John and Althea. Strand asks Althea why she collects people's stories. She attempts to not answer, but Strand tells her not to change the subject and asks again why. Althea declares that the truth matters and again offers to disclose the location of the flag in exchange for everyone's stories.

Strand's group returns to the SWAT truck and finds it swarming with Infected. John spots an arrow left by Morgan to indicate the direction that he and Nick went. Alicia offers to help tow the truck while Luciana and John look for Morgan and Nick. Strand agrees to tell their stories to Althea if she takes them to the location of the flag. Alicia fights off Infected as she attaches the tow truck cable to the SWAT truck. Strand pulls the truck out of the mud. Afterwords, Strand and his group catch up with Morgan and Nick.

Later, Nick gets shot in the chest by Charlie, who runs away. Strand, Alicia, and Luciana try to revive Nick, but he dies. Strand, Alicia and Luciana mourn over Nick's death.

"Buried"
Strand, Alicia, Luciana, Morgan, Althea and John ride in the SWAT van with Nick's body. In a flashback, Althea videotapes Luciana as she plunges a knife into Nick's head to keep him from turning. She films Alicia killing an Infected Ennis, and Strand covering Nick's body with his jacket.

In the SWAT van, Strand informs Althea that his group is ready to tell their stories. Althea turns on her video camera and asks the group how they ended up in their current situation. Luciana explains that everything traces back to one particular day. In the past,

Strand, Nick, Alicia, Luciana and Cole eat breakfast at the stadium. Strand wants to enhance people's meals by putting their precious syrup on it. They reject it, insisting he save it for when things get better. Naomi seems skeptical and sits just far enough away for it to be obvious. They're going to go out on a supply run. Madison distributes maps of potential supply locations that the Vultures might have missed.

In the SWAT van, Strand tells Al that their first misstep that day was to go on runs. Strand leads Cole through a greenhouse. Cole pries Strand for details about his life as they search a nursery for plants. Cole asks Strand why he's afraid of him. They kill a group of Infected together. Strand and Cole continue their run elsewhere. Strand warns Cole that he has done questionable things in the past.

Strand brings Cole to a secret car and reveals a stash of provisions that he has been stocking for himself as evidence of his duplicity and they begin arguing about how people make it or don't. Strand tells him he does what it takes to survive. He proposes they run off together. Cole rejects Strand's offer and drives back to the stadium alone.

In the SWAT van, Althea questions whether Strand thinks this is his fault. Alicia defends him, saying it's not his fault, and he wasn't the only one who thought about leaving. Strand sits in the driver's seat of his escape car.

Everyone returns to the stadium. Strand follows in his SUV and reveals he brought all of the supplies back because he "got a little reminder of what he stood to lose." In the SWAT van, Strand tells Althea that he never told anyone that he'd hidden the supplies only for himself. Strand tells Althea he should have kept the car a secret. Luciana tells Althea that they should have left the stadium for a new destination. They declare that Nick is dead because they wanted to believe the stadium would work out and they should have convinced Madison to leave or found a different place to go.

At night, Strand and the group parks the truck in a field. They come across a cache of weapons. Rather than burying Nick, they had Al bring them to the spot to dig up a cache of guns. They're planning to kill the Vultures. Althea is not happy about the group's deception. Strand has a map to their location. Alicia questions whether or not Althea will drive them. Strand convinces her to come see how this ends for herself.

John finds the Colt in the backpack and realizes that Naomi is Laura. Alicia tells him that Naomi died at the stadium. John chooses to remain behind as Althea takes Alicia and her friends after the Vultures. Morgan stays behind with John as Strand and everyone else leaves in the van.

"Just in Case"
Strand, Alicia, Luciana and Althea speed toward the Vultures' next meeting spot. Alicia interrogates Althea about the SWAT vehicle's firepower, but Althea makes it clear that she only records events and will not participate in their fight.

In the past, Strand, Nick and Luciana consult the road atlas to find a location that might yield seeds and fertilizer. Luciana asks Strand where he found the car with food. Strand concocts a story and sees Cole glaring at him.

Strand thanks Cole for keeping his escape car a secret. Cole explains that he’s merely keeping quiet because he's worried Strand might harm him if he talks. Madison checks in with Strand and suggests they share some liquor that she found. Strand and Madison take swigs straight out of the bottle. Strand asks Madison why she saved him after the dam explosion, despite his treachery. Madison explains that she knows Strand is a decent person. "That and I really like drinking with you." she says. They're interrupted by the sound of a car honking.

Viv stands in the way as Naomi tries to leave the stadium in a car. Viv tells Madison that Naomi was trying to run off with one of their cars. Naomi says that she was merely driving to a location that might have seeds and fertilizer. Strand and Madison join her. Strand, Madison and Naomi pull over at a motel and kill Infected in the front office. Madison deduces that the people killed each other over a can of baked beans. Strand finds a stash of snacks.

Over dinner, Naomi explains that she's taking Strand and Strand to an abandoned FEMA shelter. She admits that she had been planning to flee the stadium when Viv caught her, but that she had intended to leave them with a map to the FEMA shelter. Strand orders her to hand over the car keys, and everyone gets some sleep.

In the morning, Strand and Madison finds out Naomi is gone. Strand and Madison look at the FEMA map to catch up with Naomi. Strand admits to Madison that the car with supplies had been his escape car. He warns Madison that some people, such as himself and Naomi, never change.

Strand and Madison enter the FEMA shelter and spot Naomi on the scaffolding. Naomi tosses them the "JIC" keys and tells them there's a truck outside with supplies, but Strand refuses to leave her behind. Madison distracts Infected while Strand strings up some rope. Naomi shimmies across the rope and escapes with Strand and Madison

Strand, Madison and Naomi rest in the lobby. Naomi explains that she and her daughter, Rose, had stayed at the shelter, where a woman named Ellen taught "Just in Case" survival skill classes. Naomi says that she left the shelter to find antibiotics after Rose caught pneumonia. When she returned, Rose had died, turned and infected everyone else. Naomi takes Strand and Madison to a well-stocked "Just in Case" truck that Ellen had prepared in the event of an emergency. After putting down the reanimated Ellen and removing her body, they prepare to return to the stadium.

Strand assures Naomi that anyone can start over. Strand, Madison and Naomi return to the stadium with plants and fertilizer. Cole congratulates Strand on helping accomplish their mission. Strand, however, dishes credit to Madison and says he didn't actually tell him who he is. Strand tries to talk to Madison, but she ends the conversation in a distracted mood.

In the present, Strand, Alicia and Luciana wait for the Vultures at their designated meeting spot. They see a van approach.

Morgan and John get out of the van. Alicia's group forces them to their knees. Morgan explains that they warned the Vultures to stay away. A moment later, Melvin and his Vultures arrive in their vehicles and face off with Strand's group. On Mel's walkie, a woman asks where everyone is. A Land Rover pulls up, and Naomi steps out, revealed to be alive. John walks toward her. Alicia shoots at Naomi, but accidentally hits John. He falls to the ground.

"The Wrong Side of Where You Are Now"
Strand and his group exchange gunfire with the Vultures. They kill all the Vultures and Morgan, John, Althea, Naomi and Charlie escapes. Strand, Alicia and Luciana fire at their truck as it leaves. Strand, Alicia and Luciana predict that Naomi is heading for the stadium. They all come up with a plan in the truck before Alicia heads out to finish off Melvin.

In the past, Strand informs Madison that the Vultures removed all of the Infected that they had trapped in storage tanks. He shows her a stack of white number flags that the Vultures had used to tally up the Infected. The total indicates that Ennis is amassing a vast army of Infected. Strand later witness Madison exiling Mel out of their home.

At the gate, Strand and Cole fortify the walls. Alicia approaches, though, and she and Nick are leaving to find Melvin. Strand questions whether or not Madison knows they're leaving. Nick acknowledges that she doesn't. "Your mother did the same thing for me," Strand says. "Far be it for me to stop you." and allows them to leave. They find Melvin and spot Ennis' convoy heading toward the stadium and Alicia warns Strand that the Vultures are coming.

Strand asks Cole to alert Madison to the approaching convoy. Strand and Madison see an ice cream truck drive up to the stadium gate, leaving behind a trail of oil. Ennis and the Vultures open the trucks and release the Infected. A massive herd makes its way toward the stadium gates. A Vulture lights the trail of oil. Strand notices that the Infected are covered in oil and will start a fire if they get close. Madison orders someone to get the irrigation truck then runs toward the gate to help Nick and Alicia. Strand and Luciana join her.

"No One's Gone"
Strand, Luciana and Alicia catch up to Althea's group, with their intentions to kill Naomi and Charlie to avenge Madison and Nick. They open fire on Althea, who fires back. Strand suggests they head toward the infirmary. Alicia hatches a different plan. Alicia takes Charlie hostage and orders Althea to tell Naomi that it's safe to come out of the tunnel.

Strand and Luciana aim their guns at the tunnel exit. Althea distracts Alicia while John quietly presses the transmission button on the walkie, allowing Naomi and Morgan to overhear Alicia and realize they're walking into a trap. Strand informs Alicia that Naomi has not emerged from the tunnel. Alicia sees the walkie next to John and realizes what happened. A fight breaks out and Althea attacks Alicia. After a while, Morgan convinces Alicia not to kill Naomi and relinquishes the weapon. Alicia breaks down in tears, finally bring peace between the two group.

In the past, Madison tracks down Strand, Alicia, Nick and Luciana at a motel. Strand sees the ramen in her truck. Madison brings Strand and the others to the stadium. She vows to build a new community and bring in survivors.

In the present, Althea drives the SWAT van with Strand's group on board. Althea asks what happened to Madison. Alicia tells her to pull over. Strand, Alicia, Luciana, Althea, Morgan, June, John and Charlie sit around a campfire. Althea begins filming and asks what happened at the stadium.

In a flashback, Strand, Madison and Luciana kill Infected to clear a path between the vehicle and the stadium. The stadium residents flee, but the Infected overcome the stadium residents as they try to escape. Madison lights a flare and leads hundreds of Infected inside the stadium. Unable to escape through the tunnels as there are still too many Infected outside, she locks the gate and lights the oil-soaked herd on fire. Nick and Alicia sob as they drive away from the inferno with Luciana and Strand.

In the present, Strand's group tells Althea that Madison killed herself to save them, causing everyone to break down in tears over the story. Althea lowers her camera and writes "Madison" on the interview tape. The group eats ramen around the campfire.

"People Like Us"
As Morgan ventures onto the property where the mansion Strand is staying is located on, he encounters a lone zombie. As he attempts to take it out, Strand shoots it as he hangs from a second story window, holding a bottle of wine. Strand has been spending his days raiding the mansion's wine cellar and getting drunk while Luciana listens to music in the other room. He rejects Morgan's offer to travel to Alexandria. Later, he saves Luciana from a zombie that made its way inside the mansion. When John Dorie shows up at the house, he recruits Strand to help search for Charlie, who has gone missing just as a storm begins to roll into the area.

"Close Your Eyes"
As Alicia points a gun at Charlie's head when the basement floods, Strand appears briefly in a flashback to when he held down on Nick's chest when he was dying, and grabbed a walker that was on fire when the stadium fell.

"The Code"
While Morgan is on a bridge heading back to Texas to find the others, he hears Strand's voice saying to enjoy his trip, remembering his last encounter with him before he was heading back to Virginia.

"Blackjack"
Somehow after the storm, Strand and John are marooned on a small island. Strand wakes up at a ranger station. He uses binoculars to scout the area. It's surrounded by water. Nearby, John is chopping wood with his gun belt hanging on a tree. He is forced to put down a walker, still recovering from his bullet wound. He and Strand realize a bird has been attracting the dead with its noise.

Strand rules that if he had alcohol this place would be paradise, which he had until he agreed to go with John and he definitely won't board the raft John is building. "It's time to stop being foolish," Strand rules.

Later on, John prepares to depart on his raft. Strand watches him struggle. An alligator starts to approach John so he shoots at it, forcing it to scamper off. Strand jokes that they are still roommates.

John spots a walker walk into the river only to get mauled by the gator. Strand walks up and tells John his efforts to find June are useless but John tells him they'll get off the island if they try hard enough. They end up arguing about how far they've come and how different they are from the past.

After John finds an overturned pick-up truck at the top of the hill, Strand climbs on it and wrestles with a walker for a bottle of scotch. The movement causes the truck to roll down the hill, which impales the walkers with a branch while Strand miraculously survives. John scolds him for his decision, but Strand ignores him and walks off.

A while later, John confronts Strand on his drinking, who tells him he drinks to forget and he has no one left to drink with. He laments that he only has things to look back on compared to John, who has something to look forward to. John tells him he can drink with him on the boat, which is even outfitted with a truck horn. Impressed, Strand finally agrees to come with him. John uses the truck horn to lure a walker into the water, so the gator can devour it and give them time to escape.

Strand and John paddle halfway down the river until the radio horn cuts out. The walkers roam away as their boat gets attacked by the gator and quickly fills with water. Strand fires his gun to distract the walkers while they sadly swim back to the island. Strand takes a swig from his bottle and holes up in the cabin while John eats one of his candies.

"I Lose People..."
On the island, Strand and John notice Alicia and Charlie waving at them from across the pond and regain their hope of getting rescued.

After a while, Strand and John hear a vehicle nearby and discover it's the SWAT truck. Alicia plows it through the lake to rescue them as the two men take a swig from their bottle in celebration. Charlie returns John's hat and he commends her for talking again. Strand notices Martha zip-tied in the back and asks who she is.

In the SWAT truck, John radios Morgan to give him the all-clear on speaking freely on the walkies and June responds immediately. They're both elated to talk to one another. June gives him her location and he says they’re on their way.

After reuniting with the rest of the group, Strand and the others contact Morgan on the radio, telling him they're going to save him. Morgan looks down and sees their plan: a fire truck.

While Morgan tosses his stick down and gingerly begins climbing down the building, Alicia, June and Luciana draw a herd of walkers and barely make it back to the fire truck alive, only to find Martha missing.

As the group gets surrounded by walkers, Jim decides to sacrifice himself to save them. Before he does, he radios Sarah the recipe for his beer. She writes it down, Jim takes a deep breath, and throws himself off the ledge and onto a car, attracting the walkers away from the fire truck.

On the road, Sarah decides they should name the beer "Jimbo's Beerbos" in his memory. Morgan proposes they find Althea and then travel to Alexandria together.

"... I Lose Myself"
After the group finds Al, they sit around a campfire and Morgan describes his plan to pick up more boxes at the truck stop to distribute them en route to Alexandria.

The next day, the group arrives at the truck stop and stocks up on supplies from the store. Outside, Althea loads the van when some walkers approach. Al jumps down to fight them, but is too weak and passes out. Alicia shoots at the herd and then instructs everyone to get inside as the noise will attract more.

Inside, everyone doubles over in pain as more walkers scrape at the windows. June realizes that someone opened the water bottles in the store and poisoned the water. Al deduces it was Martha.

Finally able to communicate, Morgan tells them it's anti-freeze. June tells them the antidote is ethanol and the group hatches a plan to get it from one of the trucks outside.

June and Charlie create a distraction while Strand and Luciana make it to the truck. The walkers turn their attention to them but Althea jumps in her SWAT truck and machine guns the walkers, while accidentally putting holes into the tank and causing the ethanol to drain out.

June updates Morgan on their problem and he tells them he can't lose them. John encourages him and says he's strong with or without them.

Suddenly, Morgan shows up and reveals that he brought a truck of Jim's Augie's Ale, saving the day. The group drinks the beer and suddenly regain their strength. Strand tells Alicia he thought he'd never have anyone to drink with again since Madison and Alicia says he has her.

Morgan then brings Strand and the group back to the place he left Martha. He finds her severed arm attached to the police car and sees her turned, walking on the road. He stabs her in the head and then buries her.

Morgan tells everyone he's no longer going to Alexandria. He says that Martha became the person she was because nobody helped her when she needed it and that more people need help.

The group arrives at Clayton's supply factory and Morgan says they should follow his path and help others. Alicia says it can't just be about boxes, they need to build something like Madison would want. Strand, however, questions where they will find people. Althea suggests they can start with the people she interviewed.

Shortly after, Strand and the group mobilizes a convoy of vehicles outside the factory. They load up on ammo and head out. Morgan gets on his walkie and broadcasts that they are coming to help anyone who might be in need.

Season 5
Four months after using the denim factory as a headquarters to distribute the supply boxes, Strand and the group have had poor luck in finding or recruiting other survivors, with many of the people interviewed on Althea's tapes dead or missing.

"Here to Help"
On the road, Strand and Charlie ride in Al's armored truck side by side with Sarah and Wendell's truck towards the factory following Althea's distress call asking him to find a man with a second plane using a tape labeled "Skidmark".

At the factory, Strand and the others discover Logan and his crew has taken over the place and are forced to leave at gunpoint. That night, Sarah and Wendell drink outside the factory and lament their failure. Charlie says she can find a way in and Strand vows to get the mill back. He wishes he was on the plane but vows to get on the next one and reunite with the rest of the group.

A while later, Strand watches one of Al's tapes and discovers the man with the second plane is Daniel. He pauses the frame and stares in disbelief at his old acquaintance.

"The Hurt That Will Happen"
Inside Althea's truck, Strand makes a tape where he tells the others that if they're watching it then he didn't make it. He grabs a few supplies and a beer before heading down a road onto El Paso.

Sometime later, he arrives at the entrance of some compound with rebar sticking out of the road. An orange cat greets him before a walker impales itself on the rebar. Suddenly, a gun cocks and Victor puts his hands up, asking Daniel to act calm and reasonably. Daniel orders him to turn around slowly. He tells him that his cat, Skidmark, likes him. Daniel then shoots a walker behind Strand before inviting him inside.

Daniel guides Strand through a warehouse full of cars and trucks, demanding he not touch anything and saying he inherited this place. Strand asks if he could borrow his plane to find his friends. Daniel asks if it's for Madison and Strand breaks the news about her and Nick to Daniel's visible sorrow. However, Daniel doesn't believe him and claims Strand just wants the plane for himself because he is always self-serving. He reminds Strand that he once shot him in the face and left him for dead on a dam which he rigged with explosives. Strand desperately explains people can change and gets Daniel to help him better tune the radio.

That night, Strand makes contract with Luciana and informs her that the man with the plane is going to help them, but the radio feed cuts out. Daniel believes that the others need help and tells Strand to follow him. However, Strand is escorted off of his property. Daniel is confident the group will survive just fine and that Victor's interference will only make the situation worse for them based on their past history with each other. Daniel fires a couple of shots into the air, insisting Victor to leave now. "If you come back, the next one will be in your face," he tells him. Strand leaves furiously and smashes the head of some walker with a rock before heading off into the moonlight.

"Skidmark"
At night, Strand sends Charlie to check out Daniel's plane. She finds it and radios him, Sarah, and Wendell so Strand instructs her to open the gate. However, Skidmark finds Charlie and meows at her, causing Daniel to investigate. Charlie hides in Daniel's new car but Skidmark follows her as he approaches and loads up the truck with guns. Strand wants Charlie to run but she insists on staying as Daniel leaves in the truck.

The next day, Strand and Sarah are loading up the plane at Salazar's compound. He realizes some of the gages from the cockpit are missing and then sees a note that says "I already said no! Channel 8". Strand turns his walkie to the channel and radios Daniel, who assures him he's far from the warehouse, but when he gets back he'll kill him. Sarah radios Daniel next and he advises her to stay away from Strand. He then tells Charlie to show herself, which she does. "I am going to save her from you," Daniel tells Strand. He tries to plan his next moves and Sarah suggests they search the warehouse for the plane parts.

Later, Strand radios Daniel and begs him to bring the instruments back and he says he will, but they’re bringing a herd of walkers with them. He gives him instructions about returning but Sarah says she broke their fence down to free the plane. A while later, Charlie returns to the warehouse and gives Strand the plane instruments. Suspicious, Strand radios Daniel to ask if he's putting him in danger. Daniel tells him he wants to get back at him for lying to him about Ofelia, confusing the others. Strand explains how he lied about Ofelia's whereabouts and prevented him from saying goodbye before she died. Charlie says that despite their past, they need to save Daniel.

On the road, Sarah and Wendell arrive in Al's van to help Daniel, but the machine gun lever doesn't shoot, so Daniel hides underneath. Strand and Charlie then arrive in a truck with the plane in the back. Strand leads the walkers towards him, turns on the propellers, and watches as the walkers kill themselves until the plane engines stop. Strand confronts Daniel, who tells him he won't shoot him after all.

At the warehouse, Strand looks at Daniel and nods at him in appreciation as he leaves. Afterward, he radios Luciana to tell her about the broken plane.

"The Little Prince"
Strand, Charlie, and Sarah work to relay instructions to the group via radio on rebuilding the crashed plane by examining Daniel's wrecked plane. However, due to the threat of a second power plant meltdown, Morgan and the others are forced to give up the truck stop's generator, leaving them without the ability to communicate with the others.

Strand and the others are left with a plane with working propellers but no working engine while Morgan and the others have working engines but no propellers. Staring at an old advertisement for Jim Brauer's brewery, Strand notes that at least Jim had the advantage of self-sacrifice, causing Sarah to sharply rebuke him for his disrespect towards Jim's sacrifice. Charlie stares at the advertisement and asks Sarah if she and Wendell had gotten everything from the brewery. After Sarah states they took all of the bottles, Charlie draws their attention to something on the advertisement.

Later, Strand contacts the others to reveal that he and Charlie are coming with the propellers using Jim's beer-themed hot air balloon while Sarah and Wendell clear a runway for their return. However, the balloon runs out of fuel and crashes in a field in the radioactive zone caused by the power plant meltdown. Morgan warns the two against killing any walkers as they could become contaminated themselves. As Strand and Charlie assess their situation, a herd appears with at least two radioactive walkers, worrying them due to Morgan's warning.

"Still Standing"
Strand and Charlie stave off walkers at the crash site. He finally frees the propeller as Charlie uses the balloon as a walker barricade. He then tells Charlie they'll have to wait until help arrives. A while later, Strand reveals to Charlie he could have been on the first plane and promises he won't hesitate again. Suddenly, Morgan pulls up in a truck wearing a hazmat suit. He kills the walkers and reunites with them.

Strand then listens as Morgan radios Grace to convince her to come with them to no avail. However, Morgan tells Strand and Charlie to get the truck and he’ll meet them at the truck stop later.

At night, Strand and Charlie arrive at the truck stop and update Luciana on the situation. They then finish repairing the plane with the propellers. A while later, Annie and the kids arrive. Luciana introduces them to Strand and Annie tells him Alicia's still out there in the woods, worrying him.

"Is Anybody Out There?"
In a flashback, Strand and the group takes turns on the radio trying to reach out to strangers who might need help, to no avail. In the present, he and the group wait on the airfiled for the rest to arrive.

Strand then witness the nuclear plant explosion in awe, making him and the group proceed to get the plane ready to leave. When Alicia gets inside the cabin, Strand tells her that Madison would be proud of them. After everyone makes it on the plane safely, he and Al steer through the wall of smoke from the reactor filling the runway and make it into the open air. That night, the plane roars toward the dark runway as Wendell fixes the lights at the last second, allowing the plane to finally land.

Strand approaches Daniel as he admitts he was wrong. "We all are sometimes," Strand says happily. Suddenly, a woman contacts Morgan on the radio, asking if that was his plane flying overhead. She's seen his boxes and wants his help. The communication cuts out as Logan interrupts the signal and says they need to chat. He pulls up in an old truck as everyone focuses their guns on him.

Logan tells Strand and the group the gasoline is going bad and that Clayton wrote down an oil rig location. He says if they hand over his journal he'll help them find it. They're skeptical, but he makes the case they won't be able to help anyone without it and suggests "they" will beat them to it.

"Channel 4"
Victor will appear in this episode.

"You're Still Here"
Victor will appear in this episode.

"End of the Line"
Victor will appear in this episode.

Killed Victims
This list shows the victims Victor has killed:
 * Jake Powell (Indirectly Caused)
 * Thomas Abigail (Before Reanimation)
 * Jessica Diaz (Zombified, Off-Screen)
 * Ilene Stowe (Indirectly Caused)
 * Tintos (Zombified)
 * Salyan (Zombified)
 * Ingrid (Possibly)
 * Several unnamed Broke Jaw Ranch residents (Zombified)
 * Several unnamed Black Hat Reservation residents (Zombified)
 * Many unnamed Gonzalez Dam residents (Caused)
 * At least 1 unnamed Vulture
 * Numerous counts of zombies

Relationships
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Thomas Abigail
"I can go with you."

- Strand lying to Thomas about dying together

Thomas Abigail was, at first, a victim of Strand's money theft scheme. However, Thomas was impressed by Strand and the two eventually became business partners. Their working relationship eventually became romantic and they started dating. After discovering that Thomas had been bitten, Strand was devastated and stayed by his partner's side as he succumbed to the infection. To make Thomas feel better and let go, Strand offered a suicide pact where he would die with Thomas, but subsequently shot him in the head to prevent Thomas from reanimating instead, something that was clearly very hard for him. While burying Thomas, Strand implied that he would've gone through with the suicide pact if he actually believed in an afterlife where he and Thomas could be together.

Nicholas Clark
"The only way to survive in a mad world, is to embrace madness."

- Strand to Nick about the apocalypse

Strand is impressed by Nick. He tells Madison that he saw Nick's potential within five minutes of meeting him (adding that he saw it even though Nick was in the middle of withdrawal). He believes that Nick has what it takes to survive in the post-apocalyptic world, and he takes on a mentor role to Nick, encouraging him to do things such as going to land to retrieve Luis.

Strand is in shock and disbelief over Nick's death.

Madison Clark
"Madison we need to move now!"

- Strand to Madison.

Madison at first had a very tense and untrustworthy relationship with Strand. At first she is very thankful for Victor for saving her family and bringing them to safety on the boat. However as time passes she remains very suspicious of his destination and his true motives. She also notes how tired he is from not sleeping and wants to know what he is in store for the group. Maddy also dislikes Strands dislike for her daughter who he finds a detriment to the group to which she threatens him with his life if he threatens anyone in the group to which is states slightly amused that she cannot take a life. Madison begs Strand to bring aboard Alex and Jake on the boat to which he instantly rejects. She also witnesses Strand cutting the rope on Alex and Jake's life raft to which she now holds a hatred for him. Strand himself believes that their conflict arises over Nick-- telling Madison that he saw, even in the depths of withdrawal, Nick's potential and that Madison, being his mother and knowing him all his life, does not recognize what he is capable off. After arriving at the villa, its implied that Strand actually likes Madison by his conversation about her with Thomas Abigail though Victor claims they were just using each other as a means to an end and shouldn't confuse that with friendship. Despite this, Strand offers to take Madison with him when he leaves on The Abigail and even offers his advice on Celia's relationship with Nick while Madison tries to keep him from getting kicked out. When the villa is destroyed by Daniel, Strand comes back for Madison and the others rather than just abandoning them to die and pulls Madison away from a resistant Nick as a herd approaches. However, after the destruction of Valle de Guadalupe, their relationship has greatly improved as she, Strand, Alicia and Ofelia are seen working and helping each other on searching a new safe haven after Abigail went missing. They begin to trust each other too at this point. Maddy and Strand then share a bond with a few glasses of vodka upon discovering the hotel and begin to get drunk and reckless at the same time with their surroundings as walkers soon charge in around them. They manage to get through all the walkers as Maddy decides to apply Nick's gut trick and tells Strand to do so. They're also just in time to help Alicia, Elena and Hector after being chased by walkers. The two then continue to trust and help each other as they work together to help the two groups in the hotel who are hostile to one another to form a mutual alliance. In "Pillar of Salt", after Strand gets stabbed by Ilene for 'killing' her daughter, Strand calls for Madison and she is shocked and quickly comes to his aid. She, Elena and Oscar then go to a supermarket guarded by local gangs to get some needed supplies for Strand.

Following the founding of the Dell Diamond Baseball Stadium community, Victor and Madison are shown to have grown closer.

When telling the story of Madison's death to Al, Victor is driven to tears while explaining her sacrifice.

Alicia Clark
"Did you tell anything about us?"

- Strand to Alicia about talking to strangers.

Strand and Alicia have a strained relationship. Strand confronts Alicia about the dangers about talking to strangers, showing he cares for her well being. Alicia was also concerned about Strand's safety when Celia forced Strand to leave.

Daniel Salazar
Strand's relationship with Daniel is generally bad with Daniel distrusting Strand right from the start. During their early days on The Abigail, Daniel stuck by Strand's side rather than let Strand out of his sight and removed the magazine from Strand's MP5 after finding it, inadvertently causing trouble when the boat was boarded by Connor's Pirates and Strand lacked a weapon to defend himself with. Despite their animosity, Daniel urged Strand not to bury Thomas at the villa and Strand was noticeably concerned about Daniel's well-being due to his obviously unhinged mental state.

After returning from his apparent death, Daniel extended Strand the kindness of giving him water, but mainly wanted Strand to find out about Ofelia. After Strand revealed his lies when they reached the overrun hotel, Daniel abandoned him again. When Strand betrayed the Gonzalez Dam and his friends to the Proctors, he shot Daniel in the face and tried unsuccessfully to kill him, something that shook Strand up as he'd never tried to kill a living person before and didn't like what he did.

A couple of years later, in "Here to Help", Strand was shocked to discover that Daniel survived the destruction of the dam and immediately anticipated that Daniel would try to kill him for his actions when they met again. In "The Hurt That Will Happen", Strand's first words to Daniel were to try to talk the man out of killing him given their past. Though Strand apparently succeeded in convincing Daniel of the danger his friends were in, Daniel refused to give Strand his plane simply because he thought Strand would make matters worse if he tried to help. Daniel refused to believe that Strand had changed and saw him as still being the selfish man he had known and implied that Strand wasn't there to help when the plane went down because he had been protecting himself by not joining his friends.

Ofelia Salazar
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Travis Manawa
Strand and Travis were not seen interacting on screen much, but seem to have a strained relationship, Travis didnt seem to trust Strand after taking them aboard the Abigail. After Travis found them at the hotel he refused to help Travis from not being kicked out.

In "The Diviner", Strand appeared to be saddened when Madison told him about Travis's death.

Luis Flores
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Celia Flores
"He's not your son."

- Strand to Celia about Thomas.

The relationship between Victor and Celia is strained. Victor treats her with respect, for the most part, since his boyfriend, Thomas, views her as a maternal figure. However, Victor views her as manipulative, picking the weak and vulnerable (such as Nicholas Clark) to impose her views upon, as well as dangerous, since she is willing to kill people without any hint of remorse. Since Victor is strong willed and knows his own mind on matters, and because Celia believes Victor is only using Thomas, they often clash.

Skidmark
When Strand first met Daniel Salazar's cat Skidmark, the two took an immediate liking to each other. Though Daniel noted that Skidmark liked Strand, he didn't take it as a sign of Strand's good character as Skidmark also licked his own ass. }}

Appearances
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Season 1

 * "Cobalt"
 * "The Good Man"

Season 2

 * "Monster"
 * "We All Fall Down"
 * "Ouroboros"
 * "Blood in the Streets"
 * "Captive"
 * "Sicut Cervus"
 * "Shiva"
 * "Los Muertos"
 * "Do Not Disturb" (No Lines)
 * "Pablo & Jessica"
 * "Pillar of Salt"
 * "Wrath"
 * "North"

Season 3

 * "The New Frontier"
 * "TEOTWAWKI"
 * "100"
 * "Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame"
 * "Children of Wrath"
 * "The Diviner"
 * "La Serpiente"
 * "This Land Is Your Land"
 * "El Matadero"
 * "Things Bad Begun"
 * "Sleigh Ride"

Season 4

 * "What's Your Story?"
 * "Another Day in the Diamond"
 * "Good Out Here"
 * "Buried"
 * "Just in Case"
 * "The Wrong Side of Where You Are Now"
 * "No One's Gone"
 * "People Like Us"
 * "Close Your Eyes" (Flashback, No Lines)
 * "The Code" (Voice Only)
 * "Blackjack"
 * "I Lose People..."
 * "... I Lose Myself"

Season 5
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 * "Here to Help"
 * "The Hurt That Will Happen"
 * "Skidmark"
 * "The Little Prince"
 * "Still Standing"
 * "Is Anybody Out There?"
 * "Channel 4"
 * "You're Still Here"
 * "End of the Line"

Trivia

 * The casting call for this character used the name Benjamin Booker. The casting call described Benjamin Booker as "African American. A self made man. Poor, blue collar background but he's educated and polished himself. Sophisticated and smart with a mysterious past."
 * The character's full name and background was revealed by showrunner Dave Erickson in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in September 2015.
 * He is the only main character in Season 1 who is not related to any of the other main characters.
 * Strand is the second longest-living male survivor, with the third longest-living in total after Daniel and Alicia.
 * Strand, Alicia, and Daniel are the only Season 1 characters confirmed alive.
 * He is the first LGBT character in Fear The Walking Dead.
 * Strand implies himself to be bisexual in "Los Muertos", when he remarks to Madison that he might have hit on her before the outbreak, had he found her under the same circumstances in which he met Thomas. However, it is unclear whether he was being serious or just joking with Madison.
 * Unlike most of the main characters, Strand did not directly kill a living person for much of the show on or off-screen. His attempted killing of Daniel Salazar in "Things Bad Begun" is confirmed by Strand himself to be the first time that he even tried killing another living person.
 * His first on-screen kill of a living person was one of the Vultures in "The Wrong Side of Where You Are Now" though he may have killed people during the time skip between seasons 3 and 4.