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Adrian is a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's Fear the Walking Dead. He is a member of Daniel Salazar's resistance movement against PADRE, and the father of Hannah.
Overview[]
Adrian starts as hopeful and resilient survivor. Part of a resistance movement against PADRE, Adrian is willing to do anything to get his daughter back from them. He is generally very friendly and civil, such as when he tries to recruit June to join the resistance despite her threatening him. However, after Adrian discovers that his daughter is already dead due to PADRE's experiments, Adrian loses the will to keep fighting and allows himself to be devoured by his zombified daughter and other PADRE test subjects.
Pre-Apocalypse[]
Location Unknown[]
Nothing is known about Adrian's life before or as the outbreak began.
Post-Apocalypse[]
A number of years into the outbreak, Adrian's daughter Hannah was abducted by PADRE Collectors. Adrian subsequently dedicated his life to finding her, eventually joining a resistance movement against PADRE led by Daniel Salazar.
Season 8[]
"Blue Jay"[]
In her hideout near PADRE, June prepares her medical supplies and a tranquilizer rifle and puts up signs warning anyone coming to "turn back or PADRE will take your children," "PADRE is a lie turn back," and "collection route ahead stay away." As June wanders, she puts down a passing walker and notices that someone has added to one of her signs "they took my daughter please help." Over the radio, a woman and a man called Warbler discuss the man being ten minutes out while the woman has a lead on an egg, another child that PADRE can kidnap, noting that it might be a whole nest. Watching a PADRE boat approaching in the nearby waterway through her binoculars, June shoots both of the occupants with her tranquilizer rifle as they go to beach the boat. June slices off the index finger of Warbler and his companion and cauterizes the stumps before she shoves the boat back into the water.
Returning to her hideout, June adds the guns that she stole from the two Collectors to an already impressive hidden arsenal of stolen guns. June puts the severed finger in a jar of similar severed fingers as Warbler wakes up and calls in the attack over the radio as his companion screams in the background. The woman chides Warbler for not being ready for the attack as June has been at it for years. Warbler angrily states that he's going to cut off both of June's hands in revenge when he finds her.
Returning to the shore, June finds another one of her signs altered asking who she is and where they can find her. June nervously looks around for the person responsible, staring in particular at a nearby sign for the Coastal Railroad Museum, before PADRE 3 calls in about a successful rescue. Moving on, June ambushes the guards on their way to PADRE 3 and cuts off their fingers as well.
As June adds the fingers to her collection, a man enters her hideout asking to talk and June holds him at gunpoint. The man admits that he followed June and that he's the one who's been writing on June's signs, introducing himself as Adrian. June angrily refuses to help Adrian who explains that he needs her help to find his daughter Hannah who was taken from him nearby by Collectors years before. Although June insists that she doesn't know his daughter, Adrian knows that she knows PADRE from June's signs and her jar full of severed fingers and he believes that she can help him. June orders Adrian to get out, stating that she doesn't want to get to know him or anyone else anymore. Adrian realizes that PADRE did something to June and asks if they took her kid or made June take kids for them.
Refusing to give up despite June's order to leave and not come back, Adrian shows June a picture of Hannah that was taken five years ago when she was seven. Adrian reveals that he and Hannah have matching bracelets that she had made for them both. Softening her tone but refusing to give in, June orders him to leave again, but Adrian leaves the picture and promises to return every day, revealing that there are a lot of like-minded people who would help June with what she is doing. The group that Adrian is a part of is forming an army to take on PADRE which June could be a part of. Moving closer, she threatens to kill Adrian if he ever returns, but Adrian knows that she's just trying to scare him off and asks why. June sadly offers Adrian a piece of advice "if PADRE has had your daughter this long, you're not getting her back," adding that PADRE uses the people you care about the most against you when Adrian asks her why. Adrian refuses to give up regardless of June's warning and states that she can either kill him or help him. June forces Adrian out of her hideout, but Adrian reiterates that he's not giving up, his people know who June is now and they will be back. As Adrian leaves, June stares sadly at the picture of Hannah that he left behind.
The next night, as June prepares to treat Finch in an abandoned lab, Adrian enters the train and holds June, Dwight and Sherry at gunpoint, mistaking their intentions with Finch and, believing Dwight and Sherry to be Collectors, demanding answers from them about Hannah. Dwight and Sherry offer to help Adrian and Dwight tells the desperate father that PADRE hasn't lost a kid yet and, as the person who trains them to protect themselves, Dwight might be able to tell him something if Adrian can tell Dwight what his daughter looks like. A man calls Adrian for his location and Dwight takes advantage of the distraction to disarm him. However, the gun goes off in the process, knocking out power to the train and drawing in a nearby herd. As Sherry tends to a worsening Finch, Dwight smashes Adrian's radio as Adrian warns him that there a lot of people in Adrian's group and they will do anything to keep PADRE from hurting anymore kids. Dwight angrily explains that they brought Finch here to save his life while June reveals that the control panel has been hit and she can't do the surgery without power. Dwight agrees to hit an emergency override located at the back of the train to restore power while Sherry covers Adrian.
June stops Dwight from passing through the train itself to get to the back, revealing that it's full of the undead. June finally reveals that she used to work there and that it was an off-the-books operation as Padre didn't want anyone to know about it. Shrike was performing experiments to try to find a way to stop the infection from the walker bites. Although it's supposedly impossible, Shrike thought that it could be done, and her idea was to use radiation which is slow, painful and worse than dying from the bites. Shrike tried to force June to administer treatment, but June refused so she ran. As Finch cries out in increasing agony, Sherry states that they have no choice but to get the back of the train and they can't go around with the herd outside. However, Dwight comes up with the idea of climbing over the roof of the train instead.
June holds Adrian at gunpoint as Dwight and Sherry go to hit the override and he apologizes for his actions. June reminds Adrian that she had warned him away, but Adrian is glad that he didn't listen as he wouldn't have seen the lab otherwise which has shown Adrian that June knows even more about PADRE than she let on before. June insists that she can't help Adrian, but Adrian thinks that she just won't and informs June that her attacks are barely even slowing PADRE down, let alone stopping them. Adrian urges June to do something by helping him find his daughter or by getting Finch out before Dwight and Sherry come back and take Finch back to PADRE. June again refuses and Adrian points out that she's afraid and reminds June that she had told him that PADRE uses the people that you care about against you, and you can't run away from that. Adrian is truly sorry for whatever PADRE did to her, but June if lets that stop her from getting close to people again, he wonders what June is living for. Dwight and Sherry succeed in restoring the power before she can answer him and June warns Dwight that, while Finch is still asleep, the medication won't last for much longer.
However, on their way back, the train's roof gives way and Dwight and Sherry fall into a car full of walkers. Dwight uses his last bullets to shoot five of them as he and Sherry climb to safety on top of a shelf. Dwight reports their predicament to June and refuses her help as it's too dangerous with the number of walkers in the car. Dwight tells June that Finch needs her more and begs June to promise him that she will look after Finch if Dwight and Sherry don't survive. After looking at Finch, June decides to go and help instead against the objections of both Dwight and Adrian. June tells Adrian that Dwight and Sherry need to survive for Finch, but Adrian accuses her of only being afraid of being left to raise Finch. June warns Adrian not to follow her and moves deeper into the train.
June slowly passes through a car full of severed walker heads in jars and more walkers chained to the walls, the lab's test subjects. An emotional June apologizes to the walkers as makes her through the car. June struggles with the padlock on the door at the other end as the walkers become agitated and begin straining against their bonds. Six walkers break free and June shoots three of them before being knocked to the ground, losing her gun in the process. As June struggles to hold back the last three walkers, Adrian appears and puts them down with a knife, saving her life. Adrian wryly notes that it's a good thing that he didn't listen to her and that they're a lot alike. The only difference is that Adrian still has someone to live for while June needs to find hers. Adrian reminds June that there are more people like them and together, they can take down PADRE. However, June again refuses to help Adrian, but Adrian tells her that he's not doing this for himself, he's doing it for Hannah. Adrian is going to find her with or without June's help and when he does, Adrian wants Hannah to see that her father isn't the man PADRE says he is.
Having woken up, Finch insists upon coming with them over June's objections, having been taught how to handle walkers by Dwight. With Adrian's agreement, June reluctantly concedes. In the car where Dwight and Sherry are trapped, June shoots three of the walkers trying to reach the couple while Finch puts down a fourth with his oar, which Dwight praises, as June and Adrian finish off the last two. Finch is excited to tell Padre how he fought the walkers, but Dwight and Sherry explain that they're not going back to PADRE as they want what's best for him, which is not on the island, confusing the boy. Dwight finally reveals the truth that they're Finch's parents and Sherry promises that they will figure it out as a family. Finch doubles over in pain and June begins leading the family back to the operating room.
As the others begin to leave, Adrian notices a walker in the window to the next car and, in despair, recognizes it as his daughter Hannah. Adrian furiously attacks June, realizing that she knew all along and that that's why June wouldn't tell him. June finally admits the truth: she treated Hannah for asthma when she first came to PADRE, and she was just a scared kid who missed her dad. Hannah reminded June of her own daughter Rose and June wanted to take care of her and make her feel safe. June thought that she was until Hannah went on a scouting run off of the island and got bitten on her back where June couldn't amputate, but she had to do something to save her. To the shock of everyone, June reveals that the treatment wasn't Shrike's, it was June's. June explains that "I saw someone survive a bite longer than anyone I had ever seen, and she had been exposed to radiation, so I thought if it worked for her, it could work for Hannah. I gave her radiotherapy with equipment that we scavenged from a hospital. It stopped the infection. But the amount of radiation that it took... just made things worse for her and I wanted to end her suffering." However, Shrike wouldn't let June do it as she wanted to let Hannah turn so that Shrike could continue studying her and see how long it took for her to turn. Adrian accuses June of letting Shrike do it, but June tearfully explains that she didn't have a choice: Shrike held a gun on her and told June that as long as her finger was on the trigger, June had to keep the experiments going or other people would pay the price. This whole place happened because June tried to save someone that she cares about, and PADRE made sure that other people suffered as a result so June took Shrike's trigger finger to make sure that she couldn't do to anyone else what she did to June. June knew that PADRE couldn't do the experiments without her, meaning that as long as June stayed away from the lab and other people, no one else she cared about could get hurt.
Releasing June, Adrian tearfully tells her that Hannah is all that he had left, and he understands now why she wanted to be alone. As everyone watches, Adrian makes his way to the next car and holds his hand against the window for a moment before going inside. June tries to stop Adrian as Dwight and Sherry shield their son from the view. Adrian embraces Hannah and lays down on the ground, allowing Hannah and three other walkers to devour him. June later decides to put down Hannah and Adrian, but she is stopped by the arrival of Shrike.
Shrike reveals that she intends to force June to return to work on the cure. As motivation, a PADRE guard carries in Adrian's severed zombified head. As Dwight and Sherry angrily protest and plead, the guard attaches the head to the extension device and Shrike uses it to have Adrian bite the still unconscious Finch in the left shoulder. Dwight swears that he's going to kill Shrike, but she smugly states that she and June are the only ones who can save Finch's life. Shrike has a sobbing Sherry and Dwight, who is still spewing death threats at her, dragged away. Shrike instructs June to get to work, stating that she has a lot to catch up on and they have new patients on their way at this very moment. First, in order to make sure that June can never hurt PADRE ever again, Shrike cuts off her trigger finger.
"Odessa"[]
Shrike and the PADRE guards put Adrian, Hannah and all of the other test subjects down before they move the train, and they replace Adrian's zombified head in the extension device with a different walker head. June later tells Diane and the other members of Daniel's resistance that Adrian is dead, and that he finally found his daughter who had died a long time ago.
Death[]
- Killed By
- June Dorie (Indirectly Caused)
- Himself (Caused, Alive, Suicide)
- Hannah (Infected, Alive)
- 3 unnamed PADRE test subjects (Infected, Alive)
Unwilling to live without his daughter, Adrian allows Hannah and three other PADRE test subjects to devour him in an act of suicide. He later reanimates.
- Sam Krennick (Zombified)
- PADRE guards (Zombified)
Before moving the train, Sam and her guards put down Adrian and all of the PADRE test subjects.
Killed Victims[]
This list shows the victims Adrian has killed:
- Finch (Infected, Alive)
- 4 unnamed PADRE test subjects (Zombified)
- Himself (Caused, Alive, Suicide)
- Numerous counts of zombies and possibly unnamed people
Relationships[]
Allies[]
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Appearances[]
Fear the Walking Dead[]
Season 8[]
- "Blue Jay"
Trivia[]
- Adrian's death was spoiled within promotional material, as his zombified head can be seen in the Season 8 Official Trailer.
- Adrian is the first named character to die on-screen in Season 8 of Fear the Walking Dead.