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Arnold, better known as Arno, is an antagonist and a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's Fear the Walking Dead. He was a member of a doomsday cult. After being chosen by Teddy to be one of his survivors to inherit the Earth, Arnold survives the coming nuclear fallout in a bunker under the leadership of Alicia Clark. When the bunker was abandoned, he became the leader of Stalkers. He served as one of the two tertiary antagonists of Season 7 (along with Wes).
Overview[]
Arnold is a ruthless leader who is willing to do anything that it takes to protect his people, even murder others. He appears to mainly be driven by his need to get his people to safety and his need for revenge upon Alicia Clark for her pursuit of PADRE causing the deaths of so many of the Doomsday Cult. To this end, he went so far as to have the Stalkers strip all of the walkers that they could find naked in an effort to keep Alicia from finding Senator Elias Vazquez whom Arnold knew that she was seeking.
However, despite his ruthlessness, Arnold isn't completely heartless or a tyrant unlike other leaders such as Victor Strand. He genuinely cares about his people's safety and takes it personally when those he cares about die. He prefers to go by his more informal nickname of "Arno", often introducing himself as such to those that he meets. Before the split between their groups happened, Arnold seemed to be genuinely excited to meet Alicia and follow her lead, giving Alicia a warm welcome upon their first meeting and doing his best to help her out with leading the cult. It was only after Alicia was supposedly responsible for the deaths of so many people that he cared about that Arnold soured towards her.
Pre-Apocalypse[]
Location Unknown[]
Nothing is known about Arnold's life prior to or as the outbreak began, except that he was a carpenter.
Post-Apocalypse[]
Franklin Hotel[]
At some point, Arnold joined a doomsday cult after being found by Derek and was handpicked by Teddy as one of his chosen followers to inherit the earth. As such, he was entombed with the other chosen followers in a bunker underneath the Franklin Hotel and acted as the group's second-in-command under Alicia's leadership. At some point, Arnold parted ways with Alicia and formed his own group known as "The Stalkers."
Season 7[]
"The Portrait"[]
While Strand has an artist paint a portrait of him, he answers calls from a callbox outside named Arnold, who offers his carpentry skills. Strand says they already have someone with Arnold's skill set, then hangs up on him.
During Morgan's visit to the Tower, Arnold and five Stalkers attack with a catapult loaded with explosive-laden walkers. One lands in the upper floors, but Morgan and Strand work together to kick it outside where it detonates relatively harmlessly at the lower floors. Arnold calls the Tower and reveals that his people, at the cost of everyone who undertook the task, stuffed walkers with bombs laded with nuclear material from the warhead that Sage had recovered. Arnold gives Strand an hour to surrender the Tower to him and his people otherwise he will launch the dirty bomb walkers into the Tower, rendering it uninhabitable to everyone. After spotting John Dorie Sr.'s sniper scope, Arnold has another explosive walker launched into the Tower as a warning, although not one that is contaminated. This one causes more damage and kills three people.
Eventually, Morgan reaches the armory and he manages to radio Grace for help. Grace and Sarah arrive in the SWAT van and use its machine guns to kill the five Stalkers outside of the Tower, Arnold having departed after delivering his last threat to Strand. However, some of the nuclear walkers escape and Grace believes that they had ended up in the Tower's moat. With the walkers still being a danger to the Tower, Grace negotiates a deal with Strand to help remove them in exchange for Morgan's life, effectively defeating the Stalkers' plan.
"PADRE"[]
In a flashback, after being locked in the bunker by Teddy, Alicia is captured by one of the cultists and dragged into the main room where he attempts to feed her to the zombified Elias Vazquez who is tied to a tree in the center of the room. Recognizing Alicia, Arnold stops him and Alicia manages to break free, grabbing the man's gun and shoving him into Vazquez who bites him in the neck and kills him. While the other cultists deal with their dead member, Alicia flees deeper into the bunker.
Hearing Arnold and his people looking for her, Alicia leaves Will in hiding and Arnold leads her to the senator's quarters where he returns Alicia's Sharpened Barrel Shroud which had been taken from her at the Holding. The cult captures Will and attempts to "return him to the earth" by feeding Will to Vazquez. However, Alicia finally takes charge as Teddy had wanted, stopping Will's murder and ending the practice of returning people to the earth.
Following Alicia and Will's failed escape attempt, Arnold and a few of the others help Will to treat Alicia's injuries. Will reveals to Alicia when she wakes up a week later that Arnold had heard from some of Teddy's other people on the surface just before the bombs went off that Alicia's friends had tried to stop Teddy, but that Strand had gotten in the way.
"Follow Me"[]
Arnold and two other Stalkers arrive at Paul's House in search of Alicia who hides in the piano. Despite Arnold being suspicious of Paul, he leaves after being unable to find anything, warning Paul that Alicia has gotten a lot of people hurt. Alicia eventually explains to Paul that her search for PADRE with the cult had led to a number of people dying which Arnold had blamed her for, leading to the split between their groups, his current hunt for her and his refusal to help Alicia against Strand.
While Alicia and Paul are searching for a replacement stereo at a music hall, Alicia hears a noise and heads outside where she is captured by Arnold and two Stalkers. Arnold uncovers a wagon full of reanimated cultists that he has captured, intending to feed Alicia to them as a punishment for causing their deaths. However, Paul shoots Arnold in the hand as he goes to open the cage, releasing Alicia. Paul shoots and wounds one of the Stalkers as the reanimated cultists emerge and attack, killing the two Stalkers and forcing Arnold to flee. Although Paul attempts to kill Arnold, his gun runs out of bullets, forcing Alicia and Paul to hide until the walkers move on.
As part of a plan, Paul radios Arnold and pretends to be turning on Alicia. Arnold leads five Stalkers back to Paul's house where he loudly begins blaring "Ode to Joy", drawing a herd which attacks the Stalkers, devouring four of them as Arnold tries to order them to fall back over the loud noise. Arnold, the only Stalker left and the herd break into the house where Paul kills the other man by smashing a guitar over his head and then tries to sneak up on and kill the distracted Arnold. However, Paul's sound system shorts out at the last minute and Arnold notices him coming and shoots Paul, mortally wounding him. While Arnold is distracted dispatching the remaining walkers, Alicia and Paul barricade themselves in another room. Knowing that Alicia won't be able to get away without a distraction, Paul sacrifices himself by playing "Ode to Joy" on his bagpipes, keeping Arno from hearing Alicia slip out. As Paul continues to play, Arnold shoots him dead, but his sacrifice enables Alicia to escape.
The next day, Sage pulls the wounded Arnold in a walker wagon when he suddenly stops beside one of the blast craters from the nuclear destruction. The two men find the crater filled with thousands upon thousands of walkers who presumably fell in and have been stewing there for months. Knowing that if even one gets out "no one's going anywhere," Arnold is more determined than ever to take the Tower for the Stalkers.
"Ofelia"[]
At an abandoned playground, hearing a noise, Wes spots what he believes to be walkers closing in and Luciana guesses that Daniel's gunshot must've drawn them. Daniel refuses to leave without Ofelia, but Wes realizes that it's not walkers but rather the Stalkers. Armed, the Stalkers surround the group and Arno sarcastically greets Luciana. Another Stalker spray-paints over their masks as the Stalkers prepare to take the group with them.
The Stalkers bring Daniel, Luciana and Wes to their base at an old salvage yard where Daniel accuses Luciana of causing their predicament by stopping his search for Ofelia, but Wes sarcastically points out that they wouldn't be here if Daniel had just stayed in the sub. In Spanish, Daniel suggests that they can take the Stalkers, but Luciana points out that there's three times more Stalkers than them. Stating that he's a soldier trained by the CIA who's done things before and after, Daniel is not afraid of Arno's people, "what's scary is what I'm gonna have to do to them." Daniel simply laughs at his companions' looks of shock and Wes concludes that they're screwed. Arno orders the group to remove and hang up their gear, allowing them to test for themselves that it's safe. Arno explains that the Stalkers are lucky as the wind hasn't brought anything nasty their way and they want to keep it that way. Daniel insists that they can take them, but Luciana recognizes Sabrina amongst the Stalkers and asks if Wes recognizes these people too. Wes explains that they're Teddy's people from the Holding and Luciana knows that that won't help them make friends.
Outside, Arno, who now has an amputated left hand due to being shot by Paul, Sabrina, Sage and several other Stalkers show Daniel, Luciana and Wes around the Stalkers' base on the interconnected vessels of the salvage yard while a herd growls up at them from the ground. Arno blames Alicia for the Stalkers being forced to abandon their previous two homes and live here and Wes recalls that he and Luciana were there the first time, but Arno already knows who they are. Daniel asks why the Stalkers don't use the walls to keep the dead out, but Arno explains that although they tried, the walls didn't hold. Letting the walkers roam the ground keeps the living away at least with Arno noting that Strand at least got one thing right at the Tower.
Arno decides to question them each one on one, but Daniel is only interested in finding Ofelia against Luciana's objections. Luciana suggests that Arno let them go and that they can help the Stalkers with whatever they need, but Arno finds it to be unlikely. Noticing Arno's gun, Daniel grabs it and turns it on Arno, while Sage and Sabrina hold back Luciana at gunpoint. Daniel demands to be allowed to go look for his daughter while Sage aggressively orders Luciana to back away from Daniel, but Arno orders him to stand down. Arno challenges Daniel to kill him, but when Daniel pulls the trigger, the gun is revealed to be empty. Another Stalker restrains a laughing Daniel while Wes realizes that the Stalkers are actually out of bullets and had only been bluffing them with the guns. Daniel tells Luciana that he was right that they could've taken the Stalkers while Arno explains that bullets are hard to come by these days and that while empty clips work on people, the dead aren't scared that easily and it won't help the Stalkers get the Tower.
Arno reveals that they heard radio chatter from the sub, and he suggests that they stop broadcasting their plans. As a result, the Stalkers know that they've found a weapons cache, but they don't know the coordinates. Luciana refuses to tell them where to find it, but Arno warns her that they'll end up with the dead below if they don't. Staring at a nearby boat, Daniel mistakes it for Strand's destroyed yacht, The Abigail, despite the very obvious differences between the two boats, and he believes that Ofelia is on board. Arno orders his men to save Daniel for last and that Wes will go first and the Stalkers shove Daniel and Luciana into a cell on one of the boats.
Arno locks Wes in a large cage over a pit of walkers and demands to know where the weapons are, threatening to lower Wes into the walkers when he refuses to answer. Wes refuses to betray his people, so Arno brings up Wes' brother Derek, reminding Wes that he had betrayed Derek and revealing that it was Derek who had found Arno and brought him into the Doomsday Cult. Arno is angry that Wes had killed his friend, but Wes tells him that Derek was his brother and Wes loved him, but Derek killed a lot of his friends, and he was going to kill a lot more. Arno states that Wes would've been alive if he'd joined the cult, but he obviously chose wrong. Reiterating his demand to know where the weapons are, Arno partially lowers Wes into the pit, but he continues to refuse to betray his friends.
Arno admits that he would've done this anyways and goes to lower Wes all the way in, but he is stopped by the arrival of Sage, Sabrina and another Stalker with Daniel and Luciana. Sage reveals that Daniel wants to make a deal and Arno raises Wes back out of the pit, although he refuses to release Wes from the cage as leverage. Daniel mockingly tells Arno that he knows how to make people talk and Arno's tactics aren't going to work. Arno states that it's worked so far and Daniel guesses that Arno probably kills everyone that gets in there, which he silently acknowledges, but if he kills Daniel and the others, he has nothing. Conceding the point, Arno asks if Daniel really knows where to find the weapons which he confirms over Luciana's objections in Spanish. In return, Daniel asks for his daughter Ofelia and points to the boat that Daniel thinks is The Abigail. Arno correctly tells Daniel that he has no idea what Daniel's talking about, but Daniel angrily grabs him and demands his daughter back as Sage and another Stalker try to restrain him.
Looking at the boat, Arno orders his men to let Daniel go. Arno lies that the Stalkers do have Ofelia, but Luciana tries to convince Arno not to go through with it, telling Arno that Daniel not only doesn't know where the weapons are, but he's having problems remembering what's real and what isn't. Luciana pleads with Daniel in Spanish to think of their people who are searching for the weapons and not to trust Arno who is only using him. In fluent Spanish, Arno tells them that it's not true and asks if they thought that they could fool him by speaking Spanish, but Luciana insists that they weren't trying to trick him, that speaking his native language grounds Daniel. Daniel reassures Luciana that he knows what he's doing, and Arno lies that Daniel is right and the Stalkers have his daughter on that boat. Daniel is ecstatic to have been proven right and he warns Arno that he'd better not have harmed Ofelia and asks to see her. Arno asks for the weapons first and Luciana chides him for using Daniel in such a way. However, Arno is unrepentant, as he's unwilling to be consigned to a life like this. Wes states that he's seen a hell of a lot worse places than this.
"You do know what's coming, don't you? Alicia and Morgan -- they're gonna get you all killed," Arno warns ominously. Luciana asks what's coming, but Arno refuses to elaborate and instead asks Daniel where the weapons are again. Luciana asks if knows Arno what's going to happen when Daniel finds out that he's lying, but Arno reiterates that he's protecting his people, the same ones that Alicia couldn't. Arno promises that if Daniel gives him the coordinates and they're correct, Daniel will get his daughter. Luciana tries a final time to convince her friend that Arno can't give him back his daughter, but Daniel doesn't think that he has any other choice, and he writes the coordinates down on the back of the Boat card. Satisfied, Arno orders Sage to send a patrol to check it out and he warns Daniel that if Daniel is lying to him, all of Daniel's group will end up with the walkers and he finally releases Wes.
Later, standing near the cage, Sabrina uses a boat hook to put down a radioactive walker on the ground below her and Arno. Arno states that it's the third one today and Sabrina informs him that the walkers are building up at the east gate. Arno instructs Sabrina to draw the walkers away and to get rid of the body. Putting down the boat hook, Sabrina leaves to follow Arno's orders as he thanks her.
Left alone, Arno is ambushed from behind by Daniel at knifepoint who mocks Arno's earlier greeting when the Stalkers had ambushed his group. Daniel locks Arno in the cage over his protests that Daniel is making a mistake, but Daniel states that Arno's mistake was lying to him. Arno desperately protests that Daniel would do anything to his daughter and Arno was doing the same thing to protect his people. However, Daniel states that they are not Arno's family and lowers Arno into the pit full of walkers as he had done to Wes earlier. Arno pleads with Daniel in Spanish, but Daniel only compliments his Spanish. As the cage reaches the ground, Arno furiously yells that, whoever Daniel's daughter is, she's better off without him. The walkers grab at Arno through the cage, finally pulling his legs through the bars and they begin devouring him as Daniel watches.
Luciana and Wes run up and see what's happening to Arno in horror. Daniel yells that Arno made him do this as Wes lifts the cage holding the leader of the Stalkers out of the pit. Arno emerges from the pit barely alive and with his legs badly chewed up. Arno tells Luciana that there's no beginning and the people Alicia was supposed to take care of are all going to die because of them, the people that Arno had promised to protect. As Arno begins to lose consciousness Luciana yells at him to wake him back up and she promises Arno that she will make sure his people are okay, but Arno needs to tell her what's coming so that she can help them. With the last of his strength, Arno reveals that "the dead in the Pit, they're -- they're escaping. Someone -- someone's letting them out. You can't touch them. You can't even go near them. You -- You -- You have to -- have to get everybody to the Tower. There's -- There's nowhere else -- There's... nowhere else... nowhere else." Arno dies of his injuries and Wes stabs him in the head with the boat hook to prevent Arno from reanimating.
Following Arno's death, Luciana is able to convince the Stalkers to join Morgan's group in taking the Tower from Victor Strand, finally bringing the conflict between the two groups to an end. Luciana justifies this by pointing out to Wes that Alicia had always wanted Arno's people to join them, and Alicia had only previously failed to convince Arno, not the group in general.
Death[]
- Killed By
- Daniel Salazar (Caused)
- Zombies (Alive)
After Arno lies to him that he has Ofelia, Daniel overpowers him and lowers Arno into a pit full of walkers where they partially devour his legs before Wes and Luciana pull Arno out again. Arno dies shortly thereafter of his wounds.
- Wes (Before Reanimation)
After Arno dies, Wes immediately stabs him in the head with a boat hook, preventing Arno from reanimating.
Killed Victims[]
This list shows the victims Arnold has killed:
- Elias Vazquez (Caused or Direct, Alive)
- Acolyte (Before Reanimation, alongside his fellow cultists)
- Paul
- 6 unnamed Tower residents (3 Possibly, Indirectly Caused, 3 Directly Caused)
- Numerous counts of zombies and unnamed people
Relationships[]
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Appearances[]
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| ✔ | Appears | ✔ | Voice is heard |
| 👁 | Appears with no lines | ✔ | Appears in a flashback |
| ✔ | Appears as a walker | 🖼 | Appears in a photograph/video |
| ✔ | Appears as a corpse | ✔ | Appears in a hallucination/dream |
Gallery[]
- For more images of Arnold, please visit Arnold (Fear)/Gallery.
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Trivia[]
- Arnold was mentioned in "Breathe With Me" when Sage and another Stalker mention that they need to bring the warhead to Arnold.
- As shown in "Ofelia", he is fluent in Spanish.
- Arnold is the last named member of the Stalkers to die.
International Dubbers[]
| Language | Dubber | Other Characters Voiced |
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| Czech | N/A | N/A |
| French | Stéphane Marais | Randall Culver Andrés Diaz |
| German | N/A | N/A |
| Hugarian | N/A | N/A |
| Italian | N/A | N/A |
| Japanese | N/A | N/A |
| Portuguese | N/A | N/A |
| Spanish (Latin America) | N/A | N/A |
| Spanish (Spain) | N/A | N/A |