Captive

Captive
Season 2, Episode 5
Air Date	May 8, 2016 AMC (United States) May 9, 2016 AMC (United Kingdom)
Written By	Carla Ching
Directed By	Craig Zisk
U.S. Viewers	4.41 million
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Cast Guide
Starring Kim Dickens as Madison Clark Cliff Curtis as Travis Manawa Frank Dillane as Nicholas Clark Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia Clark Colman Domingo as Victor Strand Mercedes Mason as Ofelia Salazar Lorenzo James Henrie as Chris Manawa Michelle Ang as Alex Rubén Blades as Daniel Salazar
Also Starring Veronica Diaz-Carranza as Vida Mark Kelly as Connor Jesse McCartney as Reed Arturo Del Puerto as Luis Flores Daniel Zovatto as Jack Kipling

"Captive" is the fifth episode of Season 2 of AMC's Fear The Walking Dead and the eleventh episode overall. It aired on AMC on May 8, 2016 at 9/8c in the USA and on May 9, 2016 at 9pm in the UK exclusively on BT TV.

Plot Synopsis

Aboard Connor's ship, he cooks a steak for Alicia in the galley. After he leaves. Vida steals the steak and locks Alicia in the galley. Alicia ventures through an unlocked door and finds herself on the ship’s bow with no way to escape. Jack warns her that she’s not allowed to roam freely and ushers her back inside. Alicia demands to know if her family made it to safety. Jack agrees to find out.

Aboard the Abigail, a captive Reed informs Daniel that Connor, his brother, has a dozen men and a fleet of five boats and will come looking for him. Daniel allows Chris to stand guard outside Reed’s door. Daniel suggests to Madison that they can use Reed’s relationship to Connor as leverage. They locate Connor’s base by scanning the radar for Connor's fleet. Meanwhile, Strand recovers in the wheelhouse.

Madison steers the Abigail north, but Luis reminds her that they have a small window of time to cross over into Mexico. Madison refuses to abandon her family. Strand agrees to give her half a day to rescue Travis and Alicia. In Spanish, Luis tells Strand that 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.

Daniel advises Madison to let Nick and Chris help fight Connor’s group and urges her to stop treating them like children. Madison ignores his advice. Meanwhile, Jack instructs Alicia to scan their radar for more vessels that his people can hijack. Travis wakes up in a cell and is confronted by Alex, who reveals how desperate they were after being abandoned that she had to euthanize Jake on the raft, and also she is actually the one who informed Connor about the Abigail and also suggesting to capture it. Back on the Abigail, Madison forbids Strand from sending Nick on more errands. Strand argues that Nick knows how to survive, but Madison replies that Strand has never seen Nick in the throes of addiction and worries that he is using again.

As Jack spots the Abigail approaching on the radar, Alicia realizes Reed could not have possibly delivered her family to safety in such a short amount of time. Jack admits that Reed sometimes kills passengers after hijackings and offers to help Alicia find her family. Alicia tells Jack to radio Connor and alert him to a potential target vessel. They plan to escape together while Connor performs reconnaissance on the ship. In his cell, Travis tells Alex that he kept her on the raft because he was worried Jake might be infected. “You knew the right thing to do, and you chose the other,” she tells him. Travis apologizes to Alex and shares that he was forced to kill his son’s mother, telling her that "it cost a part of me."

Strand spots Connor's fleet docked along the shore and tells Daniel that they’ve arrived at his base. Reed talks to Chris and riles him up, but Nick shuts the door to tune Reed out. Chris blames himself for allowing Reed’s group onto the boat, but Nick assures him it’s not his fault. Meanwhile, Alicia and Nick find Travis and tell him they’re plotting to escape that night. When Connor radios the Abigail, Madison tells him that they’re holding Reed and will trade him for Travis and Alicia. Connor agrees. However, after Madison signs off, Chris shoots Reed and claims he was about to turn. The group finds Reed dead in the cabin with his face blown off. Madison comforts Chris, who realizes that he just destroyed any hopes of getting Travis back safely.

As Travis and Alicia are prepared for the prisoner exchange, Reed turns as Nick and Ofelia clean the blood in his room. Daniel pins Reed to a wall and places a hood over his head. Daniel hears a disembodied voice telling him to "take his gun." Alicia flees from Jack while Madison prepares the Zodiac. Nick wants to deliver Reed, but Madison refuses to let him go. She leaves with Reed in the Zodiac. Nick and Strand monitor the pier through binoculars and notice that Connor only has Travis. Meanwhile, Alicia comes across Travis's empty cell and is attacked by Vida. Alicia pushes her to the ground and locks her inside the cell. On the pier, Madison hands Reed over to Connor. Connor’s men release Travis. Connor removes Reed’s hood and is immediately bitten by the infected Reed.

Alicia escapes onto the ship’s bow and spots Madison and Travis on the pier, but is cornered by Jack. Jack begs Alicia to stay with him and asks if she really wants to live with the kind of people who abandon survivors like Alex. “I’m sorry,” she says and jumps into the water. Madison and Travis rescue her in the Zodiac and return to the Abigail.

Other Cast

Uncredited

• Richard Nunez and Mark Kubr as Roughnecks
• Josh Wingate as Ben (Corpse)

Deaths

• Jake Powell (Confirmed Fate)
• Reed (Alive)
• Connor
• At least 1 unnamed pirate

Trivia

• Last appearance of Reed.
• Last appearance of Connor.
• Last appearance of Alex. (Unknown)
• Last appearance of Vida. (Unknown)
• Last appearance of Jack Kipling. (Unknown)
• The scene in which Madison trades an undead Reed for Travis is similar to the events in Issues 119 and 120 of the Comic Series where Negan gives a zombified Holly back to Rick which gives Negan an opportunity to attack.
  • It is also similar in where in the Michonne series where Michonne and her group give back Randall to Norma and her group for Oak and Siddiq. (Determinant)
• There is a deleted scene where Alex frees Alicia from the kitchen after Vida locks Alicia inside.
• In this episode, Alicia steals Jack's Balisong off-screen. She will go on to use it often in later episodes, starting with Do Not Disturb.