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"Gone" is the sixteenth and final episode of the seventh season of AMC's Fear the Walking Dead. It is the one-hundred and first episode of the series overall. It premiered on June 5, 2022. It was written by Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg and directed by Sharat Raju.
Plot[]
Morgan finds a new ally who turns out to be more trouble than he bargained for.
Synopsis[]
In a flashback, Madison, hooded and breathing heavily, stumbles into an interrogation room. Over a speaker, Padre notes that Madison doesn't seem to be doing too good and they can help her. However, Madison must first decide if she wants to be a part of this and if she's willing to do what needs to be done to get what she wants.
In the present, in Louisiana, Morgan wakes up in his raft, which is suspended between several trees, and finds a walker on the ground below. He attempts to contact anyone on his radio without success despite flipping through the channels. Mo begins to cry and Morgan picks her up, knowing that she's hungry and attempting to soothe her. He puts on a tape of Grace singing for Mo and leaves to go looking for food with the baby.
Walking along a beach, Morgan finds a buried figure and is surprised to find a walker when he removes the hood. Continuing on, Morgan searches a baby bag that he finds in an abandoned car, but he only finds an empty can of baby food, much to his frustration. Morgan then searches a Pediatric Office, but he once again finds nothing useful.
Checking out the Sanderson Family Home, Morgan finds Ava attempting to contact someone named Jim on the radio. After a brief standoff, Morgan tells her that he's just looking for food, but she states that she doesn't have any. On the table, Morgan spots several positive pregnancy tests and disarms himself, asking Ava how far along she is and introducing himself and Mo. She returns the favor, but rejects Morgan's offer of help, telling him to take Mo and get as far away as he can. However, Morgan is unwilling to go until he can find Grace and the rest of his group. He notes that it sounds like Ava is looking for her family too, but she suggests that Morgan reconsider, as this is no place for kids.
At night, Morgan sits in his raft, attempting to raise Grace on the radio again. He tells her that he doesn't know how much longer he can do this without her. He got Mo someplace safe, but Mo needs her mother. He admits that he needs her too. He wipes away tears before being interrupted by a voice calling out to him for help. Unzipping the raft, Morgan is greeted by a masked man who knocks him out.
Morgan wakes up the next morning on the beach as the man and his five accomplices dig a hole in the sand. Two of the men restrain Morgan, who doesn't know what the men want, but he offers to work it out with them. He begs them to give him his little girl back, but the man tells him that Mo doesn't belong to him, just like all of the others didn't. Morgan is confused by this statement and the man accuses him of kidnapping kids. Morgan insists that he didn't take anyone's kid, but the man demands to know where they are. Morgan asks for them to give him back his daughter, promising that the men will never see them again. After a moment, the man orders the others to put Morgan in the hole and bury him. As they put a bag on Morgan's head, Morgan demands to know why they're doing this, and the man tells him that it's so that everyone else can see what happens when they come here and steal their kids from them. Morgan is kicked into the hole where the man ignores his pleas and begins to have him buried.
Suddenly, Madison appears and shoots all 6 men dead. Poking his head out of the hole, Morgan spots her kneeling over baby Mo and thanks her for saving his life. Madison clarifies that she wasn't there to save him, and Morgan realizes that the men had thought that he was her. Morgan states that the baby is everything to him and he's not going to let Madison take her. Turning to face Morgan, she tells him that Mo is better off with her than him and that he'll get over it like she did. Morgan scrambles to climb out of the hole, but Madison fires a warning shot into the sand next to his hand. Taking a breath from her oxygen tank, she fires another warning shot at Morgan, grabs Mo and leaves, threatening to kill him if he follows them.
Walking down the beach past more buried walkers, Madison contacts Oriole and informs him that she's approaching the drop. In the Birdhouse, she finds no sign of Oriole and accuses him of being late. He explains that they found some new eggs and are getting them processed now. Madison asks how long that will take, but Oriole simply tells her that it will take as long as it takes. Putting Mo down in a playpen, Madison feeds her and makes a note in her journal. Ava calls out over the radio for Jim, telling him that their baby needs him. Madison contacts Oriole again and tells him that she has a lead on a new egg, so she's leaving this one in the Birdhouse for him. Madison knows that Mo misses her father, but she tells the baby that she will be better off without him and leaves.
Leaving the beach, Madison responds to another radio call by Ava, offering her help as a small herd gathers around Madison from the trees. Ava asks how she can know that Madison isn't the one kidnapping everyone's kids, but Madison tells her that she's a mother herself and knows how hard it is. Ava just wants her baby to be alright and Madison promises that they will be, asking Ava to tell her where she is. As the walkers close in on her, Madison draws her hammer and quickly takes them all out by spinning once and hitting all the walkers in the head. Collapsing to the ground from the exertion, Madison again takes a breath from her oxygen tank. Checking her tank, Madison sees that it's almost empty.
Madison makes her way to the Pediatric Office, and Ava agrees to tell her where she is if she is really going to help her. Madison opens a cabinet, only to find that the oxygen tanks inside are missing. At that moment, Morgan places the blade of his battle axe at Madison's neck and orders her to turn off her radio and hand over her gun. Madison complies, warning Morgan that he's making a big mistake, but Morgan tells Madison that she made the bigger mistake by kidnapping his daughter. Morgan forces Madison to drop her hammer and turn around. He demands to know where Mo is, but Madison tells him that she's somewhere he will never find her. He refuses to turn over Madison's oxygen unless she takes him to Mo. She insists that Morgan doesn't know who he's dealing with, that the people she's with will kill him in ways that he can't even imagine. Unbothered, he orders Madison to get moving if she wants to keep breathing.
Walking down the beach with Morgan holding her at axe point, Madison tells him that he can still get out of this before they find out that he interfered with an egg. He realizes that an egg is what she calls the kids that she steals, but Madison insists that she's not stealing them, but rather rescuing them from parents that think they can give them what they need. She is sure that, if he saw the place she's from, he'd get it. She begins coughing as Morgan demands to know where she's from and why Madison is taking these kids that don't belong to her. Out of breath, she gestures to her oxygen tanks and Morgan allows her to breathe from them.
In a flashback, Madison finishes taking a breath from an oxygen tank and Padre asks her if she's considered their offer. She agrees weakly, but states that they must hold up their end of the deal. Padre promises that they will, and Madison asks for a guarantee. Padre reminds her that the only reason that she's still breathing is because of them, and Madison glances at her oxygen mask. Padre asks for her name and she introduces herself. However, he tells her that she's not Madison anymore.
In the present, Madison leads Morgan into the Birdhouse, where they find Mo gone. Madison states that they're too late: Her people came sooner than she expected. Morgan flips through Madison's journal before noticing that it's marked PADRE. He is shocked by the fact that Madison is with PADRE. She asks what he knows about it, but Morgan just leads her away from the Birdhouse.
A walker approaches, forcing Morgan to turn his attention to it and put the walker down with his staff. Madison takes advantage of the distraction to take back her hammer and attack. Morgan tackles her to the ground, angrily telling her that she is nothing like him. Madison confirms that she's not anymore. The two continue to fight, but Morgan quickly manages to overpower and restrain Madison. In the process, the glove on Madison's right hand is pulled down, revealing Alicia's name tattooed on her wrist. Checking Madison's other wrist, Morgan finds Nick's name tattooed there.
Shocked, Morgan releases Madison and backs away from her, having realized who she is. Madison asks how he knows her name and he explains that her kids told him. She accuses him of lying, but he states that Nick and Alicia had told him that their mother had died and that he had seen the stadium. Now believing Morgan, Madison asks if her kids are still alive, and he offers to tell her everything he knows if she gives him back his daughter. She warns Morgan that the only way that PADRE is ever going to give him back Mo is if Morgan helps her kidnap someone else's kid to take the place of his. After that, she goes into another coughing fit. He asks if PADRE would be interested in someone that's pregnant. Madison acknowledges that they might be, and Morgan tells her that the woman that Madison was talking to on the radio is pregnant. Ava isn't doing so good, and Morgan knows where she is. Madison asks him if he is sure about this and he confirms that he is if he will get Mo back. She assures him that he will, and PADRE will look after Ava and her child. As such, Morgan isn't taking a child away from its mother, so it's acceptable to him. He returns Madison's hammer to her and allows her to breathe from her oxygen tanks again.
Continuing their journey, Morgan asks if Madison got smoke in her lungs escaping from the stadium and that's why she needs the oxygen tanks. She avoids the question. Morgan states that, from what he heard, there was no way that Madison could've escaped from the stadium alive and she claims to be full of surprises. Madison asks what else her kids told him and Morgan states that it was quite a bit, but Madison is not what he imagined. She angrily tells him that she's rescuing kids, but Morgan demands to know if that's her or PADRE talking. She asks him how much he knows about PADRE, pointing out that he hadn't answered her question earlier. He says he knows that PADRE is putting out radio messages, nobody can find them, and Alicia was looking for them. Madison is shocked to hear this and wants to know why her daughter was looking for PADRE, but he refuses to tell her any more until he gets Mo back.
Madison insists that Mo is in the right place because PADRE can give her a life that parents like Morgan can't. She points out that he couldn't even feed her, but Morgan states that he would've found food for her. He tells her that she doesn't know what they endured and that they survived the bombs. Madison realizes that they were in Galveston and asks if Nick and Alicia were there too, but Morgan once again refuses to tell her any more about her children. Madison tells him that family isn't the answer, but rather the problem, which is what PADRE's figured out. Morgan reminds her that she's the woman who put her life on the line for her family and demands to know what happened to her.
They arrive at the Sanderson Family Home. Madison asks if it's the place and Morgan confirms it. She tells him that they will go in and tell Ava the truth, which is that they're going to take her to a place where her baby will be taken care of. Morgan asks what will happen to Ava after her baby's born, but Madison states that he doesn't need to know. Allowing her to take another breath from the oxygen tanks, he asks how she can do this to people and she states that you get used to it.
In a flashback, Madison finishes taking a breath from her oxygen tank and places a stuffed animal on the interrogation room table. She demands that they keep up their end of the deal. However, Padre tells her that she needs to kidnap more children. Looking at her children's names freshly tattooed on her wrists, Madison grimaces, knowing that she has no other choice.
In the present, they find Ava in the house and Morgan introduces Madison as someone who can help her. Madison explains that she's the person that she spoke to on the radio and he told her where she was. Ava just wants Jim and Madison asks if that's the baby's father, which she confirms, explaining that the house had belonged to her family and she thought that she would be safe there. Madison offers to help Ava and her baby, explaining that the place that she's from is safe, has good people and is the kind of place that a kid would dream of growing up in. Ava notes that it sounds too good to be true, but Madison tells her that it's real and the best shot that their kids have for a future. On Madison's prompting, Morgan tells Ava that they even have his kid there now and that, while he didn't think that it was possible for such a place to exist, it does. Ava asks what it's called and Madison states that it's PADRE. After a moment, Ava agrees and goes to get her things.
Morgan once again demands to know what's going to happen to Ava once the baby's born and Madison admits that they will get split up. He presses her for answers on why PADRE does that. Madison states that PADRE has rewritten the book on the way we see each other and the things that we do for each other. They avoid attachments and connections, elaborates Madison. Morgan refuses to do this, having seen a mother lose her baby once before and not wanting to see that ever again. However, Madison warns him that he would never see his daughter again.
Ava rejoins the two and Morgan reluctantly agrees with Madison's assertion that everything's fine, stating that they should just get her to PADRE. Hearing voices, Madison looks out the window and spots the rest of the posse approaching from down the street, looking for her. She asks Ava if there's a back way out. Ava leads them out of the house and they run across the grounds, with Morgan refusing to give Madison her oxygen tanks. Ava trips and is grabbed by a walker that is pinned to the ground. As she struggles to pull out her knife, Madison smashes the walker's head with her hammer and saves her. Morgan notices that Ava got a cut on her stomach, but she insists that the wound is just from the vines and she's fine. He helps her up, but she's in a lot of pain and Morgan insists that they need to stop, unwilling to risk Ava's baby. Madison agrees with him, and they head for a nearby crypt to hide.
Morgan and Madison barricade the door to the crypt from the inside and Madison pulls out a heartrate monitor to check on Ava's baby, against her objections. She can't find a heartbeat and Morgan tells her to get PADRE's doctors there to help Ava. She stops looking for a heartbeat, realizing that Ava was only faking her pregnancy. Madison demands to know if Ava had been trying to get Madison to take her to PADRE. She orders Morgan to tie Ava up and leave her some food and water, as she will only slow them down. Ava realizes that Madison really doesn't remember her and reveals that Madison had kidnapped her 6-year-old daughter for PADRE a year before. Her daughter's name is Odessa and she cried when Madison pulled her from Ava on the beach. She tells Morgan that what Madison told him isn't true, but Madison reveals that he already knows and they still have time to get out of there before the posse finds them. Ava insists that Madison take her to her daughter, but Madison tells her that her plan never would've worked: PADRE would've checked for a heartbeat before they got on the boat, when they arrived and every day that Ava was there. Ava needs to see her daughter and Odessa needs to see her. Morgan is worried about how they're going to get Mo back if there's no baby. Madison tells him that they're not and that there was no guarantee even with a trade.
Ava is enraged that Morgan was going to trade her for his daughter, while Morgan is furious as Madison had told him that they'd get Mo back. Madison states that she had only told him that they might and, furious, Morgan grabs his axe and threatens Madison, telling her that she needs to find a way to get him to his kid or she will never know where her children are. However, Madison states that she doesn't want to know. Morgan refuses to believe this, but Madison tells him that she only made the deal so that she could get Ava with his help.
In a flashback, Madison tiredly pushes a child's toy across the interrogation room table, but Padre states that it's still not enough.
In the present, Madison breathes from her oxygen tank again. Ava is surprised to learn that Madison has kids too and that Morgan knows them. Madison states that they are all doing what they're doing for their own reasons. She tells Morgan to be smart and escape before the posse finds them. Grabbing Madison's hammer, Ava smashes one of Madison's oxygen tanks and the stone slab over her grandfather's grave, taking a shotgun from inside. Pointing the shotgun at them, she explains that her grandfather had asked to be buried with his favorite hunting gun in case he didn't end up in Heaven. Walkers start banging on the door and Morgan attempts to talk Ava down, but she tells Madison that she has another solution and, while Madison might not want to see her kids, she wouldn't want them to die either.
Grabbing her radio, Ava contacts Wilt and identifies herself as someone whom, like him and his men, had had a child stolen by Madison. She wants Wilt's help to threaten Madison. Tossing Morgan the radio, she demands that he tell Wilt where Madison's kids are. Madison insists that she can't help Ava and that PADRE doesn't care what she thinks. Unmoved, Ava continues to order Morgan to tell Wilt where Madison's kids are, threatening to kill him if he doesn't.
Morgan finally reveals that he can't tell Madison where her kids are as they're both already dead. Shocked and enraged, she shoves him up against the wall, accusing him of lying, but he tells her that he wouldn't lie about them being dead and he had only told her that he could lead Madison to her kids so that he could get what he wanted from her. Morgan explains that Nick got shot and he, Strand, Alicia and Luciana buried Nick themselves. Breaking down, Madison asks about Alicia and Morgan explains that she got bit by a walker recently and had to amputate her own arm. However, she didn't do it in time and the infection set in. The last time Morgan saw her, Alicia was close to the end. As a sympathetic Ava and Morgan watch, Madison collapses in grief over the loss of her children.
Lost in her grief, Madison watches the walkers bang on the crypt doors while Morgan, after checking out the window, tells the others that there's at least 30 walkers outside. Wilt calls over the radio, looking for an answer. Ava suggests that the posse could still get them out, but Morgan tells her that, since she can't give them what she promised, the posse is liable to just kill them, having already tried to kill Morgan. Wilt asks if Madison hurt Ava and Morgan shuts off the radio, cutting him off. He asks how long until the posse finds them, and Ava suggests that it could take hours with the size of the property, especially if they're still at the house. Morgan notes that they're going to have to fight their way out before the posse finds them. Looking at Madison, Ava states that it's going to take all of them.
Approaching Madison, Morgan tells her that they're going to need her help. Morgan apologizes for not telling Madison the truth about Nick and Alicia at the beginning, but he just did what he thought he had to. Madison asks what Nick and Alicia were doing when they died, and Morgan explains that they were going through a rough patch when Morgan met them, as they thought that Madison was gone. However, Nick was making the first steps towards something better when he was killed. Alicia was trying to stop the nukes and she survived the explosion and helped Morgan, his daughter and some people that they cared about escape from the fallout, and she fought the infection for as long as she could. Morgan admits that he didn't see Alicia die and she could still be out there. However, Madison refuses to believe it, as people don't survive bites. Morgan points out that Alicia was different. Even if Alicia survived, Madison still doesn't want to find her. Morgan asks her why.
In a flashback, Padre tells Madison that they finally think that it's time: she has rescued more children than any other Collector and they will now help Madison find her own children. However, Madison covers up her tattoos of Nick and Alicia's names and tells him that she doesn't want to find her children anymore.
In the present, Madison touches her tattoos and explains that she was willing to die at the stadium so that her kids could see what she was building was worth fighting for. However, Madison now knows that PADRE played her from the start and made her do things that she didn't want to so that when she could finally get her kids back, she wouldn't want to anymore. Morgan wonders why Madison kept kidnapping kids for PADRE if she didn't want to see Nick and Alicia anymore. She says that she knew that PADRE would find her kids and make them take her place if she tried to walk away, but with Nick and Alicia dead, that's not a problem anymore. She wishes that she knew that before she took Mo.
Suddenly, gunfire outside takes out the herd banging on the door. Morgan, Madison and Ava realize that the posse has found them, and Morgan warns Madison that the posse will kill them both if they get inside. Wilt calls for them to open up. Morgan tells Ava that Madison saved him once before and the posse thinks that they're working together. Ava suggests that, if they give Madison up, the posse might spare his life. Morgan insists that everyone needs Madison to get their kids back, but Ava doubts that the posse is going to see it that way. Trying to open the door, Wilt warns Morgan and Ava that, if they're trying to hide Madison, they're going to have a problem. Madison orders Morgan to let the posse in and not to sacrifice himself for her, but he replies that he's not doing it for her, but for Mo. Madison insists that she can't get back either Morgan or Ava's children. Morgan believes that she can, and she just needs to find a reason. Madison tells him that there's only one way to show them that he's not with her. He finally yells at the posse to wait and reluctantly agrees to open the door and hand Madison over to them. He apologizes to her, but she simply tells him that it's the only way for him to live to see his daughter again.
Morgan and Ava open the door and let in the posse. Removing his mask, Wilt asks if Madison remembers him, stating that Madison took his son away from him last winter. Covering Madison's head with a bag, Wilt orders his men to start digging, as high tide is in less than two hours. Outside, Ava reassures Morgan that he made the right call and he asks Wilt what he did to Madison when he returns from the beach. He states that they left Madison to watch the tide come in and that it's worse when you can see it coming. While she didn't tell them much, the posse found her PADRE journal in her pack, and they know when they're coming to pick her up. He orders Morgan to put a bag on, explaining that they're going to surprise Madison's friends at the Birdhouse and bury them all if they have to until someone tells them where to find their kids. However, Morgan knows that this isn't going to get their kids back and will only get everyone killed. Ava stops Wilt and orders him to let Morgan go, reminding him that PADRE is the enemy, not each other. Wilt finally relents, but he warns Morgan against getting in their way. As the posse leaves, Morgan tries to convince Ava not to go with them, but she is determined to get to her daughter. She shows Morgan a toy that Odessa had lost the day before Madison took her, one she had promised her daughter that she'd find and get back to her. She leaves with the posse.
Buried up to her neck in the sand, Madison spots three bodies floating in the water near the shore as they reanimate, revealing them to be zombified posse members. Closing her eyes, she remembers dropping numerous toys from kids that she kidnapped for PADRE into a box, haunted by memories of her actions. She watches as the first walker trips and falls to the ground just feet away from her, and crawls towards her. Just as the walker is about to reach her, Morgan suddenly chops its face off with his battle axe before using his staff and axe to put down the other two walkers. Dropping his weapon, he begins to dig her out, telling her that she doesn't deserve to go out like this. Madison reminds him that she can't help him save Mo, but he explains that, when he first met her kids, he was in a place not too different from where she is now. He had wanted to get away from everything and everybody, but meeting Nick and Alicia helped him. As a result, he kind of owes Madison and thinks that she should show the people that did this to her that they're wrong. She insists that she can't, and Morgan reminds her that "no one's gone until they're gone," which Alicia had told him was something that Madison had used to say. However, Madison feels that, with everything that she's done, she is gone.
As Madison struggles to breathe again, Morgan rushes to get her oxygen tanks. Spotting more posse members emerging from the water as walkers, including Wilt, Madison realizes that PADRE had killed them all and laments that they didn't listen. Grabbing his bag and battle axe, Morgan rushes over to help Madison as she calls out a warning to him. He impales Wilt through the head with his staff, putting him down, but he hesitates at the next walker after spotting Odessa's toy on its belt. Removing the bag from the walker's head, he is saddened to discover that the walker is a zombified Ava. As a result, he hesitates to attack, and he trips and falls while using his axe to hold Ava back. Lying on the ground, he struggles to keep Ava from biting him as the other three zombified posse members approach Madison. She manages to grab her hammer, which is lying on the ground near her, and swings it at the walkers' legs, breaking them and making the walkers fall to the ground. With the walkers incapacitated, she impales each walker in the head with the sharp end of her hammer, putting them down. Freeing herself from the hole, she impales Ava in the back of the head with her hammer, putting her down and saving Morgan.
Taking a breath from her oxygen tanks, Madison asks Morgan about his hesitation against the zombified Ava. He sadly tells her that Ava is dead because of something he did and won't see her daughter because of him. However, Madison tells him that Ava is dead because of PADRE, not him. She explains that, while she's gone, Morgan's not. She will help him get his daughter back and show PADRE that they're wrong. She confirms that she wasn't lying about the fact that Morgan can only get to PADRE by taking them another child. He insists that there's got to be another way, but Madison is sure that there's not. Looking at Grace's tape player, he suddenly has an idea.
Escorted by a PADRE guard, Madison leads Morgan back to the Birdhouse, where she introduces him to a PADRE guard as another Collector who has something to offer. Morgan reveals that he has information on rafts with people on them out there. He tells the guard that amongst the people are children and a pregnant woman. He can tell them more, but they have to let Morgan go with them. The guard agrees and has Morgan and Madison get on his boat.
As the boat heads out, Morgan asks Madison where they're going and where PADRE actually is. She admits she actually doesn't know. The PADRE guards blindfold them as the boat heads for a large ship that's anchored in open water.
Other Cast[]
Co-Stars[]
Uncredited[]
- Avaya White as Morgan Jones-Mukherjee
- Prop as Silas Sanderson (Corpse)
- Brian Mahood as Posse Member
- Erin Ryan as Posse Member
- Jacob Martinez as Posse Member
- Jessica Youmans as Posse Member
- Lexi Qaiyyim as Posse Member
- Ron Bonge as Posse Member
- Stephanie Lenz as Posse Member
- Daniel Rashid as Ben Krennick (Voice Only)
- Unknown as Oriole (Voice Only)
Deaths[]
- Burlap Masked Man
- Silas Sanderson (Confirmed Fate)
- Wilt (Alive and Zombified)
- Ava Sanderson (Alive and Zombified)
- Ava Marie C. Goodwin Sanderson (Confirmed Fate)
- William K. Sanderson (Confirmed Fate)
- Horace J. Sanderson (Confirmed Fate)
- Ethel P. Rogers Sanderson (Confirmed Fate)
- Charlotte A. Davis Sanderson (Confirmed Fate)
- 8 unnamed beach trespassers (Confirmed Fate)
- 14 unnamed members of Wilt's Posse (6 Alive and Zombified; 3 Off-Screen)
Trivia[]
- First appearance of Oriole. (Voice Only)
- First appearance of Ben Krennick. (Voice Only)
- Only appearance of Ava Sanderson. (Alive)
- Only appearance of Wilt.
- Only appearance of Silas Sanderson. (Corpse)
- The title of the episode, "Gone", is a reference to Madison's final words "No one's gone until they're gone". Morgan repeats those words to Madison, but she insists that she is "gone" after everything that she's done.
- This episode's title is shared with the second episode of Season 1 of The Ones Who Live, as well as the fifth part of Red Machete.
- This episode was made available for streaming to subscribers of AMC Premiere on May 29, 2022.
- This episode marks the return of Kim Dickens (Madison Clark) to the series.
- Kim Dickens was absent since "No One's Gone".
- This is the first time that Madison appears in the present since "Sleigh Ride" of Season 3. All of Madison's appearances in Season 4 were flashbacks.
- This is also the first time that Kim Dickens is not credited as a main cast member when she appears.
- As of this episode, Madison is the only character that appeared in the pilot to have a confirmed alive status.
- This is the only season finale of Fear the Walking Dead in which Victor Strand doesn't appear.
- Madison's log book reveals that she's been a Collector for PADRE for 758 days.
- This means that it has been at least two years since the destruction of the Dell Diamond Baseball Stadium.
- Madison now has Nick and Alicia's names tattooed on her wrists.
- In Talking Dead for this episode, Kim Dickens reveals that the tattoos were actually her idea based on one of Kim's own ideas for a scenario involving the revelation of Madison's survival. She also reveals that she knew and kept the secret of Madison's return for a year.
- Madison is shown to frequently require the use of an oxygen tank. Morgan asks if it's from smoke inhalation from the fire at the stadium, but she only states that it was "something like that". When asked how she survived the stadium, Madison simply says that she's full of surprises.
- Morgan mentions the events of "Good Out Here", "Buried", "In Dreams", "PADRE" and "Amina" while talking about his experiences with Nick and Alicia.
- PADRE is shown to have a large ship, but its true location remains unknown.
- Though Alycia Debnam-Carey (Alicia Clark) is still credited as a starring character in this episode, she does not appear, as she was already written out of the show.
- This is the first time a main cast has continued to be listed despite being written out.
- Madison's method of taking out the walkers at the end by targeting their legs and then stabbing them in the back of the head is similar to the method that Jane teaches Clementine in Season 2 of the Telltale Series.
Episode Highlights[]
- After being captured by a revenge-seeking posse, Morgan is rescued by Madison Clark, who kidnaps Mo and gives her to an organization that is stealing kids from parents.
- While trying to force Madison to help him find Mo, he discovers that she works for PADRE and realizes her identity after seeing Madison's tattoos with Nick and Alicia's names. In exchange for helping him get Mo, he promises to lead Madison to her kids.
- Morgan and Madison meet Ava and pretend to be helping her with her unborn child by taking her to PADRE, before being forced to hide from the posse. Ava reveals that she was trying to trick her way into PADRE after Madison had kidnapped her daughter a year before.
- Morgan is eventually forced to tell Madison about Nick's death and Alicia's suspected death.
- Madison reveals that she kidnapped kids for PADRE in exchange for being taken to her own, but she changed her mind about seeing Nick and Alicia after kidnapping many children for PADRE. Afterwards, she was afraid that PADRE would find Nick and Alicia and make them take her place.
- With the posse, made up of parents whose kids were kidnapped, having them cornered, Morgan and Ava turn Madison over to them. After the posse buries Madison to drown, Ava joins them to get revenge and her daughter back.
- Morgan rescues Madison, only for them to discover that Ava and the posse were murdered. The two are forced to put Ava and several others down before Madison agrees to help Morgan rescue Mo.
- By directing PADRE soldiers to the rest of his group, Morgan strikes a deal to get himself taken to PADRE. Madison admits that she doesn't actually know where it is.