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"Is Anybody Out There?" is the eighth episode and mid-season finale of the fifth season of AMC's Fear The Walking Dead. It is the sixty-first episode of the series overall. It premiered on July 21, 2019. It was written by Michael Alaimo and directed by Michael Satrazemis.
Plot
Up against the clock, Morgan, Grace, and Alicia work to buy time as Dorie and Dwight race against the elements. Meanwhile, Sarah and Wendell get help from an unexpected source.
Synopsis
TBA
Other Cast
Co-Stars
Deaths
- None
Trivia
- First appearance of Doris.
- The opening credits features the power plant in the background with the alarm siren going off.
- This episode marks Rubén Blades' 25th appearance on Fear The Walking Dead.
- The title of this episode is the same thing said by the radio woman in the episode "The Storm" of the main show. It's also said by the main characters over the radio at the beginning of the show as they try to find any other survivors, particularly by Morgan.
- Logan reveals that gasoline is going bad which Dwight notes started happening before he came to the area. Logan also mentions the damage caused by the hurricane in the second half of Season 4. According to Logan, Clayton had a place set up to help with the fuel problem, a place mentioned in his journals.
- Gasoline going bad may be a reference to how in Season 9 of The Walking Dead everyone is using car shells pulled by horses instead of vehicles.
- While chased by the herd, Morgan retrieves his staff. Grace later breaks it in half and tosses the radioactive half out of the plane. According to Grace, the other half is safe for Morgan to use and he hangs onto it.
- Alicia and Daniel are reunited for the first time since "Sleigh Ride".
- This also marks the first meeting between him and Luciana despite both of them being main characters since season 2.
- Alicia is decontaminated by Grace, but it is unknown how much radiation she absorbed or the effect it will have on her. Grace states that she might end up being okay, but Alicia is not so sure.
Goofs/Errors
- Many of the original children in Annie's group have seemingly vanished, not appearing on the plane after everybody boarded.
- This is likely due to the showrunners rotating child extras for the group, as new child extras were seen in this episode, none of which appeared in any of the earlier episodes featuring Annie's group.
- In her conversation with Logan, Sarah identifies the truck she is driving as the one she stole from Clayton who she claims to have never met in person. However, the truck she stole was destroyed by Martha in "Blackjack" and "MM 54".
- It's possible that she lied to Logan about this fact so she can garner some sympathy from his so he would help her out in lighting the runway so that the plane can land.