Naomi, also known by the alias Laura, is a main character and a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's Fear The Walking Dead. She was formerly a resident of the Dell Diamond Baseball Stadium community, and later a member of the Vultures.
Personality
She is described as "a capable survivor we'll meet living on her own early on in the season. She'll have her guard up as she crosses paths with Madison and her family, and — as we'll learn over the course of the season — she'll have a very good reason for keeping people at a distance. Even so, she'll end up developing some connections that surprise her, including a bond with Alicia."[1]
Pre-Apocalypse
Location Unknown
Nothing is known about Naomi's life prior to or as the outbreak began, except that she was an ICU nurse, and she had one child. During her time working at a hospital, she saw enough car accident and stroke victims to begin to tell who would survive their wounds and who would not.
Post-Apocalypse
Season 4
"Another Day in the Diamond"
Naomi is found in the small town of Elgin, Texas, where she was camping out in the ruins of a burned car. She initially holds Madison at gunpoint, but is surrounded by Alicia, Strand, and Luciana.
She attempts to flee by climbing to the top of an oil tank, but falls through the deteriorated roof into the tank. Covered in oil, she is surrounded by the zombies that were lured into the tank by the Vultures before Naomi's arrival. Madison jumps in to help Naomi and the other survivors break open the door leading into the tank, releasing the oil and those inside. Naomi is ultimately saved and rests with her rescuers.
Later, she is invited to come back with them to their community where she uses her medical experience to treat Nick's head wound. After she finishes treating Nick, Madison informs Naomi that she can take a hot shower, much to her delight. However, Naomi is on alert as the Vultures arrive at the settlement, demanding the survivors to abandon their home.
"Buried"
During the flashbacks, Naomi accompanies Alicia Clark on a scouting mission for supplies to the Whirlin' Wavez amusement park. As they navigate through the amusement park, they realize that there was once a camp but was overrun after the fences fell. She and Alicia realize the remaining survivors of the camp must have barricaded the water slide's stairs and set up camp at the top of the slide. After climbing up the slippery slide, the two find medical supplies, but Naomi takes the opportunity to distract Alicia and attempt to flee. The car she takes quickly runs out of gas, forcing Naomi to explain that when she worked in the ICU, she saw all the time patients that she knew wouldn't make it and she believes the stadium will fall. Alicia eventually convinces Naomi to return where she offers to set up an infirmary. Alone, Naomi removes a six-shooter from her backpack and examines it.
In the present, Naomi's backpack is amongst the things Alicia Clark, Victor Strand and Luciana Galvez have in a weapons cache. The group explains to John Dorie that when the stadium fell, they grabbed anything they could of use, including Naomi's backpack. Inside the backpack, John finds Naomi's gun, an exact match for his own. The shocked John identifies Naomi as his missing girlfriend Laura whose real name he never knew. To the grief of John, Alicia's group tells him that Naomi did not make it out of the stadium and is dead.
"Laura"
In a flashback, Naomi is first seen lying unconscious in the water. John finds her and lays Naomi on his bed and discovers a deep gash on her stomach. He dresses her wound and sleeps on the couch while she sleeps on his bed.
In the morning, Naomi leaves the cabin and searches John's Jeep for keys and he catches her. John tells her where to find the keys but warns that the car needs a new battery. He suggests she at least takes some food, water and first aid supplies before leaving.
Naomi gives John instructions on how to stitch her wound. She grimaces as John pierces her skin with a needle. John serves fish stew for dinner and asks if he can call her Laura because she refuses to tell him her name. He welcomes her to stay as long as she’d like. Naomi insists she will leave as soon as she is better.
John mounts a curtain around the bed to give Naomi privacy. Naomi wakes up in the middle of the night and sees John cleaning his pistols.
John kills two Infected in the creek and decides to investigate the source of the Infected. He mentions to Naomi that he is also going on a supply run. Naomi insists on joining him. He offers her boots to protect herself from snakes, but she refuses to wear shoes that might impede her ability to run. John and Naomi row the canoe upriver. Naomi inquires about John’s past. He informs her that he was a police officer.
John and Naomi reach a bridge and notice a breached guardrail. They quickly deduce that Infected have been falling through the gap and floating downriver. John and Naomi stop at a general store for supplies. Naomi lays out first aid supplies for anyone else who visits the store.
John and Naomi use corrugated metal from a gas station to mend the guardrail. Naomi lies in bed while John watches a movie. She joins him on the couch. John offers to make some brittle. Naomi watches John sleep during the movie. He wakes up and stares at her. She reveals that she lost her child.
John gets ready to fish in the creek. Naomi asks him to teach her how to fish. John gives Naomi a fishing lesson and shows her how to gut the fish. They eat fish for dinner. Naomi thanks John for teaching her. John and Naomi play Scrabble and fish over the ensuing days.
John removes Naomi’s stitches. Naomi announces that she’s ready to leave, now that her wounds have healed. John goes outside to kill an Infected and realizes that their patch on the bridge isn’t working. Naomi offers to help John fix the bridge by blocking the gap with the Jeep.
John and Naomi sit in the Jeep on the bridge. Naomi says she learned how to hot-wire cars from a woman that she met in a camp. John sees one of his pistols hidden behind Naomi’s back and snatches it. Naomi argues that they need the gun for protection, but John sternly refuses to use firearms.
John and Naomi kill all the Infected on the bridge then drive the Jeep in front of the gap. An Infected attacks John in the driver’s seat. Naomi screams at him to use his gun. John refuses to shoot and, after a near-deadly struggle, stabs the Infected instead.
Back at the cabin, Naomi points out that John almost died because of his refusal to use guns. John explains that when he was a cop, he fatally shot a robber in the leg. He says that he moved to a new town after everyone started calling him a hero.
Infected surround the Jeep on the bridge, jostling the Infected corpse inside and knocking the Jeep into neutral. Infected fall off the bridge into the river.
John and Naomi hear Infected piling up in the creek. They go outside and begin slaying the Infected. Naomi becomes overrun by Infected. John gets his guns and saves her life by sharpshooting the Infected.
Naomi thanks John and calls him an honorable person. John gives her a pistol to take with her on the road.
Naomi joins John on the couch to watch a movie. John moves outside. She asks why he’s avoiding her. “I love you,” he says and asks her not to leave. They kiss.
Naomi leaves the next morning, and leaves John with a message written with Scrabble tiles: “I love you too I’m sorry.”
"Just in Case"
Naomi removes glass from Alicia’s arm at the stadium infirmary and asks Madison if they’re going out again for more supplies. Madison says they have no choice.
Naomi tries to leave the stadium in a car, but Viv stands in her way. Viv tells Madison that Naomi was trying to run off with one of their cars. Naomi says that she was merely driving to a location that might have seeds and fertilizer. Madison and Strand join her.
Naomi, Madison and Strand pull over at a motel and kill Infected in the front office. Madison deduces that the people killed each other over a can of baked beans. Strand finds a stash of snacks. Over dinner, Naomi explains that she’s taking Madison and Strand to an abandoned FEMA shelter. She admits that she had been planning to flee the stadium when Viv caught her but that she had intended to leave them with a map to the FEMA shelter. Strand orders her to hand over the car keys. Madison wakes up and finds Naomi gone.
Naomi drives to the FEMA shelter after hot-wiring a car. She knocks on the front doors and attracts a herd of Infected locked inside. Naomi enters the FEMA shelter through a side entrance and goes to the pantry. She opens a locked box and retrieves a notebook containing instructions for survival. She also takes a set of keys with “JIC” written on a keychain. Naomi enters a cafeteria and breaks into tears when she sees kids’ drawings on the wall. The herd hears her and migrates from the lobby into the cafeteria. She flees to another room and finds herself surrounded by Infected, some of whose faces she recognizes. She climbs to the top of scaffolding and sobs as the herd gathers below her.
Madison and Strand enter the FEMA shelter and spot Naomi on the scaffolding. Naomi tosses them the “JIC” keys and tells them there’s a truck outside with supplies. Madison distracts Infected while Strand strings up some rope. Naomi shimmies across the rope and escapes with Madison and Strand.
Madison, Strand, and Naomi rest in the lobby. Naomi explains that she and her daughter, Rose, had stayed at the shelter, where a woman named Ellen taught “Just in Case” survival skill classes. Naomi says that she left the shelter to find antibiotics after Rose caught pneumonia. When she returned, Rose had died, turned and infected everyone else. Naomi takes Madison and Strand to a well-stocked “Just in Case” truck that Ellen had prepared in the event of an emergency. After putting down the reanimated Ellen and removing her body, they prepare to return to the stadium.
Strand assures Naomi that anyone can start over.
In the present, Naomi is reveled to be alive and part of the Vultures when she arrives at the designated meeting spot where Alicia and Mel's group have a stand off. Naomi arrives in a Land Rover and steps out. John is shocked to see her and walks toward her. Shocked and hurt by this deceit, Alicia reacts angrily towards this and shoots at Naomi, but accidentally hits John steps in the way. He falls to the ground and Naomi kneels beside him.
"The Wrong Side of Where You Are Now"
Naomi will appear in this episode.
Killed Victims
The list shows that Naomi has killed:
- Ellen (Indirectly Caused; Zombified)
- Many unnamed ICU survivors (Indirectly Caused)
- Numerous counts of zombies
Relationships
John Dorie
TBA
Alicia Clark
Naomi and Alicia seem to have a stable relationship. It has been announced that Naomi and Alicia will bond over the course of Season 4.
Madison Clark
Naomi initially distrusts Madison when Madison and her group find Naomi's camp, holding her at gunpoint and trying to flee. Naomi seems to begin to somewhat like and trust Madison after she and Alicia save her life from the oil drum. It can be assumed that they now have a good relationship as Naomi agreed to stay at the baseball stadium.
Victor Strand
TBA
Nicholas Clark
TBA
Luciana
TBA
Melvin
TBA
Appearances
Fear The Walking Dead
Season 4
- "Another Day in the Diamond" (Flashback)
- "Buried" (Flashback)
- "Laura" (Flashback)
- "Just in Case"
- "The Wrong Side of Where You Are Now"
Trivia
- She is the first main character to be introduced in a flashback in Fear the Walking Dead.
- Her alias of Laura was given to her by John Dorie when she wouldn't give him her name. John thought she looked like a Laura.
- Naomi is the third main character who later becomes an antagonist, the first being Christopher Manawa and the second being Jeremiah Otto.
- However, the extent to which Naomi's motivations are antagonistic are still in question as of "Just in Case."
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