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"Odessa" is the third episode of the eighth season of AMC's Fear the Walking Dead. It is the one-hundred and fourth episode of the series overall. It premiered on May 28, 2023. It was written by Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg and directed by Ron Underwood.[1]
Plot[]
Mo's hunt to prove PADRE's true intentions has her in over her head as she's drawn into the larger web of secrets.
Synopsis[]
Madison awakens tied to the operating table in the train lab with a hooded walker head growling at her from the extension device. A guard notices that she's awake and apologizes for the sedative, telling Madison that it's easier that way. Madison questions how long she is going to be kept her, and the guard reveals that PADRE has gone beyond studying her blood, but it will be easier for Blue Jay to explain that. Two more guards lead June in and Madison recognizes her as Naomi, which June states was a long time ago. The guard is surprised that Madison and June know each other which Shrike didn't mention. Stating that Padre wants her back at the island, the guard orders June to get Madison ready.
Left alone, Madison accuses June of being a part of PADRE too and the one who had her blood drawn for years, but June explains that she wasn't responsible for the blood draws, and that she isn't working for PADRE by choice. June had thought that Madison was dead until Shrike just gave her Madison's records. Madison asks what is going to happen next and June reluctantly explains that, although June had done everything that she could to put Shrike off, Shrike has ideas on how to heal walker bites based on Alicia surviving a walker bite for as long as she did. Looking at the walker head, Madison realizes that Shrike wants to test it on her. June suggests that that's why Shrike was collecting Madison's blood: she thinks that Alicia's survival was due to more than the radiation, that there was something genetic that Madison, as her mother, might also share. June admits that anything's possible, but Finch seems to be responding to the radiation, although it hasn't even been a week since he was bitten. If June doesn't do this, Shrike will, and Madison's chances of the cure working are better with June.
After a moment, Madison asks June to find a file on the island containing the real names and where they were taken of the kids that Madison had kidnapped and keep Madison's promise to Mo to track down their parents. However, June is reluctant as every good thing that's she's tried to do at PADRE has blown up in her face which Madison knows all too well personally. Shrike arrives, interrupting their conversation and, recalling that she left Madison once at the stadium and Madison had saved them all, June refuses to leave her again and promises to be right beside Madison until the end.
In a flashback to 12 years ago, Sam and Ben Krennick explore what will eventually become Padre's interrogation room on the island. The two are frightened by a man yelling at them over the loudspeaker which turns out to be a practical joke by their father, Major General Krennick of the U.S. Army. Ben calls the one-way mirror creepy which Krennick explains allows him to keep an eye on things while he's in meetings. Sam and Ben suggest that Krennick get the mic fixed because the voice that comes out of it will creep people out. Krennick tells them that Sergeant Brenner thinks that it's probably just a faulty wire and he'll get it taken care of. Sam and Ben are disappointed that their father has to leave, and he has them follow him to show them something.
Outside, Krennick shows his daughter through a pair of binoculars a middle-spotted woodpecker pecking at a tree. Krennick reminds his children that their mother had told him that she was giving him the binoculars so that he would always see what's coming. After seeing the bird through them that morning, Krennick had felt like she was trying to tell them something, "that we were going to be okay here. These birds, they live in families. They cooperate to raise their young. If they can do it, so can we." Goddard interrupts to ask Krennick if they should load up, and Krennick orders him to give them a minute.
Sam complains about her father leaving the island, but Krennick states that it's how they are going to rebuild, the same way that they built PADRE: shipping containers that each contain enough supplies for people to rebuild. Ben objects that it's dangerous out there, reminding his father that both Atlanta and LA were bombed. However, Krennick counters that they need to enact their distribution protocols and to seed new communities which is the way that the program was designed. Sam questions how her father even knows that there's still people out there, and Krennick reveals that Senator Elias Vazquez had made contact with them the day before from where he's living in a bunker beneath the Franklin Hotel in Galveston, Texas with his staff. Ben wants to do the same thing and stay on the island until they know that it's safer, but Krennick knows that they'll never survive here if it's just them cut off from the world with no trading partners and other communities to rely on. Krennick promises his children that they will be safe on the island and reminds them to use the bird code names that he gave them if they need to communicate with him by radio for their own safety. While Ben is fine with Crane, Sam questions her own code name of Shrike and her father tells her that a shrike may be small, but it is brutal when it has to be, and it doesn't hesitate to look after its family. The three say their goodbyes and Sam promises to keep her brother safe while their father is gone.
In the present, Sam Krennick, now known as Shrike, uncovers the walker head and tells Madison that she this is how she can make up for betraying Padre after everything that he gave her. Madison won't be alone either as Morgan will be right next to her as soon as they can find him. Madison asks why Padre is doing this and Shrike tells her that it's for the same reason that he does everything: "to ensure what he's built endures."
Nearby, Mo charges down the railroad tracks with Dove, using a sledgehammer to put down a passing walker. As they stop, Dove protests them being so far away from the rest of their troop, but Mo needs to see what's in the train.
Inside, Shrike tells Madison that years in the future, when people look back and wonder how Padre was able to stop infections from walker bites from killing people, they'll remember today, and Madison will be a hero.
Outside, Mo explains to Dove that she thinks that Finch might be inside of the train as Finch had never come back from his surgery. Dove believes that their friend is just still recovering, but Mo explains that, after Finch's transport boat got attacked, Padre sent guards out after him. Mo checked the logs which revealed that the guards went to an old railroad museum, but there was nothing there. Mo guesses that someone must've moved the train and suggests that maybe Padre isn't telling them the truth. Mo thinks that something bad might've happened on the train and that it might still be happening.
Inside, Shrike begins to use the walker head to bite Madison, refusing to allow June to sedate her due to all of the pain that Madison has brought to Padre.
Over Dove's objections, Mo bangs her sledgehammer on the tracks to draw away the outside guard, needing to see what's going on inside, and then leads the guard away into the woods. Just before the head can bite Madison, Mo boards the train and unplugs the extension device, demanding that Shrike let Madison go. The guards rush to restrain Mo, but June takes advantage of the distraction to grab Shrike's gun and pistol-whip her unconscious before she can call for help. Grabbing a pair of scissors, June puts down the walker head and cuts Madison free before opening fire on the guards as Mo knocks one away with her sledgehammer. Madison and Mo take cover as June exchanges fire with the guards. Mo wants to continue with Madison's plan and to enlist Morgan's help, but Madison informs her that Morgan can't help them right now and, until he's back, they're on their own. June eventually manages to kill both guards and Mo tells Madison that they just need to get through to the Prefects the way that Madison got through to her. If they do that, the other kids will follow. Madison warns Mo that it won't be easy while June provides Madison with an oxygen tank to help her breathe.
Shrike begins to wake up as a Prefect reports that they're done for the day and are heading back to the island. Madison kicks the radio away before Shrike can reach it, but it lands at Dove's feet. Dove holds them at gunpoint as Shrike instructs her to call the Prefect for more guards, but Mo protests, revealing that Shrike was going to kill Madison. Dove thinks that Madison deserved it, and Mo asks if Finch did too. Shrike orders Dove not to listen to her, but Dove hesitates. Mo asks if Shrike had killed Finch, but Shrike claims to have saved Finch's life. June reveals that Shrike is the reason that Finch got bit while Shrike states that Finch is somewhere where his parents can't do him anymore harm. Shocked to hear that Finch got bit and seeing the walker head on the extension device, Dove demands answers from Shrike who insists that she's protecting what Padre has built and she's ensuring that the kids have a future. Madison asks if that's what this setup looks like to Dove who continues to hesitate as the Prefect asks for her location.
Shrike orders Dove to tell the Prefect where to find them and to come, but Madison tells her not to do it, reminding Dove that if Padre lied to her about this, he's likely lied to her about other things as well. Dove's parents could still be out there, and Madison can help her to find them, but Dove doesn't want to find her parents as she believes that they had abandoned her and couldn't take care of her. However, Madison knows that that's not true because she's the one who took Dove away from her parents. Madison doesn't know who they were or where she took Dove from, but she knows Dove's face. Shrike insists that Madison is just trying to trick her while Madison insists that the only one tricking Dove is Padre with June adding that Madison is right, and Padre had kept all of this a secret so that none of the kids would know. Madison believes that they can change that if they can get to the island and the file containing all of the names of the kids that she took and where she took them from. That's how Madison can help Dove and all of the other kids that Padre has taken. Dove finally agrees to help them get back to the island as, while she doesn't care what's in the file, she wants to hear the truth from Padre himself. They can get past the guards if Shrike helps them with Dove making it clear at gunpoint that Shrike has no other choice. Shrike warns that if Dove kills her, Padre will do way worse than Shrike had planned to do to Madison today because Shrike is actually Padre's daughter. The group is shocked at this revelation.
12 years ago, Sam and Ben hide out, having stowed away onboard their father's boat. Krennick announces to his men that they have their work cut out for them, but that they're starting in a good place. The two emerge from hiding once the soldiers are gone and Sam protests that they shouldn't be here, but Ben just wants to make sure that their father is safe. Although Sam is sure that he will be, Ben notices that Krennick forgot his binoculars and he insists that they have to take them to him. Sam protests, but Ben is worried about how their father will see what's coming without them. Sam calls it just a superstition, insisting that Krennick has every other adult on the island with them and that he will be fine. Ben refuses to be deterred as they had thought the same thing about their mother, physically shoving Sam aside and locking her in before running off into a massive shipyard full of hundreds of giant shipping containers.
In the present, the group emerges from the train and Shrike warns Dove that she's making a big mistake and whatever Dove wants, it's not what she thinks. Diane and an armed group of adults surround them, demanding answers. Madison recognizes Diane, although she can't place where from, and she recognizes a man with her as someone who had been living in an auto yard running out of food with a baby that he couldn't feed and a woman as someone who had a sick son that she thought had pneumonia. Madison realizes that the group is made up of parents whose children have all been kidnapped by PADRE's Collectors. Diane stares intently at Dove for a moment before asking where their kids and Adrian are. While Madison doesn't know any Adrian, June knows who Diane is talking about and she reveals that Adrian was at the train and that he is dead. Diane tells June that Adrian had just wanted to find his daughter and June sadly admits that Adrian did find Hannah who had died too, a long time ago. Shrike states that Hannah died because of June, but June corrects that it was because of what Shrike made her do.
The group disarms Madison and the others, but Mo tells them that Madison is no longer with Padre, and she can help them to find their kids. Diane is dubious, but Dove tells her that Padre has lied to everyone, and Shrike is his daughter. Together, they might be able to find out what else Padre has lied about. Diane decides to let the Commander decide and the man emerges from behind his group. Madison is shocked to recognize the Commander as her old friend Daniel Salazar whom she hasn't seen in almost 12 years while June is surprised that Daniel is still alive. Diane is surprised that Daniel knows Madison and June and he orders their weapons to be returned to them, wryly noting that "it looks like we all have nine lives" and Madison agrees that they're going to need them.
Walking along the road together, Daniel admits that he had often considered the possibility that Madison was still alive, but he'd never thought that it would be like this. Daniel identifies his drink as Yerba Mate which is good for keeping his mental focus, but Madison rejects his offer of a sip. Madison admits that she's not proud of what she did and who she became, and Madison just wants a chance to make it right. Daniel feels the same way about himself, and he suggests that they can help each other as Daniel's group has been looking for the island for years and, if what Madison says is correct, she's the best and only shot that the group has to get their kids back from Padre.
Daniel explains that seven years before, Morgan had told Padre that his group were out there and they found the rafts and brought everyone to a ship to assess them before deciding where they were going to be sent according to their skills and usefulness. Some people went to the mainland, others went to the island, while others Daniel doesn't know where they went. In Daniel's case, he was thought to be too old to be useful and so Padre's forces dumped him in a swamp. Daniel knows that Padre was right about him being old, but he was wrong about the fact that being old meant being useless as Daniel could take care of himself and so could everyone else in the group except for Charlie. Madison asks what became of Charlie as Morgan didn't get to tell her much before Padre figured out what they were doing and separated them. Daniel sadly explains that Charlie was very sick and that Charlie had become like a daughter to him. Daniel had promised to stay with Charlie until the end so that she wouldn't have to die alone like Ofelia did. Daniel broke his promise, and he wasn't there for Charlie or for Luciana either whom Daniel had also considered to be a daughter. Madison offers her condolences and that of Morgan, sure that he would also be sorry for Daniel's loss. "I had no purpose. And then I found these folks, this angry, desperate group of people in search of their kidnapped children. It motivated me. It gave me a reason to stick around. So, I organized and trained them, turned them into an army. Strong, getting stronger, because there's more of them out there. I lost my family, Madison. But I'm gonna fight with everything I got to help these folks get back to theirs," Daniel explains. Madison suggests that Daniel may not have lost everyone and that he can use Padre's files to find out what had happened to Charlie and Luciana.
As they approach the Prefect transport boat, Dove states that they can use it to get back to the island. Shrike asks if Dove is sure that she wants to go down this road, but Daniel suggests that Shrike start answering some questions instead asking them. Madison asks who else knows that Shrike is Padre's daughter, and she admits that not many people do. Daniel questions why her father separates children from their parents while not doing the same thing himself. Madison calls Padre a hypocrite, but Shrike tells her that the way the island is run and they do things is something that Padre has believed in for a very long time. June demands to know why Padre is sacrificing people for an experiment that will never pay off, but Shrike tells her that, not only will it pay off, but it already is and to look at Finch. Madison questions what happened to Shrike's father to make him build a place such as this, but Dove interrupts as they need to get moving. Diane questions who the girl is and where she came from before she went to PADRE, but Dove admits that she doesn't know. Diane asks if Dove knows her, but she's never seen Diane before in her life.
A group of Prefects led by Hawk emerge from the woods, armed with guns and staffs and demand that they let Shrike go. Madison reveals that Shrike has been lying to them and that she is Padre's daughter while Daniel points out that Padre has been ripping families apart, but he has kept his daughter by his side this whole time which Mo confirms Shrike told them herself. Shrike suggests that he should focus more on getting her out of this and Hawk tells Dove that she and Mo don't have to go along with this anymore, but Dove and Mo are determined to go to the island to get answers from Padre. Although Hawk doesn't think that Dove has any right to question Padre, she has seen too many things today that Padre has to explain for her to just let it go. Hawk is too brainwashed to relent, but Daniel tells him that everyone present has lost their children to Padre and there are more of them, possibly including the parents of Hawk and the others. Hawk believes that their parents abandoned them, but Diane tells him that they didn't, and they have been fighting this whole time to get back to their kids. Daniel offers a visibly shaken Hawk the chance to join his group, but he asks Dove to just hand Shrike over to him. Dove refuses so Hawk goes to radio Padre, prompting Madison to hold a knife to Shrike's throat, knowing that the files will be destroyed if Padre knows that they're coming. Madison reveals that the files tell them who everyone is, where they came from and who their parents are, but Hawk refuses to let them get on the boat. While he's willing to shoot Daniel, Mo challenges Hawk to shoot her. Daniel and Mo order Madison to go while they hold Hawk and the others off, telling her that if Madison can show Dove the truth, the rest of the kids will follow. As the parents, Daniel and Mo form a human blockade against Hawk's group, Madison, June, Dove and Shrike leave for the island on the boat.
12 years ago, Ben runs through the maze of shipping containers looking for his father while Sam manages to free herself and runs after her brother. Sam finds an empty survivors' camp amongst the shipping containers and the words "DEAD HERE" spray-painted on a nearby container. Ben begins screaming for his sister and Sam finds him being chased through the maze by walkers which close in on Ben from multiple directions.
In the present, Padre tells a cured Finch that he thinks it's time for him to tell the others where he's been. Finch asks what Padre means and Padre explains that Finch was bit and he's still here and healthy and thriving. Finch asks where Red Kite and Starling are, but Padre tells the young boy that his parents have been reassigned somewhere that they can't cause him anymore harm. Finch tells Padre that they had saved him, but Padre states that it was his people who did. One of the guards receives a message that they have a situation and Madison comes on telling Padre that they have questions and his daughter. Madison demands that Padre order his guards to stand aside so that they can come and talk to him. Shrike asks Madison not to do this, but she simply tells Padre "no more hiding behind the mirror. Time to tell the truth." Shrike protests that Padre doesn't have to answer for anything, but Madison tells them both that every kid deserves to know why Padre had them ripped away from their parents while he wouldn't do the same for his own daughter.
Daniel reports in that his group got away from Hawk and his friends and he asks if Dove is still with her. When Madison confirms it, Daniel reveals that one of his people thinks that she might be Dove's mother. Taking the radio, Diane admits that she didn't think that it was possible, but a mother knows. Shrike tells Dove not to fall for it, but Diane identifies Dove as her daughter Alex who was taken away from her years ago by a Collector at a campground outside of Baton Rouge. Diane thinks that the Collector was probably Madison and she's sure that Dove is her daughter. An emotional Diane tells Dove that she's searched for her for a long time, and she sang "You Are My Sunshine" to her as Alex was taken away from her and she never stopped looking. Shrike insists that Diane is not Dove's mother and that she is just trying to get into her head. Madison orders Shrike to stop lying to her, but Shrike insists that she's not lying. Madison asks Padre for Dove's file so as to find out for sure while Shrike continues to insist that she's making a mistake. Madison threatens to tell everyone who Shrike really is, something that's overheard by all of the guards at the dock and Finch, and Padre relents and orders that Madison be brought inside and given what she wants. As the guards let them in, Madison tells Dove that she's about to get all of the answers that she came here for, and Madison grabs a sledgehammer from a nearby bucket of tools.
In the interrogation room, Madison puts a box full of files on the kids that she took down on the table and tells Dove to look inside and get her answers. However, Shrike interrupts them, insisting that there's something that they need to know before they read the file. Although they already know that this place is built on a lie, it's not what they think. June demands to know what it is then, but Shrike tells her that it's the only way to protect the kids from what happened here before. Madison asks Padre what happened before, but Padre refuses to answer to her. Madison recalls that Padre has always said that he's never lost a kid, but she doesn't believe it to be true and asks who he lost.
12 years ago, as walkers close in on Ben, Krennick appears and shoots them, saving his son's life. A frightened Ben hands his father the binoculars and explains that he'd forgotten them. Krennick reveals that the shipyard has been overrun by a herd and that Goddard and the others are all dead. The herd closes in on them and Krennick runs out of bullets, forcing the family to run, but walkers surround them from all directions, trapping them.
In the present, Madison continues to demand answers, but Shrike tells her that she will never get her father to admit to anything.
12 years ago, Krennick boosts his children up onto a shipping container, but he is devoured by the herd, including a zombified Goddard. With his last words, Krennick implores his children not to let PADRE die as it's too important and he loves them both. Ben sobs as he watches his father be devoured by the herd while Sam and Ben are safely out of reach thanks to their father's sacrifice.
In the present, fed up with the lack of answers, Madison smashes the mirror with her sledgehammer, revealing Ben Krennick on the other side. "My father can't answer you 'cause my father is dead. My brother and I lost him a long time ago. You wanted to ask Padre for the truth. Go ahead. Ask us. We are Padre," Shrike tells the group.
12 years ago, Sam watches the herd milling around below the shipping container while in the present, Madison asks how it went from what Krennick was doing at the shipyard 12 years ago to what his children are doing here. Shrike explains that they didn't know how to go on while in the past, Ben emerges from a container stacked on top of theirs with a gun that he'd found in the container. As Ben watches a zombified Krennick amongst the herd in the past, in the present Shrike elaborates that they were left wondering what they even had to go on for. As Sam contemplates suicide in the past, a voice calls out for Krennick on the radio. In the present, Shrike states that the universe answered while Ben explains that it was one of the kids from the island wanting to know what happened to his parents with the rest of the kids wanting to know too. Dove demands to know what Ben and his sister told them, and Shrike admits that they knew that it would break the kids to know that their parents had died so they told the kids that their parents abandoned them, that they knew they couldn't take care of them, so they fled. As their parents left and never came back, the kids believed Shrike and Ben's lies. The two told the kids that they'd face the new world together without their parents and that they'd be better for it. Krennick died protecting what was inside the shipyard, so they made sure that it stayed that way, but Ben refuses to elaborate on how. June asks how a bunch of kids were able to recruit adults to their cause, and Ben explains that they had used the faulty PA system to make the adults believe that Krennick was still there, and they kept on believing it afterwards.
Dove asks why Shrike lied and she states that it was to protect the kids and directs her to open her file. When Dove hesitates, Madison looks in the box for herself and she finds Dove's file. As Shrike challenges Madison to reveal Dove's true identity, she discovers that Dove is actually Odessa Sanderson, the daughter of Ava Sanderson. A shocked Madison remembers meeting Ava in Louisiana with Morgan as both Ava and Morgan searched for their kidnapped daughters. Madison reveals Dove's real name to her and that she knew her mother Ava. Madison remembers putting a zombified Ava down to save Morgan's life and she sadly admits that Ava is dead. Under Shrike's prompting, Madison admits that Ava had died trying to get her daughter back from PADRE because Madison had made her believe that it was possible. Furious and in tears, Dove shoves Madison up against the wall, yelling at Madison for being responsible for her mother's death and for making Dove believe in something more. As Dove prepares to shoot Madison in revenge, Shrike orders her to let Madison go, promising that she will pay for what she did. Ben calls in guards who disarm June as Dove reluctantly stands down.
Shrike and Ben reveal that they intend to continue what they started at the train, making it clear that June has no other choice but to help them. June calls them monsters, but Shrike states that she and her brother are protecting these kids from the worst pain of all: the pain of losing a parent. Madison asks what that has to do with the train and the experiments and Ben explains that "as long as the world is the way it is, children will continue to experience unimaginable loss. But if there's a cure, that would change everything." Shrike adds that if that happens, they can go back to family and connection, but until then, they will protect these kids the way that they always have. Shrike offers Madison Ben's microphone to tell the kids that she rescued and the whole island the truth, but she decides to remain silent as Shrike had expected.
On the boat back to the train, Madison asks June what Nick and Alicia were like after her supposed death and June doesn't think that Madison would've recognized them. On shore, Daniel, Diane, Mo and the others emerge from the trees to surround Shrike and her forces. Daniel demands that Shrike let their people go, promising to walk away in exchange and no one has to get hurt. Daniel claims that they have another 12 soldiers deep in the woods with Shrike's Prefects, implying that they will kill Hawk and the others if Shrike doesn't agree to the deal. When Shrike doubts Daniel, he asks if she really wants to take that chance and Shrike relents, ordering her men to stand down. Daniel's people move in and disarm the PADRE forces and Diane addresses Dove as Alex, only to learn that Dove isn't her daughter and that Dove's mother is dead because of Madison. June tells Dove that she can still have a family even if it's not the one that she thought that what Madison made her believe in is still there. However, Dove chooses to stay with PADRE and Shrike tells the gathered parents that the rest of the kids will all make the same choice. Mo tells Shrike that the other kids won't, and Shrike will see, causing Shrike visible concern for a moment.
Madison apologizes to Daniel, while Diane tells him that this was a mistake and Madison can't help them. Daniel is sure that Madison can still help them, but she knows that Diane is right, and the kids will never follow her after everything that Madison has done. Diane makes it clear that the adults won't follow her either which Madison silently acknowledges. While Madison isn't the leader that they need, she thinks she knows who might be: Morgan Jones. Madison, Daniel, June, Diane, Mo and the others depart on the PADRE boat, leaving Shrike, Dove and the others on the shore.
Later, Shrike stands outside of the shipyard which is overrun by a herd of thousands of walkers with the gates chained shut. Shrike contacts Ben who was supposed to meet her, but he felt that being out in the open didn't seem like a good idea after the events of the day. Shrike informs her brother that they have a bigger problem as the parents know where the island is which means that it's only a matter of time until they get there. Ben is worried that they will destroy everything that they've built, but Shrike suggests that they won't if PADRE isn't on the island when Daniel's group arrives. It doesn't matter if everyone knows who they are, just that what they've built survives. Shrike intends to do this by expanding and doing what Krennick had said. Ben reminds his sister that there are thousands of walkers in the shipyard, walkers that they put there to protect what's inside. Looking at the thousands of walkers and hundreds of shipping containers holding the supplies needed to rebuild civilization, Shrike declares that "we taught the kids how to fight for a reason. It's time they showed us what they've learned."
Other Cast[]
Co-Stars[]
- Omer Aziz Mughal as Goddard
- Triston Dye as Hawk
- Jennifer Christa Palmer as Diane
- Nicky Buggs as Train Guard
Uncredited[]
- Jessica A'Zora as French
- Alister King as Callison
- Will Perez as Delvalle
- Unknown as McDonald
- Unknown as Winthrop
- Unknown as Lamb
- Unknown as Kingston (Zombified)
- Mark Smith as Resistance Fighter
- Sophie Winchester as Resistance Fighter
- Mallorie Stout as Resistance Fighter
- Casey Hendershot as Resistance Fighter
- Alex Hansbanger as Military soldier
- Lyndon Smith as Ava Sanderson (Archive Footage)
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Deaths[]
- Hannah (Zombified, Off-Screen)
- Adrian (Zombified, Off-Screen)
- Mrs. Krennick (Confirmed Fate)
- Brenner (Alive, Off-Screen, Flashback)
- Goddard (Alive, Off-Screen, Flashback)
- French (Alive, Off-Screen, Flashback)
- McDonald (Alive, Off-Screen, Flashback)
- Callison (Alive, Off-Screen, Flashback)
- Winthrop (Alive, Off-Screen, Flashback)
- Lamb (Alive, Off-Screen, Flashback)
- Delvalle (Alive, Off-Screen, Flashback)
- Kingston (Alive, Off-Screen, Flashback)
- Anderson (Alive, Off-Screen, Flashback)
- Krennick (Alive, Flashback)
- Dozens of unnamed PADRE test subjects (Zombified, Off-Screen)
- 2 unnamed PADRE guards
- Many unnamed U.S. Army soldiers and PADRE adults (Alive, Off-Screen, Flashback)
Trivia[]
- First appearance of Ben Krennick. (Physically)
- First appearance of Krennick. (Flashback)
- First appearance of Goddard. (Flashback)
- First appearance of Diane.
- First appearance of Hawk.
- Only appearance of French. (Flashback)
- Only appearance of McDonald. (Flashback)
- Only appearance of Callison. (Flashback)
- Only appearance of Winthrop. (Flashback)
- Only appearance of Lamb. (Flashback)
- Only appearance of Delvalle. (Flashback)
- Only appearance of Kingston. (Flashback)
- Last appearance of Ava Sanderson. (Flashback)
- The title of the episode, "Odessa", refers to Odessa Sanderson.
- This episode marks the eighth time in Fear the Walking Dead that the name of a character is included in the episode's title, the first being "Pablo & Jessica", the second being "Laura", the third being "Skidmark", the fourth being "Bury Her Next to Jasper's Leg", the fifth being "Cindy Hawkins", the sixth being "Ofelia", and the seventh being "Amina".
- It's revealed that Dove is actually Odessa.
- This episode was made available for streaming to subscribers of AMC Premiere on May 25, 2023.
- Despite several PADRE guards having speaking lines, they were not credited. It is likely they were credited as stunt performers for the episode instead.
- Despite a large group of undead shown swarming General Krennick at the shipyard, he was later seen reanimated and maintained much of his body structure instead of being devoured.
Episode Highlights[]
- Madison reunites with Daniel after last meeting him over a decade ago in "Sleigh Ride". She also recognizes June as her alias of Naomi from her time at the Dell Diamond Baseball Stadium.
- Finch has been successfully cured by June, although Shrike thinks that there may be a genetic factor that allowed Alicia and Finch to survive in addition to the radiation. While June acknowledges that anything's possible, she can't say for sure either way.
- Padre is revealed to be Ben Krennick, Shrike's brother.