"Remember What They Took From You" is the first episode of the eighth season of AMC's Fear the Walking Dead. It is the one-hundred and second episode of the series overall. It premiered on May 14, 2023. It was written by Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg and directed by Michael Satrazemis.[1]
Plot[]
After going undercover at PADRE, Morgan and Madison find themselves back at odds trying to do what's best for Mo while struggling to accept their new lives under the watchful eye of PADRE.
Synopsis[]
A hooded Morgan is led into an interrogation room in PADRE where a man on a speaker addresses Morgan with both acknowledging that they know who the other is. Morgan notices Madison standing in the room with him and Padre informs Morgan that he's been there long enough for PADRE to verify his story. PADRE has found the rafts of Morgan's Group and are currently processing the passengers. Morgan asks how many people were on the rafts and Padre tells him that while it wasn't as much as Morgan thought, it's still enough to satisfy PADRE's needs. Morgan and Madison exchange a look in the mirror as the man asks how Morgan knew that the rafts were out there and Morgan claims that he heard chatter on the radio and he thought that PADRE might be interested in them. The man warns Morgan that, if he wants to be a part of what PADRE is doing, he must show them that he's committed to their vision.
Morgan promises that he is, and he will as Shrike enters the room with another guard, holding a baby monitor with a baby's cries over it. Shrike tells him that the cries are from "our newest intake" while the man explains that PADRE wants Morgan to be a Collector collecting children to join the community like the one on the radio who was brought to PADRE by Madison. Morgan realizes that the baby is Mo and asks Shrike what PADRE is doing to her, confusing Shrike as to how he knows the baby's gender. Morgan explains that he can tell because he had a daughter, and Padre reassures him that they are simply drawing blood and giving Mo shots to keep her from getting sick and making other people sick. Morgan asks why PADRE can't bring the parents in too, and the man tells Morgan that they tried, but PADRE found that the parents don't want to build something better, but rather to "rebuild what we had, and what we had got us into this mess." Noting that Mo sounds scared, Morgan tries to get Shrike and the man to have someone comfort her, but he is informed that Mo will learn to separate herself from her emotions like all of the children at PADRE.
Unable to take it anymore, Morgan stands up and tells them to stop, but he is forced back into his seat at gunpoint. Morgan realizes that this is a setup and asks how the man knew and demands to know if Madison had told him. Padre explains that they got suspicious since a Collector bringing in both a child and a new recruit in one day doesn't happen often and they had to be sure as a result. Morgan and Madison suddenly attack, overpowering and knocking out the guards and Shrike and taking their guns. Madison sarcastically asks if it looks like she sold him out before they turn their guns on the window that Padre is behind and Morgan demands that Mo be brought to him and allow Morgan to escape on a boat with her, threatening the man's life if he refuses. Padre simply tells Morgan to do what's best for his daughter and Madison tells him to go while she keeps the man honest until he's clear, reminding Morgan that she's doing what she said that she would do, not wanting Mo to grow up on this island. As Morgan leaves, Padre asks if Madison really wants to do this, but she doesn't think that there's anything that PADRE can do that's worse than what she's already living. Padre menacingly suggests otherwise.
Seven years later, a young girl named Wren prepares herself to fight a walker that PADRE guards smash the teeth out of and shove a green-painted sponge in its mouth. Dove brushes off Wren's questions about the walker's origins, telling her that it came from the mainland like they always do, and that Wren is doing this for the same reason that they do everything: for PADRE. Armed with a staff, Wren fights back against the walker well at first, but is struck with sudden flashes of walkers growling at her at night while a woman's voice sings to her. Distracted, Wren is tackled to the ground by the walker which bites at her, but it is unable to get through the sponge and her protective suit. An angry Dove puts the walker down with Wren's staff and demands answers, accusing Wren of being too young for this. While Wren can't explain her suddenly freezing like that, she insists that she's not too young and that Dove has to train her and show Wren what she did at her trial. However, Dove has her offshore training next week and she has to cram on her own survival basics, so she isn't interested. Wren offers to do Dove's chores so that Dove can study and the two reach a deal of chores for a month.
As daily life progresses on the island, Wren drags a wagon full of oxygen tanks, passing butchers and makeshift classrooms in an open-air area with several of the adults, particularly the teachers, wearing masks. Elsewhere, children train to fight while being drilled in the importance that PADRE has in sustaining their way of life, teaching them to be strong and rebuilding the world. Unloading the oxygen tanks, Wren accidentally drops one down a staircase and goes to retrieve it in a cellar with a number of cells. Wren is drawn to one cell in particular with a large ventilator-like device pumping air into the room from the outside. Madison calls out to Wren from inside of the cell, causing Wren to open the door flap out of concern for Madison's safety when no guards answer her calls. However, Madison frightens Wren by suddenly reaching through the flap and begging for help, causing Ren to run away.
As Madison tiredly marks on another day on a makeshift and very long calendar on her wall, Shrike enters with a PADRE guard, addressing Madison as Lark, telling her that "it's that time of the week," and asking if Madison is going to play nice today. A silent and apparently catatonic Madison allows herself to be led to her cot and Shrike notes that Madison is skipping meals again and tells her that they have ways to make her eat. Shrike draws a silent Madison's blood from a large bruised area on her arm and promises to see her next week. Suddenly, Madison snatches the guard's gun as he walks by her and attempts to commit suicide with it, only to learn that the gun is unloaded. Madison charges Shrike, but the guard restrains her as Shrike sedates Madison. Shrike asks if Madison really thought that she would bring live ammo with them as Shrike knows that Madison wants to die, but PADRE isn't going to let that happen.
At night, Wren stands near a cage of walkers looking out longingly across the water at the mainland. Dove promises that Wren doesn't have to go into the circle again, but Wren wants to so that she can go to the mainland to build their future. Although Dove suggests that Wren wait until she's old enough, Wren can't as she feels that something really big is missing inside of her every time that she looks out at the mainland. However, Dove thinks that the only thing that Ren will only find more carrion as she calls the undead, but these ones with teeth unlike their training walkers. Wren asks Dove about the prisoner in the cellar, explaining how she met Madison after a tank fell down the stairs. Dove is angry to learn that Wren talked to Madison, warning the girl to stay away from Madison who is dangerous. When Wren presses for more information, Dove reluctantly explains that the prisoner is named Lark and she was a Collector who rescued more kids than anybody before, for some reason, helping a new recruit and his kid get off of the island. Dove only knows that it was some dad and his daughter and Wren is confused as she had believed that PADRE never lost a kid before. However, Dove only knows what people have told her and that Madison is in the cell for a reason. According to the stories, Madison took out over a dozen guards with just a sledgehammer and twice as many walkers. "She almost killed Padre," warns Dove. Arming themselves with staffs, the two girls spar with Wren effortlessly disarming and taking down Dove with moves similar to Morgan's. Wren is unable to explain why she can't perform the same moves in the circle against the walkers.
As Madison adds to her calendar, a knock sounds at her door, but she rudely tells them to leave, thinking that it's PADRE guards, since they were already there that morning. Outside, Wren promises Madison that she's not here to hurt her, explaining that she snuck past the guards who leave it unmanned when they do their rounds at shift change. Holding a sledgehammer, Wren explains that she needs Madison to teach her how to kill walkers. Wren took it from the gardening shed and she knows that Madison helped someone escape with one and took out half of the settlement's guards with it and she almost killed PADRE. Madison asks if Wren wants to finish the job, but the girl changes her mind and begins to leave. Madison calls after her and gets Wren to stop by promising to teach her, asking the girl why she cares about killing the dead. Wren wants to show PADRE that he's wrong and she's not too young to wear the mantle. Madison agrees to help Wren if she turns off the valve on the ventilator so that Madison can die. Madison was able to kill so many guards as she doesn't care whether or not she lives and she has already done what she set out to do. Madison offers to show Wren how to use the sledgehammer if she then turns off the valve on the ventilator and Wren accepts the deal after a moment's hesitation.
After Wren's first clumsy tries, Madison gets her to open the hatch so that she can adjust Wren's grip. However, Madison instead snatches the hammer from the girl, smashes the door's window and tries to use a piece of glass to slit her own throat. Shoving Madison to the ground and stopping her, an enraged Wren confronts Madison about lying to her. Grabbing Wren's hand, Madison is shocked to notice a scar on her arm just above her wrist, but all that Wren knows is that she's had it since she was little. After Wren tells Madison that she's 8, a distressed Madison realizes that it's been seven years, much longer than she had thought. Madison reveals that Wren is actually an eight-year old Mo whom she had brought to the island seven years ago. Madison had helped Morgan and Mo escape which is why PADRE had locked her up and Mo is not supposed to be here. Mo refuses to believe it, but Madison points to the scar as proof which Mo had gotten during the escape from the island. Both are confused as this doesn't make sense and Madison deduces that someone must've brought the girl back. Having noticed the commotion, two guards approach and Madison declares that they're leaving. Madison takes Mo hostage as the guards approach before using the sledgehammer to take them both down at the knees, sending the men into the walls, knocking them unconscious. Taking a gun from one of the guards, Madison declares that she's taking Mo where she thought Morgan took her a long time ago: as far away from PADRE as possible.
The next day, Madison drives away from the island on a boat while radio chatter orders patrols in every direction in a 15-mile radius to find and bring back Mo. Madison brings the boat ashore and Mo refuses to get off, but Madison is determined to keep her promise to Morgan. After taking a breath from an oxygen tank, Madison leads Mo inland to find Morgan, but Mo states that "this is why PADRE built things the way he did, so people like you don't do things like this." Mo angrily proclaims that Madison is going to get them killed, but Madison refuses to argue with her. Spotting walkers nearby, Madison orders Mo to head into the marsh as it will be impossible for anyone to track them there. Mo pretends to get stuck in some mud, smashes Madison's oxygen tank and runs off with her radio.
Mo attempts to call PADRE, but Madison quickly catches up and grabs the radio from her. Although Mo is sure that PADRE heard her and will be coming, Madison points out a small herd approaching nearby and tells her that the dead are already here too and, with her tank broken and her gun lost, Madison can't protect her. Madison insists upon heading further inland as the walkers won't be able to find them the deeper that they go into the swamp, but Mo points out that without her oxygen, Madison can't breathe, and she will die out there. Mo insists upon waiting for PADRE despite Madison warning her that it could take them weeks to find her out here. Although Mo is trained in survival, Madison points out that the girl has never killed the undead and they are already drawing them in from all over. Insisting that she can handle herself, Mo takes Madison's metal pole to face an approaching walker while Madison uses her sledgehammer to take out one approaching from the other direction. However, Mo hesitates again after experiencing another flashback of walkers coming after her at night as a woman's voice sings to her. Madison takes out the walker before it can reach Mo who is once again unsure of why she keeps freezing when faced with walkers.
As Madison prepares to lead Mo deeper into the swamp, Morgan emerges from the marsh and puts down another approaching walker, now armed with a cruder version of his original staff rather than his battle axe, and warning Madison that it's not safe in that direction. Madison introduces Mo to her father, having known that Morgan would still be alive with Morgan acknowledging that he's not that easy to get rid of. Madison demands answers from Morgan on why Mo was back at PADRE and what happened, and Morgan explains that he heard the chatter on the walkies, and this is the same spot that they had landed after the escape seven years ago. Mo asks if an astonished Morgan is really her father, but rejects his touch and identifies herself as Wren rather than Mo. Backing off, Morgan reassures his daughter that, no matter what PADRE told her about parents, it's okay. Suddenly turning his staff on Madison, Morgan announces that he's here to take Mo back to PADRE.
Morgan leads Madison and Mo into an abandoned theme park, handing Mo the sledgehammer and tossing away Madison's radio. Morgan responds to PADRE 1's attempts to contact Mo after her message, identifying himself as Nightingale and telling PADRE 1 that he has Wren. Although this isn't a sanctioned operation, Morgan was nearby, heard the alert and had an idea of where they would land. Madison is shocked that Morgan is now with PADRE, and he tells her that Madison has been locked away for a long time and claims that he's simply accepted what Madison had told Morgan the first time that they met: Mo is better off with PADRE than Morgan. Mo tells Madison that she wants to go back, and Madison angrily states that she spent seven years in a cell so that Morgan could be with his daughter. However, Morgan only cares about what's best for his daughter as Madison doubles over, having trouble breathing. Grabbing her sledgehammer, Madison attacks Morgan, stating that she's doing this for Mo, but he easily blocks her attack with his staff and knocks Madison to the ground. Morgan accuses Madison of doing this to feel better about all of the other kids that she took and warns Madison that he doesn't want to hurt her.
As more walkers approach, Morgan tells PADRE 1 that he's bringing them both in, but PADRE 1 tells him to only bring in Mo as PADRE no longer needs Madison. Stating that Madison has become a liability to the settlement over Morgan's objections, PADRE 1 orders him to execute her. After a moment's hesitation, Morgan agrees and sends Mo away before he reluctantly prepares to shoot his former friend, explaining that PADRE might not let Mo back in if he doesn't do it and this is exactly what Madison had wanted on the Louisiana beach. As Morgan is distracted ordering Mo to go elsewhere, Madison attacks and disarms him and Mo. Madison reminds Morgan that she had told Morgan on the beach that she was going to save him and his daughter and that's what she's going to have to do. Morgan insists that they don't need saving with Mo adding that she wants to go back, but Madison tells the girl that she just doesn't know anything else while something made Morgan forget. Seeing a herd approaching from the way that they came in, Madison orders Morgan to get up so that they can head into the swamp, their only way out. Morgan warns Madison that "we are screwed because that's the way I went with her seven years ago." Morgan refuses to explain what happened there, only stating that he doesn't think that Mo having the two of them this time is going to be enough.
At night, the three make their way through the waters of the swamp which is infested with walkers. Morgan explains that swamps act like flypaper to walkers: they get in, but they can't get back out again, and it will only get harder as they go. Using Morgan's staff as a walking stick, Madison states that she will fix her tank and she can manage, but Morgan doubts it from how weak Madison sounds. Madison believes that she only needs to last long enough to convince Morgan not to take Mo back to PADRE, but Morgan insists that it's never going to happen and that he's going to take Mo back to the island where she can live like they never met. Morgan will then go back to doing the same thing that he's been doing for the last seven years which Madison deduces is stealing more children for PADRE and why he was allowed to live, but Morgan wants his daughter to know as little about him as possible. Madison asks if PADRE also has Mo's mother, and a confused Mo asks what she means. Madison explains that it's how PADRE gets people to do what they want: they find out what matters to someone and threaten it. Morgan insists that PADRE provides a way of life that works, and Madison asks if he really buys that. Morgan orders Madison to call him Nightingale in front of Mo and the girl wonders what kind of a name Morgan is. Madison reveals that Morgan is also Mo's full name, but Morgan claims that Wren suits her better.
Mo asks about Madison's motives for being a Collector and she explains that PADRE threatened to go after her kids if Madison didn't do what they wanted. Mo is surprised to learn that Madison has kids, and she tells Mo that she had a son and a daughter, Nick and Alicia, but PADRE didn't take them because they are both dead. However, PADRE lied and told Madison that they were alive, and he knew where they were. After Madison found out the truth, she decided to help Morgan get his daughter back. Mo states that she'd probably be dead if Madison hadn't brought her to the island and Madison angrily asks if Morgan really wants her thinking this. Morgan wants Mo to be alive and he claims that Mo is right, pointing out that when Madison found them, Morgan and Mo were out of food, almost out of water and at the mercy of a posse. It was only a matter of time before things ended for them.
Suddenly, a flare shoots into the air while boat engines can be heard in the distance. Morgan realizes that it's PADRE, although he has no idea where they're getting gas. Taking his staff back, Morgan explains that since he didn't bring Mo back, PADRE thinks that they're running and is trying to flush them out to an airstrip a couple of miles away which Morgan knows as this is what PADRE did seven years ago. Walkers approach, drawn by the flare, but Madison throws away Morgan's radio rather than allow him to call this off and get them picked up, stating that Morgan can't take the easy way out now. Pointing to the flare, Madison states that "PADRE did that. That's how they're keeping her safe," but Morgan tells her that it's only because Madison took Mo off of the island. As a walker approaches, a panicked Mo states that they have to go back and get the radio, but Morgan puts down the walker and tells his daughter that she has to forget the radio as she's only going to get herself hurt. Mo insists that she can handle herself while Madison points out that they have to find shelter. Relenting, Morgan admits that he knows a place and leads Madison and Mo back into the swamp.
The next day, the three arrive at an abandoned houseboat surrounded by walkers stuck half-buried in the water. Morgan tells Madison that it's safe as long as they don't draw any more walkers while Mo experiences another flashback, this time with the houseboat in the background along with screams. Mo realizes that this is the place from her flashbacks and asks if something had happened to her here, but Morgan again only tells Mo that the less she knows the better and they need to stay ahead of the walkers. The three make their way safely to the houseboat.
Inside, Mo watches as a growing herd gathers outside, but Morgan warns her away from the window. Morgan knows that PADRE will come looking for them at the houseboat when they don't show up at the airstrip while Madison has trouble breathing due to her broken oxygen tank. As Morgan tries to help fix her tank, he notices the large bruise on Madison's arm, and she explains that PADRE drew blood once a week and she didn't always cooperate. Morgan apologizes, having been unaware that Madison was locked up, but Madison reassures him that she's still here, although she thinks that she should've seen PADRE manipulating Morgan like they did her coming. Morgan explains that he operates by a set of rules: Morgan only takes kids who have already lost their parents or kids whose parents give them up willingly for a better life rather than just outright kidnapping kids from their parents like Madison did which PADRE doesn't know about. Looking around, Madison asks if this is where PADRE caught Morgan and Mo, but he again refuses to answer. Madison asks if Morgan knows what Padre is training the kids for, but Morgan tells her that Padre doesn't share his plans with him. Madison points out that you don't train eight year olds to kill without a good reason. Morgan asks if Madison thinks that Mo isn't safe on the island, but Madison has been locked up for so long that she doesn't know what to think. Madison asks who else is on the island and on the rafts. Morgan admits that it's not many that Madison knows. Morgan doesn't know where Daniel and Luciana ended up while Strand wasn't on the rafts when PADRE found them, and he hasn't been seen in seven years.
Cleaning the walls, Mo finds written on them "Duane, Jenny, you were supposed to..." and King County, Georgia where Morgan had lost his family. Morgan lies that it's some kind of graffiti that was already there and returns to helping Madison as Mo continues exploring against Morgan's wishes. Mo finds a crib in the corner, some toys and a bag holding Morgan's old Walkman. Listening to the tape of Grace's singing, Mo experiences another flashback, this time with Morgan yelling at her to get out of here as walkers approach him from behind and grab Morgan. As Morgan tries to dismiss the Walkman's importance and walkers reach the boat, a horrified Mo announces that she remembers, and that the walkers are gonna pull them under. Yelling that Madison shouldn't have taken her off of the island, Mo grabs the gun and tries to kill her despite Morgan's attempts to reassure his daughter that PADRE is going to find them before anything happens, but Mo points out that PADRE doesn't even know where they are. Mo angrily accuses Madison of not caring that the walkers are going to kill them because she wants to die. Morgan grabs the gun from the girl, but it goes off into the celling, drawing even more walkers as the ones outside start pulling the houseboat underwater. Madison insists that she brought Mo here because she needed to save her, but Mo states that Madison can't save her.
With the houseboat going under, Morgan directs them to the other side of the boat where there's no flooding. Morgan insists upon waiting for PADRE who he's sure will show up just like they did the last time. Morgan finally explains what had happened the last time: he was the one who had called PADRE and told them to come the last time as Morgan had tried to kill the walkers to stop them from pulling them under, but there were too many and Morgan couldn't protect his daughter then or now. Madison states that they don't have a radio and they can't call PADRE so they have to do this themselves. Morgan points out that she can barely stand let alone fight, but Madison states that she doesn't need to. Morgan agrees, deciding to go out this side as there's less walkers in the way.
Dispatching two walkers outside, Morgan jumps into the water and Madison passes him Mo. Too weak to join them, Madison orders them to go while she draws the walkers away. As Morgan and Mo begin fighting their way across the swamp, Mo's foot gets stuck in the water. With the herd quickly closing in on them, Morgan uses his staff to put down a number of approaching walkers as Mo struggles to free herself. Staring at an approaching walker, Mo remembers Morgan apologizing to her, telling his daughter that "I'm doing this for you," before turning Mo over to PADRE forces who have promised to take care of her. As walkers close in on him, Morgan yells to the PADRE forces to get Mo out of here and they drive away with her, leaving Morgan to fend off the swarming walkers on his own. Mo realizes that this is what had happened the last time which Morgan confirms while working to free his daughter in between putting down approaching walkers.
Madison starts banging her sledgehammer on the houseboat, drawing the herd towards herself to buy Morgan and Mo time while Morgan puts down the few that get too close to him and Mo regardless. Morgan finally manages to free Mo and restrains his daughter as she desperately tries to help Madison who is getting swarmed by walkers. However, Madison is willing to sacrifice herself for them, knowing that there's too many walkers for Morgan and Mo to help her Morgan reveals that the last time he killed as many walkers as he could before PADRE came back and saved him, but Morgan doubts that they're coming this time. As the walkers are about to devour Madison, Grace suddenly races up in a boat and shoots all of the walkers going after Madison and two that try to climb into the boat, having heard the radio chatter and came as fast as she could. Shocked to see Mo, Grace introduces herself as her mother and escapes with Morgan, Madison and Mo before more walkers can reach them.
Sitting on a beach, Madison realizes that Grace is also working with PADRE which she admits to. Grace works maintaining PADRE's radio towers and radio traffic exploded when Madison escaped. Having heard Morgan's message, Grace deduced that they would end up at the houseboat after he went silent. Madison realizes that PADRE has all of Morgan's group on their side while Mo, holding the Walkman, realizes that Grace is the one who was singing on the tape which she confirms, having made it a long time ago. Mo admits that she remembered Grace's singing even before she heard it on the houseboat which surprises her parents, but Grace tells her daughter to try and put that out of her mind while Grace hasn't heard anything about if PADRE is still looking for them.
Mo suggests that they don't have to go back to the island. Morgan did save her seven years ago by calling PADRE when he didn't want to, and he almost died fighting to get Mo back to them. Morgan points out how badly things had gone for them earlier, but Mo points out that Grace had showed up to help them. Morgan is incredulous as Mo was fighting to get back to the island just the day before and now she doesn't want to anymore. Mo now knows that PADRE has been lying to her this whole time. Mo has been taught that her father is selfish and that he couldn't make the hard calls to protect her, but she now knows that he did before. Madison did too just now and Mo invites her to come with them, but Madison refuses as she'll just slow them down and she did what she set out to do. Mo angrily asks if Madison is just going to give up and die out here "and what about everyone else? I can't be the only one you took. What about all the other kids you rescued for PADRE?" Madison doesn't think she can help them, but Mo points out that Madison helped her, and they wouldn't be doing it alone.
However, their conversation is interrupted by the approach of PADRE. Morgan and Grace reveal that they radioed PADRE as they can protect their daughter in ways that they can't. Mo stubbornly refuses to go back, but Morgan and Grace aren't having it, insisting that their daughter has to go back and forget everything that happened at the boat, everything that she's learned about them. However, Mo can't as she now knows what she was missing when she looked to shore: Morgan and Grace, her parents. Morgan harshly tells Mo that her parents were Isaac and Rachel who are dead. They died a long time ago and they made Morgan promise to take care of her which is what he's doing and why Mo is going back to PADRE. Madison angrily confronts Morgan over throwing away his chance to be with Mo, but he tells Madison that she needs to get out of here and run while she can and not make things any harder than they already are. Calling this the biggest mistake of Morgan and Grace's lives, Madison refuses to run despite the possibility that PADRE will kill her and Morgan, Grace and Mo trying to get Madison to save herself with Mo urging Madison to save herself so that she can save everyone else. Madison doesn't think that she's going to make it, but Mo urges her to try.
Three PADRE boats arrive with several PADRE guards and Shrike who tells Madison that PADRE still has use for her. As Madison is taken onto a boat, she yells to Mo to "remember what I showed you. Remember what they took from you." Mo is led by PADRE guards onto another boat and Shrike, addressing Grace as Heron, orders her to go to the delta receiver for repairs. Watching Mo get taken away, Morgan comments that they at least got to see her, but Grace, breaking down into tears once their daughter is gone, admits that it only makes it harder for her which Morgan acknowledges and apologizes for before Grace leaves. Shrike announces that PADRE is retiring Morgan as a Collector, having invested too much in Mo to run the risk that she'll cross paths with Morgan again now that she knows that Morgan is her father. Morgan reassures Shrike that he's made sure that that's not gonna happen again which she knows is because Morgan thinks that's what's best for her now. However, that might not always be the case. Shrike has Morgan taken away on her boat.
Back on the island, Mo sits in the interrogation room where Padre comments that she's had quite a day. Mo apologizes and the man states that they sometimes have to learn lessons the hard way and he's just glad that she's okay. Padre has a feeling that Mo is about to play a crucial role in the next steps that the settlement is about to take. Mo tells the man that she wants to be a part of the future that PADRE's building which he's glad to hear as they need citizens like Mo. Padre is willing to let today's transgressions slide, but he warns that any future transgressions will bring harsh consequences. Mo promises Padre that he will never have to worry about her ever again and gives him her word on that.
Mo approaches Dove and apologizes for going into the cellar. Mo claims that Madison showed her what it's like out there and how lucky Mo is to be on the island. Mo asks for the chance to show PADRE she's not too young to protect it. Dove takes Mo back to the arena where she arms herself with a sledgehammer and, having faced the source of her flashbacks, effortlessly takes out the first walker to be released with it without triggering another flashback. As Dove and several other people watch, Mo eagerly waits for more walkers to be released for her to train against.
Other Cast[]
Uncredited[]
- Alex Meglei as PADRE Prefect
- William Spencer as PADRE Prefect
- Bob Jennings as PADRE Guard
- Will Perez as PADRE Guard
- Dawn Lasusky as PADRE Resident
- Smith Leomaris Satrazemis as PADRE Resident[2]
- Daniel Rashid as Ben Krennick (Voice Only)
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Deaths[]
- At least 13 unnamed PADRE guards (Off-Screen)
Trivia[]
- First appearance of PADRE.
- First appearance of Sam Krennick.
- First appearance of Odessa Sanderson.
- The title of the episode, "Remember What They Took From You", refers to what Madison tells Mo: "remember what I showed you. Remember what they took from you."
- This episode was made available for streaming to subscribers of AMC Premiere on May 11, 2023.
- As of this episode, Alycia Debnam-Carey (Alicia Clark), Mo Collins (Sarah Rabinowitz) and Alexa Nisenson (Charlie) have been removed from the opening credits.[3]
- Kim Dickens (Madison Clark) is reinstated in the opening credits for the first time in Season 8 after being removed for three seasons.
- Smith Satrazemis, the son of director Michael Satrazemis, appears in this episode as a child at PADRE.[2]
- PADRE appears to be both the island and the organization's leader, possibly the man who talks to people over the speaker in the interrogation room as PADRE is referred to as "he" several times.
- For the first time since "The End Is the Beginning" and briefly in "The Beginning", Morgan is shown using only a staff rather than his battle axe. Morgan's current staff is a cruder version of the one that he's used up until this point while his battle axe's ultimate fate is unknown, but it possibly remains in PADRE's hands after they took it from him in "Gone".
- Children at PADRE are shown using staffs similar to Morgan's with Mo having apparently inherited her adopted father's skill with one, instinctively displaying moves similar to Morgan's which she is unable to explain.
- Morgan mentions that swamps act like flypaper to walkers: they get in, but they can't get out again. In "Dead or Alive Or", the survivors of Alexandria traverse a walker-filled swamp that the Saviors had deemed too dangerous to go near. In that case, Daryl led a team that cleared a safe path for everyone else.
- On the walls of Morgan's Houseboat is written "Duane, Jenny, you were supposed to..." and King County, Georgia. This is a reference to Morgan's lost family who died in King County as depicted in "Days Gone Bye" and "Clear".
- Morgan states that he doesn't know where Daniel Salazar and Luciana Galvez ended up while Victor Strand wasn't found aboard the rafts and he hasn't been seen in seven years.
- The song that Mo listens to Grace singing appears to be the same one from "Gone".
- Madison suggests that PADRE is planning something big as "you don't train eight-year olds to kill without a good reason."
- Morgan reveals to Mo the truth about her real parents Isaac and Rachel and their deaths a long time ago.
- PADRE appears to use bird species names for the names of its members. Examples are "Lark", "Oriole", "Shrike", "Wren", and "Dove" while Morgan and Grace have become "Nightingale" and "Heron".
- Despite several PADRE guards having speaking lines, they were not credited. It is likely they were credited as stunt performers for the episode instead.
Episode Highlights[]
- Morgan and Madison arrive at PADRE and Morgan is forced to start collecting for them after they reveal that Mo is there and Morgan is held at gunpoint.
- 7 years in the future, an 8 year old girl called Wren trains to kill walkers and Madison (who goes by the name Lark in PADRE) is revealed to have been in a prison cell since Morgan's interrogation, becoming suicidal and resigned in the process.
- After Wren meets Madison and requests that Madison help train her, Madison sees a scar on her hand during their small scuffle and realises that Wren is actually Morgan's daughter Mo.
- Morgan is revealed to be working for PADRE under the name of Nightingale and living in a small overgrown houseboat. Morgan and Grace (who is also working for PADRE) reunite with Mo after Madison helps her escape from the island to find her parents.
- It is revealed through flashbacks and by Morgan that Mo ended up at PADRE after they were surrounded by walkers at the houseboat and Morgan radioed PADRE in the hope that they'd give her a better life.
Goofs/Errors[]
- One sign for the abandoned amusement park identifies it as Pip's Pavilion of Wonder while another one right next to it calls the park Pip's World of Wonder.
- As Mo walks through PADRE to Madison's cell, she waves to a kid who says hello to her in passing. The audio was added in post-production as the extra's mouth did not move, indicating she did not actually speak.
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References[]
- ↑ https://twitter.com/KirstenAcuna/status/1638055705193385984
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Instagram post by Michael Satrazemis
- ↑ Tweet by Cameron Bonomolo