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The sharpened barrel shroud is a vented barrel shroud from an abandoned machine gun and acts as Alicia Clark's primary weapon of choice starting from Season 4 of AMC's Fear the Walking Dead. After Alicia develops a fear for the weapon and gave up killing walkers, it was given Victor Strand who used it as his primary weapon of choice, until Alicia takes it back. It was stolen by James during the separation of Morgan's Group. Alicia recovers the weapon, but it is taken by Theodore Maddox. After having it returned by Arnold and getting bitten, Alicia abandons it. It is later recovered by Sherry and Alicia has her keep it. Seven years later, it is not seen in Sherry's possession, leaving its fate unknown.

History[]

While fighting off walkers with June at Whirlin' Wavez, Alicia Clark arms herself with a vented barrel shroud from an abandoned machine gun on the property.[1] She subsequently keeps the weapon, adding a strap to it and using it to replace Jack Kipling's balisong as her primary melee weapon.

Following the fall of the Dell Diamond Baseball Stadium and the death of her mother, Alicia sharpens the end of the shroud as a way to keep both the living and the dead away from her and to keep alive on a day to day basis.[2] During the final battle with the Vultures, Alicia uses the weapon to kill a crippled Melvin in revenge for all of the hurt that he has caused.[3] She briefly gives the weapon to Charlie, but shortly after reclaims it.

While talking with Annie's Group at the Treehouse, Alicia explains why she hangs onto the barrel shroud and why she sharpened it in the first place. When a herd attacks, Alicia uses the weapon to fight them off, but inadvertently gets it stuck in the head of one of the walkers. When Alicia yanks the barrel shroud free, she is splashed with the walker's blood and to her horror, discovers that the walker is one of the radioactive walkers from a nearby power plant. The fear caused by getting splashed with radioactive blood causes Alicia to lead the walkers away instead of continuing to fight.[2] Alicia is later decontaminated by Grace who is also able to decontaminate the weapon as it is metal and not porous like Morgan's wooden staff.[4]

After escaping from a second nuclear meltdown, Alicia develops an unnatural fear of the weapon and abandons killing walkers altogether while Victor Strand takes possession of the barrel shroud. With Alicia unable to bring herself to kill again, Strand uses it to protect her from various walkers, including a zombified Ben.[5] Though Alicia begins killing walkers again after encountering Wes,[6] she does not retake possession of the barrel shroud, using a knife instead while Strand continues using the weapon.[7]

After Dwight arrives at Humbug's Gulch and inspires Morgan that they can clear the place themselves, Alicia takes back the weapon from Strand and declares that she is no longer afraid of it. However, it is later confiscated by Ginny and her rangers shortly after their arrival.[8]

After being moved from Lawton to another one of Virginia's communities, Alicia is given the sharpened barrel shroud to help clear out a warehouse of walkers that are covered in molasses in order to reach a "weapon" that Virginia is after.

After Strand's promotion to Ranger, he reassigns Alicia and Charlie to surveillance duty at an outpost far from everyone else which allows Alicia to keep the barrel shroud with her.[9]

After reuniting with Morgan Jones and Dakota at a taxidermist's house Morgan reveals that he will give Dakota back to Ginny or even kill her if necessary, prompting Alicia to tell Charlie to take Dakota to the stadium and readies the weapon to fight him. However, she is able to talk Morgan down.

As they prepare to leave for Morgan's community that he is building, they encounter Strand and Alicia threatens him with the weapon when he states that he is there to take Dakota.[10]

After setting a fire in The Holding, Alicia is held prisoner by Teddy Maddox and has the weapon confiscated from her.[11]

Arno later returns the weapon to Alicia in the Franklin Hotel bunker, telling her that Teddy had thought that she'd want it back. Alicia almost immediately uses it to save Will from being bitten by Elias Vazquez. After being bitten herself by Vazquez, Alicia uses the shroud to amputate her arm.[12] The weapon is subsequently abandoned inside of the bunker.[13] Instead, Alicia adds blades to her prosthetic arm that Alicia makes out of her own arm bones.[12]

Months later, while escaping through the bunker, Sherry discovers the shroud lying on Alicia's infirmary cot next to the binder on PADRE. After a moment, Sherry takes the weapon with her. When the drainage pipe collapses, Sherry uses the sharpened barrel shroud to dig herself and Dwight out. On the surface, Sherry attempts to return Alicia's weapon to her, but Alicia has Sherry keep it instead.[13]

Seven years later, Sherry no longer has the weapon on her, leaving its ultimate fate unknown.[14] It's possible that like Morgan's battle axe[15] and John Dorie's guns,[16] it was taken from her by PADRE and placed in storage after Morgan's group was taken to the island. If so, Sherry never bothered to retrieve it before PADRE's destruction unlike Morgan and June who ultimately reclaimed their lost weapons from storage.

Killed Victims[]

The following is a list of victims killed with the Sharpened Barrel Shroud:

References[]

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