Now that Omni-Man is available in Mortal Kombat 1, players are able to enjoy one of Robert Kirkman's co-creations in the game. However, it seems that Omni-Man was not the first choice for NetherRealm Studios! Mortal Kombat 1 director and series co-creator Ed Boon revealed on Twitter that he originally wanted Michonne to appear as one of the DLC fighters. However, after some discussions, Boon and Kirkman eventually decided to bring Omni-Man to the game instead. It's unclear exactly why that happened, and Boon did not offer much in the way of additional details.

"Coincidentally, before we eventually went with Omniman, the first meeting I had with @RobertKirkman was to talk about the possibility of Michonne being a guest fighter in Mortal Kombat," Boon wrote on Twitter.

Mortal Michonne

Boon's comment was actually met with a bit of frustration from fans! Many pointed out the fact that the Kombat Pack is lacking any female representation at the moment, and having Omni-Man and Homelander as DLC fighters gave the game two DLC Kombatants with similar power sets. Having Michonne in the game would have added a lot more variety to the group, while also incorporating one of the most recognizable characters from popular culture. Out of all the characters from The Walking Dead, Michonne would have been the easiest fit, and the character could have been given some clever Fatalities, as well. User @DisneyThrills even went so far as to suggest that "this is something you should have kept to yourself Uncle Ed."

If there is a second Kombat Pack for Mortal Kombat 1 (as many believe will be the case), hopefully the fighters will be a little more diverse than the current group. NetherRealm was able to come up with 6 characters that made a lot of sense for the world of Mortal Kombat, but it's easy to see why some fans would have preferred to see some female fighters in the mix. Ed Boon tends to pay a lot of attention to what Mortal Kombat fans on social media are saying, so hopefully things get rectified next time.

Mortal Kombat 1's Massive Discount

For those that haven't had a chance to play Mortal Kombat 1, the game is currently being offered at a hefty discount on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Right now, the PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store are offering the game for $48.99, which is 30% less than normal. Unfortunately, that discount is not offered on all versions of the game, as Nintendo Switch, Steam, and the Epic Games Store all have Mortal Kombat 1 priced at $69.99. It's possible we could see more discounts as the holiday season rolls on, but those planning to take advantage of the current deal will have until November 28th to do so.

Would you have liked to see Michonne in Mortal Kombat 1? Do you think the next Kombat Pack needs some female fighters? Share your thoughts with me directly on Twitter at @Marcdachamp or on Instagram at @Dachampgaming!

[Spoiler alert for the Fear the Walking Dead series finale.] When Fear the Walking Dead ended its eight-season run on Sunday, the two-episode series finale at long last revealed what happened to Alicia Clark (Alycia Debnam-Carey) -- and even Skidmark the cat. But viewers were left without answers about what became of other unaccounted for characters: rabbi Jacob (Peter Jacobson) and Rabinowitz siblings Sarah (Mo Collins) and Wendell (Daryl Mitchell). The last we saw the missing survivors, they were escaping radioactive Texas by raft in the penultimate episode of season 7, and then... nothing.

After a seven-year time skip started season 8, Sarah, Wendell, and Jacob were feared dead when Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) told Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) in the "Anton" midseason premiere that the group who washed up on the shores of Georgia were separated. Some, like Morgan Jones (Lennie James), ended up at PADRE, while others were "struggling to survive" in the wilderness, Strand said. He then suggested that those who didn't make it to PADRE died from starvation.

According to showrunners and series finale writers Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss, Sarah, Wendell, and Jacob are alive -- just off-screen -- and trucking out east as part of Luciana's (Danay Garc?a) Gearheads group that operates a road network stretching across the country.

"One story thread that we had initially planned to address was seeing what happened to Sarah, Wendell, and Rabbi Jacob. And when we got into the planning of the final six episodes, we just didn't have the room for it," Chambliss told EW. "And looking back, it's a bummer to us that we didn't get to say goodbye to those characters, but it was always in our imagination that they are part of Luciana's crew out there keeping the roads clear between Texas and the East Coast."

In a postmortem Q&A with ComicBook, the showrunners revealed that their script for the 51-minute Fear the Walking Dead series finale initially boarded out to 22 days. But the filmmakers had to fit that into just 12 days.

"We had a lot of cuts to make," Goldberg explained. "But if you saw that version of the script versus what showed up on screen, it is fundamentally the same story. We just had to make some concessions for production reasons, but the integrity of the story that we wanted to tell, it's all there. And that did not change."

Read our full Fear finale postmortem with Goldberg and Chambliss, and our series finale Q&A with Kim Dickens.

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[Spoiler alert for the Fear the Walking Dead series finale.] In the end, Fear the Walking Dead was about hope. Sunday's two-episode series finale ended with a symbolic death (Kim Dickens' Madison Clark), an actual death (Daniel Sharman's Troy Otto), and the reveal that a supposed death was a lie (the return of Alycia Debnam-Carey's Alicia Clark). But there was also life: Victor Strand (Colman Domingo), Daniel Salazar (Rub?n Blades), Luciana (Danay Garc?a), June Dorie (Jenna Elfman), Dwight (Austin Amelio), Sherry (Christine Evangelista), and Tracy Otto (Antonella Rose) all made it out of Fear alive, with the Clark family legacy living on as MADRE.

Read on for our Fear the Walking Dead postmortem with showrunners Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss. Also read our post-finale Q&A with Kim Dickens and our penultimate episode recap ("Fighting Like You") and the series finale recap ("The Road Ahead").

Fear the Walking Dead Finale Ending, Explained: How the Alicia Clark cameo came together

IAN GOLDBERG: It was always a dream of ours, and we had started talking about it in season seven when we knew we were going to bring Madison back onto the show. And we were talking to Alycia about it all the way back then, just planting this seed of an idea that we had for how they would ultimately come back together and reunite in the end. And it's ultimately why we built season eight the way that we did, and in particular [season] 8B, this question of Alicia and Madison's legacy. And it felt undeniable to us that the show had to end with a reunion between the two of them. And we are so, so happy that everything worked out.

How Alycia Debnam-Carey returned after departing in Fear TWD season 7

ANDREW CHAMBLISS: It was always a concern that schedules wouldn't line up, but we just tried to stay in communication with her and keep her up to date on the direction the story was heading. And then as we got closer to the actual production dates, we were fortunately able to work it out. But yeah, she was working on some other shows. She was in Australia, so it was lots of phone calls and just trying to stay up to date, but we made sure that we were going to be able to make it happen because it was that important to us.

On bringing Madison Clark "full circle" to "No One's Gone"

IAN GOLDBERG: It was very important to me and Andrew as we came into this final season that we were not only bringing stories to a conclusion, but also having this feeling that things were coming full circle for our characters. And when Madison made her heroic sacrifice in season 4, "no one's gone until they're gone" was her mantra. It was the thing that she instilled in her kids and was her legacy when they believed that she was dead back then. And her return in season 7 into season 8 is a test of that because the world is, in many different ways, pushing against that for Madison. And I think it's a struggle for all characters in Fear and across the apocalypse of sort of pragmatism, and what's safe, and how do you just stay alive versus what's worth staying alive for and fighting for beyond just survival? And that question drives Madison, ultimately, to a place of deep despair and darkness before she finally realizes that there are things worth fighting for and that there are things that can outlive you if you fight for them. And that legacy survives in her and Alicia and Tracy and all of the characters. So our real goal was to end the series in a place of hope.

ANDREW CHAMBLISS: [The series finale] was all about landing that idea of hope. But I think in addition to that, we want to -- without getting too meta -- comment on the power of storytelling and how your actions can live on beyond you. And we see that back in season 4, the first time Madison made the sacrifice, how it had this negative impact. But by the time we finally got the story of what happened at the stadium through Al's [Maggie Grace] interviews, we saw how that was starting to turn around. And here we see something very similar where we see Strand telling the story of what happened at PADRE to Tracy. And ultimately we see how that kind of reignites that small flame of hope in Tracy. And, ultimately, that pays dividends by reconnecting Madison and Alicia. And I think in maybe some ways, maybe subconsciously, we were just commenting on how stories can bring people hope. And I think that's what we were always kind of setting out to do with Fear: telling stories about people finding hope in a very dark world.

Why Troy Otto had to die

IAN GOLDBERG: I think it's about testing Madison's mantra of "no one's gone until they're gone." And in that moment, at the end of episode 11, Madison's faced with this dilemma of it seems like Troy has changed, it seems that he is worthy of redemption based on his actions. But Madison has seen time and again how you can get burned for that. And I think there's a real question in her mind of: "Can Troy be trusted? Is it worth the risk?" And in that moment she decides it isn't, that the more pragmatic choice is to kill him.
And that's a very dark moment for Madison. But she's doing it because she believes that's what she has to do to protect her family. She's doubting "no one's gone until they're gone" at that moment. And the finale is all about bringing her back around to realizing that she was wrong and bringing her back to that place of hope and realizing that her initial philosophy was correct.

On what happens if Madison doesn't kill Troy

ANDREW CHAMBLISS: I think it's a very good question and I think it's one we won't know the answer to. But I would say I think the one kind of distinction between the Troy that we knew in season 3 and the Troy that we've seen change over the course of this back half of season 8 is that he is fighting for his daughter. And I think particularly in the penultimate episode, he's starting to see the error of his ways and he's starting to see that maybe just maybe he needs to change for Tracy. So I think there's a very good chance that he could have changed for Tracy, for Madison, for everyone at PADRE.

What didn't make it into the Fear finale?

IAN GOLDBERG: The biggest thing about the final episode is that it was huge. And I can't remember exactly how many days our initial script boarded out to, but it was enormous. I want to say it was like 20 days or something.
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: It was 22 days.
IAN GOLDBERG: 22 days, and we had to squeeze it into 12. So we had a lot of cuts to make. But if you saw that version of the script versus what showed up on screen, it is fundamentally the same story. We just had to make some concessions for production reasons, but the integrity of the story that we wanted to tell, it's all there. And that did not change.

Will there be a Fear TWD spinoff?

ANDREW CHAMBLISS: I think we were given the freedom to end these characters where we wanted to, and we're kind given the edict that Fear's story should come first. And we really did try to craft these stories so they felt like a satisfying conclusion. But we also wanted to create this feeling that there is a next chapter in all these characters' lives. Whether or not we see that, that's a question for Scott [Gimple, TWD Universe Chief Content Officer] and for AMC, but I think there's definitely lots of room for these characters to continue to grow and develop.

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This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.

[Spoiler alert for the Fear the Walking Dead series finale.] Fear the Walking Dead ended with a new beginning for Madison (Kim Dickens) and Alicia Clark (Alycia Debnam-Carey). The first hour of the two-episode series finale followed Madison as she sought to avenge the daughter that Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman) said he killed, having taken the skeletal remains of her amputated arm as a trophy. "This is all I have left of her," Madison told Troy... only to then stab him with the bones still protruding from Alicia's severed arm. In the end, Troy died by Madison's hand (and, technically, Alicia's).

But that wasn't the only twist. With blood oozing out of his mouth, a dying Troy told Madison the truth about his daughter, Tracy Otto (Antonella Rose). She's Alicia's daughter, and Troy took her infant offspring to make up for losing the daughter he would have had -- if Alicia's philosophy of helping people didn't get his pregnant wife killed. That's why Troy killed Alicia, and that's why Troy's dying words were asking Madison to fight for Tracy like she fought for her own kids.

After losing faith in the belief she instilled in Nick and Alicia when the stadium fell -- "no one's gone until they're gone" -- Madison decided to save her granddaughter rather than risk their lives saving PADRE from being overrun by a walker herd. But when Tracy shot Madison as revenge for killing her father, Madison made an about-turn to save Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) and everyone on the island the same way she did before: by leading the walkers into PADRE, setting it aflame, and locking herself inside so the others could escape.

However, Troy lied. It turned out that Troy left Alicia for dead after a bloody fight that ended with Alicia impaling her attacker (explaining why he had her arm). The truth is that Tracy is Troy's daughter -- not Alicia's -- and the girl's mother, Serena Otto, did die because she believed what Alicia believed: no one's gone until they're gone. That means Madison, who survived sacrificing herself and was pulled from the rubble by... Tracy.

In the show's final moments, Alicia returned (alive!), reunited with Madison, and revealed she heard the story of Madison's sacrifice from MADRE: survivors from PADRE who mobilized to help people in Madison's name. With Alicia and Madison both believed dead and inspiring people in death, their legacy is one of hope. Madison, Alicia, and Tracy then set off to where they could help people most: Los Angeles, California. "It's never gonna be what it was," Madison said. "That doesn't mean we can't start over." As Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried" played viewers out in the closing moments of the series finale, the Clarks headed home to Los Angeles to end Fear the Walking Dead.

Showrunners Explain Fear the Walking Dead Ending With Alicia Clark

According to showrunners and episode writers Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg, it was always the plan to end Fear the Walking Dead with Debnam-Carey's return to the series and Alicia's reunion with Madison. Debnam-Carey departed the Walking Dead spinoff last year after seven seasons -- just one episode before Dickens made her own long-awaited return after being "killed off" in season 4.

"It was always a dream of ours," Goldberg exclusively told ComicBook about the Alicia cameo. "We had started talking about it in season 7 when we knew we were going to bring Madison back onto the show. And we were talking to Alycia about it all the way back then, just planting this seed of an idea that we had for how they would ultimately come back together and reunite in the end. And it's ultimately why we built season 8 the way that we did, and in particular 8B, this question of Alicia and Madison's legacy."

"It felt undeniable to us that the show had to end with a reunion between the two of them," Goldberg added. "And we are so, so happy that everything worked out."

On Alycia Debnam-Carey's Return for the Fear the Walking Dead Finale

Because Debnam-Carey went on to lead another series (the Dominican Republic-shot Saint X), were there logistical issues with bringing the Australian actress to the Georgia set of Fear?

"It was always a concern that schedules wouldn't line up, but we just tried to stay in communication with her and keep her up to date on the direction the story was heading. And then as we got closer to the actual production dates, we were fortunately able to work it out," Chambliss revealed. "But yeah, she was working on some other shows. She was in Australia, so it was a lot of phone calls and just trying to stay up to date, but we made sure that we were going to be able to make it happen because it was that important to us."

Kim Dickens Reacts to Alicia Cameo: "Alycia Wanted to Come Back"

The plan to bring Dickens and Debnam-Carey back to end the series with a Madison and Alicia reunion dates back to 2020. AMC announced in December 2021 that Dickens would guest star in the final episode of season 7 before returning as a series regular in season 8, but Debnam-Carey's series-ending cameo was kept under wraps: throughout the final season, Alicia's fate was left a mystery after a seven-year time jump.

"It felt like Alicia coming back had to happen. I think I would've been really disappointed if she didn't. But given that, when we were first discussing it in 2020, Alycia had left the show," Dickens told ComicBook. "She'd done the show since [2015]. I believe she started when she was 21 and was finishing at 29, basically. So, that's a lot. A lot happens in your 20s, and it's a lot of growing. We've all grown in this show, personally and professionally and everything, but I think for her growth and her next step, I think she needed to go do other things. And I respected that and we talked about it and everything."

"When I talked to Ian and Andrew, they were like, 'Alycia left, but we put it in her head that we might ask her back for something doable.' And I think she was like, 'Give me a minute and chat to me later.' So we really didn't know," Dickens added, revealing that she and co-star and producer Colman Domingo -- who helped facilitate Dickens' own return to the show -- were asked to approach Debnam-Carey about potentially reprising her role one last time.

"Colman and I were asked to make a phone call. It was in the script and they're like, 'If you guys could make the phone call,' and we're family -- we are. And so the truth is that I don't think we needed to make the phone call, because Alycia wanted to do it," Dickens said. "It felt really good to her to come back and finish it, too. She's loved the show. She wanted to do it right, too. It just feels good in our heart. It's like we put so much into these characters and these shows and some of them really hurt when they're ended prematurely or what have you. We're artists and sometimes it feels really good to see it through. So I think Alycia wanted to come back. I know she did."

After all, no one's gone until they're gone.

Read our Fear the Walking Dead finale postmortem Q&A with showrunners Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss and our series finale Q&A with Kim Dickens.

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[Spoiler alert for the Fear the Walking Dead series finale.] No one's gone until they're gone. "The Road Ahead" series finale of Fear the Walking Dead ended by bringing the series full circle: with Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) and her daughter Alicia Clark (Alycia Debnam-Carey) alive and headed home to Los Angeles for the first time since the outbreak of 2010. The Clark family matriarch already returned from the grave after seemingly being killed off during season 4 of Fear -- and it's a fate Dickens didn't want repeated as she resumed her role for the eighth and final season of the AMC Walking Dead spinoff.

"I was very happy to make it out alive. I didn't want to have to die again, and all the speculation that goes with that," Dickens told ComicBook in a post-finale interview.

In the penultimate episode, Madison stabbed and killed Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman), believing she was avenging Alicia and protecting PADRE. "I'm done with second chances," Madison said, driving the skeletal remains of Alicia's arm into the guts of the man who supposedly killed her daughter. "Troy was right. That's what got Alicia killed." Disillusioned with PADRE, Madison deserted Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) as the island was overrun by a walker herd and abandoned the belief she instilled in Nick and Alicia when she sacrificed herself at the stadium: "No one's gone until they're gone."

"This is what happens when you try to build something better. You end up giving people hope. End up putting them in danger. You end up getting them killed," Madison said after Tracy (Antonella Rose), who she thought was Alicia's daughter, drew a gun and pulled the trigger. But Madison survived and then saved everyone on the island the same way she did at the stadium: by leading the walkers into PADRE, setting it aflame, and locking herself inside so the others could escape. And Madison Clark was gone.

"It was very important to me and Andrew [Chambliss] as we came into this final season that we were not only bringing stories to a conclusion, but also having this feeling that things were coming full circle for our characters," showrunner Ian Goldberg told ComicBook. "When Madison made her heroic sacrifice in season 4, 'no one's gone until they're gone' was her mantra. It was the thing that she instilled in her kids and was her legacy when they believed that she was dead back then. And her return in season 7 into season 8 is a test of that because the world is, in many different ways, pushing against that for Madison. And I think it's a struggle for all characters in Fear and across the apocalypse of pragmatism, and what's safe, and how do you just stay alive versus what's worth staying alive for and fighting for beyond just survival?"

"And that question drives Madison, ultimately, to a place of deep despair and darkness before she finally realizes that there are things worth fighting for and that there are things that can outlive you if you fight for them," Goldberg explained. "And that legacy survives in her and Alicia and Tracy and all of the characters. So our real goal was to end the series in a place of hope."

Madison's death in the finale is a metaphorical one, but her apparent death and the fall of PADRE inspires the survivors to mobilize as MADRE in Madison's name.

"In addition to that, we want to -- without getting too meta -- comment on the power of storytelling and how your actions can live on beyond you," added showrunner Andrew Chambliss. "We see that back in season 4, the first time Madison made the sacrifice, how it had this negative impact. But by the time we finally got the story of what happened at the stadium through Al's [Maggie Grace] interviews, we saw how that was starting to turn around. And here we see something very similar, where we see Strand telling the story of what happened at PADRE to Tracy. And ultimately we see how that kind of reignites that small flame of hope in Tracy."

Chambliss continued, "And, ultimately, that pays dividends by reconnecting Madison and Alicia. And I think in maybe some ways, maybe subconsciously, we were just commenting on how stories can bring people hope. And I think that's what we were always kind of setting out to do with Fear: telling stories about people finding hope in a very dark world."

COMICBOOK: After coming back to Fear the Walking Dead and having Madison be alive at the end of the series, how are you feeling about how Madison's story wrapped up here after eight years?

KIM DICKENS: I quite liked it. I spoke to Ian and Andrew during the pandemic when they were sort of pitching me the idea of bringing Madison back and how they would do it. And I got on the Zoom with them and I had no idea what they were going to pitch to me. I had zero idea, and they pitched that story of being a prisoner of PADRE and owned by PADRE, and then how I was going to come full circle in the end and start making our way back home. And I just thought it was brilliant. I got very excited about it, so I'm pleased with the way we tied it up.

When I spoke to Ian and Andrew, they told me they built the final season around the ending with Madison and Alicia reuniting. When they mapped out season 8 for you and made their pitch, what was your reaction when you found that A) Madison was making it out alive and B) Alycia was coming back?

I was very happy to make it out alive. I didn't want to have to die again, and all the speculation that goes that. It felt like Alicia coming back had to happen. I think I would've been really disappointed if she didn't. But given that, when we were first discussing it in 2020, Alycia had left the show. She'd done the show since [2015]. I believe she started when she was 21 and was finishing at 29, basically. So that's a lot. A lot happens in your 20s and it's a lot of growing. We've all grown in this show, personally and professionally and everything, but I think for her growth and her next step, I think she needed to go do other things. And I respected that and we talked about it and everything.

And so when I talked to Ian and Andrew, they were like, "Alycia left, but we put it in her head that we might ask her back for something doable." And I think she was like, "Give me a minute and chat to me later." So we really didn't know ... Honestly, who knows how much I could say, but Colman and I were asked to make a phone call. It was in the script and they're like, "If you guys could make the phone call," and we're family -- we are. And so the truth is that I don't think we needed to make the phone call, because Alycia wanted to do it. It felt really good to her to come back and finish it, too. She's loved the show. She wanted to do it right, too. It just feels good in our heart. It's like we put so much into these characters and these shows and some of them really hurt when they're ended prematurely or what have you. We're artists and sometimes it feels really good to see it through. So I think Alycia wanted to come back. I know she did.

On the theme of second chances, Ian and Andrew said Madison sacrificing herself for PADRE the same way she did at the stadium was about ending Fear with hope. I wanted to get your take on Madison's metaphorical "death," and Madison's legacy ultimately being MADRE.

I thought that was really clever. I feel like Madison had to sort of learn from Alicia and step out of the way in order for her legacy to continue to make a difference and be sort of noble, because I think Madison was going to continue to get in her own way. But yeah, I thought it was more hopeful. Leading into that, Madison was like, "Look, nobody else can get their hands dirty. I can get my hands dirty, because they're so dirty right now." So I think she does genuinely sacrifice herself. And then in the end when she's left with like, "Oh, well, maybe I did do something good and now I can just let that be." I think it does allow for some hope. I think they would probably go on together and try to help in different ways.

Madison starts as a counselor. She cares about kids. She caress about people from bad homes, and tries to help them, sort them out at school. But even the most noblest are really called to the carpet and challenged. I think what works about the show is that an audience member can say, "What would I do? What would I do in that moment?" And that's fine. That's what we're there for. The characters are there to sort of serve that and flesh that out. That's interesting to watch. That's life.

The series finale brings closure with Madison and Alicia, but it's also open-ended enough for a spinoff -- or for these characters to return down the road. "No one's gone until they're gone," so is Madison gone for you?

It felt to me, during this season 8 finale, it did feel like closure. That said, I love this character. I've played it for so many years. I love it. I love the job. I love the crew that comes together. I love the cast that comes together, that's able to do shows like this, because they're tough shows, and I love it and I love the franchise as a whole. So never say never. Absolutely, I would always consider it if somebody said, "Hey, would you consider it?" Of course I would. I've loved this show. I love the franchise, I love all the actors that I've worked with, the entire crew and showrunners and writers and everything. And I still have my leather jacket, too. So I've got that.

But that crew -- and it is not easy -- that crew especially, it's almost like a creative church. It's like it's a completely harmonizing experience ... that thing, when you create that, when you're in collaboration like that, it is magic and it is something to miss, there. And I just came across pictures of season 3 and I was in a tank in Mexico and I was doing underwater stuff and there's a picture of James Armstrong, our stunt coordinator, right there with me in scuba gear, just right there, talking to me. And we're laughing as if I wasn't going to have to go underwater for 45 seconds. But yeah, it's fortunate to have had it. If that's all it is, my God, we've been fortunate.

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This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.

[Spoiler alert for the Fear the Walking Dead series finale.] Everyone deserves a second chance... everyone except Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman) on Sunday's "Fighting Like You" episode of Fear the Walking Dead. Believing that Troy killed her daughter Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey), a vengeful Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) set out to kill Troy before he could lead a walker herd to PADRE and take the island as a home for his daughter Tracy (Antonella Rose). Complicating matters was the return of PADRE's Crane (Daniel Rashid), who used the second chance that June Dorie (Jenna Elfman) gave him to try to retake PADRE because he blamed Madison for the death of his sister Shrike (Maya Eshet).

Madison spared Troy so he could take her to the horde his right-hand man Russell (Randy Bernales) was herding toward PADRE, even protecting him when Daniel Salazar (Rub?n Blades) and Luciana (Danay Garc?a) tried to kill him as payback for the deaths of Charlie (Alexa Nisenson) and their people gunned down in a shootout with Troy's men. As Troy buried his zombified wife, Serena, Troy told Madison why he murdered her daughter: because Alicia put the thinking in Serena's head that got her killed.

As Troy told it, Alicia answered their SOS when a pregnant Serena suffered a zombie's bite, amputated her arm, and then left to go help more people. Alicia inspired Serena, so she's to blame for Serena falling victim to a trap: when she answered a stranger's SOS, a marauder shot Serena, robbed her, and left her for dead. She eventually succumbed to her injuries and died in Troy's arms.

But violence begets violence, and that's what happened when Crane tracked Troy and Madison to a swamp, then sent them plunging into walker-infested waters to be devoured or drown in quicksand. Crane paid for his vendetta with his life as walkers ate him alive, only for Troy to save Madison by pulling her out of the swamp. As it turned out, Serena's dying wish was to make Troy promise to keep what Alicia believed in alive. He then disclosed Russell's location so PADRE could disperse the herd.

Troy then told Madison he would live up to the second chance Alicia gave him. Except he wouldn't: believing that second chances are what got her daughter killed, Madison stabbed and killed Troy with the skeletal remains of Alicia's arm. A decade after she seemingly bludgeoned him to death with a hammer, Troy Otto died at the hands of Madison Clark (and, technically, Alicia's). Tracy then found a zombified Troy in the woods and shot him, killing him a second time.

"It's about testing Madison's mantra of 'no one's gone until they're gone,'" Fear the Walking Dead showrunner Ian Goldberg told ComicBook about Troy's death. "And in that moment, at the end of episode 11, Madison's faced with this dilemma. It seems like Troy has changed, it seems that he is worthy of redemption based on his actions. But Madison has seen time and again how you can get burned for that. And I think there's a real question in her mind of: 'Can Troy be trusted? Is it worth the risk?' And in that moment she decides it isn't, that the more pragmatic choice is to kill him."

Madison murdering Troy is "a very dark moment for Madison," Goldberg continued. "But she's doing it because she believes that's what she has to do to protect her family. She's doubting 'no one's gone until they're gone' at that moment. And the finale is all about bringing her back around to realizing that she was wrong and bringing her back to that place of hope and realizing that her initial philosophy was correct." (See what the showrunners had to say about Madison's finale fate here.)

Did Troy deserve a second chance? "I think it's a very good question and I think it's one we won't know the answer to," showrunner Andrew Chambliss said. "But I would say I think the one kind of distinction between the Troy that we knew in season 3, and the Troy that we've seen change over the course of this back half of season 8, is that he is fighting for his daughter. And I think particularly in the penultimate episode, he's starting to see the error of his ways and he's starting to see that maybe, just maybe, he needs to change for Tracy. So I think there's a very good chance that he could have changed for Tracy, for Madison, for everyone at PADRE."

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"There are certain things you always remember about your kids. No matter how old they get. No matter how much things change." So said Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) on the "No One's Gone" episode of Fear the Walking Dead, the spinoff series that's spanned Los Angeles, Mexico, Texas, and Georgia. Eight seasons and 113 episodes since Madison and her children -- her drug addict son Nick (Frank Dillane) and her daughter Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) --first escaped zombie-plagued LA, this is the end of Fear the Walking Dead. But the end is the beginning, and that's where "The Road Ahead" series finale opens: the beginning.

Madison has visions of Nick and Alicia from before the fall. They're happy. They're smiling. They're alive. And Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman) is dead, killed by Madison's hand. And Alicia's hand: Madison stabbed Troy to death with the skeletal remains of Alicia's severed arm, avenging the daughter he killed. "You have to fight for Tracy like you fought for Nick and Alicia," Troy told Madison with his dying words, revealing a bombshell: Tracy (Antonella Rose) isn't his daughter. She's Alicia's daughter, and she's the only family Madison has left.

Tracy has escaped into the woods with the St. Christopher medallion that was handed down from Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) to Alicia, and then from Alicia to Serena Otto. The necklace is supposed to bring luck and protection, and she'll need it: Madison and the others have fanned out to find Tracy after Troy's death. Dwight (Austin Amelio) and Sherry (Christine Evangelista) have captured Troy's right-hand man Russell (Randy Bernales) and report that the herd he was leading toward PADRE has dispersed. Daniel (Rub?n Blades), fearing what Troy's fanatics will do to help his daughter, wants to get as far away from PADRE as possible to protect Luciana (Danay Garc?a).

Madison saves Tracy from walkers and justifies killing Troy as something that had to be done to protect PADRE. Tracy rejects the claim that Alicia was her mother and pushes Madison away, but with an injured ankle and the rest of Troy's zombie herd still out there, Madison is Tracy's only hope of survival. They're going to go to Fort Worth, Texas, to find Alicia and put her to rest. Tracy tells Madison that Troy thought she would change, so she counters that he was right about one thing: "Pretending the world's different than it is, that's what gets people killed. And the sooner you realize that, the better. That's how you're gonna survive. I figured that out too late to save my own kids. I'm not gonna make the same mistake with you."

At an auto restoration shop located on "Polar Bear's" road network, Madison turns her gun on Luciana and demands she take them to Fort Worth. She can't risk Luciana taking Tracy back to the island, and she needs her granddaughter to understand that living the way Strand wants to -- the way she used to think they could live -- is going to get Tracy killed. Luciana agrees to help Madison lay Alicia to rest and suggests that burying her daughter will help her see that "there is something more to fight for." Madison killing Troy may seem unforgivable, she tells Tracy, "but at least this way, you're gonna live long enough to understand why I did it." Tracy relinquishes the St. Christopher medallion -- if what Troy said is true, it belonged to Alicia. And it didn't work, anyway. It didn't keep her dad safe. "Guess it didn't keep Alicia safe, either," Madison responds, just as Tracy goes for her holster and turns Madison's gun against her. But the magazine is empty. "You think I'd risk pointing a loaded gun at my daughter's kid?" Madison removes the empty magazine and places the medallion inside. It may not work, but it's all she has left of Alicia.

Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) arrives at the auto shop with Daniel and Ada (Nona Parker Johnson), Della (Julia Wackenheim-Gimple), and Sara (Sasha An), the three women who are carrying on Alicia's legacy by helping people. Strand wants to take Tracy and Madison back to PADRE, explaining it's the safest place for them, but Madison now believes that building it into what he wants it to be -- and what Alicia wanted it to be, and what Madison wanted it to be -- will only get Tracy killed. Alicia gave Troy a second chance... and in turn, he murdered her and stole her child. Madison holds her old friends at gunpoint, firing three shots into the air to keep them at bay. Unfortunately, this draws walkers from the herd, forcing everyone to hunker down inside the garage as they're swarmed by the dead. They're trapped with no way out.

Strand reaches his husband, Frank (Isha Blaaker), over walkie-talkie for help... only to find out that PADRE has their own problem with the dead. The rest of Troy's men have rounded up the dispersed dead and herded the walkers onto the barge that Crane (Daniel Rashid) docked off shore. "They're gonna overrun this place," Russell snickers, "and there's not a damn thing you or anyone else can do about it." June Dorie (Jenna Elfman) tells him they called a truce with Troy to call off the herd, but then Madison killed him. There's no stopping the herd now. The walkers shamble off the boat, into the water, and onto the island's shore, forcing Dwight to order PADRE's people to retreat inside the camp's gates. The fort should withstand the mass of dead... as long as the walls hold against the thousands of zombies forcing their way inside.

Back at the auto shop, Daniel says their lack of ammo means they have to wait until the pack of walkers outside tire themselves out. The repeater network allows Frank to report that the walls are holding -- for now -- but the dead have flooded PADRE. It will be overrun if they can't draw the walkers away. Russell offers a deal: if they hand over Tracy, his men will lead the herd away from PADRE. He made a promise to Troy to keep her safe. Madison points out that Troy asked the same of her. "She's all I have left," Madison says.

Then Russell reveals the truth: Troy stabbed Alicia and left her for dead, but he didn't see her die. Troy told Madison that Alicia turned, but as it turns out, that's not the whole truth. Russell lied to Troy, telling him that Alicia succumbed to her wounds after Troy "cut her up pretty good." She hurt him, too, and nearly drove her bladed arm clean through his stomach. ("Just like mother, like daughter.") That explains how Troy got Alicia's arm. He limped home with her arm prosthetic stuck in his stomach, and a few days after Troy's fight with Alicia, he dispatched Russell and some men to make sure she was dead. They found a mattress soaked in blood, the knife Troy stabbed Alicia with on the floor... and bloody footprints heading out the door.

Strand notes that doesn't mean that Alicia's alive -- but she could be, says Madison, who is desperately hoping against hope. Fearing what might happen if Troy found out he didn't kill Alicia, Russell lied. If they hand over Tracy, he'll herd the dead away from PADRE and Madison can go find Alicia. It's not a deal Madison is willing to accept. If Alicia is alive out there, she wouldn't want Madison to give up her daughter. It's decided, then. Russell's men will take the island, firing grenade launchers to blast holes in the 10-foot-thick walls of the fort. The dead don't have to get in -- they just have to get the living out.

With PADRE under attack from Russell's army and their zombie legion, Strand decides they can't wait out the walkers pinning them inside the auto shop. He breaks the chains, sending the walkers flooding inside, forcing everyone to fight their way through the rabid horde. PADRE and the auto shop are under siege from an overwhelming mass of walkers, and fires from the explosions threaten to burn the island fort to ashes. Odessa (Jayla Walton) retrieves the dual Single Action Army revolvers with "JD" etched into the handles that once belonged to June's departed husband, sharpshooter John Dorie. If this is the end, they're going out guns blazing.

Dwight, Sherry, June, Odessa, Frank, and Klaus (Julian Grey) are forced to fight their way through the herd if they're going to make it the hundred yards to the docks. With the island's children looking to "Red Kite" to lead them, Dwight calls the shots: he orders Hawk (Triston Dye) and the prefects to fire off flares on the far walls to draw the walkers away and thin the herds, creating their own path to the docks. If they're going to survive, they're going to have to kill their way out. Dwight and Sherry steel themselves as the gates open. "For Finch." For their son. Russell says the herd will eat them alive. "That's why you're here," Dwight growls, throwing Russell to the swarm of gnashing teeth and fingers that tear him apart as a diversion.

After clearing the walkers outside the auto shop, Strand's decision draws rage from Daniel. "This is the last time you put in danger what's left of my family to save yours," he yells, to which Strand says Daniel would have done the same if Luciana was on the island. Strand has only pursued his "self-serving crusade" to help him feel better about "all the rotten things" he's done, Daniel argues, so Strand counters: "The parts of me that you hate are the things you don't like about yourself." The last-surviving Salazar blames Strand and Madison for him losing "every single person" he's ever cared for and lost. He recalls Los Angeles, and regrets letting Travis (Cliff Curtis) into his barbershop the night the city fell "because ever since I did, everything has been bad luck for me." In turn, Madison says she regrets letting him into her home, and Strand regrets letting him onto the Abigail.

Luciana has tuned up a car allowing them to reach one of PADRE's refineries before sunrise. "I don't know if Alicia's alive," Daniel tells Madison, "but wherever she is, she's better off without you." And so is Tracy. Daniel tells the girl to run away from Madison (who is "losing her mind") and Strand ("a selfish, pathological liar who would have gotten Luciana and myself killed, just like every single person I ever cared for!") Daniel departs with Luciana, who leaves Madison a map and a can of gas to get to Fort Worth. Her parting words are kind: she hopes Madison finds Alicia and the peace she deserves.

On the island, Frank reports that PADRE is overwhelmed: they can't get to the dock because the dead are pushing them back to the center of the island. Walkers have pressed against the nets and gates, causing everyone to band together and stab the seemingly endless waves of walkers. This is also where Madison must leave Strand. She has to go find Alicia, and after almost drowning and then fighting walkers, she's in no shape for a fight. If Madison goes to PADRE, she fears she won't come back. "I need you, Madison. I need my friend," Strand says, choking back tears. "And to try to save my family." They're friends, but, "I've been seeing her. Nick, too. It's like a dream," Madison says of the visions of her kids that have flashed throughout the episode. "Just their faces. Back in LA, before everything went bad. If I have the chance to find her, Victor, I have to try. Start over."

Strand wants that for her, too, but it's clear nothing he can say will convince Madison to fight for PADRE. "I came here to save her. I came here to save you," he says tearfully. "So I can give you a chance to get things right. And now Frank and Klaus may die because of it. I guess you're teaching her what you want her to learn... this is how you survive." Victor Strand gives up on Madison Clark. "If you find Alicia, tell her I tried."

In the escape car, Madison sets her gun down to chart the course to Alicia. "If you're so sure the world's shit," Tracy asks, "why was it so important for Alicia to believe it could be different?" To that, Madison answers, "I think parents just try to give their kids the things that they didn't have." The next question, then, is whether Madison had anything to believe in when she was a kid. Madison recalls how her daddy drank and hurt her mama. He'd hit her, then he'd apologize, but the cycle of violence would repeat. Until Madison ended it. Madison recalls being Tracy's age when she knew her father was going to kill her mother, eventually. "I wanted it to stop so bad, I shot him," she admits, without a shred of remorse. Tracy takes Madison's hand. "You did it to protect her. You didn't want Alicia to have to do anything like that." Madison has visions of the Dell Diamond baseball stadium, and how she wanted to build a place where her kids could feel safe. But in the end, all she ever did was put them in danger. "So you get it?" Tracy says. "Why I have to do this."

Tracy shoots Madison, sending her spilling out of the open car door. Madison chuckles inbetween gasping for air. "You finally understand," she says weakly. "This is what happens when you try to build something better. You end up giving people hope. End up putting them in danger. You end up getting them killed. Find Alicia. Make sure she understands, too." Tracy again refuses to believe Alicia is her mother and leaves Madison for dead.

Meanwhile, Strand, Ada, Della, and Sara have reached the docks, but Strand's SOS goes unanswered... until Luciana and Daniel come over the radio, telling him that they can't get there in time to help save PADRE. "It can't end like this," Strand yells. "It can't end like this!" But that's the end of PADRE. The fort burns. A huddled mass of walker bodies are disposed in a mass grave. PADRE has fallen. In the woods, Tracy finds a zombified Troy tangled in branches. She tells him she shot Madison and how she thinks everyone on the island is dead. Tracy raises the gun, shoots Troy, and buries her father.

There's at least one survivor: Strand. He finds Tracy and takes her to an RV to tell her she still has something left to fight for. "Madison saved me. She saved all of us," Strand reveals. "And I promised her I'd find you, so I could tell you what she did." But Tracy shot Madison. Tracy killed Madison. Jumping back in time at the auto shop, Madison sticks her hand into her bloody jacket... and withdraws the gun's magazine, a bullet embedded in Alicia's St. Christopher medallion. It works.

"After you shot her, after she realized you wanted everything to end, she knew she was wrong. She knew she had to do something big, something monumental, in order to have any hope of restoring your faith," Strand says. "In what's worth fighting for. For the people we love. For the people we have. For the things that are bigger than all of us. For the things that we'd give up our lives to protect."

People and places like PADRE. The fort fell to the dead... but Madison saved the living "the same way she did once before." A flashback reveals the walker herd flooding into PADRE. In the distance, a glowing red flare reveals a figure: it's Madison, drawing the walkers inside PADRE the way she did at the stadium all those years ago. Madison leads the dead to the basement where she spent seven years of her life locked away inside her airtight cell, and with a swing of her sledge hammer, punctures the oxygen tanks that kept her alive. "She led the dead into PADRE's walls so we could escape to the docks," Strand says. "So we could live." She didn't do it just for them -- it was for Tracy, too. So she would know.

Madison shuts herself inside her cell and dons an oxygen mask. "That your dad, that Madison... they were right. They knew that fighting for something better can get you killed. But it's also something that just fighting to survive can't." Madison lights another flare, opens the hatch in her cell door, tosses it out... and the air ignites, engulfing the walker horde in the fiery blaze that burns PADRE to the ground. "It can let you live forever."

No one's gone until they're gone... but Madison Clark is gone. Tracy realizes she has no one left. "She died for me," she cries. "And so did he." Strand tells her she has him and the others from PADRE, but she once again runs away. Sometime later, Tracy places a bluebonnet and the St. Christopher medallion next to... MADISON. ALIVE. Still breathing. The oxygen mask kept her from suffocating, but it was Tracy who saved Madison's life. After Strand told her what she did to save everyone, she spent half a day digging her out of the rubble. Madison is the only family she has left.

But no one's gone until they're gone... and ALICIA CLARK ISN'T GONE. Alicia lives! She came to PADRE to bury her mother, having heard the story about a woman named Madison dying to save PADRE's people. The Clarks reunite, embrace, and sob -- both in disbelief that the other is alive. Alicia asks if Madison is okay, to which she answers, "I will be." That's not the only reunion: Alicia found Daniel's cat, Skidmark, while scavenging a warehouse for supplies. With the cat out of the bag, Alicia asks: "How are you still here?"

Madison tells Alicia that her daughter came back and saved her life... but Alicia never had a child. She knew Tracy's mother, Serena, so Tracy realizes that Troy lied because he knew how hard Madison fought for Nick and Alicia, and he wanted to give her a reason to fight for Tracy. Another question: "You said you heard a story about me. From who?"

On a highway overpass, Alicia explains she picked up radio chatter on the road. As they wait for the storytellers to make their route, Alicia tells Madison she would have looked for her if she knew she was alive. "I would've come looking for you, too," Madison responds. "I never would've stopped." After Troy attacked Alicia, she came across Ada, Della, and Sara, women who dressed like her, used weapons she was using, and did the things she did: helping people. "It's like the story of what I'd done was doing more good than I could do on my own," Alicia realizes. "And so I went somewhere else. I started using a different name so Troy couldn't find me. If I hadn't done that, maybe we would have found each other." In the end, Madison says Alicia made the right choice giving people something to believe in.

Who heard Madison's story? It's a convoy of trucks carrying shipping containers with the word "PADRE" replaced by "MADRE." The people who told Alicia about Madison had one of the MADRE containers, but they think Madison is dead. Down below, it's revealed the convoy is Luciana, Ada, Della, Sara, and children from PADRE. They're going to use the refineries to refuel before rolling out on the road.

June is headed to John Dorie's cabin back in Texas, and Odessa is going along so June can teach her medicine. John's cabin is where her husband taught her "to shoot, to survive," June says. "To live again. If he can do that for me there, maybe I can do the same for you." They'll be keeping in touch once they get the repeater stations. Dwight and Sherry decide to go find the parents of the kids that PADRE separated from their parents, but with the island gone, the kids will need somewhere to live. Dwight suggests The Sanctuary. It's defensible, and the streets are still intact, so they can rebuild it into a place that's "worthy of its name." Sherry fears losing Dwight to that place again, but she won't. They'll do it to make Finch proud -- and they'll do it together. Forever.

In the last time we'll see them together, Daniel Salazar and Victor Strand make peace. He was wrong "in some parts," admitting that Strand did save his family when the world fell apart. He thanks him for the Abigail. "No need to thank me for something that people should do for one another," Strand says, truly a changed man. With a smile, he adds: "You just caught me on a good day." Maybe Strand was right. Maybe he does remind Daniel of the worst things about himself. "I don't know if people like us can act differently. And that's why I have a problem with you, Victor. But for the sake of others and our own sakes... I guess we got to try to change." From selfish to selfless, from cunning con man to caring family man -- Strand thinks he has changed. "Whether you have," he tells Daniel, "that's up to you." Daniel pats Strand's shoulder, and in German, says his goodbyes: "I'm tired of war. All the best." Daniel hears meowing and finds Skidmark -- a little older, a little worse for wear. And finally, Daniel Salazar laughs heartily. With Luciana, and Skidmark, he has his familia.

Strand, Frank, and Klaus also chart a new direction. Placed in Strand's truck: a bluebonnet. He knows what it means, and who put it there: a friend. He looks out the window and sees the Clarks -- Madison, Alicia, and Tracy -- and exhales. With a smile, Strand's family has their new direction: onward.

In the final scene of the series, Madison tells Tracy that MADRE doesn't need her. They'll do better if they think Madison Clark is dead -- before she gives them a reason to stop believing. They've made their way from California, to Mexico, to Texas, to Georgia. Where to next? Madison has been having visions of Nick and Alicia back before everything went bad. Back home in Los Angeles. They saw the city get bombed during Operation Cobalt, but that was 2010. Another lifetime ago. It's probably still pretty rough there, Madison says, and there's probably a lot of people who could use their help. Holding Nick's ashes, Madison thinks of her son. Maybe there's still some good out here. "It's never gonna be what it was," Madison says. "That doesn't mean we can't start over. Let's go home."

"Mama Tried" by Merle Haggard plays as the Clark family drives down the road ahead to start over in Los Angeles. The end is the beginning.

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The penultimate episode of Fear the Walking Dead, "Fighting Like You," begins where last week's episode left off: with Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) on the warpath against Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman) to finish what she started 10 years ago at the Gonzalez Dam. Troy has tracked down his daughter Tracy (Antonella Rose) and thawed the frozen walker herd, including Tracy's zombified mother. Troy is leading the herd to PADRE after his right-hand man Russell (Randy Bernales) figured out how to get the dead onto the island. And then, Troy tells Tracy, "We'll finally have a home."

They're transporting Tracy's mother to PADRE so she can "be the one to make Madison pay for everything she's done." Tracy asks why mom has to be the one to kill Madison, so Troy reminds her: "She's Alicia's mother. She put the thinking in her head that got people killed. We can't let what happened to mom happen to anyone else." She also questions why Troy would want her to wear her necklace -- the St. Christopher's medallion that, according to Victor Strand (Colman Domingo), he once gave to Alicia Clark (Alycia Debnam-Carey) -- if she killed mom. Troy explains that her mother gave him the necklace when she died and made him promise to give it to Tracy to keep her safe, which is what he's been doing ever since.

Troy's truck triggers a trip wire, causing a rigged tree log to pummel the truck and send it careening down an embankment. Tracy escapes the wreck unscathed, but dad does not: Troy is impaled by a jagged branch pinning him inside the overturned truck. The crash has drawn walkers out of the woods, so he tells Tracy to leave him and find Russell. "If you don't make it to PADRE," Troy tells Tracy, "then all of this, everything that I've done, it won't mean anything." Tracy doesn't want to live at PADRE without Troy, so she gives him the medallion to keep him safe while she goes to get help. "And then we'll do what we said -- we'll make PADRE our home. Together."

Over Madison's dead body. She's taken the MRAP SWAT van back to the icy swamp, only to find Troy's men melted the mud and freed the frozen walkers. Strand reaches Madison over walkie-talkie and pleads with her to call off her mission to kill Troy, but enough people have died because of her. She can't put the rest of them at risk. He reports that he's with the trio of women carrying on Alicia's legacy -- Ada (Nona Parker Johnson), Sara (Sasha An), and Della (Julia Wackenheim-Gimple) -- after the rest of the group retreated to the island to escape the herd. She's doing this so he doesn't have to -- so he can build PADRE into what Alicia would have wanted.

Strand warns Madison that he learned what she's doing the hard way at the Tower: "It was just always one more thing I needed to do to keep it safe. And before I knew it, I was the thing people needed to be protected from." Madison finds Tracy in the van trying to use its radio to get Troy help and learns that Russell is leading the herd toward PADRE. Only Troy knows where Russell is taking the herd, so if Madison is going to protect PADRE, she has to get to it first. She gets Tracy to give up Troy's location and radios Strand: she's leaving him the MRAP with Tracy inside, and she's going to kill Troy. "What happened to 'no one's gone until they're gone?'" Tracy asks Madison, telling her that if she really wanted to build PADRE into what Alicia wanted, she'd give Troy a second chance. Madison looks at the skeletal remains of Alicia's severed arm -- all that's left of her daughter after Troy killed her -- and tells Tracy point-blank: "He doesn't deserve one." Alicia believed everyone deserves a second chance, and if Madison believed that, she'd help her father. But Troy killed Alicia, so Troy has to die.

Back at the crash, Troy radios Russell and makes him promise to get Tracy to PADRE. Madison saves Troy from walkers clutching at the vehicle... only so she can kill him herself. Before Madison can bring her sledgehammer down on his head, Troy kicks Madison, rips himself free, and tackles Madison to the ground. He goes to feed her face-first to Tracy's zombie mom, so Madison twists the shard of branch still embedded in Troy's shoulder and then plunges a blade into his wife's brain, putting her down. And she's going to do the same to Troy. "You killed my daughter. I'll do what I have to do to make sure her memory doesn't die," Madison says. Troy tells her that Alicia's beliefs are what got her killed, but Madison says places like PADRE can still work "if people like you and me are no longer in this world."

Madison wields her hammer like an executioner's blade, but Troy tells her she won't stop the herd if he's dead. If Madison lets him bury his wife and see his daughter so he can tell her something face-to-face, he'll take her to Russell. Madison and Troy are aware they can't trust the other to hold up their end of the deal, but Madison makes it clear she's going to kill him -- for good this time -- to protect PADRE.

At the van, Tracy watches an old video that Althea recorded of Alicia (in the season 5 episode "Channel 4"). "My mom used to look for a little bit of good every time she went out into the world," Alicia says on the tape. "She would have liked this." Strand arrives and informs her that Troy agreed to reveal the herd's location if they bring him to his daughter, but Tracy fears Madison is going to kill her dad when she gets what she wants. But if Tracy keeps watching those tapes, Della says, she'll see that Madison gave a lot of people second chances "whether they deserved them or not." That includes Strand. Madison and Alicia never gave up on him, so they just need to remind Madison she's a person who believes in second chances.

In the woods, Troy digs a grave for his wife, Serena Otto. Madison remarks that it must be nice getting to bury the person he loves, to which Troy responds that Alicia can keep rotting and roaming as a walker forever. (Troy might as well be digging his own grave.) Troy explains why he blames Alicia for Serena's death, telling Madison that Serena was pregnant when they were looking for a place to live after Mexico. Serena got bit on the arm like Alicia... and it was Alicia who saved her. They put an SOS over the radio, Alicia responded, saved Serena's life, and departed in the MRAP to go help more people. This inspired Serena to pay it forward and help people like Alicia. Unfortunately, Serena responded to an SOS call that led her into a trap: a man shot her, robbed her, and left Serena for dead. Troy found Serena holed up in a strip mall, where she eventually succumbed to blood loss. "I held her while she died, Madison," Troy says. "I listened to her weep. She told me she'd never get to watch her daughter grow up." All because she believed what Alicia believed. Troy promised he'd never let Tracy hurt the way her mother did -- and he'd never let his daughter believe what Alicia put into Serena's head. That's the reason Troy killed Alicia.

A walker stumbles out of the woods, and when Madison turns to kill it, Troy hits her with his shovel and makes a run for it -- right into another trap. Who has been leaving traps throughout the woods? It's Crane (Daniel Rashid), a.k.a. PADRE's Ben Krennick, who has been holed up on a barge since the death of his sister Shrike (Maya Eshet) in the midseason finale. He blames Madison for Shrike's death and wants to take back PADRE. If Troy stops the herd from reaching PADRE, Crane will let him live there with Tracy. Crane turns on his walkie so Troy can call off his men... only for Madison to use the opportunity to alert Strand that she's on the docks with Troy. Madison remarks that "Blue Jay"/June Dorie (Jenna Elfman) should have killed Crane instead of sparing him, reinforcing her belief that not everyone deserves a second chance.

Crane cuffs Madison and Troy's hands together and forces them to lead him to the herd at gunpoint. He points out that the last time he saw "Lark," she risked her life to reunite Nightingale and Wren: Morgan Jones (Lennie James) and his daughter Mo (Zoey Merchant). "Now you're using a father against his own daughter? Whatever happened to 'family is worth fighting for?'" To that, Madison responds, "It still is. I'm just fighting like you guys." Daniel (Rub?n Blades) and Luciana (Danay Garc?a) attack the transport, freeing Madison and dragging Troy along. They hide out in a shack three miles out from the barge to radio Strand for help, but the connection is weak. Troy says they need to get to higher ground to transmit their coordinates. "'We?'" Daniel chuckles, turning his gun on Troy. "We're not going anywhere." Luciana and Daniel didn't track them here to save them -- they did it to kill Troy and avenge their people after the shootout at the truck stop. And they're doing it for Ofelia. And for Charlie.

Madison convinces Luciana and Daniel to let Troy go. He's their only shot at finding the herd and save PADRE from being overrun by 5,000 walkers, but they need the MRAP to get there in time. Daniel warns Madison that Troy will say whatever he has to say to get what he wants, but she already knows. "When this is all over," she tells him, "I'll make sure he doesn't hurt anyone else." And if she doesn't, Daniel will.

Still handcuffed together so he can't run off, Troy tells Madison that he wasn't going to lead Crane to the herd because his deal was with Madison. Madison assures him she'll kill him as quick as Crane will, but Troy thinks that's not who she is. "I know what it is to believe in something," he explains, "and how hard it is to let it go." When they reach a swamp filled with water-logged walkers, their only way across is a rickety wooden bridge. Madison notes the swamp is pulling the walkers down like quicksand. But with Crane closing in and opening fire, their only option is to go tread carefully over the bridge. Rather than shoot them, Crane chops the bridge rope with his hatchet, sending Madison and Troy plunging into the zombie-infested swamp. Either the walkers will get them, or the mud will suck them below to drown.

Troy says he can still lead Crane to the herd, but the man formerly known as "Padre" is willing to let PADRE fall if it means watching Madison die for letting his sister be eaten alive. Troy tells Crane he's just trying to get to his daughter, but that only reinforces what Crane believes and why PADRE separated parents from their offspring: "People need to be protected from themselves. Especially when it comes to their kids."

As it turns out, that's the reason Crane and Shrike saved Madison after she used a flare to lead a walker horde into the Dell Diamond baseball stadium, locked herself inside, and sacrificed herself to save her kids. In a quick flashback to the season 4 episode "No One's Gone," it's revealed Madison escaped the stadium after it was overrun with walkers and engulfed in flames by taking cover in a water truck. She was then found and rescued by Crane and Shrike, who heard what were believed to be Madison's last words to Nick and Alicia: No one's gone until they're gone. "If you were willing to die for them, we knew we could get you to do just about anything. You thought that those beliefs were gonna save your kids... but in the end, that's what got them killed," Crane says.

Madison then yells out to draw nearby walkers out of the woods, which descend on Crane and devour him. As Troy and Madison struggle to keep their heads above water, Troy tells her he's sorry and that he didn't want it to end like this. He then tells her that Russell is leading the herd to the northwest corner of the swamp, hoping the current will sweep the dead to the island's shore. "Maybe I don't deserve a second chance," he says, "but Tracy does." But it's too late for second chances. Troy and Madison start to go under, her last words an admission that PADRE is "better off without people like us."

But then... a second chance. Madison wakes up to find Strand and Alicia's followers with Daniel and Luciana. But they're not the ones who saved her: it was Troy, who reveals he grabbed a root and pulled them out of the swamp. He did it because he wasn't telling Madison the truth. The truth? Serena never regretted following Alicia, and it was Alicia who gave Serena the St. Christopher medallion to bring them luck. He confesses that he lied to Tracy, too, and tells Madison that his wife made him promise to keep what Alicia believed in alive so he'd always know what he was fighting for. But he broke that promise.

Daniel and Luciana don't believe him, but he reminds Madison that he told her he knows what it's like to believe in something -- and how hard it is to let it go. He saw it in Serena's eyes as she was dying, and he saw it in Madison's eyes as they were going under. It was the look of someone who was going to die "believing in nothing." Troy couldn't let that happen. Not for Madison's sake --but for Tracy's. "I didn't do what Serena asked. I didn't keep it alive," Troy tells Madison. "But maybe I could. If you gave me a second chance. Like Alicia did."

Madison realizes that's what Troy wanted to tell Tracy. He's reunited with his daughter, so it's Troy's turn to hold up his end of the deal and take them to the herd. Later, the MRAP cuts off the herd, opening fire and gunning down the front of the pack. Then Odessa (Jayla Walton), Dwight (Austin Amelio) and Sherry (Christine Evangelista), and June arrive with a convoy of PADRE prefects to divert and break up the herd. Madison has fluid in her already damaged lungs, so it's imperative they get her to PADRE for treatment.

But first, the group is split over what to do with Troy. Strand and Ada advocate for giving Troy a second chance, but Daniel and Luciana don't trust letting him on the island. "What if he's telling the truth? What if he's changed?" Strand asks. If not, Daniel asks Madison: "Are you willing to risk that?" Meanwhile, Troy returns Tracy's medallion and apologizes for lying to her. "You did what you said," she tells her dad. "You found us a home. And you kept me safe." Madison tells Tracy to get ready to head to PADRE, but first, she needs to talk to Troy.

Madison tells Troy she's been thinking about Alicia, and how she gave him a second chance despite everything. Alicia's arm is all Madison has left of her daughter. "I'll do everything in my power to make sure I'm worthy of the second chance that she gave me," Troy promises. "And everyone on that island, too. Things have changed. You have to believe me."

"That's just it, Troy -- I don't." Madison impales Troy with Alicia's arm prosthetic, shocking everyone as she twists the blade deeper into his guts. "I'm done with second chances," Madison snarls. "Troy was right. That's what got Alicia killed. That's why I had to do this! If I didn't, I'd be putting you all at risk. This is how we survive. This is how PADRE survives." Troy, blood spilling from his mouth, brings Madison close. "You have to fight for Tracy like you fought for Nick and Alicia." Why would I do anything you say? Troy spits it out: "Because she's not my daughter." Troy reveals that Serena died before their child could be born. Who is Tracy's mother? Who??

"Alicia. I took her child to make up for what I lost," Troy answers. With that, Troy Otto dies by Madison's -- and Alicia's -- hand.

"The Road Ahead," part two of the two-episode Fear the Walking Dead series finale, follows.

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It's a date, Richonne lovers: AMC has set a premiere date for The Walking Dead Rick and Michonne series. The network on Sunday announced The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live will premiere February 25, 2024, on AMC and AMC+ -- almost eight years to the day Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne's (Danai Gurira) Richonne romance began on "The Next World" episode of The Walking Dead in 2016. AMC also released a new teaser for the six-episode spinoff show during Sunday's two-episode series finale of Fear the Walking Dead, which you can watch above.

"People are going, 'Where have you gone?'" Lincoln, whose Rick Grimes disappeared aboard a CRM helicopter during season 9 of The Walking Dead, says in the teaser video. "Our ambition is to have some answers." Adds Gurira: "These two people are so powerful, and together, it's insane. This is some crazy love."

Rick was presumed dead after he sacrificed himself to save his family and friends from a walker herd. But Rick survived, and as The Walking Dead: World Beyond revealed, Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh) trafficked Rick to the Civic Republic Military. Rick was shipped off to clear walkers at a Civic Republic Cull Facility... a fate he's been unable to escape ever since. Six years and one Richonne baby later -- Rick and Michonne's son, RJ (Antony Azor), was born after Rick disappeared -- Michonne eventually learned that Rick is alive and set off to bring him home. No one, living or dead, will get in the way of Michonne reuniting Rick with their children, RJ and Judith Grimes (Cailey Fleming). As the Grimes family stated in The Walking Dead series finale: "We're the ones who live."

The teaser also reveals the first look at Terry O'Quinn (Lost) as the CRM's shadowy leader, Major General Beale, and the return of Bailey (Andrew Bachelor) and Aiden (Brenda Wool) -- the two straggling survivors from a migrating caravan who asked Michonne for help when she left to find Rick. Other cast members include Lesley-Ann Brandt (Lucifer) as Pearl and Matt Jeffries as Nat.

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live "presents an epic love story of two characters changed by a changed world. Kept apart by distance. By an unstoppable power. By the ghosts of who they were," reads the official synopsis. "Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead... And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they've ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive -- or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?"

AMC's Walking Dead Universe Chief Content Officer Scott M. Gimple is showrunner and serves as executive producer with Lincoln, Gurira, Denise Huth (The Walking Dead), and Brian Bockrath (The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon). TWDU veteran Greg Nicotero is a consulting producer and supervised the zombie special make-up effects.

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live premieres Feb. 25, with new episodes airing Sundays on AMC and AMC+.

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"No one's gone until they're gone," but Fear the Walking Dead is nearly gone. The remaining two episodes of the eighth and final season will premiere as a two-episode series finale event Sunday, November 19, ending the first Walking Dead spinoff after 113 episodes. Season 8 episode 11 ("Fighting Like You") and season 8 episode 12 ("The Road Ahead") will air back-to-back on AMC, and viewers who tune into the cable premiere will be the first to see a new look at The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, the next series set in The Walking Dead Universe. (Then stay tuned to ComicBook for our post-finale interview with showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg.)

Below, read on to find out when and where to watch the Fear the Walking Dead series finale and how to catch up on previous seasons.

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 11 Release Date

The penultimate episode of the series, "Fighting Like You," premieres Sunday, November 19, at 9/8c on AMC and is available to stream now on AMC+ (more on that below).

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 11 Run Time

"Fighting Like You" has a run time of 40 minutes and 13 seconds.

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 12 Release Date

The Fear the Walking Dead series finale, "The Road Ahead," premieres immediately after "Fighting Like You" at 10:00 p.m. on AMC. The episode is now available to stream on AMC+.

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Finale Run Time

The extended series finale clocks in at 51 minutes and 33 seconds.

How to Watch Fear the Walking Dead Online Without Cable

Cord-cutters can stream Fear the Walking Dead season 8 on AMC+. Prices start at $4.99/month for the new AMC+ with ads plan, while ad-free AMC+ is available for $6.99/month (when billed annually) or $8.99/month (when billed monthly). New customers can sign up for a 7-day free AMC Plus trial.

AMC+ is available as an app and via Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video Channels, The Roku Channel, Comcast Xfinity, Dish, DirecTV, Sling TV, and YouTube TV.

You can watch Fear the Walking Dead for free on the AMC website by signing in with your television provider, or by signing up for a free AMC Plus trial. You can also purchase and download individual episodes (priced $2.99 for HD, $1.99 for SD per episode) on retailers like Amazon Prime Video and Vudu.

Where Can I Watch Fear the Walking Dead?

You can stream all eight seasons of Fear the Walking Dead on AMC+, including the two-part series finale.

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episodes Recaps:

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Part 1

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 1 Recap: "Remember What They Took From You"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 2 Recap: "Blue Jay"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 3 Recap: "Odessa"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 4 Recap: "King County"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 5 Recap: "More Time Than You Know"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 6 Recap: "All I See Is Red"

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Part 2

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 7 Recap: "Anton"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 8 Recap: "Iron Tiger"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 9 Recap: "Sanctuary"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 10 Recap: "Keeping Her Alive"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 11 Recap: "Fighting Like You" (Series Finale Part 1)
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 12 Recap: "The Road Ahead" (Series Finale Part 2)

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[Spoiler alert for Sunday's "Keeping Her Alive" episode of Fear the Walking Dead.] AMC has released the trailer for the Fear the Walking Dead series finale, which ends the Walking Dead spinoff's eight-season run on November 19. Revealing the first look at the super-sized, two-episode series finale, the new trailer teases Madison Clark's (Kim Dickens) final battle against Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman), who killed her daughter Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) and now plans to destroy PADRE with a walker horde. "This is how we survive. This is how PADRE survives," Madison says in the trailer (above), which appears to hint that not everyone survives Fear's final episodes.

The official loglines:

Season 8 Episode 11: "The horde led by Troy surrounds the walls of PADRE. Madison and her people must fight for their survival to save what remains."

Season 8 Episode 12: "As the series comes to an end, the fate of PADRE's survivors seems to rest in the hands of an unexpected hero."

Potential SPOILER ALERT: The 30-second trailer for the super-sized series finale seems to tease Alicia's fate after Troy, and then his daughter Tracy (Antonella Rose), told Madison that Troy killed her. Is that Strand carrying Alicia's one-armed corpse? Ending the trailer is a shot of Madison about to bring her hammer down on Troy and Tracy -- but this time, she'll make sure he's dead.

"Daniel Sharman's so fantastic in the role, and we were really interested in both revisiting the dynamic between him and Madison and where they left off at the end of season 3, and butting that up against the person that Madison is trying to become now: someone who's trying to redeem herself for all the sins of her past, and in particular her recent sins of what she did when she worked for PADRE," showrunner Ian Goldberg told ComicBook. "To us, bringing Troy back into the story was the perfect source of antagonism emotionally for her there because he is a reminder of her past and someone who's not going to let what she did -- or what he views that she did to his family -- lie buried in the past."

"What we will come to find out is that, in some ways, Madison and Troy are like two sides of the same coin," Goldberg continued. "They're both driven for the same ultimate end goals, but their tactics are very different. Kim and Daniel are terrific together, and we were really excited to bring that character back."

The Fear the Walking Dead series finale airs November 19 on AMC and AMC+.

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[Spoiler alert for Sunday's "Keeping Her Alive" episode of Fear the Walking Dead.] Alicia Clark is dead. Long live Alicia Clark. The last time we saw her on season 7 of Fear the Walking Dead, Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) fought off the fever from a zombie infection and went out into a radioactive wasteland to spend the time she had left helping people looking for PADRE. Fans were left to wonder whether Alicia was dead or alive... until Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman) told Madison (Kim Dickens) that her daughter is dead. Troy claimed he killed Alicia and left her to roam as a walker, handing over the skeletal remains of her severed arm as proof that she's gone.

But in keeping with Madison's mantra that "no one's gone until they're gone," Sunday's episode revealed that Alicia lived long enough to inspire a group of do-gooders who banded together to do for other people what Alicia did for them. She rescued Della (Julia Wackenheim-Gimple, left) from bandits, found antibiotics for Sara (Sasha An, right) when she was sick with pneumonia, and saved the trio's leader (Nona Parker Johnson, middle) after Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) turned her away from his Tower.

Alicia's Apostles

The leader (who doesn't give her name) was one of dozens of survivors that heard the message Alicia transmitted from the Tower before it was overrun and destroyed. Alicia then shuttled the survivors to safety inside the MRAP SWAT van that once belonged to Althea (Maggie Grace), which now transports the nomads as they travel around doing "what Alicia would have done": helping people. Word spread about Alicia and it gave people hope, so the trio continued Alicia's legacy by making people believe she's still out there helping.

And though they only knew Alicia briefly, Sara says: "We're keeping her alive."

Is Alicia Clark Dead?

According to this group, Alicia is dead. Troy killed Alicia and the rest of their group for mysterious reasons. They then heard the message that Madison broadcast in the midseason finale and recognized her from the video interview that Althea taped back in season 4.

Meanwhile, Troy's daughter, Tracy (Antonella Rose), led Madison to where she claimed she would find zombie Alicia: in a herd of walkers stuck in a swamp. Tracy told Madison that Troy led the herd there so the walkers would become frozen from the cold temperatures, and that he lied about leaving Alicia to wander because he didn't want Madison to find and bury her daughter. It turned out to be a ruse: Alicia wasn't in the herd, but Tracy's zombified mother was. Troy and Tracy blame Madison for her mother's death because she believed what Madison and Alicia believed: "'No one's gone until they're gone.' It killed her, just like it killed your kids." Tracy then tried to kill Madison by feeding her to her zombie mom... so Madison nearly fed the girl to walkers before Strand arrived with Alicia's Apostles.

"Her body may not be here, but she still is," Strand told Madison. "These women, they're carrying on Alicia's legacy."

Did Troy Kill Alicia?

Tracy confessed that Troy killed Alicia in an old mansion off Route 26 near Fort Worth, Texas. According to Tracy -- who somehow has the Saint Christopher medallion that Strand gave to Alicia -- that's where Madison will find her daughter. But first, Madison is going to track down Troy, avenge Alicia, and stop her killer from unleashing his walker army on PADRE.

"Whether Troy is telling the truth is something that you're just going to have to watch the rest of the season to find out," showrunner Ian Goldberg told ComicBook. As for whether Fear the Walking Dead will definitively reveal what happened to Alicia, showrunner Andrew Chambliss added: "We will definitely find out whether or not Troy's story is true, and what actually went down between Troy and Alicia."

Fear the Walking Dead airs its two-episode series finale November 19 on AMC and AMC+.

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Last week's episode of Fear the Walking Dead ended with Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) revealing his plan to save PADRE: using Troy's (Daniel Sharman) daughter as leverage to keep the island safe. Complicating this is June (Jenna Elfman), Dwight (Austin Amelio), and Sherry (Christine Evangelista), who don't trust Strand after his actions at the Tower cost people their lives. "We've all done things to build and survive," says Strand, who thinks survival means keeping Troy's daughter on the island; the others argue it makes them more of a target. But PADRE is Strand's last chance to do good on what he promised Alicia Clark (Alycia Debnam-Carey), so he bites the bullet and agrees to go with them to surrender the girl to her father.

June, Dwight, and Sherry plan to hand Strand over Troy along with his daughter Tracy (Antonella Rose), who they've blindfolded so she doesn't know the way to the island that is "impossible to find." Strand fears what will happen when they return Tracy to her father -- "a sociopath on a revenge tour," as Strand puts it -- but Sherry counters that Strand is really looking out for himself. "This isn't about me," he insists. "It's about her. It's about PADRE. It's about building the place that Alicia wanted me to build."

But they'll do that without Strand. June raises Troy on the radio and tells him they'll bring him his daughter -- and the man who took her -- if he assures them he won't attack PADRE. Troy and his army can keep the hotel they took from Strand, and Madison went AWOL from PADRE, so whatever vendetta he had against her isn't with them. It's a deal, so Strand removes Tracy's blindfold and tells her to remember her surroundings. If they hand her over to her father, she'll give up PADRE's location. Strand and Tracy jump overboard and make their way to shore, where Strand notices she's wearing the Saint Christopher's medallion he once gave to Alicia.

The PADRE group have made their way on land in search of Tracy, so there's no time to explain. Strand takes the girl to "the one person who can help both of us": Madison Clark (Kim Dickens). She's bludgeoning walkers with her sledge hammer to the tune of Motley Cue's "Live Wire" when Strand (somehow) finds her in the woods. She wants Nick and Alicia to be at rest, but first, she needs to find the zombified Alicia and put her down.

Madison assures Tracy she won't make her pay for her father's crimes -- killing Alicia and a lot of other things he probably didn't tell her about. "He told me everything. How you killed his father, how you turned his brother against him, how you left him for dead at the dam," Tracy tells Madison. "You also killed my mother."

Madison doesn't know Tracy's mother, and she doesn't know why Strand bothered to bring her here. The medallion means she can help them find Alicia, and finding Alicia means they can save Tracy from her father. Madison is angry that Strand is giving away PADRE's location and the one thing keeping Troy from attacking it, but he argues that it's the only play he had. And it's what Alicia would have done. "Madison, you're the only person who knows the man who I used to be and still believes that I've changed, so believe me when I say this: this isn't about saving my own skin," he says, earnestly. "It's about saving hers, too."

Tracy has no choice but to lead Madison and Strand to Alicia, so they stop at one of the way stations that Luciana established throughout the state. They're somewhere near Milledgeville, Georgia, and eavesdropping on radio chatter reveals that they're far from Troy's people. On another channel, they hear women looking for Madison and following the coordinates she broadcast over the radio earlier in the season, but they don't recognize the voices. Tracy reports that Troy's fight with Alicia happened farther north, so Strand leaves his walkie-talkie and digs around for a larger map. A slipper Tracy snatches the walkie and manages to report to her dad that she's at a gas station off Route 204. "Do you even know where Alicia is?" No answer, so a furious Madison growls: "Don't make me ask you that again."

Before Tracy can reveal what she knows about Alicia, a trucker convoy of Luciana (Danay Garcia), Daniel Salazar (Rub?n Blades), and their people arrive. They heard the radio chatter, and they heard Tracy give away the location of the truck stop. Madison asks Luciana to let her pass so they can use her road network to find Alicia and put her to rest. Luciana doesn't want to risk her people getting into a fight, so she wants Madison and Strand to hand over the girl so they can return her to Troy. Daniel rightfully figures that Troy already knows about the truck stop and will attack them to take everything they have, so he tells her to set up a defensive perimeter. Meanwhile, he'll ride along with Madison and Strand to find out if they cut a deal with Troy. He does this under the guise of wanting to help Madison find and bury Alicia, but Strand figures out that what Daniel really wants is to get his revenge on Troy for causing his daughter Ofelia's death.

Strand tries to take Tracy with him, so Madison ditches him on the side of the road and peels off with Daniel. Tracy leads them north to a herd of walkers literally frozen in their tracks. As Tracy tells it, the zombified Alicia was in the herd that followed them as they traveled before the weather got cold. He didn't want the walker herd to get near the hotel and, knowing the mud would freeze them in place when the temperature dropped, marched them to this frigid stomping ground. Troy told Madison that he didn't know where Alicia is, but he lied: "He didn't want you to find her," Tracy says. "He didn't want you to bury her." Tracy looks at Alicia's medallion around her neck, but how it came to be in her possession goes unanswered as they make their way into the herd.

Meanwhile, the stranded Strand is surrounded by walkers when he's saved by the machine guns of the MRAP SWAT van that once belonged to Althea. Driving the armored vehicle is a woman with a bladed gauntlet that she uses to stab a walker through the brain and save Strand's life. The mystery person is... not Alicia Clark. "I get that a lot," says the unnamed young woman (Nona Parker Johnson) accompanied by Della (Julia Wackenheim-Gimple) and Sara (Sasha An).

Alicia's Apostles -- as we'll call them because the group isn't given a name -- tell Strand that Alicia told them about him before she died. Before Troy killed her. They don't just dress lke Alicia. "We're keeping her alive," they say, explaining how Alicia passed through all of their lives: she saved Della's settlement from bandits, found antibiotics for Sara when she came down with pneumonia, and offered their leader shelter when she was turned away from Strand's Tower. She was with her father when they heard Alicia transmit a message telling the survivors of nuclear fallout to come to the Tower, but by the time they got there, it was destroyed. Dozens of people arrived at the Tower and were then shuttled to safety by Alicia, using the MRAP to drive them out of the wasteland. Her father eventually succumbed to radiation poisoning from exposure, a revelation that causes the remorseful Strand to apologize. Why did she save him? "It's what Alicia would have done," she says.

By her own admission, they didn't spend much time with Alicia. The fevers she was suffering from apparently stopped, but once Alicia got their group settled, she went off to help more people. That's the last they ever saw of her. Alicia became an avenging nomad, never staying in one place for too long. "Word spread about her. It gave people hope," Sara explains. "We're trying to spread some of the same." Strand asks the leader her name, but she doesn't answer. Because they want Alicia's legacy to continue, "It's better if people believe she's still out there helping." They heard Madison's message on the radio, so they tracked her down to help take down Troy. They don't know why Troy killed Alicia, but they know that she's not the only one he killed: There used to be more of them.

Strand radios Troy to tell him he can save Tracy -- but to find her, Troy has to tell him where he hid Alicia. But first, Troy and his men get into a standoff with Luciana and her men at the truck stop. Daniel's plan to surround Troy worked. Luciana wants Troy to stand down so they can negotiate a cease-fire, so he accepts Strand's offer. Back at the mountain, Madison and Daniel notice that the herd of frozen walkers -- most of them dressed in ranch and western wear -- followed Troy from out west. They advance into the herd, where Madison finds a long-haired, one-armed walker.

Only it's not Alicia. Madison realizes this just before Tracy shoves her into the walker -- it's Tracy's mother, and she wanted her to make Madison pay. "She saw you and Alicia. She believed what you believed. That's why she's dead," Tracy reveals. "No one's gone until they're gone.' It killed her, just like it killed your kids."

Realizing that Tracy led her on a wild goose chase that nearly got her killed, Madison tells Daniel they need to figure out what to do with the girl. "She knows where PADRE is. If Troy ever gets her back... there's only one way to protect the island." It dawns on Daniel that Madison is talking about killing Tracy. Ice cold! When Daniel asks if Madison has the stomach to kill a little girl, she responds that "she just tried to use her own mother to kill me." Daniel ties Tracy to a tree, so she finally reveals the truth about Alicia: Troy killed her in an old mansion near Route 26 near Fort Worth, Texas.

That doesn't change the fact that Tracy knows where PADRE is, so Madison uses her hammer to shove a walker towards Tracy... but before she can feed Troy's daughter to a walker, Strand shows up with Alicia's Apostles and tells Madison that her daughter is alive -- in a sense. "Her body may not be here, but she still is. These women, they're carrying on Alicia's legacy," he says, stopping Madison from going after Tracy when she frees herself from her restraints. Tracy takes off into the herd, stirring the walkers from their frozen slumber. It's too dangerous to go after her, so Tracy escapes.

Back at the truck stop, a shootout happened off-screen. Daniel reports that Madison and Strand had nothing to do with the assault; in turn, Luciana says they had Troy's men surrounded, but they seemed to not care whether they lived or died. Among the casualties is Hildy (Frank Hildebrand), one of the German tourists from "Anton's" hotel. Strand and Frank want to avenge their slain friends, and Madison is on the warpath. She needs to track down Troy and kill him before he finds Tracy and then finds PADRE.

Troy isn't going to use his men to take the island, Madison realizes. He's going to do what he did at Broke Jaw Ranch: unleash a walker herd and destroy PADRE. Luciana says she'll take Madison to Fort Worth after they finish this fight with Troy -- a fight she'll finish herself. Alicia's Apostles say they watched Madison's video interview so many times they wore out the tape; on that tape, Madison told Althea the story about Amina, an injured bird that her kids once nursed back to health. "I can't imagine that part of them dying," Madison said on the tape. "I'll do whatever it takes to keep it alive."

That was then, and this is now. That Madison is gone. "Alicia's not here. Nick's not here. None of what I said on that tape means anything," Madison tells the Apostles. Strand reminds her that it does mean something, and she needs to hear it. She almost killed a little girl! "To protect everyone else," Madison spits back, telling Victor she doesn't have a family left to disappoint. "I can get my hands dirty."

To that, Strand tells Madison why he gave Alicia the medallion: "I gave it to her so she'd remember who she was because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to. I thought I was protecting her, but I was wrong, Madison. It wasn't about protecting her. It was about giving myself an excuse not to be the better man. I don't want that to happen to you. I won't let that happen to you."

But someone has to stop Troy... and no one is going to get in her way. Not Strand, not Daniel, and not Troy Otto. "I can help you one way right now: by finishing what I started 10 years ago at the dam." Madison slams the MRAP door shut and drives off alone, ignoring Strand calling out after her: "This is not the way to end this."

The end is near: the two-part Fear the Walking Dead series finale airs November 19 on AMC and AMC+.

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No one's gone until they're gone... and it seems Alicia Clark is gone. The midseason premiere of Fear the Walking Dead season 8 revealed that Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman) is alive and that Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) is dead, killed by Troy as revenge for Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) bludgeoning him with a hammer and leaving him to die back in season 3. Troy then handed over the skeletal remains of Alicia's severed arm, and claimed he took it off her corpse when he left her to roam as a walker. "Maybe one day you'll find her," Troy told Madison, "or maybe she'll find you, or maybe not, and finish the job."

The last time we saw Alicia in season 7, she was suffering from a fever after amputating her zombie-bitten arm. It seemed that Alicia didn't stop the infection in time, so she decided to spend whatever time she had left helping people trapped in the radioactive fallout off the coast of Galveston, Texas. First, Alicia saved her people and her old friend Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) when the Tower he lorded over as a tyrant went up in flames and was overrun by walkers. Then she entrusted him with making sure that everything they've been through meant something.

"You did make it mean something. You saved all of them. You saved me," Strand told Alicia. "You did what I asked you to do back at Lawton." In season 6, when Strand and Alicia were at the Lawton settlement controlled by Virginia (Colby Minifie), Strand handed down the Saint Christopher's medallion that a seemingly amnesiac Daniel Salazar (Rub?n Blades) gave him to help "bear heavy burdens." Strand then sent Alicia far away so he could get his hands dirty without dragging Alicia down with him.

Alicia later gave the medallion to Will (Gus Halper), who was present when Alicia was forced to amputate her arm after being bitten while searching for PADRE. She eventually took the medallion off a zombified Will's body when Strand threw her friend off the Tower roof, murdering him to keep Alicia away. The next time they met, it was as enemies: Alicia vowed to take Strand's Tower and turn it into PADRE, transmitting a message to bring stranded survivors to the safe haven... only to watch the Tower fall. Meanwhile, Morgan Jones (Lennie James) wound up at the real PADRE after crossing paths with Madison in Louisiana and informing her that her children were gone.

"I didn't just save you so you could live to do what I couldn't," Alicia told Strand. "I did it because I love you, too." It was the last time Strand saw Alicia alive. She gave her old friend a second chance, which he used to become the benevolent leader of the Emissary Suites Hotel after washing ashore in Georgia. Seven years later, Madison turned up at Strand's community, only for it to be taken over by Troy, who wants somewhere safe for his daughter Tracy (Antonella Rose). Strand relocated his family -- his husband, Frank (Isha Blaaker), and their son Klaus (Julian Grey) -- to the island, determined to help Madison build PADRE into what Alicia wanted it to be.

As it turned out, Troy tracked down Alicia and took his revenge on Madison by murdering her daughter. But whether Alicia is dead or alive is a question that will be answered in the two-episode Fear the Walking Dead series finale.

"Whether Troy is telling the truth [about Alicia's death] is something that you're just going to have to watch the rest of the season to find out," Ian Goldberg, who serves as showrunner with Andrew Chambliss, told ComicBook. Added Chambliss: "We will definitely find out whether or not Troy's story is true, and what actually went down between Troy and Alicia."

Madison's mission now is to find Alicia and lay her to rest with Nick. But first, she needs to save PADRE from Troy and build the island settlement into what it was supposed to be for her children. After all, no one's gone until they're gone.

Fear the Walking Dead's "Keeping Her Alive" episode premieres Sunday, November 12, on AMC and AMC+.

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There are just three episodes left of Fear the Walking Dead. AMC has confirmed the run time of Sunday's "Keeping Her Alive," and the episode clocks in on the shorter side. However, the remaining two episodes will air back-to-back as a super-sized series finale: the double-header will span 140 minutes when it premieres November 19 on AMC. Picking up where last week's episode left off, "Keeping Her Alive" sees Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) attempt to use a captive Tracy Otto -- the daughter of Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman) -- as leverage to save PADRE. But he's not the only one who has plans for the girl who may know what happened to Alicia Clark (Alycia Debnam-Carey).

Below, read on to find out when and where to watch the final episodes of Fear the Walking Dead and how to catch up on the first seven seasons.

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 10 Release Date

Fear the Walking Dead season 8 episode 10, "Keeping Her Alive," premieres Sunday, November 12, at 9/8c on AMC. The episode is available to stream now on AMC+.

What Time Is Fear the Walking Dead on AMC and AMC+?

New episodes of Fear the Walking Dead season 8 premiere Sundays at 3 a.m. ET / 12 a.m. PT on AMC+, and 9/8c p.m. on AMC.

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 10 Runtime

"Keeping Her Alive" has a run time of 43 minutes and 30 seconds on AMC+. On AMC, the episode is scheduled to run from 9:00 p.m. -- 10:10 p.m.

How Many Episodes of Fear the Walking Dead Season 8?

The eighth and final season of Fear the Walking Dead consists of 12 episodes split into two six-episode blocks, and will conclude with the two-episode series finale on November 19.

How to Watch Fear the Walking Dead Online Without Cable

Cord-cutters can stream Fear the Walking Dead season 8 on AMC+. Prices start at $4.99/month for the new AMC+ with ads plan, while ad-free AMC+ is available for $6.99/month (when billed annually) or $8.99/month (when billed monthly). New customers can sign up for a 7-day free AMC Plus trial.

AMC+ is available as an app and via Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video Channels, The Roku Channel, Comcast Xfinity, Dish, DirecTV, Sling TV, and YouTube TV.

You can also watch Fear the Walking Dead for free on the AMC website by signing in with your television provider, or by downloading the episodes (priced $2.99 for HD, $1.99 for SD per episode) on retailers like Amazon Prime Video and Vudu.

Where Is Fear the Walking Dead Streaming?

All eight seasons of Fear the Walking Dead are currently available to stream exclusively on AMC+. The first seven seasons left Hulu over the summer before eventually landing on Max for a limited time, but that deal expired on Halloween.

Fear the Walking Dead Episodes Guide: Season 8 Recaps

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 1 Recap: "Remember What They Took From You"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 2 Recap: "Blue Jay"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 3 Recap: "Odessa"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 4 Recap: "King County"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 5 Recap: "More Time Than You Know"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 6 Recap: "All I See Is Red"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 7 Recap: "Anton"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 8 Recap: "Iron Tiger"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 9 Recap: "Sanctuary"

Fear the Walking Dead's final episodes premiere Sundays on AMC and AMC+.

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There's a new resident of The Walking Dead Universe. Manish Dayal, best known for his role as Devon Pravesh on six seasons of The Resident, has been cast in a recurring role in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon -- The Book of Carol. According to Deadline, which broke the news, Dayal's character Ash is described as "an engineer from Boston who moved to the family weekend house in Maine after the onset of the apocalypse. Ash lives by a strict schedule based mostly around his daily flights in a retrofitted single engine plane and mysterious visitations to his backyard greenhouse."

Dayal's prior credits include Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Disney+ movie Rise, Netflix animated series Fast & Furious Spy Racers, and AMC's Halt and Catch Fire. AMC already released the first look at Dayal's Ash in the first Daryl Dixon season 2 trailer, showing the TWDU newcomer asking Carol (Melissa McBride): "Would you give up everything to look for somebody you haven't met?"

The first season of the Walking Dead spinoff ended with Carol traveling to the town of Freeport, Maine, in search of best friend Daryl (Norman Reedus), after he disappeared in the Pine Tree State. As was revealed to the viewer over six episodes, a hoodwinked Daryl wound up on a zombie-freighting French cargo ship and was marooned overseas in France.

McBride made a voice cameo in the penultimate episode of the season before reprising her Walking Dead role for a coda sequence that ended the October season finale. Reedus and McBride are series regulars alongside returning cast members Cl?mence Po?sy (as Isabelle), Louis Puech Scigliuzzi (as Laurent), Laika Blanc Francard (as Sylvie), Anne Charrier (as Madame Genet), Romain Levi (as Codron), and Eriq Ebouaney (as Fallou).

With Ash being a pilot, the description suggests that Dayal's character could fly Carol across the Atlantic for a potential reunion with Daryl. Meanwhile, over in France, Daryl has delivered Laurent to Union de L'Espoir's (Union of Hope) base at The Nest: a settlement in Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, which is under threat from Madame Genet's Guerrier ("Warriors") and the Pouvoir Du Vivants ("Power of the Living").

"Without spoiling anything on Daryl's side of the story, we leave him with this conundrum, this dilemma about a guy who's trying to get home to the family that he's always had back home -- with Judith and RJ and Carol and Connie -- but a guy who, in the meantime, has also formed this other family and bond in France that needs him and wants him there and where he has developed a certain sense of belonging," showrunner David Zabel told ComicBook when previewing Daryl Dixon season 2. "So we certainly continue that narrative. That dilemma that we set up at the end of [episode] six is a big part of the early going of when we come back. We don't just drop that and we don't skip it. We continue telling that story in various ways and we continue telling the story of the threat of the Ampers, the amped-up walkers that Genet is cultivating as an army."

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon -- The Book of Carol is scheduled to premiere in 2024 on AMC and AMC+.

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[Spoiler alert for Sunday's "Sanctuary" episode of Fear the Walking Dead.] The Sanctuary was destroyed. Then it was rebuilt. And then it was destroyed again. This week's episode of Fear the Walking Dead followed Dwight (Austin Amelio) and Sherry (Christine Evangelista) as they returned to the original home of Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and the Saviors, which eventually fell and was abandoned back in season 9 of The Walking Dead. As we found out on "Sanctuary," Dwight and Sherry's old haunt was later taken over by marauder Marty (Alex Morf) and his squatters... only to be overrun and demolished by an invading zombie horde.

In reality, the Sanctuary set -- which was built where the survivors' prison once stood -- was long ago torn down to construct the town of the Commonwealth in The Walking Dead season 11. So when season 8 of Fear required a set that no longer exists, the filmmakers had to build a replica Sanctuary. And they did it in a week's time.

"Recreating the Sanctuary was one of the tallest orders we've ever done on the show," co-showrunner Ian Goldberg said on AMC+'s Fear TWD: Episode Insider. "Every department needing to be on top of their game to take this iconic location from The Walking Dead and recreate it on a scale that we could for this episode. It was incredibly exciting to see how they were able to pull that off."

More than seven years have passed since Dwight and Sherry stepped foot into the Sanctuary, and both times, it was to help someone in need of life-saving medical treatment. After providing shelter for residents of the Kingdom during a blizzard, the Sanctuary was abandoned by the few remaining Saviors and left to rot. Marty and his marauders holed up in the dilapidated remains of the former Sanctuary, which ultimately collapsed when a walker herd pressed against the weakened walls.

In the end, Dwight and Sherry -- along with June (Jenna Elfman) and an injured Odessa (Jayla Walton) -- survive the fall of the Sanctuary inside the very same furnace where Negan burned Dwight's face with an iron.

"It was so surreal to see the [reconstructed] Sanctuary set for the first time," said Evangelista, who last appeared on season 7 of The Walking Dead before crossing over to Fear. "It really helps take us back and show the culmination for these characters and where they are now, and having this really cathartic experience here."

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[Spoiler alert for Sunday's "Sanctuary" episode of Fear the Walking Dead.] "This doesn't end well," warns Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman) in the chilling new trailer for the next episode of Fear the Walking Dead. Troy appears to be negotiating for the return of his young daughter, Tracy (Antonella Rose), who has given him reason to take PADRE from Madison Clark (Kim Dickens). But as was revealed in this week's episode, Troy's daughter is already on the island... and the ultimate bargaining chip of Victor Strand (Colman Domingo), who told the girl she can help him "save PADRE."

However it ends, there are just three episodes left of Fear the Walking Dead. AMC will air episode 10 (titled "Keeping Her Alive") on November 12, followed by the two-episode series finale on November 19. That will end the first Walking Dead spinoff after eight seasons and 113 episodes.

The new trailer (above) shows a captive Tracy taking Madison and Daniel Salazar (Rub?n Blades) far from PADRE to uncharted territory for Fear: a winter walker-land of frozen zombies. "Alicia was in the herd," Tracy says matter-of-factly. The fate of Alicia Clark (Alycia Debnam-Carey) has been up in the air since Troy claimed he killed Madison's daughter and took the skeletal remains of her amputated arm as a trophy, but the question is: how does Tracy know what happened to Alicia?

Complicating Madison's search for Alicia is the fact that Troy has been chopping the arms off walkers to torment Madison, telling her that he left the one-armed Alicia to roam as a walker as revenge for leaving him for dead back in Mexico. "I would've put her down, Madison. After all the wandering around I did in Mexico, I thought it was only right that Alicia should do the same," Troy said. "Maybe one day you'll find her. Or maybe she'll find you, or maybe not, and finish the job."

Whatever the truth about Alicia, there are just three more episodes left for Madison -- and viewers -- to find out how Alicia, Troy, and Tracy are connected.

"We will definitely find out whether or not Troy's story is true, and what actually went down between Troy and Alicia," co-showrunner Andrew Chambliss told ComicBook.

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"Go out there, you make it right." The words that Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) told Dwight (Austin Amelio) on the "Wrath" episode of The Walking Dead season 8 echo in Fear the Walking Dead season 8, which begins with Dwight returning to his old, once-happy home in Virginia without wife Sherry (Christine Evangelista). A framed photo of "D" and "Honey" -- right where he left it years earlier -- shatters onto the floor. Dwight carves a wooden figure when he's interrupted by Jay (Jack Mikesell), a straggler claiming he was robbed of something he can't live without: insulin. Dwight suspects it's no coincidence. The last time he helped someone get insulin, he ended up in the Sanctuary with half his face burned by Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). No good deed goes unpunished...

Dwight may have been burned before, but he relents when the man reveals he recently lost his wife and son. "I think you lost somebody, too," he says. "Maybe it was your wife, maybe it was more than her. If you don't help me, if we don't help each other, what are we even doing here?" Dwight decides to sneak into the Sanctuary, steal the medicine, and meet Jay back at the house before the marauders squatting inside the long-abandoned factory know he's there.

Walkers with melted-down metal "helmets" protecting their brains serve as watchdogs. Dwight infiltrates the Sanctuary and is overcome by memories: stashing cigarettes in his old room, Sherry leaving him a breakup note, a Lucille-wielding Negan at the door. "Who are you, Dwight?" Negan says in voiceover. "There is always a cost." It is what it is. Dwight rummages through duffle bags and finds the case of insulin, along with an infinity sign he etched onto the furnace. The same furnace where he watched Dr. Emmett Carson be burned alive. As he stares into the flames of the furnace where a scolding-hot iron mutilated his face, Dwight is caught by Phil (T. Ryan Mooney).

The guard decides Dwight needs to be punished for stealing, starting with the other side of his face. But Dwight, almost on instinct, hurls Phil into the flames to be burned alive. More marauders appear and fire at Dwight, shooting him in the shoulder as he flees. Dwight makes it back to his house with the insulin, but it's too late: Jay died and turned. Dwight puts him down and roars -- anger, frustration, and pain all at once. "You should have killed me when you had the chance. I tried to make it right, Daryl. But I guess I couldn't. You should've killed me when you had the chance, Daryl," Dwight yells. "You should've just killed me when you had the chance! Please! Please, come and do it right now! Please!" As a delirious Dwight collapses from his wound, it appears his pleading prayer is answered as a truck pulls up. It's Sherry, June Dorie (Jenna Elfman), and Dove (Jayla Walton), who have traveled from Georgia to Virginia to bring Dwight back to PADRE.

June -- who had her trigger finger removed by Shrike -- walks Sherry through stitching up Dwight. He wants them to leave him be, worried that the marauders will kill them if they track him down. But they're not leaving without him. Sherry reports that Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman) has a score to settle with Madison, and he plans on settling it by taking over PADRE. With Madison M.I.A. and Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) in charge, they need Dwight to win their fight with Troy's army.

As Red Kite, Dwight trained every kid on the island, so Sherry and June need him to rally the pint-sized troops. "There's nothing that I could say or do that you couldn't do better. I can't help save those kids. I couldn't even save my own son," Dwight says of the zombie-bitten Finch (Gavin Warren). "Every time I try to make something right, someone gets hurt." That includes Jay, so the best thing they can do for PADRE -- and the kids -- is to leave Dwight there alone.

Sherry, sick of Dwight's resignation, tells him she's not here for him. She came here for their son. And for PADRE. "That place is the reason he's dead," Dwight tells her. "Why do you want to fight for that?" Sherry explains that if she fights for PADRE, "Maybe something good can come from something bad. Finch's life needs to mean something. And helping these kids, helping make PADRE into something better... that is how we honor him." But Dwight is too depressed to go back there, so he'll honor their son his own way. "What do you think Finch would say," Sherry asks, "if he knew his father walked away from kids who needed protection?" But it's not because Dwight doesn't care about those kids -- it's because he does.

The next day, it's discovered Dove took the truck in the night. She returns with a bullet in her side, fired by thieves who tried to steal the truck. Thieves looking for someone that burned their friend. There's no exit wound, which means June needs to extract the bullet and clean the wound before Dove goes into septic shock. Dwight is unsurprised that the same marauders who took over the Sanctuary attacked Dove, which their leader Marty (Alex Morf) laughs off as "beautiful karma." Marty offers a trade: if Dwight gives himself over and gives the zombified Phil "the satisfaction of finishing what he started," they'll treat Dove at the Sanctuary. Hearing the word "Sanctuary" triggers Sherry, who opens fire on Marty and his merry band of assholes. They're 20 miles out, so the adults decide they can make it to the Sanctuary and perform Dove's surgery before Marty's marauders make it back on foot.

"This is happening all over again. Us, a kid who needs surgery. It never ends," Dwight recalls of the last time they were all together in the train car. At the Sanctuary, Sherry has her own flashbacks: Negan, being his "wife," and that goddamn grin of his. Sherry guns down another guard as Dwight watches Phil's reanimated remains clawing at him from inside the furnace. In the infirmary, June instructs Sherry to inject Dove with 100 milligrams of the lidocaine. Under the circumstances, the best they can do is subcutaneous anesthetic injections around the wound. Dwight tries to convince June to perform the surgery herself, but she asserts: she can't.

Dove doesn't want Dwight to be the one to remove the bullet. As she callously reminds him, "He couldn't even save his own son! I'm not letting him do the same to me!" The Sanctuary rumbles and rattles as walkers flood into a hole in the perimeter fence and press against the walls. The bullet is dangerously close to Dove's arteries, so one false move or a slip of the hand could be fatal. If they don't draw the walkers away from the wall, the Sanctuary falls -- and Dove dies. Dwight tells Sherry to stay with June while he holds off the walkers, but she figures out that Dwight is going on a suicide mission.

Dwight trying to help Jay "landed us right back here in this hellhole," Dwight says, pointing out it's not a coincidence that they're right back where they started. Dwight drew infinity signs all over when they were living at the Sanctuary, places where Negan couldn't find them. "It was me and you. Forever," Dwight explains. "Kept me going. It made me feel like we could turn something bad into something good." Sherry believes they can. Dwight doesn't. "We can't. Not with us," he says. "And I'm so tired of making people suffer for it." As for Dwight killing himself, he's going to clear the walkers so they can save Dove. Maybe Dwight dies, maybe he lives, but he'll honor Finch. Except he won't: Sherry calls him selfish and locks him inside his old room. As she puts it: "You don't get to give up like this."

Meanwhile, the walkers rattle the walls outside. Creaking metal and crumbling walls makes Dove beg June to do the surgery, but they have to wait for the building to be stable. Pressed for the real reason she's hesitating, June finally confesses: "Because what happened to them isn't going to happen to you." Finch. And Hannah. And Rose, her daughter who died from pneumonia and turned when she went on a three-day search for medicine. June couldn't save her, just like she couldn't save Finch. Dove agrees with her: "PADRE was right. You can't protect me. None of you can protect me!" Dove reveals that she didn't come to Virginia for Red Kite... she came because she wanted to get as far away from PADRE as possible. She was trying to run away "because people like you are in charge now. People who will just let us down, because that's what people who can't get over their own shit do."

Outside, Sherry clears walkers and radios June to tell her she locked Dwight in his old room. PADRE needs him because the kids will "follow him to the end of the Earth," so she makes June promise to help Dove and get Dwight back to PADRE. The walkers topple the fence and bring it down on Sherry, pinning her down as more and more pile on top. Before the walkers can fulfill her death wish, she's saved by Dwight, freed from his room by June. With a gun and an axe, Dwight and Sherry clear walkers and clear their issues: he accuses her of lying about honoring Finch and keeping Dwight alive to fight for PADRE. He suggests she locked him up because she was planning on dying by suicide by walker. And that she doesn't really believe in what she said about good coming from bad.

"You want to," Dwight says. "I want to, too. But it can't." And if that's true, then she doesn't know how to go on living. Dwight and Sherry go on living a little longer as Marty's men make it back and open fire, just as walkers breach the Sanctuary walls. The building -- which was once under seige by a walker horde during all out war with Negan's Saviors -- finally gives way and crumbles, with Dwight, Sherry, June, and Dove surrounded by both the living and the dead. Marty makes his way through the swarming mass of undead and attacks Dwight, making good on his promise to give Phil the satisfaction of eating Dwight. As Marty unlatches the furnace door, Dwight grabs a nearby iron, slams it into Marty's face... and stands back as the smoldering Zombie Phil sinks his teeth into Marty's throat.

With the fire extinguished, Dwight gets the group inside the furnace just as the Sanctuary roof collapses. It's stable enough to perform Dove's surgery, which Dwight knows June is capable of doing herself. Because Sherry was right. "Maybe something good can come from something bad, and maybe there's a reason that we all wound up in here," he realizes. "We just needed each other to see it." Sherry encourages June to save Dove. Because what happened to her -- what happened to all of them -- doesn't have to happen again. They can break the cycle. "Maybe we just needed to work through the bad to get to the good."

In the end, the Sanctuary has fallen. The furnace survived the collapse, but the walkers crushed beneath concrete and metal did not. Perched atop the wreckage: a Finch. Dove's surgery was a success, only her name isn't Dove: it's Odessa. Dwight wants to turn PADRE into "what it's supposed to be, the way that Finch wanted it." And the four of them will do it together, because they're a family.

Dwight and Sherry take one last look at the destroyed Sanctuary... and they leave it behind.

The episode ends at PADRE, where Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) puts the finishing touches on the basement cell where Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) spent the last seven years behind bars. The cell has been fashioned into a room for Tracy Otto (Antonella Rose), who is blindfolded and escorted inside by two of the Germans who fled the Emissary Suites for PADRE when the hotel was taken over by Troy Otto.

"I'm gonna help you. You're gonna help me," Strand tells Tracy. Help you do what? With a smile, Strand answers: "Save PADRE."

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Dwight (Austin Amelio) and Sherry (Christine Evangelista) have sought sanctuary since we first met them on The Walking Dead. First, the husband and wife fell in with Negan's (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) Saviors and took refuge at the Sanctuary: a former factory where they worked for points to survive. "People will trade anything for safety, for knowing that they're safe," Sherry explained, who was willing to trade anything except her sister Tina (Liz E. Morgan). Then Negan proposed to take Sherry's sister as one of his wives in exchange for supplying the diabetic Tina with life-saving insulin, so Dwight stole the medication and escaped the Sanctuary with Sherry and Tina.

The trio were on the run in a burned-out section of the woods when they happened across Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), who was also on the run from the Saviors. After they mistook him for a Savior sent to hunt them down, Daryl helped Dwight and Sherry escape Negan's men... only to be betrayed when Dwight stole Daryl's crossbow and bike at gunpoint. With Tina dead from a zombie's bite, Dwight and Sherry returned to the Sanctuary to face the consequences: Negan agreed to spare Dwight's life when he took Sherry as his wife, but burned Dwight's face with an iron as punishment.

A mutilated Dwight kneeled to Negan as one of his top lieutenants, shot Denise (Merritt Weaver) dead with Daryl's crossbow, and then turned his gun on Daryl when his nemesis went out to avenge the woman who took the bolt that Dwight fired at Daryl. Dwight turned Daryl over to Negan and tried to break him under threat of putting him on a spike and hanging his zombified corpse on the Sanctuary fence, but Daryl escaped when Sherry let him out of his cell before fleeing the Sanctuary. It would be the last time Sherry appeared on The Walking Dead. "Honey" left "D" a goodbye letter at their old house, telling him: "I loved who you were. I'm sorry I made you into who you are."

After Sherry disappeared, Dwight turned turncoat spy and supplied Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and the Alexandrians with inside intel in their war against Negan -- until the Savior Laura (Lindsley Register) blew his cover. Negan took Dwight prisoner and planned to slaughter Rick's militia in an ambush, but the Savior war ended with Negan in a cell and Dwight exiled by Daryl. "You go, and you keep going. Don't you ever come back here again. If I ever see your face around here again, I'll kill you," Daryl told Dwight. "You go out there, and you make it right. Find her."

Dwight spent the next year traveling from Virginia to Texas searching for Sherry, her trail of notes marked with the infinity symbol bringing him out west. After joining Morgan Jones' (Lennie James) caravan to attempt to make things right by helping people in need, Sherry's trail went cold when John Dorie (Garret Dillahunt) discovered a final note telling Dwight to give up looking and "find something to live for and live." Dwight and Sherry eventually reunited in Dallas, but the honeymoon was shortlived: Sherry threw in with Rollie (Cory Hart) and his gang of masked Outcasts to assassinate the Negan-like Virginia (Colby Minifie), causing a schism that ended with the recently reunited couple breaking up a second time.

After June Dorie (Jenna Elfman) avenged John by putting a bullet in Ginny's head, Sherry realized she was projecting unresolved trauma. Sherry planned to return to Virginia and kill Negan, only to have a last-minute change of heart and reconcile with Dwight. "I wasted so much time just being pissed off, trying to fight the bad guys. But the bad guys always win," Sherry told Dwight. "You and I have seen that every time. Nothing that I did was going to change that. And all it did was cost me time with you." Dwight and Sherry then became the Dark Horses, exorcising their demons by becoming outlaw do-gooders. But when the couple joined Morgan and Alicia Clark's (Alycia Debnam-Carey) fight to depose a villainous Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) from his Tower in post-nuclear Texas, they departed the area by raft and wound up washing ashore in Georgia.

A seven-year time jump revealed that Dwight and Sherry ended up at PADRE, an island safe-zone where Krennick siblings Shrike (Maya Eshet) and Crane (Daniel Rashid) separated parents from their offspring... including Dwight and Sherry's son, Finch (Gavin Warren). Given the codenames Red Kite and Starling, they helped train and care for the children on the island, but couldn't save Finch from dying from a walker's bite. After burying their son, the couple seemingly split again. "Maybe we're just not meant to be together," Dwight said, deciding to return home to Virginia and start over instead of hurting each other. "Let's put an end to it."

And so they did. The infinity symbol has represented the endless love of Dwight and Sherry... and the seemingly endless loop of hurt that they've been unable to break on The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead. ?

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Fear the Walking Dead is crossing over into The Walking Dead territory. "Madison's obviously struggling with whether or not she can seek redemption, whether or not she can give all these people at PADRE the gift of family, a place where they can be safe, the things she always wanted for her own children," co-showrunner Andrew Chambliss told ComicBook earlier this season about Madison Clark's mission to rebuild PADRE. "Daniel's trying to have a second chance with Luciana, and then obviously losing Charlie comes a big blow to him that it feels like the family he's building is in danger. We'll see that theme resonate as we get into Dwight, Sherry, and June's stories later in the season."

With Madison (Kim Dickens) M.I.A. after Charlie (Alexa Nisenson) chose to shoot herself rather than let her reveal PADRE's location to Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman), Sunday's "Sanctuary" episode of Fear the Walking Dead follows Dwight (Austin Amelio) and Sherry (Christine Evangelista) back to their old haunt: The Sanctuary. Below, keep scrolling to learn when and where to watch the final episodes of Fear the Walking Dead and how to catch up on the first seven seasons.

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 9 Release Date

Fear the Walking Dead season 8 episode 9, "Sanctuary," premieres Sunday, November 5 at 9/8c on AMC. The episode is available to stream now on AMC+.

What Time Is Fear the Walking Dead on AMC and AMC+?

New episodes of Fear the Walking Dead season 8 premiere Sundays at 3 a.m. ET / 12 a.m. PT on AMC+, and 9/8c p.m. on the AMC channel until the two-episode series finale on November 19.

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 9 Runtime

"Sanctuary" clocks in at 46 minutes and 45 seconds without commercials. On AMC, the episode is scheduled to air from 9:00 p.m. -- 10:14 p.m.

How Many Episodes of Fear the Walking Dead Season 8?

The eighth and final season of Fear the Walking Dead consists of 12 episodes split into two six-episode blocks, and will conclude with the two-episode series finale on November 19.

How to Watch Fear the Walking Dead Online Without Cable

Cord-cutters can stream Fear the Walking Dead season 8 on AMC+. Prices start at $4.99/month for the new AMC+ with ads plan, while ad-free AMC+ is available for $6.99/month (when billed annually) or $8.99/month (when billed monthly). New customers can sign up for a 7-day free AMC Plus trial.

AMC+ is available as an app and via Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video Channels, The Roku Channel, Comcast Xfinity, Dish, DirecTV, Sling TV, and YouTube TV.

You can watch Fear the Walking Dead for free on the AMC website by signing in with your television provider, or by downloading the episodes (priced $2.99 for HD, $1.99 for SD per episode) on retailers like Amazon Prime Video and Vudu.

Where Is Fear the Walking Dead Streaming?

All eight seasons of Fear the Walking Dead are currently available to stream exclusively on AMC+. The first seven seasons left Hulu over the summer before eventually landing on Max for a limited time, but that deal expired on Halloween.

Fear the Walking Dead Episode Guide: Season 8 Recaps

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 1 Recap: "Remember What They Took From You"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 2 Recap: "Blue Jay"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 3 Recap: "Odessa"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 4 Recap: "King County"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 5 Recap: "More Time Than You Know"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 6 Recap: "All I See Is Red"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 7 Recap: "Anton"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 8 Recap: "Iron Tiger"

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[Spoiler alert for Sunday's "Iron Tiger" episode of Fear the Walking Dead.] Troy Otto had a bone to pick with Madison Clark when he handed over the skeletal remains of Alicia's arm and told Madison her daughter is dead. Troy claimed he killed Alicia, took her arm off her corpse, and left her to roam as a zombie as revenge for Madison bludgeoning him with a hammer and leaving him to die at a dam in Mexico back in season 3. "You took everything from me. I'm just doing the same for you," Troy told Madison in Sunday's "Iron Tiger" episode, where a captive Charlie took her own life rather than let Madison give up PADRE to save her.

That wasn't the only shocker. Troy blamed Madison for destroying his family's Broke Jaw Ranch and for the deaths of his brother Jake and his father Jeremiah, but it turned out that Troy wanted to take PADRE for another Otto: his young daughter, Tracy. But when Tracy went missing during Troy's standoff with Madison, a cryptic Troy told Madison the real reason for his revenge: "Her mother's dead because of you."

When Madison pressed Troy about why he killed Alicia and who he thinks she took from him, Troy revealed it was the woman who rescued him from the Gonzalez Dam. As Troy put it, "The woman who gave me a second chance."

The woman who saved Troy at the dam and Tracy's mother are one and the same. But could Alicia be Tracy's mother? Fans speculated as much after the final episodes trailer revealed a young girl who bears a resemblance to Alycia Debnam-Carey's Alicia Clark, and it's a theory that has been posted on social media following the revelation that Troy wants to take PADRE for his daughter.

I believe the child is his and Alicia's and he's lying about having killed her. Alicia may have learned Madison was alive and died while out looking for her and Troy blames Grandma.

-- Kim Downey (@Snerd2123) October 30, 2023

We asked showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg to weigh in on the Troy/Alicia theories, and the tight-lipped duo had this to say:

"Maybe, maybe not," Goldberg answered when asked if Tracy's mother is someone we've seen before on Fear the Walking Dead. "It's a great question, but it really is such a big one that we'd rather people experience the answer to that as the story unfolds." Chambliss added: "And we like it when people have crazy theories."

Is Tracy Alicia's daughter? Is Troy telling the truth about killing Alicia? Those are questions that will be answered before the two-episode series finale on November 19.

"Whether Troy is telling the truth is something that you're just going to have to watch the rest of the season to find out," Goldberg told ComicBook in a post-premiere interview. "We will definitely find out whether or not Troy's story is true," Chambliss teased, "and what actually went down between Troy and Alicia."

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[Spoiler alert for Sunday's "Iron Tiger" episode of Fear the Walking Dead.] "The truth matters. Even if it's just heard out loud. Even if it's just heard once." Those are words said during the "Good Out Here" season 4 episode of Fear the Walking Dead, which ended with a bang when 11-year-old Vulture spy Charlie (Alexa Nisenson) suddenly shot and killed Nick Clark (Frank Dillane). The truth was heard out loud on Sunday's "Iron Tiger" episode of season 8, which also ended with a shocking gunshot after Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) confronted the now young woman who murdered her son. And both times, it was Charlie pulling the trigger.

The episode showed a reunited Madison, Victor Strand (Colman Domingo), and Daniel Salazar (Rub?n Blades) learning that Luciana (Danay Garc?a) has spent the past seven years making gasoline for PADRE while using its supplies to continue trucker "Polar Bear" Clayton's mission of leaving help boxes with the message "take what you need, leave what you don't." Only Luciana's covert do-gooder operation has set up two dozen way stations across the country to help people, freighting fuel and provisions by way of a trucker with the CB handle "Iron Tiger."

"Iron Tiger" was revealed to be a 20-year-old Charlie, who Strand thought was dead because she was suffering from radiation poisoning and "weeks away from death" when they left irradiated Texas by raft. As it turned out, June Dorie (Jenna Elfman) was able to treat Charlie at PADRE, but her condition made her too dangerous to raise on the island with the other kids. Charlie was so guilt-ridden over Nick's death she helped Luciana build her way stations to "turn all that hurt and all the pain into something more."

A contrite Charlie then confessed to killing Nick and apologized to Madison. Ennis (Evan Gamble) unleashed the zombie horde that overran and destroyed the stadium and seemingly killed Madison, so Nick killed Ennis, and Charlie, in turn, killed Nick. To repent, Charlie agreed to infiltrate the hotel commandeered by Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman) and kill the man who claims he murdered Alicia, with Madison telling her: "You took the stadium from me. You took my son from me. This is the least you can do."

Madison had a last-minute change of heart when she discovered that Charlie helped Luciana exhume Nick's body and cremate his remains to bury him properly, but not before Troy took Charlie hostage to make Madison trade her life for PADRE's location. "I'm not gonna watch another place you built fall because of me," Charlie said, turning a gun on herself. "The place she's building, it's what Alicia wanted. And it's how Nick's death can mean something."

With that, Charlie took away Troy's leverage by taking her own life.

"It was a big decision, and it really came from this place of wanting to give Charlie a true sendoff. The last time we saw her, she was on that boat suffering from radiation sickness, and it felt like that might be her end. But as we got into the season, it felt to us like she deserved more than that," Andrew Chambliss, who serves as showrunner with Ian Goldberg, told ComicBook about Charlie's death. "In thinking about Madison's story and all the things that she'd have to grapple with this season, we really wanted to put Charlie and Madison together. Charlie served as the ultimate test for Madison about how much she actually had changed. Could she forgive the person who killed her son? Ultimately, she was able to do that, although it was very messy in this episode, and it put Charlie in this very precarious position. It seemed like, to give Charlie that forgiveness, and make up for essentially driving her to Troy, she would have to give up PADRE -- the thing that she was fighting for."

Chambliss continued, "I think from Charlie's point of view, she couldn't let Madison do that because Madison wouldn't be able to secure the thing that would allow Nick and Alicia's legacy to live on. That ultimately led to her decision to sacrifice herself. It felt fitting for Charlie to leave the show in that way. She came into the show lying about her past as a spy who ended up leading to the downfall of the settlement that Madison had built for her children. Now, here she is exiting the show, giving her life so that she could secure that very same thing for Madison going forward."

While Charlie's death meant something, it also meant Madison leaving Strand to keep his promise to Alicia and rebuild PADRE -- without her. But as has been said often this season: "Everyone deserves a second chance."

"Madison's obviously struggling with whether or not she can seek redemption, whether or not she can give all these people at PADRE the gift of family, a place where they can be safe, the things she always wanted for her own children," Chambliss explained. "Daniel's trying to have a second chance with Luciana, and then obviously losing Charlie comes a big blow to him that it feels like the family he's building is in danger. We'll see that theme resonate as we get into Dwight, Sherry, June's stories later in the season."

Chambliss added that the question of who deserves a second chance is "definitely a big part" of the final episodes. "It's a question that the finale of the series is really going to answer in a big way," Chambliss said of the two-episode series finale airing Sunday, November 19.

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"What are you even fighting for?" The question that Troy (Daniel Sharman) asked Madison (Kim Dickens) to end last week's Fear the Walking Dead premiere has an answer: "We take the fight to Troy." After learning that Troy is alive and her daughter Alicia is dead, Madison, Victor Strand (Colman Domingo), and Daniel Salazar (Rub?n Blades) have Hawk (Triston Dye) take them to where PADRE got their fuel supply. PADRE picked up tankers from the Lowcountry Landing gas station, but the tanks are empty -- and so is Madison's patience. She wants to finish what she started back at the Gonzalez Dam in Mexico.

"He took a daughter away from me too. I know what you're feeling," Daniel reminds Madison, referring to his daughter Ofelia, who succumbed to a walker's bite after Troy led a zombie herd to Broke Jaw Ranch. "But first, we do what we need to do to protect the island. Then we make Troy wish he died back at the dam." Madison confides in Strand: she regrets not trying to look for Alicia and learning too late that her daughter was alive. "If what Troy said is true, if she's still out there... I can't let her walk around like that forever. I need to put her to rest. I need to bury her. All of her."

The gas station is well-stocked with food, water, medical supplies, and what Strand calls a "relic of a bygone era": a familiar cardboard sign reading, "TAKE WHAT YOU NEED, LEAVE WHAT YOU DON'T."

Meanwhile, Madison draws the attention of a roaming walker missing its left arm. Strand realizes it's not Alicia just before the walkers clawing at the window smash through the glass into the store, only to be gunned down by... Luciana (Danay Garc?a). She's assumed the handle Polar Bear from Clayton and picked up where Morgan's group left off in season 5, helping people on the side while making gasoline for PADRE during the last seven years.

Madison reunites with Luciana, and Luci with Daniel, who has been looking for his mija for years. Luciana explains PADRE recognized her experience working the oil fields at the Tank Town quarry and had her working in the shadows, refining oil from PADRE's military reserves. They used Daniel against her: Luciana asked for his freedom in exchange for making gas, explaining why PADRE dumped Daniel in the swamp instead of killing him seven years ago.

The gas station is an outpost miles away from the refinery, which Luciana converted into a way station for travelers using supplies stolen from PADRE's shipping containers meant to seed new communities across the United States. As "Polar Bear," Luciana has been secretly operating 23 active locations and a network of roads running from Georgia through Arizona. Luciana agrees to give them gas for their fight against Troy's army under one condition: Troy doesn't figure out where the fuel is coming from. Luciana is concerned about protecting her operation and the people who run it, including a tanker truck driver with the handle "Iron Tiger."

Luciana attempts to hide Iron Tiger's identity... until Iron Tiger reveals herself as Charlie (Alexa Nisenson), now seven years older, and not dead from radiation poisoning. June Dorie (Jenna Elfman) didn't have what she needed at Strand's Tower to treat her radiation sickness, but PADRE did. Charlie wasn't sent to the island with the other kids because they didn't know whether Blue Jay's experimental radiotherapy treatments work, so she's spent the past seven years helping Luciana build up her network. Madison is confused: Why did Luciana try to hide Charlie? Because of what happened at the stadium?

"You haven't told her," Luciana realizes. "I didn't think there was a reason to," Strand says, because he thought Charlie was dead. Madison wants the truth, and it comes when Charlie confesses: "I shot Nick. I killed your son." A contrite Charlie apologizes, but she's whisked away by Daniel as Strand restrains Madison. She hammers out her anger as she thinks of Nick. Hugging her son. Nick on the bridge at the dam. Madison holding Nick in a hospital bed. Nick resting in a field of bluebonnets.

Strand has his own confession. He thought Charlie was dead, and he didn't think it mattered. "You didn't think it mattered that the girl I brought into the stadium killed my son?" Madison explodes, and then sobs. "If I hadn't brought her in the stadium, Nick might still be here! If I hit Troy harder, Alicia might be here! If I just did it differently... they both might be here." She rages again: How could they let Charlie in after what she did to Nick? "We gave her the same thing that everyone else wants," he explains. "A second chance." Strand then tells her that Alicia was the first to forgive Charlie, but no one is expecting her to forgive her son's killer. Least of all Charlie, who confronts Madison and apologizes for being an 11-year-old girl who was scared and being used by the Vultures.

"I really am sorry that I took Nick from you. I'm so sorry I took him from the world." Charlie has spent the past seven years taking that hurt and pain to "turn it into something more" by helping Luciana help people, telling Madison: "As bad as his death was, something good did come out of it, okay? And if there's anything I can do to help you see that good, just tell me. I'll do it." Charlie snuck into the stadium and fooled Madison, Alicia, Strand, and Nick -- and now she needs her to do the same with Troy. But Madison doesn't want Charlie to be a spy... she wants her to be an assassin and kill Troy. "You took the stadium from me. You took my son from me," she says with venom. "This is the least you can do."

Daniel is wary of sending Charlie into the viper's nest and offers to go in her place, but Madison says it has to be Charlie because Troy doesn't know her. "For years, I thought you and Luciana were dead. Now that I have found you, I don't want to risk losing either of you again," Daniel tells Charlie, only for her to assure him that he won't lose her. She wants to do this -- needs to do this. Charlie also tells Madison she's going to try to find out what happened to Alicia, because "she was the one that helped me see that I could start over," she says. "I know you don't believe me, but I really am sorry about everything. I wish I could take back what I did to Nick. He was like a brother to me." Madison spews hate: "Then you wouldn't have shot him!"

Daniel is right to fear for Charlie: her ruse fails, and she's captured by Troy. Strand is concerned about what they're doing to protect PADRE. "What's the point of saving it if we turn into the opposite of what Alicia wanted us to build?" Madison, not willing to let Troy take the island from her too, assures Strand: "If Charlie meant what she said about Nick, she's gonna show us by taking care of Troy." Madison has a change of heart when she sees Charlie left her a coffee can containing Nick's ashes. Luciana explains: some time during those seven years, they were clearing roads in North Texas when Charlie wanted to see where Nick was buried so she could apologize.

When Charlie found out why Nick was buried beneath a tree on the side of the road in Hill Country -- because of Alicia, Strand, and Luciana's ruse to get a weapons cache to kill the Vultures -- she said he deserved something better. So they exhumed Nick's body, cremated what was left of him, and brought him here. "It didn't mean anything to you?" Madison asks, heartbroken. "Charlie's right. He deserves better." That's what Luciana and Charlie want -- and Charlie thinks Madison knows best where she should lay her son to rest.

Madison radios Charlie with a message to come back to bury Nick -- "If you brought him all the way back from Texas for me, then you should be there when we say goodbye" -- but it's too late. Troy's soldiers have Charlie hostage at the commandeered Emissary Suites, which means Madison can finally take the fight to Troy. Back at the hotel, Troy's soldiers remove the left arms of caged walkers with orders to release them after he's finished with Charlie. She asks why he killed Alicia, but Troy doesn't answer. "Seeing as it sounds like I'm not the only person to have killed a Clark," he deflects, "is what Madison said true? Did you kill Nick? "He was a friend of mine. More like a brother, actually. Yeah, we were better suited to this world than the last one. At least that's what I thought until I heard what happened. So why is Madison trying to protect you?" The answer: she's giving Charlie a second chance.

Troy wants PADRE because they need a place "that people like Madison can't take from us," he says. They took the Emissary Suites in an afternoon, and no one is taking PADRE easily -- and taking PADRE from Madison is icing on the cake. Charlie doesn't know where PADRE is, but a map in the tanker truck lists all of PADRE's fuel drop sites. It would be a good tip... if the rigged-to-blow tanker didn't suddenly explode outside the hotel. As Troy's soldiers try to contain the blaze, Madison, Daniel, Strand, and Luciana race to the hotel to find the flaming wreck drawing walkers (many of them missing their left arms).

Over walkie-talkie, Madison warns Troy not to hurt Charlie. Troy taunts Madison about what Nick would think about her protecting her son's killer. "He'd get it. People change, Troy," she tells him. "They can do shitty things and come back from them." Charlie hears it. If Madison thinks that, she's going to have to give up PADRE to save Charlie's life. Daniel wants to make the trade. Charlie doesn't.

Outside the hotel, it's a standoff as Madison's army and Troy's army negotiate Charlie's return for PADRE's location. ("If you hurt her...," Madison threatens Troy, "I'm gonna make you wish I only took the other eye." If Troy hands over Charlie, she'll tell him where to find PADRE. Troy wants the location first -- then they get the girl Madison sent in there to die. There's a back-and-forth about getting Charlie or PADRE first, but Madison is willing to give up PADRE if it means Charlie lives. It's decided Strand will escort Troy's right-hand man, Russell (Randy Bernales), to PADRE so he can verify the location. And then, only then, will he release Charlie. "I really don't give a shit about the girl, Madison," he says as nonchalant as one can be when trading lives. "I just want a safe place to live."

When Madison asks why Troy cares so much about PADRE, he tells her: "You took everything from me. I'm just doing the same for you." The psycopath laughs it off when she asks if his vendetta is about his father, Jeremiah Otto, and the ranch. It's much more personal. But before Troy can tell Madison what she supposedly took from him, Strand wants assurance that the Germans who vacated the Emissary Suites for PADRE -- including his family, partner Frank (Isha Blaaker), and their son, Klaus (Julian Gray) -- won't be harmed. Troy says he wants the settlement, not the people, so it's a deal. But before Madison can hand over the map to PADRE, Charlie escapes her bonds, stabs a guard in the neck, and threatens to kill another. "I'm not gonna watch another place you built fall because of me," Charlie tells Madison over walkie-talkie, not letting Madison talk her down from her penance for killing Nick.

"It's not for her. The place she's building, it's what Alicia wanted. And it's how Nick's death can mean something," Charlie says, despite Madison's pleas. "On the rafts, when we left the Tower, Victor told me that's what Alicia said to him when she thought she was dying. 'Make it mean something.'" She knows that if Troy kills her, he doesn't get PADRE. "You won't have to give him PADRE if he doesn't have anything to trade."

Charlie puts a gun to her chin. Memories flicker through her brain: Nick and Charlie at the stadium. Madison. Daniel. Alicia's forgiveness. Nick smiling. Daniel. Alicia and Charlie. Closing her eyes. She thinks of the beach. Charlie always thought of the beach. And then --

BANG!

"She's dead," the guard reports. Daniel is destroyed. In his rage, he has to be pulled away from Troy lest he tear him apart with his bare hands. Troy wants Madison's map, but his priorities change when Russell reports that Tracy is missing. Madison is surprised to learn that Troy's people have kids in the hotel. "Why do you think we wanted PADRE?" he says, panicked. "The same reason as you!" Troy races after Tracy, wading into the walker-filled hazy smoke of the burning tanker truck. As the dead swarm the hotel, Madison figures out that Tracy is Troy's daughter. "Why didn't you tell us what you wanted instead of trying to take it?" Madison asks, exasperated. "What," Troy shoots back, "so you could just take my daughter from me, too?" Madison still doesn't know what -- or who -- she took from him, but Troy blames her for Tracy's mother's death.

Madison's anger boils over when she realizes it's Troy who has been cutting the arms off walkers, making her think Alicia is everywhere she looks. She attacks Troy, swinging her sledge hammer and interrogating him about Alicia: "Why did you kill her?! Who do you think I took from you?" Troy tells her, "The woman who rescued me from the dam. The woman who gave me a second chance. Please. I need to find my girl."

Everyone deserves a second chance... but not Troy. In her fury, she tells Troy that he's "gonna know what it's like to be wondering where your kid is." To that, he says, "Mine could still be alive." Strand tears Madison away to escape the area under threat from flames and infected, but it wouldn't be the first time Madison made it out alive. Troy takes off to find Tracy, leaving Madison, Strand, Daniel, and Luciana to deal with the fallout of Charlie's death.

The fallout: Luci gives Madison a ration of fuel and stern notice that's all she's getting. Luci is angry that Madison got Charlie killed and exposed her people to Troy. Daniel, not wanting to lose Luci like he lost Ofelia and Charlie, cuts ties with Madison. In Spanish, he says to Luci: "One time, I told you we were family, remember? Allow me to come with you. To help you and take care of you, as I have wanted for years." Daniel and Luci leave together with Charlie's body, their familia going from four to two as they leave Madison and Strand behind.

More fallout: Madison tells Strand she can't go back to PADRE. It's her fault Charlie is dead, and she can't ask anyone to follow her because of it. "We're not building PADRE for you. We're building PADRE for Alicia, for Nick, for Frank and Klaus," he reminds her. If Madison stays, PADRE doesn't happen. "You have to do it," she says, handing him the keys to the tanker. "You have to keep the promise you made to Alicia." He can't do it alone. "You're gonna have to." Madison, carrying Alicia's arm and Nick's ashes, walks off. Alone.

Iron Tiger out.

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"No one's gone until they're gone." Those are the last words that Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) imparted onto her children, Nick (Frank Dillane) and Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey). After the Vultures' assault on the Dell Diamond baseball stadium she hoped to turn into a thriving community, the Clark family matriarch made the ultimate sacrifice for her kids: Madison led a horde of infected into the overrun ballpark so the others could escape, locked herself inside, and seemingly died when the stadium was engulfed in flames. But no one's gone until they're gone. Madison survived... only to later be informed by Morgan Jones (Lennie James) that her children are gone gone.

"Nick got shot. Victor, Alicia, Luciana... we were all there when it happened. We buried him ourselves," Morgan told the mother who had "Nick" and "Alicia" tattooed on her wrists when she was a Collector for PADRE, which claimed it would reunite Madison with her own kids by having her separate children from their parents. She also learned that Alicia got bit by a walker and had to amputate her arm -- but not before infection set in. "She fought it for months, longer than anybody I know," Morgan informed Madison. "But the last time I talked to her... she was close to the end."

That was seven years ago. Morgan didn't tell Madison who killed Nick, and it took Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman) coming back from the dead to tell her what happened to Alicia. Madison's mission now is "about keeping something bigger alive" by rebuilding PADRE "into what it should have always been, for them": for Nick and Alicia. The Clark kids may be gone, but showrunners Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss are keeping Fear a family affair for the final episodes.

"From the beginning of the series, everything for Madison has been about her family. It has been the drive for her from the beginning. Even when we learned about her in her darkest hour, and the things that she did while she was under PADRE's thumb, even that was ultimately motivated by her children," Goldberg told ComicBook. "I think as we get into the final episodes of the series, Madison's in this place where she no longer has her own children and she's wrestling with how she can honor them by this family at PADRE. Both the kids that are left behind in the wake of Madison taking over PADRE, but also the family that she has built along the way with all the characters that we all love. It really is just extrapolating her motivation for her kids and her family and applying it to this new family that she's created."

Remind yourself what happened to Nick and Alicia with this Fear the Walking Dead recap:

How Did Nick Die in Fear the Walking Dead?

After Nick and Madison brought 11-year-old orphaned Charlie (Alexa Nisenson) into the stadium, it turned out the young girl was a spy for Mel (Kevin Zegers) and the Vultures: scavengers who would wait for other groups of survivors to succumb to starvation or abandon their camps before picking them clean. When the Vulture Ennis (Evan Gamble) led the zombie attack that caused the fall of the stadium and Madison's apparent death, her vengeful son tracked down his nemesis and -- despite Morgan's attempt to impart his "all life is precious" philosophy and teach Nick the ways of The Art of Peace -- Nick killed Ennis.

Ennis was then avenged by Charlie, who shot Nick in the chest in the season 4 episode "Good Out Here." Nick died surrounded by Alicia, Strand (Colman Domingo), and Luciana (Danay Garc?a), with a bullet in his chest and a bluebonnet in his hand. During a past supply run with Madison, his mother told him to look for a sign of "something good" while outside the stadium. "Told you there was still good out here," Madison reminded Nick while in a field of bluebonnets. Alicia, Strand, and Luciana -- hardened after Madison and Nick's deaths -- intended Nick's grave to be the same hole where they dug up a weapons cache to kill the Vultures, but Morgan suggested they bury Nick beneath a tree.

Is Alicia Dead on Fear the Walking Dead?

Alicia's own search for PADRE ended with her amputating her zombie-bitten arm and -- after suffering from a fever that wouldn't break -- she seemingly succumbed to infection and collapsed. We last saw Alicia alive on the shores of Galveston, Texas, when she woke up and walked off into the radiactive fallout around Strand's Tower to help other survivors looking for PADRE. Only Troy claims to know what happened during the next seven years: Troy told Madison that he killed Alicia and left her to roam as a walker. Troy then handed over the skeletal remains of Alicia's severed arm as proof of Alicia's death.

"I took it off her corpse after I killed her," Troy taunted Madison. "I would've put her down, Madison. After all the wandering around I did in Mexico, I thought it was only right that Alicia should do the same. Maybe one day you'll find her. Or maybe she'll find you, or maybe not, and finish the job."

"Whether Troy is telling the truth is something that you're just going to have to watch the rest of the season to find out," Goldberg told ComicBook. Chambliss added: "We will definitely find out whether or not Troy's story is true, and what actually went down between Troy and Alicia."

Fear the Walking Dead next airs "Iron Tiger" October 29 on AMC. New episodes premiere Sundays at 9 p.m. on AMC and AMC+.

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Troy Otto is alive... and Alicia Clark is dead?! During last Sunday's Fear the Walking Dead premiere, Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) -- who is also back from the dead -- reunited with Victor Strand (Colman Domingo), only to learn her old friend is now calling himself "Anton" and living among German tourists. Other revelations from the premiere: Troy Otto (Daniel Sharman) survived his seemingly fatal bludgeoning at Madison's hands hammer at a dam in Mexico in season 3, and he claims to have killed her daughter (Alycia Debnam-Carey), leaving the one-armed Alicia to roam as a walker as his revenge. Troy's proof: Alicia's severed skeletal arm.

There are just five episodes left of Fear the Walking Dead until the November 19 series finale, including Sunday's "Iron Tiger" episode. Below, find out when and where to watch the final episodes of Fear the Walking Dead and how to catch up on the first seven seasons.

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 8 Release Date

Fear the Walking Dead season 8 episode 8, "Iron Tiger," premieres Sunday, October 29, at 9/8c on AMC. The episode is available to stream now on AMC+.

What Time Is Fear the Walking Dead on AMC and AMC+?

New episodes of Fear the Walking Dead season 8 premiere Sundays at 3 a.m. ET / 12 a.m. PT on AMC+, and 9/8c p.m. on the AMC channel through November 19.

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 8 Runtime

"Iron Tiger" has a run time of 46 minutes and 50 seconds when watching on AMC+. The episode is scheduled to air from 9:00 p.m. -- 10:14 p.m. on AMC.

Where to Stream Fear the Walking Dead Online Without Cable

Cord-cutters can stream Fear the Walking Dead season 8 on AMC+. Prices start at $4.99/month for the new AMC+ with ads plan, while ad-free AMC+ is available for $6.99/month (when billed annually) or $8.99/month (when billed monthly). New customers can sign up for a 7-day free AMC Plus trial to watch Fear the Walking Dead's final episodes for free in their first week.

AMC+ is available as an app and via Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video Channels, The Roku Channel, Comcast Xfinity, Dish, DirecTV, Sling TV, and YouTube TV.

You can also watch episodes of Fear the Walking Dead season 8 on the AMC website by signing in with your television provider, or by purchasing the episodes ($2.99 for HD, $1.99 for SD) on retailers like Amazon Prime Video and Vudu.

Where Is Fear the Walking Dead Streaming?

Fear the Walking Dead season 8 is streaming on AMC+; the first seven seasons are currently available under the "AMC+ Picks on Max" hub on Max (formerly HBO Max) until October 31, 2023. If you already have an active Max subscription, you can watch Fear the Walking Dead and other select AMC/AMC+ content at no additional cost until Halloween.

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episodes Recaps

Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 1 Recap: "Remember What They Took From You"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 2 Recap: "Blue Jay"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 3 Recap: "Odessa"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 4 Recap: "King County"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 5 Recap: "More Time Than You Know"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 6 Recap: "All I See Is Red"
Fear the Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 7 Recap: "Anton"

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Former The Walking Dead star Erik Jensen has revealed he is diagnosed with Stage IV colorectal cancer. A GoFundMe page was recently launched for Jensen's family, asking for help with covering upcoming medical expenses. The page has already been shared by The Walking Dead franchise CCO Scott Gimple, as well as co-star Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Jensen portrayed Dr. Steven Edwards in the fifth season of the hit AMC series. Outside of The Walking Dead, Jensen's filmography includes Mr. Robot, Mindhunter, and The Americans.

"Never had the chance to work with Erik," Morgan wrote. "[But] have heard many things about what a great guy he is. I do know he and his [family] could use some help."

"One of TWD's own could use a little help," Gimple added. "Erik Jensen, who played Dr. Steven Edwards in S5 was just diagnosed with cancer, and it's a time of great uncertainty for him and his family."

Never had the chance to work with Erik... until now anyway. Only have heard many things about what a great guy he is. I do know he and his could use some help.... Of any and all kind. xojd https://t.co/qFmI9J111k

-- Jeffrey Dean Morgan (@JDMorgan) October 24, 2023

One of TWD's own could use a little help. Erik Jensen, who played Dr. Steven Edwards in S5 was just diagnosed with cancer, and it's a time of great uncertainty for him and his family. If you want to send something his way: https://t.co/HU8bxlL2xA

-- Scott M. Gimple (@ScottMGimple) October 23, 2023

According to the fundraiser, Jensen survived a brain aneurysm a year and a half prior. He is continuing to work as a director and writer, even as he has now discovered that his cancer has metastasized to his liver. At the time of this writing, the GoFundMe has raised over $84,000, out of a goal of $300,000.

"Erik and Jess have devoted their lives to making art that hopes to make the world better in whatever way they can," the GoFundMe reads in part. "They are full-time freelance artists and live without the cushion that long-term commercial work can provide. Erik's aneurysm, the double strikes and now this diagnosis have put their family in an extremely precarious financial position and they need a lot of help to make it through the next year, pay for treatment to fight his cancer, keep their home, and maintain some sort of stability for Sadie."

"Erik wants to work through as much of his treatment as possible, but (particularly given the strikes) their family needs to plan to completely replace their household income for at least the next year. In addition, they are facing massive medical costs (co-pays, treatments not covered by insurance) and all the additional expenses associated with intensive treatment (parking or Uber for chemo, meals when Jess is unable to cook, etc). Erik and Jess are devoted to creating community and supporting that community, hopefully for years into the future- but this is a time when they need community support."

Jensen and his wife, Jessica Blank, have worked together on multiple plays, including Coal Country, The Line, The Exonerated, and Aftermath. Jensen's most recent onscreen role was as Dez O'Reilly in the ABC procedural For Life. He also starred alongside Paul Bettany in a stage production of The Collaboration, which wrapped earlier this year.

"Stage IV is not a death sentence, and Erik is working incredibly hard to stay positive and fight for the shot that his doctors say he has," the GoFundMe concludes.