Warning: The following incorporates spoilers for the closing season premiere of Fear the Walking Dead.
Time flew in Sunday’s eighth and closing season premiere of Fear the Walking Dead. One minute, Madison was backing up Morgan in his try to rescue child Mo from PADRE, and the subsequent, their plot had failed, she’d spent seven years (!) as an imprisoned blood financial institution, and he’d develop into a kidnapping Collector!
Interestingly, though the passage of the higher a part of a decade hadn’t even barely modified Madison, aka “Lark,” it had allowed Mo to develop right into a spunky 8-year-old who liked to say that she might deal with herself however most positively couldn’t. Rechristened “Wren” by PADRE, who turned out to be an enigmatic particular person as a lot as a spot, she was too traumatized by her final night time with Morgan and Grace to make the most of her coaching and defend herself in opposition to walkers Carrion. (Do infants actually keep in mind stuff that properly?)
Once Mo stumbled upon a suicidal Madison’s cell, the telltale scar on the woman’s wrist tipped off Nick and Alicia’s mother to the baby’s identification. Again, Madison felt that she had a motive to dwell: to get Morgan’s daughter the hell outta there, whether or not she needed to go or not. Being one among our leads, Madison pulled off this feat with comparatively little issue. Until, that’s, her getaway speedboat reached the shore, and she or he and Mo encountered Morgan. Er, “Nightingale.” (At what level would PADRE run out of cool-ish hen names and need to name somebody “Ostrich” or “Whooping Crane”?)
(*1*)Madison, not seeming to have seen that characters on this present change motivations no less than twice an episode, was surprised that Morgan needed to return Mo to PADRE. What’s extra, he appeared able to put a bullet in his outdated good friend’s head as a result of PADRE not had any use for “Lark.” “Seriously?” we exclaimed proper alongside along with her.
Despite panting on and off like an obscene cellphone caller, Madison succeeded in disarming Morgan and coercing him into main her and Mo into the swamp towards the website of the makeshift household’s fateful final stand seven years in the past. Along the approach, Morgan revealed that, final he knew, Madison’s outdated consuming buddy Strand had gone MIA. At the boathouse, embellished with a callback to a extra dramatically resonant period of the franchise (Duane and Jenny’s names painted on an inside wall), Mo discovered a cassette of Grace singing “In Dreams.” Suddenly, the teen’s reminiscence returned in full. As a tot, she had been afraid that walkers have been going to drag the boathouse underwater — identical to it appeared that they have been about to now.
Back then, Morgan had radioed PADRE to return get Mo to be able to save her. This time, since Madison had chucked their solely walkie-talkie, he and his daughter made their approach by the water as finest they may whereas “Lark” did her damnedest to attract walkers to the boathouse. It seemed for a second as if they may get her. (Sure, Jan.) But at the final second, Grace got here zooming up in a speedboat, weapons a-blazing. (What a shock, eh?)
Moved after seeing her dad and mom in motion — and what idea of “parents” would “Wren” even have gotten in PADRE? — Mo not needed to return. She needed to go ahead along with her people and Madison. Tough s—t, Morgan and Grace mentioned, principally. “Wren” was returning to PADRE — for her personal good, they reasoned. As for Morgan, he was able to get again to work however was advised that — ruh-roh — PADRE was retiring “Nightingale.” (Wonder what blood kind he is… )
During a debriefing with PADRE, “Wren” promised the group’s mysterious chief that he’d haven’t any extra hassle from her. This was music to his ears, he mentioned, as she was to play a vital position of their subsequent steps. Whatever these may grow to be, Mo could be prepared, it appeared. In her subsequent try to take out a walker in follow, she beaned the zombie with no hassle in any respect. (After that, it might be like driving a motorcycle, proper? Riding it over the undead’s heads, however nonetheless.)
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