Fear the Walking Dead - Season 5 Rewrite - Episode 10

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Episode 10 – Find

Plot: A scavenging mission is full of surprises and encounters.

Synopsis:

Our episode begins a few days after the last episode, with Alicia sitting in a chair with June checking over her stump and prosthetic. It’s early in the day. June will be waiting in her clinic when Alicia comes in and both greet each other. They’ll chit-chat, with June asking Alicia questions such as how the arm is doing, if it’s uncomfortable at all, if it’s too tight. Alicia though tells June that the arm is doing great, it feels wonderful. June will check the arm still though and make a few adjustments on tightness, then asks Alicia to give it another go. At first Alicia is a little bothered by June’s tweaking but becomes very glad when she realizes that what was already good is now better.

With the checkup over with, June leads Alicia outside where Farah is waiting. In her hands is a half sphere with two 7-inch spikes at an 80-degree angle. At first puzzled, Alicia asks what it is, to which the engineers tells her it’s her new “combat hand”. Raising an eyebrow, Alicia watches as Farah shows her how to attach it to her stump with a few clicks and a twist. Farah then explains that she designed it to fit with her close combat style of fighting. Basically, she has three stabbing tools in both her hands instead of two. As Farah and June lead Alicia away, the older teen is still confused, asking them how she can stab with this tool. June will then tell her she’ll see in a second.

Soon enough all three women arrive in front of what appears to be a scarecrow. Both Farah and June stand back and tell Alicia to try and stab the dummy like an infected. Alicia, though still befuddled, puts her new tool up like a fist tries to straight-forward stab it. This first attack is only partially successful though and June steps up to fully explain. She takes Alicia’s prosthetic and slowly performs an uppercut with it under the dummy’s chin. Instantly Alicia realizes the usefulness of her new weapon and takes over, using the angled attacks to get the spikes into the dummy’s head. Watching Alicia test it out, Farah also adds that the empty space in the middle can also be used to punch, causing Alicia to try that out and knock the dummy over. There’s now determination on Alicia’s face as she feels she’s now able to properly fight again. Looking down at the knocked over scarecrow, Alicia bends down and stabs it through the head with the lower spike. Just as the spikes goes through, we’ll cut to the intro and the start of the episode.

When we return, Alicia is leaving the Farah and June to meet with her mother, who is waiting on her. We’ll see Alicia with a prosthetic claw attachment as well, having stored her new weapon attachment away. Looking at how prosthetic claws work, it could be difficult to have one made for a zombie apocalypse and the wire needed to make it work could present a hazard that zombies could grab or that it could get caught on things, so this version of the claws would have to be to sadly adjusted by hand. It could be upgraded in future episodes since the number of materials on hand is low, but for now it’s just two blunt hooks that need to be moved by hand.

Back to the story, Alicia meets back with her mom and shows her the new hands. Madison is clearly happy to see her daughter in a better mood and now able to use her right arm again, but after a bit of walking she says she’s not ready to let Alicia go outside the walls. The younger Clark is upset by this, but we see that she does understand what her mother means. Even so, Alicia tries to emphasize that she needs to get out there, that after what’s happened throughout the whole apocalypse she can’t just sit about. But Madison is steadfast, saying that she still needs to practice before she can go out. She needs to get better at fighting before she can risk her life. It is the truth and Alicia realizes, but heads off in a huff to train with her spike attachment.

As Madison watches her daughter walk off she’s joined by June, who says that Alicia is becoming stronger, that her prosthetic has really changed her. But Madison shakes her head and tells June that Alicia is becoming more like her brother. June asks if she’s referring to Nick and Madison nods, recalling how he used to sneak out of the house all the time and get into trouble or get high with his friends. All the times she had to bring him back. And after they escaped Los Angeles, he still kept getting into trouble. June will say that Alicia is still a teenager, she has energy that needs to get out and she needs to learn things on her own. But Madison refuses, saying she almost lost her and she feels Alicia isn’t ready yet. We’ll have a pause here and June will say she’ll talk with John about this. Before June leaves, she tells Madison that they’ll need to go out for medical supplies soon. Madison acknowledges this and goes off to look check on the rest of the San Juan River Community.

We’ll stick on June as she returns to her and John’s home. Inside, John is looking over the Scrabble pieces that he saved from his time with June at the cabin all those months ago. He’ll lay them on the table and try to arrange them into other words, but it doesn’t feel the same without a full game. June sits next John and asks what he’s doing before looking over the pieces. She’ll smile and reminisce about the cabin and John will say he wished he could have brought the rest of the game with him. June will pat his shoulder and say that maybe they can carve out new tiles in the future. John nods somewhat, indicating to June that he’s distracted. When June asks what’s wrong John will say that their home is lacking in… hominess. Feels bare, without that special thing that makes it feel comfortable. June nods and says she feels it too.

Pausing, June will tell John that Alicia wants to go outside the walls with them on their run. John immediately is adamant that she isn’t ready, saying that she is just still new… she needs to train more. June though, having seen what Alicia was like during the months after losing her hand, sees her as somebody who needs purpose. John will reply that Alicia won’t have a purpose though if she’s dead. Pressing her case, June will they both are helping Alicia get better, best they’re both with her on her first time outside the walls with her new “hand”. John says he’ll consider it before heading out, saying he needs to train people with guns right now, adding that Alicia is there too and there he’ll find out if she’s ready.

We’ll follow John Dorie to where Farah, Alicia, Tobias, and a few other young members of the communities are waiting. He’ll instruct them in how to fire, care for, and handle a gun (similar to how Rick teaches people in season two). After he goes through his speech on gun safety and says that they only have a limited number of bullets to use for training so they need to make their shots count, he’ll allow everyone to practice on some targets. Farah, who we can easily see, is the least experienced of the trainees and John gives her some special attention. We’ve never seen her before use a firearm before, so it’s easy to notice how nervous and untrained she is. One piece of advice that John gives her before he moves on though is that she doesn’t have to use it, and hopefully she won’t have to. It’s hard to take a life, so make sure to be fully sure that you have to use it when you do.

After that, John will move to Alicia as she shoots with just one hand. Most of her shots have been misses and John tells her to stop and show him how to reload just like he taught her. Stopping, Alicia will release the pistol clip, put the gun in holster, insert a new clip, lock it in, and cock gun with side of leg. Nodding in approval, the former cop will acknowledge that she’s been practicing that. Alicia will confirm this, but say she just can’t hit her target. Analyzing Alicia, John tells her to fire again. Alicia does so, hitting her target, but on the edge of it. We’ll get a pause as John thinks over how Alicia used her gun and tells her she’s got a lot right: Her stance is strong, good breath work, aiming straight. But her left arm is so unused to wielding things that her grip and steadiness is off. This can be fixed through practice though so in the meantime he offers a temporary solution: Using her other arm to steady the weapon.

John will demonstrate this with his own revolver, aiming it with his left hand and using his right forearm to steady the weapon. Firing a few shots, he’ll hit his target with incredible accuracy (same as his usual skills). The recoil from the gun is lessened by the forearm holding the left arm in place. After John tells Alicia to try it herself she does so, getting more hits in a tighter spread than before. It’s still not perfect, but it’s better than before. After she hits her target a few time, John nods and then tells her that she can reload larger guns (shotguns and rifles) by holding them between her legs and demonstrates this for her, using an automatic rifle as an example. Once that’s done, John watches Alicia use her pistol until she’s out of bullets. He’ll look over all the targets, mentally scoring all participants.

Most of them need more work (including Farah), but Tobias seems to be a great shot with his gun. Then he turns to Alicia and we get a long moment of him looking over her target. It’s great, but it’s not bad. I want her quality to make us really wonder if John will let her go out with him on his scavenging run.

Eventually John will break his pause, give words of advice to everyone, and leaves. He’ll go to Madison then and tell her about what June told him and about Alicia’s performance. When Madison asks how her daughter did, the former cop will say that despite how new she is, Alicia is not a bad shot. She’s not a great shot and needs more training, but what she has right now is acceptable to going beyond the walls. But only when with others. We’ll have some silence between the two until Madison asks if John will be there for her if she goes out. John, tipping his hat, tells Madison he and June will do everything they can to keep her safe. Trusting her comrade, Madison tells John she’ll allow Alicia to go with them on today’s run. But anything goes wrong and she has to go back.

Both separate then, with John going to June to get supplies ready while Madison goes to find Alicia. She’ll find her daughter sitting near the river, looking out into the wilderness as she throws a stone into the water. Madison sits next to her and asks about the gun training. Alicia says it was okay, explaining that it really feels off to be shooting with one hand while saying that John’s really helping her out. Sighing, Alicia will remind Madison of how back in high school one of her fellow students broke his leg and couldn’t play football anymore. Being a cripple… it’s like a piece of you is missing that you can never get back. Both will be in their thoughts for a bit until Madison announces that Alicia can go with John and June. Her daughter will smile and thank her. Then she’ll say that it must be hard to let her go, but… she’ll make sure to come back to her. Madison will nod and say she knows this and both will look at the wilderness together before we cut to black.

When we return, we see both Clarks walking to a truck where June, John, Tobias, and Kwahu are waiting. Tobias is being talked to by his uncle, who has been protective of his nephew since they reunited and especially since he lost his wife. Trying to reassure his guardian he’ll be okay and that “Mr. Dorie” will be watching him, Tobias will give his uncle a hug before hopping in the truck. Kwahu, unlike Tobias, is on his own, with his father dead and his sister off working. He’ll be sitting in the truck before Tobias hops in, bow and arrows on his back and a hatchet on his belt. Tobias will sit next to him and both will be silent as they want Alicia to give a final goodbye to her mother and hop in the truck as well. Before hopping in the truck with his fiancé, John will tell all the teens that this is serious and he wants them to be safe when they’re going out. He’ll say that he knows all of them have had to survive on their own at some point, but as kind of their instructor and caretaker, he’s just following proper… procedure. I want a nice awkward John Dorie moment here.

Everyone just goes with it as John gets into the passenger seat, with June at the wheel. With a turn of the key, the engine rumbles into life and the vehicle and its occupants will head across the river and take the road north. As they’re bumping along the road, everyone will be quiet for a bit and both younger teens will look at Alicia’s prosthetic, which has been fitted with her spikes. The young woman feels their gaze and admits that with this she won’t find herself a boyfriend now, waving her man-made arm. Kwahu though sympathizes with her, telling how warriors all have scars to them. Alicia will then wonder out loud: “Warrior… I guess that’s what I am now. If we somehow manage to not have to fight anybody anymore, can’t have a regular life with this. But this is the new normal now. No going back.” The way she says it though is not as depressing as she was when she had no prosthetic, instead has a determination to survive in it.

Kwahu though offers Alicia some wisdom that despite the loss of humanity, there is a chance for regular people or people who couldn’t make a name for themselves to become great. He’ll then talk about how he had watched friends and family die from bites and a few failed amputations, saying that Alicia is the only person he’s met who has survived one. Even though it’s a horrible fate for her, she can turn her bad luck into something of pride. Smiling, Alicia will say that it’s all thanks to June she’s alive, so she deserves some credit as well. June will simply smile as she hears this, keeping quiet as she watches the road. The teenagers will keep talking about things as June drives to their destination. During the drive, June will ask John a few questions to break the tension.

After a while, John will suddenly point ahead, indicating they are at their destination. The teens will look forward and notice a western-style town with a sign that says “Humbug Gulch” over the entrance. As they park outside the entrance and get out of the vehicle, they notice a few infected shambling about dusty streets. When Alicia tries to get in the front with John and June, John will hold her back, saying to take it slow. All five will move forward, the adults ahead and the teens behind them, melee weapons pulled out. We’ll get a fight from everyone, with all but Alicia at first taking care of the dead.

As Alicia watches on the sidelines, she’ll notice an infected coming out of a building to her left. Nobody else notices, so Alicia lets it get a bit closer before coming at it. Using her spiked attachment, Alicia swings left with it, plunging the lower spike sideways through its skull. The thud of the body hitting the grounds causes Tobias and Kwahu to look around, noticing her kill. They don’t say anything, only acknowledging her kill and only keeping half an eye on her. Both of them know that Alicia, despite her injury, is capable of handling herself. That or their young makes them feel more connected than the adults do to the younger Clark. Once the street is cleared, everyone will gather around and John will say they should stick together, hinting that he kind of knows this place. June will look at her fiancé curiously before following him, along with the teens.

Their first stop will be the saloon. Before they enter, John and June look through the windows to check for any infected. There are only two and John notifies everyone about them as they all walk in. Everything is now dusty, with drinks about and no guests other than the undead and the dead bodies on the floor and chairs. June takes point and kills the first one, but before she can take the other one Kwahu snipes it with his bow. Admiring his skills, John will ask how Kwahu got so good with the bow, to which the young Native American will say that it used to be a hobby, something his family wanted to keep around to pass on the tradition. Tobias will comment that Kwahu’s hobby has saved him and the other kids multiple times.

June will interrupt here and tell everyone to what they need to look for: Medical supplies and anything that could be useful. She picks Kwahu to join her in a search and John tells Alicia and Tobias to come with him. Both adults will comfort each other before giving a kiss and heading off with their charges, John’s group goes upstairs while June and Kwahu searching ground level. We’ll follow John, Tobias, and Alicia upstairs, looking through what were once private rooms. Before they enter any, John will remind the kids to be careful. Both Tobias and Alicia will nod, but we see Tobias looking at Alicia as if he wants to be around her. John and the teens will split up here, looking through rooms opposite of each other.

The room that John will walk into is a kids/ game room. At first he feels it would be better to abandon it, but decides to stay and look about. His suspicions are right though as he looks about and finds nothing really of note. However, before he turns to leave, he’ll notice a note on a table near a pair of scissors and picks it up. We (the audience) get glimpses of the note and it’ll from a parent who has told their kids to leave the town and to head North. Their father’s sister’s place will be safe for them. John will frown some, as if remembering something from his past. He’ll put the note down and begin to leave, but then something else gets his attention.

We’ll cut away then to the teens. Tobias and Alicia’s room will be a simple bedroom, probably one the owners of the place used or for customers. There’s some rubbish and clutter scattered about, as well as some blood on the bed. As the teens look about, Tobias will ask Alicia about what happened after the school closed. Alicia will say that things didn’t last long and that he got most of it from Madison when they met at the farm. She’ll go into details like the military coming up, how Nick got taken, and how the authorities said it was all okay when the spread of the undead was out of their control. Continuing from that point, she’ll ask how Tobias knew about the virus before them. There is a short pause before Tobias informs Alicia that he heard radio podcasts from the Eastern side of the United States talking about the virus and one of the last episodes had a guest who had first-hand accounts. This’ll perk up Alicia’s interest, asking if Tobias knows where the disease came from. He’ll shake his head, saying that he doesn’t, or at least not for certain. People he and his relatives met on the road had many ideas: Military experiment went rogue, aliens, and the wrath of god were a few of these.

“And after meeting the CRM? What do you think it is now?” Alicia will inquire.

Tobias will again shake his head and say he has no clue. And maybe after what they all saw, maybe they shouldn’t find out. As the young man stands up, floorboard will creek and a sudden knocking and growling will blast from the closet. Both teens will jump up and get ready to fight, Tobias taking the lead. But Alicia will ask him to wait and let her do it. At first Tobias tries to protest, but Alicia looks at him seriously and say, “Just have my back.”

Tobias, realizing how much Alicia wants to do this, nods and gets to the door, hand on the knob. Both will nod at each other then Tobias will open it and let the undead man stumble out. As the infected slides after Alicia, she’ll raise her spiked right arm and her knife-wielding left arm in a fighting/ boxing stance. When it makes a grab at her, she’ll take a side-step and deliver a punch to its head. Both spikes will miss, but the middle of her metal prosthetic will land smack dab in the face, knocking it into the wall. In a quick pounce, Alicia jumps forward and finishes the dead man off with a bottom spike stab through the bottom of the skull in an uppercut. As both teens look at the lifeless body sliding to the floor, John comes in to check on the commotion. Both assure him that it’s okay, that Alicia dealt with it and he is relieved to see they handled the dead well. John recognizes that the person they just killed was one of the people who worked at Humbug Gulch. The he noticed them through an employee photo on the wall in the bar. John will tell Tobias and Alicia to search the body and take it with him. Let him has some sunshine at least. He’ll walk out of the doorway and down the hall.

We’ll cut there to June and Kwahu, who are searching the ground level rooms. We’ll see that June looking through the bar for anything useful and Kwahu will be looking at all the nick-nacks and decorations of the room. He’ll then look at the drinks on the wall and ask why June is ignoring them, stating that doctors use alcohol to help patients. June will chuckle and inform the Native American boy that most medical alcohol is specially made and, taking a bottle of blue liquid, says that she can’t use something such as “Blue Raspberry Punch” to clean wounds. Besides, he wouldn’t want his blood to taste like blue raspberries, right?

Kwahu will shake his head and smile a bit, saying that wouldn’t be fun to be drunk on blood. Though he continues by asking if maybe not for medicine, but it could be for John? Like would John like that “Blue Raspberry Punch”? June will consider this before declaring that it wouldn’t hurt to try. She’ll set it on the counter before checking over the bar some more. Kwahu will then ask what made June want to become a nurse. Pondering the question, June tells how she didn’t have the best life when she was younger and had to keep cleaning herself and her family up. It made her think how she could do this better, and it made her want to go into the medical field. She wanted to be a full doctor, but there were money issues in going to get a full education. There is a bit of silence from Kwahu before he tells June that she’s already a great doctor. Smiling, June will thank the teen and then notice something: A secret compartment under the bar. Leaning down, she opens it to find a lever-action rifle with some boxes of shells. Putting the gun on the bar top, she’ll grin at her discovery and store the bullets away.

Here the other team will come downstairs with their finds. There is food and John found some first aid in the upper bathroom. June will show John the new gun while Kwahu picks out some items he’s scavenged off the unmoving corpses in the room. Everyone will share what they’ve found and after some talking everyone will split up again with the teens going to kitchen while June and John stay in the main area. John will notice the bottle of Punch on the counter and ask June if she found something she liked. June shakes her head but says it might be worth trying. Maybe something he’d like as well. John will smile and say he’d absolutely be up to having some. June will tuck the bottle into her pack and both adults will sit at the bar.

As they sit, June asks John about how he knows this place. He tells her used to work at a similar spot after being a cop. He was an entertainer, a cowboy that did trick shots. She’ll nod and say it makes sense, but she’ll ask why if he was so uncomfortable with guns after… the incident. Sighing, John will admit he didn’t like using them back then as well and it was done to try and use them in a non-violent way or to get over the trauma of the event. It didn’t really work, which eventually sent him to the cabin. Putting her hand on his, June will rub it gently and tell him that it was bad luck that the robber John shot died. John tried his best to stop him without killing him. Nodding, John tries to feel comfort in her words, but we can clearly see it’s still a struggle for him. He’ll then openly admit his father hadn’t even been able to help him out of his funk…

We cut here to the teens in the kitchen. As they enter, they’ll see an infected standing about, to which Kwahu takes out with his tomahawk. As the body drops, Kwahu kneels down and picks up a pistol that was on the man’s belt. He’ll also find some bullets as well and shows them off before offering the gun to the others. Both say no, deciding it’s finder’s keepers, and Kwahu keeps the gun. They’ll look through the kitchen and find just a few cans of food (unfortunately some are spoiled). As the teens keep exploring kitchen though, the back door starts to wiggle (somebody on the other side lockpicking). Before they can react and hide, the door opens and a man and woman walk in with guns up. All the kids raise their guns and we end in a standoff before cutting to black.

When we cut back, everyone has their weapons on hand and the noise they all make attracts the adults. June has the rifle she found on hand while John has one hand close to one of his pistols. It’s a very tense scene, we’re at a deadlock, with both sides eyeing each other up and down. The three newcomers consist of two men (one white younger, one white older) and an African American woman. John breaks the silence, telling the three they’re passing through, looking for supplies, and they don’t want any trouble. John nods to the teens to lower their guns and they do, but June keeps her weapon ready. When the other group lowers their guns, June does so as well.

Finally, the woman speaks, telling them that they’re looking for a friend of theirs. Alicia will watch them warily and respond they haven’t seen anyone, that this place is a ghost town other than the infected. The new man will sigh and say that they need their friend. John suggests that they can work together and maybe they both can get what they want. Alicia and the others are uneasy to trust these new people, but they follow John’s word and let them go. Before they all walk away, the younger man asks notices a can of food he recognizes and asks if they’re going to eat it. Tobias, looking at the can, tosses it to him while commenting that it has expired. As they’re walking into the main room, all three newcomers introduce themselves: Paul (man in his 30s), Matt (the younger man), and Martha (the woman). When June asks when they’re from, they say they’re from Texas and they had been with some groups before being on their own. Paul will then say that it’s hard out here to find a place to live safely.

By now they’ve all reached the front doors of the bar and Martha will notice Alicia’s prosthetic and ask if she was bit. Nodding, Alicia will look a little uncomfortable with a stranger looking at her so intently. Martha however, with sympathy in her voice, will then say she is sorry for her, adding, “This world takes the weak. Only the strong can make it.” There’s emotion in her eyes as she says this, which the others take as she’s lost close people since the dead began to rise. Alicia will be feel a little better at seeing how vulnerable Martha is being with her as they all get outside. When John asks if they’ve searched anywhere else, Paul will point out a building near a rodeo arena. John nods and all of them go there, but June slows John down to tell him to keep a watch on them. She feels off about them. John nods and says he will, but it’s clear he also want to be friendly with these new people as well.

Everyone enters the building, a “bank”, and they see a couple of infected about. June will kill one, Tobias another, and Matt lastly with a machete. Paul and Martha will then immediately scavenge the bodies and pick a few things that look useful. Our group will then see these people are capable survivors. Unlike the saloon, there isn’t much find in the bank. June and Kwahu though find an office up some stairs and discovers a corpse lying in a chair. A pistol is laying in the lifeless hand on the desk. June takes the gun and sees Kwahu looking at the windows. When June comes to join him, he pushes her away and ducks to the side, shaking his head at her. When Junes moves to the wall and peaks through the window she comes upon a frightening sight: The rodeo arena/ horse carrel close to them is full of infected. We’ll get some long pauses of the arena and Kwahu and June looking at one another. But then one of the infected notices them through the window and begins to growl. The rest of the dead soon react as well and follow the first into the fence, reaching for the live people.

Both June and Kwahu leave the office and head down, their loud steps informing the others of their coming. Both of them will tell the others that there’s a swarm locked up and they’ll need to leave. Martha asks what about their friend, but June tells her that this swarm will be too much. As they begin to pack up, there’s a loud cracking that everyone hears, and we’ll cut away to the wooden fence cracking as the dead pile onto it. We’ll linger on them pushing on the wood until it fully breaks and the infected stream out and into the open. John will run outside, but upon seeing the dead making their way into the streets and noticing him he runs back inside and closes doors, telling the others it's too late to run. Matt will ask what’s the plan and John tells them they got to hold out and begins to barricade the doors. The others will follow throwing tables against the doors and taking a lamp, breaking the top off, and using the poll in the door handles.

We’ll do this all and more for a whole minute as the dead begin to push on the bank doors and break the windows. When enough pile on, we see Tobias, June, Paul, and Martha start to stab the dead reaching through the now broken panes. The others stand in the lobby and start shooting the dead through the other broken windows. This is short lived though as the front doors begin to groan and Alicia, Kwahu, and Matt rush forward to brace the entrance. John is trying to shoot as many as possible through the windows, but his pistols can only kill so many and reload is long. Unfortunately, the front doors begin to crack and everyone, realizing the danger, run back as the doors break. Some of them get behind the tellers counter while Alicia, Martha, and Tobias are pushed upstairs by the oncoming swarm. John calls out to Alicia and tries to make a break for her but becomes trapped with the others behind the counter as they now have to deal with the attack swarm.

Meanwhile, the other three are pushed up the stairs, Tobias and Martha shooting infected following them. They run out of ammo though and soon start to knock down infected that are coming up the stairs. Trapped in the office, all three begin to fight for their lives as the dead slowly squish their way into the room. We’ll get some fights out of everyone, including Alicia pinning an infected by the neck with her spiked stump, then flipping open butterfly knife and stabbing the pinned infected in eye. But as soon as that infected is killed another pins Alicia to the wall and tries to bite her. We’ll get some struggle until Martha stabs them in the side of the head.

We’ll cut back to the people at the tellers who are both shooting and having to stab the walkers that are trying to at them. Same as with the office, it’ll be a hard fight on them with some action. Matt will get pulled by some infected and bitten in multiple places, clearly a goner. In the end though they’ll survive and stab the final walker, looking over the huge pile of dead, lifeless bodies laying in the lobby. Getting out from behind the tellers, they’ll find Matt completely ripped apart. Paul sighs and gets to his knees, shutting the boy’s eyes before plunging a knife into his skull. June, seeing everything calm, hurries to the stairs and runs up to see the other three completely covered in blood and gore, but okay. She’ll ask to make sure and they’ll all respond they’re fine.

Everyone will walk down the stairs then and meet up with the others, Alicia, Tobias, and Martha noticing Matt’s ripped corpse. The teens are horrified by the grotesque scene while Martha will become very despondent as she looks at his dead body. Everyone is calming down, becoming dejected after the attack, and start to scavenge the bodies in order to keep their minds busy, finishing off any infected that have some signs of life. It’ll be mostly silent, everyone just using this time to breath after such a harrowing attack. Soon Tobias breaks the silence and says they can help bury Matt if Paul and Martha want assistance. Both will agree and thank Tobias for offer.

As John is looking over a dead infected, he finds a note in the pocket of one and opens it out to reveal some numbers. Suddenly he’s alert and fully takes in the vault behind the tellers. He’ll hop back behind there and follows the numbers on the slip of bloody paper. June will notice this, along with Paul and Kwahu. With his ear to the safe door, the first click of the vault will excite him and he’ll continue to go through the numbers until the last one. With that, there’s a loud clank and John pulls the safe open. Now everyone is watching John as he reveals what’s inside the vault: Supplies. A ton of supplies! Like somebody was stashing supplies just for the apocalypse. John will laugh happily, proclaiming they’ve hit the stash. Everyone will be grinning as we cut to black.

Upon return, we watch everyone putting these new supplies in the back of the truck, with Martha’s team parking their vehicle next to the main group. As John drops some supplies in the back, he’ll ask Martha if they’d be up to coming with them since they have nowhere to go. Martha agrees, saying they need a place to live. John will continue then, talking about how he’ll need to meet Madison, since she’s one of the leaders of the communities. Nodding, Martha will understand this and continue to pack.

We’ll see off to the side Paul, Kwahu, and Tobias finishing Matt’s grave and all of them drag and drop the body into the shallow pit. Alicia joins them as the body is slid into the grave and we can there is some sadness in her eyes. She’ll ask Paul how old Matt was, to which he’ll reply he was eighteen. Paul will then ask Alicia’s age and after some thinking, Alicia says she’s either nineteen or almost nineteen. There will be pity in Paul’s voice as he tells her that she’s strong to keep going and that she shouldn’t stop fighting. A long pause will happen here, then Alicia will nod.

We’ll cut back to John and June, who are just about done with the supplies. We’re getting near sundown at this point, so June calls to everyone to get ready to leave. As she approaches their truck, John stops her and tells her to wait a moment. From his pack, he’ll pull out something that’ll cause her eyes to widen: A Scrabble game. John will explain he found it in a game room and he couldn’t pass it up. He’ll then add that maybe they can have a drink while playing some. Kissing him on the lips, June will say she’d love that before both get into the car. The kids hop in the best they can and both groups head south. As we watch them drive off, we’ll hear John contacting Madison that they’re coming her way and they have some new arrivals with them.

We’ll do a small timeskip to when both parties reach the gates of the Bloomfield by dusk. While the original plan was to go to the San Juan River Community, these new people will need to be seen by Madison first. As the gates are open, Madison, Strand, and Farah greet them and view their haul with great approval. Martha and Paul will introduce themselves to Madison, who shakes both their hands and tells them that she’ll talk to them in a bit. The two new arrivals will then greet Strand and Farah, who give their own reactions as everyone unloads the vehicles. Madison will then confirm with John that they found this stuff in a bank vault, which John confirms. She’ll ask then if they found who put it all in there, which John will say they didn’t. Our leader will say it doesn’t matter, they’re probably long dead if all that was left behind.

With that, we watch as the supplies are taken to be stored, Strand checking over everything to write it all down. Madison finds Alicia here and asks her how it was, if she’s okay, if anything happened, etc? Alicia will tell her mom that she proved herself out there, but that doesn’t mean she is no expert. “We’re never fully ready for what’s out there. But I’m going to keep fighting for us. And for you.” She’ll then give a small smile and say she’s okay. Returning the small smile, Madison will squeeze her daughter’s arm and say it’s yeah… it’s all going to be okay. As Alicia begins to walk off though, Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival begins to play as we zoom slowly out from Madison’s face. We’ll then cut to a shot of the Bloomfield community from the north as we continue to zoom out until we see a hooded/ shadowed figure from the back looking down upon the settlement. Just as the song ends, we cut to black and the end of the episode.

One last thing: Paul is actually a character we’ve seen before. Not in Fear though… but in The Walking Dead webisode, The Oath. He’ll be played by the same actor as well, Wyatt Russell. I know that AMC has probably forgotten that these exist and so I’m sure any webisode character is fair game to use. And I’m ready to give Paul Wainio (I’m giving him a last name as a reference to the World War Z character, Todd Wainio) some more story and a big path in The Walking Dead universe. It’s going to be so exciting! As for Martha, she’s way different from the character in Fear season 4. Much better written, as you’ll see soon.

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