Season 6, Episode 16 — [Spoiler] Dies

Warning: The following accommodates spoilers for Sunday’s explosive Season 6 finale of Fear the Walking Dead. If you’d somewhat watch first, learn later, off you go.

No one can say that Season 6 of Fear the Walking Dead didn’t exit with a bang — a number of of them, as a matter of reality, as one warhead after one other went off The Day After model. But had been all of the fireworks in the end a lot ado about nothing? Read on, we’ll go over every little thing that occurred within the season-ending “The Beginning,” then you may debate it out within the feedback.

‘PROMISE ME YOU’LL FIND SOMEONE’ | As the episode bought underway, we discovered Rachel making an attempt to alter a flat whereas daughter Morgan wailed and pricey Rufus… Well, I’m positive he would’ve helped if he may, however he’d by no means been a lot of a mechanic, now had he? All the whereas, Morgan — the grownup, not the child — warned over the walkie-talkie that “this may be all the time that we have left.” As such, he wished everybody to “give yourself the end that you wanted, even if it’s not the one we all imagined.” Oh, Morgan. WTH does that even imply? Trying desperately to avoid wasting herself and her treasured cargo, Rachel wound up breaking her leg when her jack dropped the automotive on it. You or me? I feel we might’ve handed out chilly on the sight of bone protruding prefer it wished to wave, “Hey, sup?” Not Rachel, although. She made herself a splint, strapped on Morgan — the child, not the grownup — and began crabwalking down the street. When, as you may count on she would, she stumbled, she threw within the towel. “This is the end for me,” she instructed her toddler, “not for you.” With that, she moved Morgan — the child, not the grownup — from her entrance to her again, tied a kerchief round her mouth, sure herself to Rufus with a rope and plunged a knife into her stomach. Her plan (kinda sensible, really): Once she reanimated, Rufus would lead her to survivors, thus permitting her child to be discovered and spared. Well, except Zombie Rachel couldn’t stroll on a damaged leg any higher than Non-Zombie Rachel had been capable of. Honestly, she didn’t have lots of choices.

‘DAME EL ARMA!’ | In phase No. 2, Daniel swore to Sarah, Rollie, Wes, Lucy, Jacob and Charlie that he’d heard a well-known voice over the walkie-talkie giving him coordinates to a secure spot. In mild of the barber’s current psychological lapses, his assertion was understandably greeted with some skepticism. Besides, Rollie had apprehended Riley, who had blabbed that the most secure place to be was within the outdated lodge bunker through which Teddy had imprisoned Alicia. For some cause taking the cultist’s phrase for it, the group headed there within the SWAT van, Riley blathering on the entire means about rising like a phoenix and blah, blah, blah. After Rollie blew out the brakes operating over a walker, Sarah and Jacob set to work repairing them and reminding us that there's nonetheless a personality named Wendell on the present. (Has he been on in any respect this season?) Just as they had been about to hit the street once more, Rollie stated one thing about making it in any case and rising like a phoenix and… Oh! Oh! Daniel acknowledged that BS as being Riley and the cult’s, so he grabbed a gun and shot Rollie. In a flash, Charlie had additionally shot Riley, who admitted that Rollie had been certainly one of Teddy’s acolytes, too, and had been driving them someplace the place they may have a pleasant view of the tip of the world. New plan, the group determined. They’d observe Daniel’s coordinates. Luckily, as he began rattling off numbers, Sarah knew precisely what he meant, as a result of positive, everybody speaks coordinates, proper?

’ENJOY THE VIEW, A—HOLE’ | In our third vignette, Dwight and Sherry noticed an deserted home through which to hunt shelter. That, or… “Maybe they have some beer, maybe some pretzels… ” provided Honey. “It’s the one thing we said we were gonna do when we found each other.” No cube on the pretzels, however there was no less than some heat beer. As they chug-a-lugged, Sherry wallowed in remorse. “I wasted so much time just being pissed off trying to fight the bad guys,” she stated. “But the bad guys always win.” Dwight wouldn’t let her be a Debbie Downer, although. C’mon, he stated. “We can still have this life, even if it’s just for a couple of minutes.” OK, additionally sort of a downer, Dwight. To the lovebirds’ shock, the home turned out to not be as abandoned as they’d thought. The couple who lived there with their daughter had a storm shelter out again, however some cultists had kicked them out. Rude. And dumb — they hadn’t taken the beer. Anyway, very quickly, Dwight had used a horse to tear the door off the shelter, and he and Sherry had picked off the baddies. The certainly one of them who wasn’t fatally shot, he bought the worst of it. Dwight determined to present him what he’d tried to present that good household: a front-row seat to armageddon. And to make sure that he wouldn’t go anyplace, he shot out each of his knees. Damn. “I haven’t seen that side of you in a long time,” remarked Sherry. “Yeah, well, just wait till Season 7,” he replied. OK, probably not. “Maybe we should’ve been doing more of that the whole time” is what he really stated. Fighting badness with badness, fireplace with fireplace, all that jazz.

‘YOU HAVE NOTHING TO BE SORRY ABOUT’ | In Chapter 4 of the episode, Teddy and Dakota arrived on the spot from which they had been going to observe the fireworks. For some cause, she wasn’t practically as creeped out as I used to be by the best way that he kissed her hand and stroked her face and held her uncomfortably shut. Thankfully — for me, anyway — the second was damaged by John Sr.’s arrival. He repeated what his ill-fated son had instructed Dakota, prompting her to notice that “this is how he ended up with a bullet in him.” John Sr., undeterred, forgave Junior’s murderess. Unwilling to lose his confederate, Teddy moved to shoot John, solely to have June, outta nowhere, fireplace the pistol proper out of his hand. June forgave Dakota, too. (Seriously?) Um, then why had she killed Virginia? “After I lost John, I lost what he believed,” June stated, “but I found it again.” With that, John, June and Dakota melted right into a tearful group hug. Ha — kidding. At that level, John found that proper beneath their toes was the door to a shelter. WTH? Dakota wished to know. She thought that she and Teddy had been alleged to die and let the tip be the start and all that malarkey. Thinking quick, Teddy insisted that they needed to survive this missile launch in order that they may return and launch all the remainder of the warheads. Completion points, that kinda factor. Actually, interjected John, Teddy wanted a second particular person to show the second key. “He doesn’t care about you, he needs you.” Faced with a selection, to face by the serial killer who was means too handsy or rejoin the Super Friends, Dakota… dang it. We didn’t see what she selected. Not but, anyway.

‘WHICH MAN ARE YOU?’ | Part 5 adopted Strand right into a walker-filled workplace constructing that led him to… what had we right here? A reasonably superb condo sorta set-up stuffed with art work and Blind Lemon Jefferson on the stereo. Quickly, Victor stuffed in its scholarly occupant on the destiny that awaited them. “Well, I guess that’s the ballgame,” stated the person, taking it awfully effectively. “You like bourbon?” Strand responded, “Almost as much as I like changing my motivation twice in any given episode.” (Well, he may as effectively have.) After Strand recapped a little bit of Season 6, he stated that it had all come down to 2 fellows, certainly one of whom hadn’t been capable of maintain up his finish of the discount and save everyone. Why was that? “He wanted to survive and take the glory for himself.” Which chap was Strand? “I’m the one that was ready to die,” he stated. And as soon as the person had launched himself as Howard, Victor replied that “I’m Morgan… Morgan Jones.” Post-apocalyptic identification disaster? Sure. At this level, why not?

’I CAN HEAR HER’ | Our sixth phase returned us to the submarine, the place Grace refused to observe Morgan — the precise Morgan, not the child or Strand — die of radiation poisoning the best way that Athena’s father had. Watching one particular person she’d beloved go that means had been greater than sufficient. Finally, they kissed. “That’s the problem with me,” she joked. “I never tell anyone how I feel until it’s too late.” There was just one means out now, it appeared, and that means was… wowza… grim. Morgan had really begun to suppose that he may have a household once more… be a father. “And you can be,” Grace assured him. “Just not here.” (In the afterlife? Trippy.) After she stated that she wanted to listen to Athena’s cry, Morgan positioned a gun to shoot by the again of his head clear by the entrance of hers. Luckily, earlier than he pulled the set off, they heard Athena cry. Wait, they actually did hear a child over the communications system. Going topside, they found that Zombie Rachel had been capable of stroll simply tremendous on a very shattered leg — no crawling for her! — and had been led again to the sub by Rufus. After dispatching Rachel and retrieving Morgan — the child this time — Morgan — the precise Morgan — marveled, “She feels like a gift from Athena.” Uh, and all of the whereas nobody instructed Rufus what a very good boy he was; he and Dog from The Walking Dead must unionize.

‘I KNOW HOW TO SURVIVE’ | As the episode and the season drew to an in depth, Daniel & Co. found that his coordinates had led them to the center of nowhere. Riley, who nonetheless hadn’t died, gave a Nelson from The Simpsons chortle, which so ticked off Daniel that he dragged him out of the SWAT van, killing him within the course of. But wait… Daniel had been lucid when he wrote down the coordinates: They’d come from Al, who swooped down in a CRM chopper to rescue everyone. Just “don’t ask the pilot any questions,” she stated. Because apparently, the present didn’t pop for Sydney Lemmon to cameo as Isabelle. Back on the standoff between Dakota, Teddy, John and June, the great guys pulled off a gun trick referred to as the St. Louis barn raiser to get themselves out of the crosshairs, then invited Junior’s killer to affix them within the shelter. Taking a move, she remained the place she was and shot Teddy in chilly blood. “You said that I should never change,” she reminded him, “and I’m not.” Actually, she was quickly modified — to ashes when a warhead went off. Before Wes skedaddled together with his friends, he — as a result of this was absolutely probably the most smart factor to do when each second counted — stopped to spray-paint “This isn’t the end” on the freeway, leaving the “end” on Riley, who simply walked away with the phrase as soon as his corpse was reanimated. D’oh! Surviving the blast nearest Howard’s constructing, Strand laughed and revealed that muahaha, he wasn’t Morgan in any respect, he was the opposite man. “And despite the critics, I’m still here.” Now he was stoked in regards to the prospect of rebuilding the world with artwork and music and bourbon. As for Morgan, child Morgan and Grace, they survived by hiding beneath a truck because the explosion went off. But what about Rufus, dang it? What. About. Rufus.

OK, so there’s no pretending that the second half of Season 6 didn’t strive my endurance. And this finale — no Alicia? Argh! What did you consider it? Grade away beneath, then hit the feedback together with your critiques.