Fear the Walking Dead recap: 'Los Muertos' 

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Remember the sanctuary where Nick ended up at the end of his vision quest in the mid-season premiere? Well, as anyone who knows anything about the

something unsettling going on behind closed doors. This week’s episode doesn’t waste too much time revealing what that is.

Waking up to the coughs of an older woman in the infirmary, Nick decides to take a walk. For reasons unknown, he makes his way beyond the gated walls, which are covered in crosses, and heads down the hill toward the city. There he finds a young girl choking back tears.

All Nick gets out of her is, “My papa,” whom he sees in the distance walking towards Luciana (the woman who helped rescue Nick last episode) and the physician who treated his wounds. They’re standing in front of a bus lodged in the entrance of a metal fence separating the colony from the groaning walkers beyond.

The girl’s father hands over his pocketknife and tearfully heads into the bus, locking eyes with Luciana for a silent goodbye. He walks toward the back and comes out the other end, presenting himself to the dead. As the walkers close in on him, a crowd of colony members gather around Luciana and the medic, chanting something in Spanish about “muertos.”

Nick tries to shield the girl from her father’s death, but she wriggles out of his arms and he’s left to watch his new home almost ritualistically sacrifice this man to the horde. The rest of the hour plays out as a fast — and, at times, awkward — dance between the continuation of Nick’s arc and the beginning of Madison, Alicia, Victor, and Ofelia’s. We spend only minutes at a time with each before side-stepping back to the other.

When we pick up with the quartet, who fled Gloria’s estate in a pickup truck, it’s clear they’ve been searching for Nick and Travis. They pull over to the side of the road and look out over the city. Madison suggests they could’ve gone east, but Alicia and Victor implore her to head back to the Abigail, noting how long they’ve been scavenging for water and food.

She agrees, and we cut back to the colony where Nick is walking through the street of vendors. A woman tending to the sick by the hospital calls him over to assist. They’re soon joined by the man who tended Nick’s wounds, and a conversation with a patient reveals him to be a pharmacist named Alejandro Nunez.

His patient suggests they should start conserving their medicine instead of injecting him with it, implying it may be too little, too late to save him. Still injecting him with a syringe, Alejandro says, “Maybe tomorrow.” We leave as Nick locks eyes with the mysterious pharmacist and Luciana, who are quietly plotting.  

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