Lennie James spins off to join ‘Fear the Walking Dead.’
The attendees overtook the conversation many times.
In some ways,The Walking Deaddoesnt feel like it belongs to the creators anymore.
Credit: Richard Foreman, Jr/AMC
This is where we findFear the Walking Deadin an interesting position.
It still belongs to the creators.
In a lot of ways, its a spin-off that has surpassed the series that spawned it.
We first meet John Dorie, a cowboy played by Garret Dillahunt.
Maybe its someone hiding from him, maybe its a walker, maybe its a traveler passing through.
He feels compelled to speak out to the darkness, to someone who might not even be there.
He mentions later how they both carry identical white-handled pistols.
A walker finally shuffled out from the woods.
John, an apt gunslinger, spins his weapon around and shoots it down.
As the corpse falls, Morgan is standing behind it with his stick about to pierce the walkers skull.
The two men freeze.
Morgans not sure if he can trust John, but John is excited about the prospect of company.
you’ve got the option to hide, but you cant run, Rick says.
Morgan does run, but mostly walks from it all.
He sets out across the country, actively avoiding any other people he spots along the way.
It doesnt seem so.
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Morgan approaches a man found shivering to death in a car.
Were always alone, he says a mantra Morgan will adopt for himself.
Time goes by and he makes his way to Texas.
When John takes care of it himself, the cowboy extends an invitation to join his campsite.
He does, but leaves in the middle of the night.
Morgan stumbles upon a vacant tent with a light on.
It doesnt seem like anyones around, but someone sneaks up behind him and knocks him out.
Morgan wakes on the ground as a group of men with guns are rifling through his backpack.
The tent was one of their little mousetraps to snare unsuspecting travelers.
Morgan assures them he doesnt know anyone and doesnt want to know anyone.
Hes just passing through.
A shot pierces through the night and knocks the gun out of the leader Leelands hand.
John walks up from behind with a rifle and says hes just looking out for his friend.
They find an unexpected savior when a massive armored SWAT truck pulls up.
Noticing the new people, she tries to bargain for their freedom by offering Leeland food and smokes.
As they drive off into the night, Al seems nice, but she has an ulterior motive.
Morgan wouldve rather she rob them.
John talks about Laura, the love hes trying to find.
He doesnt mention how they were separated exactly, just that its a sad story.
Morgan needs a little more convincing to open up.
Hes stopped, however, by Leelands crew.
The sounds of the skirmish distract Leeland enough for Al to knock him back.
He desperately tries to find them, but he gets bitten by a snake.
Morgan, meanwhile, leaps from rooftop to rooftop to take out another gunman.
He hides in the bathroom as the blast engulfs the home.
Now bonded by this experience, the trio hit the road again.
John notices a banner with the number 51 painted on it.
Morgan is now willing to reveal parts of his own story.
They stop on the side of the road and he reveals he came from Atlanta and Virginia.
He mentions he already left mentally before he left physically.
She simply mentions that this isnt about her, its about Morgan owning her.
Al does get one more answer out of him.
Why did you leave Virginia?
I lose people, then I lose myself, he says.
He couldnt have gotten far when he comes across a familiar looking car.
Its the car, now abandoned, that he found housing a shivering man.
They come after him and, as Morgan falls to the ground, nearly overtake him.
But John comes to the rescue.
John is turning out to be better for Morgan than he realized.
(Morgan, are you listening?)
Soon, they spot a body hobbling along in the middle of the street.
Morgan says he doesnt even kill anymore if he has to.
She looks up and warns that there are bad people out there.
It turns out that those bad people are Alicia and her cohorts hidden in the grass.
When she gets close enough, Alicia whips out a blade and presses it against Als throat.
Nick, Victor, and Luciana emerge from the brush with guns pointed at their prey.
So what the hell is your story?
Al asks, which, as this pattern suggests, will be the subject of next weeks episode.
