Fear the Walking Dead Finally Reveals John and Teddy's Darkest Secrets

| November 1, 2021 |

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This Fright the Walking Dead review contains spoilers.

Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 3

I'one thousand going to borrow a folio from Teddy's philosophy that the end is the beginning—at least equally it relates to my review of "Cindy Hawkins." Why? Considering by the finish of the episode, it occurred to me that viewers' enjoyment of Fearfulness the Walking Expressionless 'southward 7th season will rely heavily upon whether you accept Morgan and Strand as archrivals. This is an important consideration considering everybody else will probable find themselves caught in the crossfire of competing ideologies. Perhaps the one thing more dangerous than Morgan and Strand's conflicting worldviews is the outsized egos fueling a constant need to weaponize success. If I were June and John Dorie, Sr., I'd stay out of the fray, too.

Of class, June and her male parent-in-constabulary aren't privy to this ability struggle, hunkered downwardly as they've been for the final two-plus months in Teddy's hush-hush fallout shelter. It'due south not a bad setup, all things considered. They have plenty to go along them busy, whether it's generating their own electricity with a stationary bike or crafting upcycled hazmat suits. They fifty-fifty have a record player and board games. It was bittersweet to encounter June playing board games with her male parent-in-law; information technology called to mind Scrabble-filled days in John'due south lakeside motel.

They continue on in this fashion for over two months without a complaint, capping each day with a toast to "another one off the lath." Even and then, the elder Dorie understands the foreign circumstances in which they find themselves. "I'thousand sorry," he tells his widowed daughter-in-law. "I know I'm non the Dorie you thought you lot'd be spending your days with." Only they are content…until they find the awful truth about Teddy'southward shelter.

Once they notice Teddy's secret chamber of horrors, "Cindy Hawkins" come to life—literally and figuratively—every bit Cindy (Brittany Bradford) begins to haunt (and taunt) Dorie.

Given the dangers of going aboveground, would I continue to hunker down in a safe place that once was a scene of 23 grisly murders? Difficult to say. June seems intent on staying. Indeed, her days of running are behind her at present. She understands whatever atrocities occurred in that subconscious embalming room are long in the by; she and Dorie tin can't be injure by any of it now. The silent killer that awaits them beyond the bunker's crumbling walls, though? The radiation volition most definitely impale them.

Dorie is keen to stay, as well, albeit for unlike reasons. He views this unexpected discovery as a last chance for closure. And later on existence cooped up in the bunker for almost seventy days, what else are you going to do—play some other round of Life? No, this is a chance the former detective refuses to turn down. He has many regrets; likewise many people died on his watch. Even Dakota's expiry weighs heavily upon him.

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While his motives might exist noble, a bad case of delirium tremens is causing him to hallucinate. Worse nevertheless, his hands shake so badly he tin can barely hold his revolver. I was all in with all of this…until Dorie ventures exterior into a nuclear wintertime. Not only are the homemade suits unproven, he leaves the bunker door wide open to all way of contagion. I'd argue the confined space he leaves backside isn't about as claustrophobic as the hazmat suit and gas mask. The camera stays tight on his confront, alternating between his eyes and an incredibly narrow field of view. This tunnel vision—and beingness beholden to ghosts—almost gets him killed. Information technology nearly gets June killed, too.

And withal Dorie'south determined to play out a hunch that ways venturing outside notwithstanding again. Cindy'southward body is buried in an empty lot near her boyfriend's firm. No matter how good of a detective he might have been (and might still exist), this is not a sound decision. Yes, fulfilling a promise to the 1 victim whose body he never plant would bring both of them closure, but it's likewise a kind of suicide.

June'southward response to all of this is correct on the olfactory organ: "Why do y'all want to run out into a world that'southward going to kill you lot in 10 different ways?" Dorie doesn't desire to stay, June doesn't want to exit, bringing them to an impasse.

Of course, there'due south also the matter of armed people trying to become into the shelter. And the shelter is on the verge of collapse. In other words, things are going to hell quickly—then I don't blame June for sedating Dorie. What bothers me about this, though, is that the sedative introduces a countdown into the terminal act, however never comes to laissez passer.

I exercise have a couple of quibbles with an otherwise good episode. In last season's finale, we saw Dakota vaporized by the nail—and yet in that location was her reanimated corpse outside the bunker. Could this accept been another one of Dorie'due south hallucinations? Possibly. But by the same token, Teddy'due south corpse somehow survived the blast, too—despite only beingness mere anxiety away from Dakota when the missile struck. Over again, quibbles.

By episode's stop, June and Dorie observe themselves nether Strand's care. At the tower, with its bulwark of writhing death, leaving isn't an option. Which is merely as well, really, considering they take nowhere else to go. It also means we might encounter them attempt to bring down Strand's empire from the inside…