Fear TWD: What’s Your Story introduces amazing cast editions
Fear the Walking Dead returns, and it may as well be Fear the Walking Morgan.
Episode 1 of Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 is titled “What’s Your Story?” and it’s almost entirely about Morgan (Lennie James). He’s crossing over, and people have been wondering how it would all work out since the news broke of his transition. Well wait no longer, the man has arrived! “What’s Your Story?” is not just the episode title, but also how others will eventually learn about their new friends and foes.
The future of this season is seeing how the group full of new characters will integrate with one another and how they will survive in a new landscape. Fear the Walking Dead is more community and survival driven than its predecessor, and Morgan might have just found another Alexandria.
It’s crossover time!
Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) and family are about to run full-speed into Morgan Jones, formerly of The Walking Dead. It’s been a long time coming, and may finally signal the moment that FTWD leap-frogs TWD for post-apocalyptic supremacy.
There are three more new faces.
Althea (Maggie Grace), Naomi (Jenna Elfman) and John (Garret Dillahunt) join the show to spice things up. All are welcome additions, and fairly big names. Morever, John’s monologue sneak peak of the first episode is amazing. Chilling even in its simplicity and somber loneliness. No talking for a year? Even if it’s exaggeration, there is a good chance he hasn’t uttered a word in months.
After that epic intro, it’s only right that John runs into Morgan, and the two baddest dudes in the known TWD/FTWD universe run into each other.
There are a few flashbacks, however, that get Morgan to this point. They are artfully done, but not with a ton of content. It speaks to Morgan’s simplicity and desire for isolation. As he sits in the junkyard vacated by the Garbage Pail Kids, he is first interrupted by Jesus (Tom Payne). He wants Morgan to return. Next is Carol (Melissa McBride) with her pitch to “come back to the Kingdom.” Finally, Rick (Andrew Lincoln) visits, and tells Morgan, “You can hide, but you can’t run.”
Morgan just wants to be left alone, and everyone is bugging him like telemarketers or door-to-door salesmen. It’s as if he’s walking out of a store and just wants to scream, “I don’t want to buy any of your Girl Scout cookies! Just let me leave Walmart in peace!” Essentially this is Morgan before he leaves:
Morgan heads west to clear, or just be left alone. Only fuel and car maintenance limits his reach.
Morgan confirms his isolation.
Even when Morgan runs into another person and tries to render aid, his depressing outlook is confirmed. The other guy is shivering, injured, and alone in his car, but doesn’t want help. It’s a depressing confirmation of his outlook. So Morgan keeps running/walking deep into the heart of Texas, back to his meeting with John.
A karate man and a gunslinger.
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If Fear the Walking Dead has taught us anything, it’s that the bad guys eventually meet their fate. Accordingly, random villains have the unfortunate luck of running into Morgan and John, who they label the “karate man and a gunslinger.”
To make matters worse for the bad guys, Althea shows up in an armored vehicle with machine guns hooked up to automatically cut the guys in half.
The soon-to-be-zombies naturally concede and give over Morgan and John.
Introducing Althea and nobodies.
That’s when we learn Althea is a journalist, who rescues people like this in order to record their stories. John talks about Laura and reuniting with her, but Morgan doesn’t want to provide his story. Instead, Morgan offers up beans for the trade and starts to walk away.
That’s when Leland (aka about to die person #1) and his guys ambush Althea’s place, despite the fact that they’ve already identified the threesome as potentially the most dangerous group west of the Mississippi. A battle ensues, and Morgan dumps one of the henchmen through the roof of a mobile home. Right into a zombie buffet. Morgan is shot in the leg for his efforts.
Subsequently, Morgan and John face insurmountable zombie odds (zodds?), and are near certain death. Except, Morgan doesn’t die, and Althea jumps into the cab of her armored war machine. She unleashes hell.
Morgan gives the interview.
Morgan owes her twice now, and capitulates to the interview. She’s a journalist but inexplicably chooses the worst possible camera angle facing the sun. Nonetheless, Morgan tells her about Alexandria and The Kingdom, and a bit bout his breakdown.
Just before Morgan walks off again, he says, “I lose people, and then I lose myself.” It’s only temporary, however, because Althea and John won’t leave a good, injured man behind. Eventually they drive up to an injured woman in the road. They clearly haven’t seen The Book of Eli, so they don’t recognize the situation.
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Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey), Nick (Frank Dillane), Victor (Colman Domingo), and Luciana (Danay Garcia) are the hijackers! Just about the whole crew is together! It’s a great setup for the rest of the Fear the Walking Dead season 4.
Fear the Walking Dead airs Sundays nights on AMC.