Is Everyone Dead On ‘Fear The Walking Dead’?

Where The Walking Dead ended its sixth season with a "Who died?" cliffhanger, its sibling series Fear the Walking Dead just concluded its third season by leaving fans asking, "Who didn't die?"

Spoilers for Fear the Walking Dead's Season 3 finale follow!

By the time the third season of Fear the Walking Dead came to a close, the AMC series may have killed off almost all of its core characters. The only character known to be safe is Madison Clark, having washed up on the shore in the aftermath of the dam's collapse after her son Nick blew the C4 charges they had planted. Second in line to have to survived is Qaletaca and his buddy Mad Dog, who were last seen marching north upon watching the dam fall.

Everyone else -- meaning Nick Clark, Daniel Salazar, Victor Strand, and Alicia Clark -- was left in a mysterious cliffhanger regarding their survival.

Victor Strand actor Colman Domingo tells ComicBook.com he "might" know which characters survived.

"We might have some idea, but we may not," Domingo said. "It's up to the creative liberties of our new showrunners and Scott [Gimple]. And I think it's so epic, that ending, and I thought that was a great way to leave us."

Not even showrunner Dave Erickson knows exactly who will survive as he exits the show after the finale with Ian Golderg and Andrew Chambliss stepping in for Season 4.

"It's out of my hands," Erickson said. "It's an interesting transition because I don't know exactly where Scott, Ian, and Andy are going to take it. For me, what I tried to do was sort of wrap things up emotionally and thematically."

"You've got a woman in Madison Clark who has been struggling with her own violent impulses, and the violence that surrounds her," Erickson adds. "She's a woman who has made some very massive moral compromises, especially this season in terms of who she's aligned herself with. The things she's done, the things she's allowed Troy to do and give them a pass. I think for me it was really about having a confrontation between her and Troy. What's interesting is that you get to the mid-season finale and she doesn't pull the trigger on Jeremiah Otto. And one can argue that she might have had they not entered. But it's important that she doesn't."

As it turns out, Madison's dream sequence in Sleigh Ride may have be indicative of the fatalities.

"As to who is alive and who is dead, it's a tough thing," Erickson said, noting we did not actually see the dam collapse. "We kind of leave Daniel and Nick alive on the bridge over the dam. There's real questions about Alicia and Strand because they were of course in the Zodiac with Madison. I think what's important to understand is the dream sequence -- that flash-forward fantasy that Alicia's dead -- is probably, short of Nick, it's the worst thing that could possibly happen to Madison. I think that if you assume that everything we're seeing is really Madison's visions as she's going through her death throes, it's the worst case scenario for her. It's the shame and the guilt of having lost one of her kids. From an emotional standpoint, I think there's closure there. It opens up another door but it also, I think, it answers a question that we've been sort of leaning into for the duration of the season."

Domingo chimes in, promising whichever characters survived, we have now seen what they are capable of.

"We're all like in the middle of the apocalypse now, and we're so challenged," Domingo said. "So, where everyone's laying their cards out on the table, you know what everyone's made of and capable of doing. And the only way we could possibly even rebuild is for everyone's life to be really at stake."'

The Walking Dead's sibling series Fear the Walking Dead returns for its fourth season in 2018. The Walking Dead will return for its eighth season on October 22, 2017. The Season Eight premiere will mark 100 episodes overall for the popular AMC series. For complete coverage and insider info all season long, follow @BrandonDavisBD on Twitter.