'Fear The Walking Dead' Recap With Spoilers: Brother's Keeper

In the desert, Troy kills a snake for food. He's been out alone for a while based on his dirty [...]

By Brandon Davis

In the desert, Troy kills a snake for food. He's been out alone for a while based on his dirty appearance. He is keeping notes in a book before looking to his gun which has a bullet in the chamber. He finds Bill, who Qualetaca fed to the birds much earlier, before exploring further.

Troy comes upon a barn. He walks inside and looks around, scavenging for supplies. He eventually finds canned food and scarves it down before venturing to another part of the house, finding a frame message reading, "God help those who help themself." He opens the pantry door and smiles before heading outside.

He starts digging. Night has taken over. He's keeping notes by a fire.

The next day, he heads to a chair on the edge of mountain, gun in hand. He analyzes the gun and looks around. He stands up, points the gun in the air, and uses his only bullet to fire straight into the sky and attract a herd of walkers.

The Fear the Walking Dead logo takes the screen.

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Back near the Ranch, Nick watches men dispatch infected headed their way. Nick rules the dead are drawn by the cattle but a man from the Nation determines they'll die soon from lack of water. Nick walks over and shoots a cow in the head.

Elsewhere, Jake expresses frustrations with Alicia over the group putting down the herd. Alicia vouches for it. Alicia promises they will start over and if they live long enough she will get him more cows. Sam believes there are people who are still alive in the Pacific Northwest. Alicia insists it is too far. Sam wants to bunker down and travel with only Alicia.

Ofelia sits with her friend and tries to raise his spirits. The man trusts Nick to lead both groups and claims everyone trusts him because he doesn't like to lead.

Nick and Alicia stand on the Ranch's balcony talking. She lights cigarette with him. Nick is feeling guilt for killing Jeremiah and now staying in his house. Nick admits he is worried about their mom and he is also worried about Troy. Alicia assures Nick there is no need to feel guilt over killing Troy.

Later, during the night, Nick hears something in the house. He jumps out of bed carrying a big knife and investigates. On the balcony, he hears something behind him. Troy is waiting in the doorway, startling him. He won't sit down because he'll pass out but he says he is here to "return the favor" of saving him. He warns him of a "reckoning." He says there's a beast from the desert. "It's bigger than you can imagine," Troy said. "Biblical." Nick isn't interested, offering Troy the options to either sneak out or be hidden for a couple of days. Troy claims there is a third way. He closes the door and tells Nick this whole place will be obliterated in a few hours and he wants Jake to see it. Nick finds a way in, searching for Troy, but can't find him.

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The next day, Jake and Alicia prepare breakfast. Alicia is eager to find a solution for their water problem. Jake insists they need a more permanent solution than anything she has suggested. He is ready to leave this place but she's not. Jake is skeptical of their relationship, calling it an alliance, instead. Alicia is insulted. Nick knocks on the door to tell Jake that Troy was at the house. Jake is ready to go face Troy. Alicia says he is just baiting them but they're going to. Alicia insists Jake at least bring a walkie.

Jake and Nick drive down the road, Jake armed with a pistol. Nick vouches for Troy, saying he could have hurt any of them last night if he wanted to, but he didn't. Jake tells a story about finding a rabbit staked to the ground, skinned alive. Jake put it down. "He's not gonna stop. He's not gonna get better," Jake said. "I warned him."

Nick sees a cloud of dust on the horizon. "F---," he said.

They stop the truck and look at it. It's a massive herd of walkers. Nick radios to Alicia. "It's a horde," Nick tells her. "It's coming." They devise a plan to move the herd away from the Ranch but Troy is leading them with explosives.

At the Ranch, Alicia tells Ofelia they need to go help them but Ofelia is busy being angry that they went out alone. Alicia tells her about Troy popping into the Ranch and convinces her to help.

Jake approaches Troy but Nick insists on speaking to him first. "You're not in your right head, man," Nick said. Troy has been leading the group for two days. Jake cocks his gun and asks Troy to stop but Troy says he loves that sound. Troy rises up and talks about how accomplished Jake always was. He is proud now, though, of the art he's created with this horde. He takes aim with his launcher and fires. Jake tackles him.

The explosion is heard at the Ranch.

Jake orders Nick back to the Ranch. He argues with Troy, who is struggling. Nick tries to talk Jake out of killing him, citing guilt as a reason not to. Troy tells Nick to tell Sam about killing Jeremiah. Jake appears to have given up but takes aim at Troy. Nick uses a rifle to knock him down the hill.

At the Ranch, the Nation and Ranchers plot their last stand.

Meanwhile, Jake battles a walker. He gets bit on his arm. Jake orders them to cut his arm off. Nick does it in one swing of a machete.

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In the Ranch's basement, the remaining leaders discuss their plans. The Ranchers wants bullets. Lee is furious and storms off but Ofelia insists on the keys to arm everyone at the Ranch.

Meanwhile, Nick races back to the Ranch in the pick up truck as Troy holds Jake in the back.

The group fortifies the Ranch with RVs. They hope the herd is deflected and passes them by. Lee orders everyone behind the wall. The survivors rush behind it and stand armed and ready.

Later, they hear the dead walking into the fences and walls. The gate breaks open. Alicia looks on between the RVs and sees the never ending herd arriving. From a distance, Nick watches with binoculars.

The RVs start to rock as the dead push against them. They start crawling out from beneath the trucks and the Ranchers and Nation try to put them down. In the distance, Jake has passed out. Troy kneels beside him. "He wasn't supposed to die," Troy said. Nick tells him he will need to put him down, now. "I wanted him to see," Troy said. Nick orders him to look at the Ranch to see what he really has done. Troy begs Nick to kill him. Nick kicks him a gun and says, "Kill yourself."

At the ranch, the herd has stopped coming under the RVs. They are too packed against them to make way. One RV starts to sllide back and eventually tips over. Alicia orders everyone to the pantry. They flee.

Nick looks on.

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Alicia dispatches walkers with ease using a machete, one after the other. Ofelia orders her to the pantry and says she will follow.

Alicia directs everyone into the pantry along the way. One by one, people are following, including Coop of the militia. He is eaten alive in front of Alicia. He tries to shoot himself but he is out of ammo. Alicia shoots him in the head.

Up the hill, Jake has reanimated has a walker.

On the ground level, Alicia is out of ammo. Lee aids her with his last bullet. They use their guns as clubs to push through the horde but they're surrounded. Ofelia and Lee find a clearing to the pantry.

Troy puts a knife in Jake's skull. He says he needs sleep but Nick insists they need to find a way to save everyone he tried to kill. "You can sleep when you're dead," Nick said.

In the pantry, everyone looks to Alicia for guidance.

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