‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Midseason Premiere Hints at Rick and Morgan Reunion

Jacob Bryant
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SPOILER ALERT: Warning, this article contains spoilers from the Season 4 midseason premiere of Fear the Walking Dead, entitled “People Like Us.” Proceed at your own risk.

It didn’t take long for Morgan Jones to get sick of the Lone Star State.

With the hunt for the Vultures behind him, Morgan decides to return to Virginia and Alexandria. He realizes he should never have left, and his experiences in Texas have forced him to come around on what Rick Grimes said. He’s coming back to people. There no more of that “I lose people, and I lose myself” thinking — and he wants to tell Rick he was right. The thing is, Morgan doesn’t want to make the trek back on foot — or alone.

It’s pretty easy to convince Al — there’s a treasure-trove of stories in Morgan’s old community — but the rest are tough sells. John Dorie wants June and Charlie to come back to his cabin to live. He’s not sure what’s going to happen after that, but once he’s back to 100% from his gunshot wound that’s the plan. However, the remaining OG Fear the Walking Dead characters are in various states of disrepair.

It makes sense, ever since Madison’s death — and more recently, Nick’sAlicia, Strand, and Luci have had a one-track, revenge-fueled mind. With the Vultures gone, they’re finally able to grieve. And they’re handling that grief in their own ways. Strand’s returned to the bottle — not traveling anywhere in his new residence without wine in hand — Luci lays around listening to old records all day, and Alicia has become obsessed with finding a person who is sending distress notes by tacking them to the dead.

Fear the Walking Dead Victor Strand
Strand's been hitting the bottle.

They all turn the roadtrip down, but it’s Alicia that Morgan thinks would benefit from being in Alexandria. She’s been living on her own — Strand and Luci haven’t seen her in a week — and Morgan decides to help her track down this note-writer and hopefully get through to her.

Unfortunately, by the time they track down where the note-toting dead are coming from, the man is already dead. Alicia wanted a win — she wanted to save someone rather than just killing more — and the loss of this stranger hits her deep.

“My mom would have found him,” she says. “My mom would have saved him.”

Morgan tries getting through to Alicia, saying that her mom Madison changed from being a person who killed to being someone that brought people together. He lets her know there is still time for her to change too.

“I got a lot to make up for,” she tells Morgan.

“I do too,” he responds.

He tells her that everyone — especially Strand and Luci — need her. They need her to be a leader. They need her to be there for them.

“You could be there for us too,” Alicia responds coldly, clearly not wanting him to go.

Mother Nature may be answering Alicia’s wishes in not wanting Morgan and Al to head east. Not long after, the biggest wrench in Morgan’s road trip plan arrives — it’s hurricane season in Texas, and the storm just arrived.

Jacob Bryant
Jacob Bryant is a writer-for-hire with a penchant for the gory and caped shows. He thinks Jericho is the greatest television achievement of all-time.