Fear the Walking Dead

Dorie: Dear June...

...I've been thinkin' about my dad a lot lately.

Maybe it's bein' away from you, my heart, my everything,

that my thoughts now drift to family.

Because, truth be told, my family wasn't together

nearly as long as I would've liked.

I s'ppose I could say the same thing now.

Even though he wasn't always around,

he still imparted things to me...

...things I carry to this day.

There's one thing he told me

that I carry particularly close.

He said, "John,

people deserve to live in a world

where they know which way is up,

but they can't know that until someone helps 'em know it."

That's why he became a cop.

Same reasonI did.

When Ginny tasked me with stepping back into that role,

I had my reservations.

You more than anyone could understand why,

given how things played out the last time I wore a badge.

But this feels different.

Life here is not as I imagined.

People give up some freedoms to live behind these walls,

but, by and large, I'm startin' to believe

it might just be worth the cost.

Haven't lost a soul on these grounds

since before I arrived.

246 days, last I heard.

There's comfort in knowin' that I play a part in that.

It's not the world my dad dreamed of,

but people do know which way is up here.

I hope one day soon you'll be able to see that

for yourself.

If we play our cards right,

perhaps one day we can be together here.

Man: Cameron!

You missed your shift.

Until then,

know that I'm sendin' you all my love, always.

Yours, John.

Morgan: Daniel left us something big today, boy.

How exactly does this work?

What, and...

now you'll bark when we get closer?

Should I take you to the last place I saw her?

Man, is she even gonna recognize me?

Come on.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't -- Don't move him.

I know how accidents like thesetake their toll,

especially whenit's one of our finest.

Best thing we can dois go home, alright?

'Night everybody.Hey, come on, man.

I'm -- I'm trying to secure the scene.

Understood.

But we can't go rilin' these people up.

That doesn't help any of us.

I warned Cameron about his drinkin'

more times than I can count.

He must've gotten too close.

Well, there's only one way to find out for sure.

How's that?

We look into it.

You can't exactlyinvestigate bad luck.

Collect his bodyand mend that fence.

Last thing I wantis anyone else gettin' hurt.

I appreciatehow seriously you've taken

your duties here, John.

It has not gone unnoticed.

Thank you, ma'am.

Hey.

Victor. Hey, man.

You're a sight for sore eyes.

Good to see you, brother.

You too.

Look at you.

How'd you end up with that hardware?

A gold key. Ah.

Same way you wound up with that.

I guess we're all doin' what we have to in order to get by.

Pfft. What brings youaround these parts?

Well, I'm on the inter-settlement council now.

I was on my way to a meeting.

Well, you just missedsome real ugly mustard.

One of our rangers wound up dead,

tangled upin the barbed-wire fence.

Ginny thinks it's an accident.

And you?

It's too soon to say,

but I'd be lyin' if I saidI didn't have my doubts.

Anything I can do?

There are certain matterson which I seem to have her ear.

Well, I don't got anything worthlistening to at the moment,

but if that changes,I'll be sure to let you know.

Alright. You do that. I better get to that meeting.

Yes, sir. Alright.

Take good care.

You too.

Hey, Janis.

I don't have a letter for you.

Well, that's not what I'm here for.

I wanted to talk to youabout Cameron.

What about him?

You two were close, right?

I did his laundry. Yeah.

Do you know what happened to him?

Well, I know thathe ended up tangled in the fence

with the passedmaking short work of him.

What I don't know is how or why.

This look familiar to you?I found it near the body.

It's not mine.

I know, but since you doeverybody's laundry,

I thought maybe...

I'm sorry.

I've never seen it.

It's okay.

John, what's goin' on?

I don't know.

But until I do,you be careful, okay?

You're the closest thing I gotto family around here.

Sit down, John. What can I do for you?

Well, I went back to Cameron's house.

Now, I thought we already discussed this.

We did, but that fence,

situated as it is to the back door,

it's not exactly stumblin' distance.

It is if you're sauced.

I don't think he was drunk.

I found a bottle of moonshinein his house.

He hadn't touched a drop.

What if he ended upin that fence by other means?

What if he was pushed?

By who?

Well, I found this in the dirtwhen the rangers moved the body.

I bet whoever hasthe matching one of that

is the person we're lookin' for.

There was a man in the first place I lived

after the puzzle went to pieces.

Murdered his friend over a can of tuna.

Town's elders decided to make a show of things

to keep everyone in line,

so they tied the killer to a stake outside the walls...

and blasted music to draw in the dead.

I'll never forget

what that man's body looked likethe day after.

Picked clean to the bone, like a turkey on Thanksgivin'.

I don't want that for Lawton.

No, neither do I,

but you're talking about punishment,

and we don't even knowif this is a crime yet,

and -- and we won'tuntil we look further into it.

I appreciate if we kept this quiet.

Place is only as safe as people feel it is.

Well, makin' people feel safe is good.

Actually makin' 'em safe,that's better.

Yeah?

You're right.

It is.

I'll double the patrols,

least till we figure out what's what.

I appreciate that. Thank you, ma'am.

Sure thing.

Jacob: There's a word in Hebrew,"tzedakah",

which we use to describe charity,

not the kind of goodwill-giving we typically think,

but a higher calling,

the need to do what is right and just.

From the day he turned up at Lawton's gates,

Cameron answered the call,faithfully serving his community

and making it a safer place until his very last breath.

His life is a reminder --

when we dedicate ourselves to tzedakah,

to justice and righteousness,

we become citizens worthy of the world we inhabit

and goodness then will prevail.

Ahlahv hashalom.

Good job, Rabbi.

Hey, I'm off this stuff until my tooth gets sorted out.

You look like you could use somethin' sweet.

Thanks.

Did you know him?

He was always on my ranger detail

when we'd travel outside the gates.

It's so tragic.

She's been havin' a hard time with it.

Dakota... why don't you go on home,

and I'll meet you there?

Marcus: Hey!

Hey, hold it!

Hey, hey, hey. Janis?

Whoa, whoa. Take it easy.

Caught her tryin' to sneak out through the fence.

Alright.You tryin'to run off on us again?

Check her bag.

How 'bout that?

You lied to me.

You said those weren't your earrings

and that you really didn't know Cameron.

None of that's true, is it?