Fear the Walking Dead: Nick gets a taste of his own medicine

Nick Clark has always been a loner on Fear the Walking Dead. What will he do now that someone else ran out on him the way he has done to his own family?

The Fear the Walking Dead episode “Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame” was a major turning point for Nick Clark. Nick has always been his own person, but now he’s getting a taste of his own medicine and he doesn’t like it.

When Casa de Abigail went up in flames, Nick was left feeling confused about what was going on around him. Celia’s message, that the Infected were still people, had him torn. His solution was to go off on his own, leaving his mother and sister alone as if he could simply give them a call later on and come back to them. He wasn’t thinking about them when he left, he was only thinking of himself.

This pattern of thinking has plagued Nick in the entire time we’ve known him, and by all accounts it has been a problem for the Clark family for a long time. Travis was also affected by it, as he used to join Madison in searching for her son when he was on his binges. This impacted her relationship with Travis, which made things all the more difficult when Chris needed Travis’ attention and Madison was more concerned about supporting Alicia then helping Travis.

Now Nick is getting a taste of what that kind of abandonment feels like. He made a lovely picnic for Luciana in what could have been their house on the ranch, and instead of waking up with her, he awakens to find her gone.

He’s completely torn, and he doesn’t know what to do. Does he go after her, or does he stay with his family? After all, the odds of reuniting with either group later on are not in his favor. If he leaves, or stays, he could likely be saying goodbye to one group.

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Luciana’s departure might be damaging for Nick, but there’s hope that he can learn from it. There’s still a chance she will come back to him. But for now, he’s learning what it’s like to not be in control of someone he loves.

Fear the Walking Dead airs Sundays at 9pm on AMC.