Fear the Walking Dead: Troy’s unexpected response to Nick
In Fear the Walking Dead’s mid-season premiere “Minotaur” there was a big revelation that wasn’t as explosive as fans imagined it would be.
Things are never what they seem on Fear the Walking Dead and in the mid-season premiere we see the relationship between Nick and Troy change. Revelations are made but the world keeps going, which is really surprising for a number of reasons.
Over the course of the Clark family’s stay at Broke Jaw Ranch a surprising bond has developed between Nick and Troy. Whereas they were once at each others’ throats, after a tussle during a stakeout the two young men all of a sudden became unlikely friends and sometimes allies. Then Nick went and killed Troy’s father, and fans guessed that Troy would lose his mind when he found out. However, that didn’t really happen. Yet.
Nick and Troy have formed an unusual alliance. When Nick finds Troy at Jeremiah’s grave, Troy is harboring a lot of anger about the situation his father left behind. Nick shares that he lost his own father, and Troy starts asking him questions. Was it before the apocalypse, was it suicide? He wants to know more. Nick, for his part, tries to give useful advice to Troy, who is dealing with a lot of conflicting emotions. In bombshell #1 Nick says that he doesn’t believe that his father fell asleep at the wheel and instead believes his death was intentional. Troy listens quietly as Nick reflects on this revelation. Up until now, Madison believes that Nick still thinks that his father’s death was an accident but Nick shows that this isn’t the case at all.
When Troy drags Nick into the gunfight at Jeremiah’s house, Nick tries desperately to get Troy to surrender. Eventually, Nick decides that Troy need to know that he was the one who killed Jeremiah. That’s bombshell #2. Upon hearing this, Troy gets quiet and puts his gun down.
The two revelations, that Nick knew his father killed himself and Troy learning that Nick killed Jeremiah, didn’t lead to much drama. Both of these young men are emotional and volatile, but they were both very quiet. Anyone expecting Troy to flip out was disappointed in a big way. Nothing ended up happening.
Yet.
It’s hard to believe that Troy was okay with Nick killing his father…or was he? Could it be that Troy sees this as Nick doing him a favor? Given Troy’s reaction (and the fact that Troy has now been exiled) I’m starting to wonder if Jake is the one who will flip out when he learns the truth. Will this be the kind of earth-shattering news that makes Jake go off the rails, or will both Otto boys see their father’s death as a kind of liberation?
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Stay tuned on this one, fellow Fear the Walking Dead fans. I don’t think we’ve seen the last of Troy, nor do I think that Nick will get away with murder so easily.