Fear The Walking Dead, Close Your Eyes: Things To Note
By Liam O'Leary
7) After Alicia gets knocked out whilst trying to leave the house during the storm, Charlie rescues her, as well as the photos of the family, both literally and symbolically bringing them back. Is this meant to foreshadow her eventually “bringing back” Alicia from her despair later in the episode?
8) With the infected gathering around a lonely house in the country, while two occupants try to survive inside (With the original occupants now being zombies), this episode is somewhat reminiscent of the quintessential zombie movie: George A. Romero’s original Night Of The Living Dead.
9) In a heartbreaking bit of symbolism, Alicia discovers that the obstruction in the chimney was a dead bird. Clearly, this reminds Alicia of the bird she and Nick nursed back to health as kids (The story of which Madison recounted to Althea in the flashbacks in the midseason finale, “No One’s Gone”), as well as the hope (or lack thereof) it represented.
10) With Charlie nearly letting the balcony infected bite her, as well as her confession that she brought the gun to kill herself, this confirms that her failure to defend herself against the washed up infected in the midseason premiere, “People Like Us”, was no accident.
11) Alicia’s comment to Charlie (After learning the outbreak nixed her family’s plans to visit Galveston) that “we all missed out on things” is a reference to her plans to go to college, which we learned about waaaaay back in the pilot episode.
12) Alicia tells Charlie that the last time she was at a beach, it was filled with the dead (just like everywhere else). The beach she refers to is at the Rosarito Beach Hotel in Baja, where she, Madison, Travis (albeit briefly), and Strand stayed in the latter half of Season Two.