Fear the Walking Dead season 5 premiere recap: Here to Help
Suddenly a van pulls up with a girl inside. It’s Annie, the boys’ sister. Everyone gets in and they drive off. Morgan comments that he always hated flying, but Annie isn’t amused. “You have no idea where you landed, do you?” she asks. As she drives she mows down the “growlers” in her way. She might be too young to drive but she’s doing a good job of it.
Next we see Charlie and Strand in Al’s SWAT van. They’re driving along the road, also plowing through walkers, and Charlie asks Strand if he’s sure about Al’s message and “Skidmark.” He’s sure. Wendell radios from the truck behind them and asks if he can handle this, unlike the last time, whatever that means. Wendell calls him “Vick”. Strand insists that he’s sure.
We return to the other van, where Alicia unwraps her injured hands and asks Annie about the signs at the crash site. Annie says they don’t know what happened there. She says the roads to the east were washed out and the roads to the south and west all have the radiation signs on them. They’d been passing through the area with their parents and now they’re stuck. Dylan asks Al if she’s a pilot, but she says she was a journalist. Max says that’s why they crashed, but Al is quick to point out that they “crash landed.” She also notes that she wasn’t supposed to be flying the plane.
Max asks if Logan is part of their group, and Morgan says they don’t know him. Annie can’t believe that they have never met him and he’s probably dead. Max can’t believe what they’re doing. Annie stops the car and Max says it makes no sense that they’re trying to help people they don’t know, but Morgan reminds him that they helped Luciana. Annie tells them that they’re in a very dangerous place. It’s more than the radiation signs, she says. “You’ll see.”
Soon they come upon a group of walkers who have been strung together with their innards. Al goes to investigate them. Above them there are walker heads in the trees, clicking their jaws frantically. John notes that it keeps getting uglier. June reminds the group that they need to keep moving. Annie refuses to drive them into danger if they’re going toward more walkers, so Morgan says they will walk. He admits that they have been going around trying to help for a while and it’s not working out. Alicia adds that lots of the people were dead or didn’t want help, but Logan was the first to want it. “He better be worth it,” Annie tells them, agreeing to drive. They cut through the walkers and continue the drive.