Fear the Walking Dead 505 recap: The End of Everything
Al wants to know what was on the map, and what the three circles mean. They’re driving along, and Al keeps asking questions and Soldier remains silent. Al decides to call her “Happy” because Soldier is so chipper. Eventually Soldier asks why any of this matters. Al says their stories are all that will be left.
There’s a landslide ahead and the road fills with walkers, so Soldier gets out to take care of it, telling Al to stay in the car. Al immediately gets out, noting that she doesn’t take orders from her. Soldier sheds her armored coat and tells Al to put it on, because she can’t afford for Al to get bit. If Al wants to get “transactional,” she says, then Al needs to know that everything she does is to make sure there are “more than stories after she dies.”
Once they’re out killing the walkers, another landslide falls on the call. Al says that she never stays in the car, and that this rule has kept her alive more than once. Al goes back for her bag and a buried walker almost kills her. If not for the suit, she would have been bitten. Soldier grabs her bag and finds a tape hidden in the bottom. It’s Bog #7, which we’ve seen before.
Soldier watches the video and sees that it’s from the start of the outbreak as Al reports on the army bearing down as things start to go crazy. Al apologizes to her brother Jesse, to whom she could have been with but she ended up going after the story instead. She asks Soldier why she killed her partner, but Soldier doesn’t answer. Al stalks off and Soldier calls after her, telling her that if she sees anyone wearing one of those jackets she should be afraid. They are making the world ready for what’s next, and that means their lives are dedicated to the cause. Al’s stories are the past. They’re securing the future. Al keeps walking.
They arrive at a dead end full of abandoned cars. They start looking inside and find that they aren’t the only ones who were trying to get over the mountains. Inside one car is a map of Texas and a bunch of climbing gear. Al says that they had to fly to get into the area because the roads aren’t passable. Soldier asks if her foot is ok and if she’s ok with heights. Al doesn’t feel like talking anymore.
Soldier decides to make camp there for the night. She gives Al a kit and tells her to wrap her foot and get rest.
That night Soldier joins Al in the hanging tent that is suspended above ground to stay out of walkers’ reach. Al says she has never told anyone about her brother and the decision she made to follow the story. Soldier says they’re the same kind of person. They both had jobs and kept trying to do them even when the world fell apart. That’s why she killed her partner, and she apologizes that what she did got in the way of Al doing her job. But her job matters a great deal to her.