Fear The Walking Dead, Still Standing: Things To Note

1) Of the thirty-one remaining contaminated walkers, Strand and Charlie have encountered at least five at their crash site: A male one with a tan sweater-vest, a female one with long, gray shirt, a bald male one with a mangled, skeletal face, another male one, this time in a horizontally striped shirt, and, another female one, wearing a light-colored blouse.

2) The title sequence this week features a barbed-wire fence with radiation signs, with the nuclear plant’s smokestacks belching steam hinting at the plant’s meltdown in this episode.

3) “Olly Olly oxen free”, the Cackleberry Kids’ passcode, is the same one Dylan used to radio his siblings while spying on the group at the truck stop in this season’s fourth episode, “Skidmark”.

4) The Cackleberry Kids’ base being a large treehouse (And, of course, the fact they’re a group comprised entirely of kids) makes them resemble some sort zombie apocalypse version of The Lost Boys from Peter Pan, and their base serving as their equivalent to Never Never Land. Annie (Or maybe Alicia) could even be seen as their version of Wendy.

5) Alicia telling Annie her gunbarrel-sword is “my past” is a subtle reference to just how much Alicia’s life’s changed since she first got the weapon back in the Season Four episode, “Buried” (A scene which, itself, was a flashback), specifically, that the life she lived at that point, and most of the people she lived it with, are all gone.