Fear the Walking Dead 509 recap: Channel 4

PSA

Later that night the group enjoys a big cookout at the campsite. Grace is making pad thai from the recipe she’d had on her fridge for years.

Tess says her husband thought they should try to stay put, and that help would come someday. She hugs her son. He was right, she says.

John says they have a tradition of sharing noodles around a campfire with this group, referring to the first time they ate together as a new group. Morgan asks if Alicia wants to practice tomorrow and she says she has a new project. In her interview she reveals that she wants to learn who has been painting messages on the trees. She smiles slightly. She wants to find them.

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The gas truck rolls up and Strand and Luciana go to greet Sarah. Salazar, Dwight and Charlie get out. Later, they all enjoy the meal, sitting around the fire and laughing. Dwight laughs. Alicia and Charlie sit side by side and laugh.

Morgan says they all need help at some point, and Al asks if he’s talking about Tess or himself. He admits it has been a long time since he lost his family, and he hasn’t said goodbye. He thinks he needs to, but he doesn’t know how.

Alicia says she needs help. She needs to find her own way to make everything better.

John wants to make the world more like it used to be.

June needs to find a place for the group to settle in. And it can’t be like the other places they have been.

Grace wants to make the most of the time she has left. She has a lot left to do.

Strand wants to make the most of his second chance.

Salazar wants to be the man that Ofelia wanted him to be, someone she would be proud of.

Dwight wants to end his days knowing he has tried to help people every day.

Charlie wants to do right, helping the people who took a chance on her.

Sarah wants to keep the truck running so that it helps everyone.

Al wants to make sure the stories are more than just things they have taped.

John reveals his empty bowl. The group is having fun eating together and Al says that these tapes need to mean more.

Soon the members of the group are addressing the camera directly. That’s the whole reason they made the tape. They need help from everyone watching. The episode has been one giant PSA to prove their intentions to anyone who sees the tape. That’s how they can help. Pick up a walkie, leave food for someone. Help everyone you can.

The tape ends and a man is sitting in a truck stop. He turns off the TV and sees the walkie next to the set with “Channel 4” written on it. He puts the radio in his bag and then looks to see where the TV is getting its power. There’s a generator locked in a room, so he breaks the lock using a hammer next to one of the mile marker supply boxes.

Later he walks out of Lone Oak Gas and fills up his motorcycle with a sidecar. Unfortunately, he barely manages to gas up when two cars roll up. Logan and his henchmen get out, guns drawn. The man doesn’t want any trouble. Logan tosses his boots to him and says that the holes are from walking 200 miles. “The dead walk. We weren’t meant to,” Logan says. He spent too much time clearing the roads with Clayton only to lose the oil fields now.

Logan signals his people to siphon the gas. He needs to know where the oil fields are, but the man from the gas station doesn’t know where they are. Logan wants to know if he’s with Morgan’s people, but he’s not. They shoot up his bike so that he can’t follow him. They shoot one tire, and then they light it up. Logan smiles. He advises the other man to get away before the walkers get there. He hands the man the walkie and tells him to call Morgan and let him know they’re making more enemies than friends, and they have “more bullets than we know what to do with.”

Fear the Walking Dead returns Sunday at 9pm on AMC.