Fear the Walking Dead 516 season finale recap: End of the Line
Things go from bad to worse in the season 5 finale of Fear the Walking Dead. Here’s your recap of episode 516, “End of the Line.”
The Fear the Walking Dead season finale begins with Dwight running through the woods. He has been running for a while, clearly, and then suddenly his radio goes off. It’s Sherry…maybe. She’s asking if he can hear her, but when the signal starts to die he throws the radio into the distance and looks up to see that he has arrived at the spot where they abandoned the vehicles.
Suddenly he hears the sound of approaching footsteps and lots of horses. He hides under the car and then pops out only to find that the group of horses have no riders. The horses have saddles so they clearly once had riders. They stand waiting while he pets the lead horse. “You just saved my life,” he tells it.
Cue the credits, here we go! Tonight’s title card scene features the same view, but there’s a horse in the distance. The horse raises its head and snorts a bit.
Back at the Gulch, Virginia is very happy to hear from Morgan. They have generators running that makes their radios work even better now. She told him that he wouldn’t find the future over the bridge. She’s not happy when he says that they’re in the Gulch, which is the site of the largest settlement she had ever seen. Their leader didn’t listen to her and it collapsed as she predicted. Morgan says that they could stay there if Virginia’s people helped clear it out, but that’s not what she’s offering. She wants them to move and she’s not budging.
Morgan wants to know that she will take everyone, and that they’ll go together. But she won’t make that promise. She’s going to make the tough decisions because she has over 800 people thriving and Morgan only has 41. Oh, yeah, 40. (Sorry, Tom)
She wants Morgan to start thinking about the future and as Morgan looks at the group of his people sitting under a covered patio he has to think about his response. She reminds him that they won’t be together anymore but they will all be alive, so that’s something. Virginia will be there by the end of the day.