Fear The Walking Dead, Season Six: Who’s THE WORST?

5) Cole

This one’s just kind of sad, guys.

If you’ve been following me long enough, you know I love when a long gone (Or, in this case, thought lone dead) character returns. I loved it when Morgan came back when Judith was shown alive after the prison fell, and when we found out, Daniel escaped death not once but twice. So, for me, seeing someone from The Diamond alive after two whole seasons thought dead was great at first.

However, as Cole himself would reveal to Alicia in “Mother,” that time separated from Alicia, Nick, Luciana, and Strand changed him, and not for the better.

As the episode unfolded, Cole revealed that after he, Doug, Viv, and several others survived the Vultures attack back in the season four midseason finale, “No One’s Gone.” We learned that life wasn’t exactly peachy for them, as they were ambushed by bandits, with several of their number being killed. After this encounter, it seems that Cole reasoned, “If you can’t beat ’em…join ’em,” and chose to become a bandit himself and drag the remainder of his friends with him.

After that, Cole wasn’t intent on simply robbing people but killing them and blowing massive holes in their torsos with shotguns, not even granting them the dignity of not turning into a walker afterward. On top of all of that, if his tactics against Alicia, Dakota, and Teddy are any indication, Cole can’t even be upfront about being a bandit. Like Terminus, he convinces them he’s friendly, offers to help them at the nearby garage, then robs them and shoots them in the back.

Worse still, according to Cole himself, this version of him was always there, lurking in the background, looking for a chance to come out, but was simply never needed while at The Diamond.

It’s bad enough when the apocalypse turns good people bad; it’s a whole nother thing when it reveals that, maybe, they were never good in the first place.