Fear The Walking Dead, Ofelia: Things To Note

Fear the Walking Dead – Ofelia

1) This week’s “Previously” focuses on Wes, Luciana, Daniel, and Charlie warning Sarah not to go searching the wasteland for Wendell (episode 704, “Breathe With Me”). Alicia tells Morgan about the dire straits her followers are in (episode 708, “PADRE”). Alicia tells Morgan she’ll get the army they need by offering them a safe place to live, and Sage and Arno discover the warhead crater and its horde of radioactive walkers (From episode 709, “Follow Me”).

2) This episode gets its name both from the fact that throughout the episode, from Daniel mistaking Luciana for his daughter to the belief the Stalkers (and later Strand) are holding her captive. It focuses on Daniel’s misplaced belief in the survival of his long-dead daughter, Ofelia.

3) At the beginning of the episode, when Luciana tells Daniel that Ofelia isn’t there anymore, he brushes it off as her having left and not being dead. It’s possible that this may be Daniel thinking it’s a few years earlier, as the last time Daniel knew of Ofelia’s status before her death, he’d been told by Strand that Ofelia was with him, Madison, and Alicia at the Rosarito Beach Hotel before she left them.

4) When arguing with Luciana, who finds him in the abandoned playground, Daniel mentions that he knows Luciana is lonely. Is he referring to Nick being dead? If so, it might mean that he’s blocked out the memory of Ofelia’s death from his mind but carried on remembering events that came some time later, as Nick’s death came afterOfelia’s.

5) While most of the group consistently call the dead walkers, which is Morgan’s name for them, Wes still calls them he and Derek’s name for them: Eaters.

6) This week’s title sequence features a silhouette of Daniel on a walkway with a crane behind him, standing above a herd of walkers reaching up for him, in front of a blue background as the edges of the title card burn and the usual theme plays.