Fear The Walking Dead Season Seven: Who’s The Worst?

Fear the Walking Dead -Teddy Maddox

You might think that, with Teddy (John Glover) dead at the end of season six, we’d be done with him. Thinking of who would classify as villains for this season, I thought back to episode 703, “Cindy Hawkins,” where we followed June and John Dorie, Sr. They attempted to make a go of things from inside Teddy’s fallout shelter, nestled inside a cliff, which would end up overlooking were one of the warheads fell as his master plan was carried out. I was suddenly reminded of some of the more awful aspects of Teddy that we only learned this season.

In episode 703, we learned that Teddy’s bunker was a fallout shelter, but only by coincidence. As it would turn out, the shelter was originally where Teddy conducted his sick, ritualistic murdering of some twenty-odd young women, the fact it would also make due as a place to ride out the nuclear explosion only served as a bonus.

We also learned the awful things Teddy did to his victims, including draining them of their blood and then embalming them before (in the case of his last victim, Cindy Hawkins, anyway) leaving them in the wall of his bunker as a sick trophy.

Another thing that, upon watching that episode, I simply couldn’t finish this list without mentioning: As the nukes launched, Teddy, with Dakota in tow, raced to the bunker. At the time, I assumed it was simply to hide from the blast, but, after realizing just what the bunker was, it hit me: Teddy brought Dakota there with him to kill her. Before he destroyed everything, Teddy wanted one last thrill of the kill to tide him over, to gloat over, and Dakota was going to be it. He tried to lure her down there, pretending to understand her, pretending to protect her from the Hell outside, but, in reality, he was going to wait for the right moment, knock her out and do to her what he’d done to so many other girls before.

Tell me how he didn’t deserve one last mention on the “Who’s The Worst” list.