Fear The Walking Dead season seven: Who isn’t the worst?

Fear the Walking Dead – Madison Clark

There wasn’t much from Madison’s appearance in the season finale of Fear TWD that could, you know, actually redeem her. For the majority of that episode, she was still a kidnapper, carrying on a mission from a mysterious group of people even though the very thing that they were motivating her with she herself had long since rejected. Not only was she a kidnapper still, but she had earned the ire of a band of local survivors who had already run into her and been separated from their children, so, to put it mildly, we’re off to a rough start.

However, this isn’t to say that there’s nothing to work with.

Firstly, there’s the fact that she saved Morgan from meeting a probably grisly end at the hands of the angry parents who, it would turn out, were actually looking for her, so it’s nice that she wasn’t going to let Morgan take an execution by drowning meant for her.

Secondly, there’s her decision to accept her fate at the hands of the parent’s posse; rather than have them bust into Ava Sanderson’s family crypt and let a firefight ensue. She advised Morgan to surrender her to them and spare Morgan’s life in the process.

And thirdly, there was her decision to aid Morgan in his quest to infiltrate P.A.D.R.E. after seeing his reaction to Ava’s walker and realizing that he wasn’t “gone.” She chose to help him take on a powerful and dangerous enemy, whose size and power, not even Madison herself really knows, in the hope of stopping Morgan from suffering the same pain she did.

These three things together aren’t necessarily enough to redeem Madison, but they’re enough to give her the potential to be redeemed in the future. It isn’t much, but it’s a start.