This weeks episode doesnt waste too much time revealing what that is.
Waking up to the coughs of an older woman in the infirmary, Nick decides to take a walk.
There he finds a young girl choking back tears.
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He walks toward the back and comes out the other end, presenting himself to the dead.
We spend only minutes at a time with each before side-stepping back to the other.
She agrees, and we cut back to the colony where Nick is walking through the street of vendors.
A woman tending to the sick by the hospital calls him over to assist.
Still injecting him with a syringe, Alejandro says, Maybe tomorrow.
We leave as Nick locks eyes with the mysterious pharmacist and Luciana, who are quietly plotting.
They make it back to the coast where they left the boat, only to find it missing.
Upon trying a garden faucet, which spews brown water, Luciana comes along.
She remarks in Spanish how the hose is worse before motioning for Nick to follow her.
We have work to do, she says.
Another abrupt scene change brings us just outside the hotel.
A hand smacking against it confirms theyre being watched.
Victor jimmies fire up the door, which is barricaded with chairs and tables.
Clearly someone tried securing the ground floor, but Alicia asks, Where are they now?
Luciana then takes a note from Nicks book and lathers herself in the walkers blood, which Nick repeats.
He asks why he was chosen for this secret mission.
She responds that no one will miss him, prompting another question, Who will miss you?
She says, The only one whos gonna miss me is already missing.
She confesses she, too, was married to a good man named William.
Those near death deliver themselves to the dead, she says.
But Nick questions whether theyre wrong, whether they just fed a friend to the dead for no reason.
Infuriated by his lack of faith, Luciana fires back, revealing her beliefs in the process.
She likens the dead to a natural disaster, natures way of cleansing the earth.
Without him, wed be lost, she says.
Alicia tries to take initiative and search the floors, but Madison wants her to stay put.
This place is dead, Alicia foreshadows.
Diffusing the tension left behind, Victor hops behind the bar to make some drinks.
She says all supplies run through here and the men will hang you for looking at them wrong.
Luciana walks up to their presumed leader.
She says theyre here for water and hands over a bag of pharmaceutical drugs as payment.
It used to be, he responds.
Defeated, she pushes the carriage into the store and begins weaving through the food aisles sentineled by guards.
Madison and Victor have already drank their fill.
reveals her Alabama roots.
Upstairs, Alicia and Ofelia walk into a hallway to conduct their scan of the rooms.
But for Ofelia, she answers, I think its the carpets.
After departing, Alicia switches the sign on the doorknob to read, Do not disturb.
They round the corner to reveal a group of sick people shivering and coughing in camping tents.
Nick notices the gangs leader crouching by a woman, holding her hand.
Ofelia suggests he grew tired of surviving, to which Alicia responds, You dont get tired of surviving.
You just push on.
Attempting to pull her out of despair, Alicia counters that hope is all they have.
We lose that, and were dead.
Taking his sisters advice from afar, Nick is surviving.
One of the gang members jumps him for stealing a candy bar.
Now, thanks to Nicks revelation, theyre interested.
Thoughts of Nick return to Madison, whos now completely consumed by worry and liquor.
Worrying shell never see him again, she says he was born lost like his daddy.
He tries to take her drink, but she shakes him off and makes a toast to motherhood.
Instead of taking a sip, she hurls her glass at the wall.
She pours herself another one, this time cheering false hope.
That one she swallows, but still chucks the glass.
Meanwhile, Alicia gets out of the bathroom after taking a shower and cant find Ofelia.
He stole the candy bar for her, though the girl doesnt accept it initially.
As Luciana watches from afar, she smiles when the girl succumbs to the sweetness.
Nick then meets up with Alejandro, who notes he almost started a war over that candy bar.
What did you think she needed?
Fumbling for the right answer, Nick lands on comfort, as not everything can be about death.
Alejandro disagrees, using his patient as an example.
The saline solution he administered earlier wont help his infection, explaining that comfort isnt a supplement for faith.
Its now clear hes the puppet master who put those words about a cleansing in Lucianas mouth.
Gloria 2.0) is both an intriguing and worrisome concept.
Its a worthy enough destination for Los Muertos, which highlights the formatting difficulties ofFear the Walking Dead.
The speed between scene changes begins to bur together at the very end.
