‘Fear the Walking Dead’ recap mid-season finale episode 207: ‘Shiva’

Last week on Fear the Walking Dead, our extended family arrived at a secure house in Mexico only to find danger within their group. This week we find out how extensive that danger is.

Daniel has dreams of himself as a boy. Ofelia wakes him when she hears gunfire. Daniel drags her outside, but she can’t keep up. She starts peeling off her face like a walker and Daniel awakes for real. He’s really starting to lose it.

Celia slaps Strand for shooting Thomas after he died. Maddie stands up for him. Celia tells our family that she wants them gone.

Travis comes outside and asks Alecia to help him find Chris. She refuses and tells him that Chris was standing over her bed with a knife when the shot when off. Travis denies that he would hurt her. He’s blind when it comes to his son.

Travis finds Chris in the vineyards. He calls to him, but Chris runs away. Where can he go?

Daniel sharpens a razor and puts it in his pocket. The house staff is talking behind Strand’s back as he digs a hole to bury Thomas.

Travis finds a knife buried in a walker’s head. He removes and cleans it. We see Chris walking across a field. What’s he doing with a gun?

Maddie asks her kids to gather supplies without drawing attention to themselves. Nick offers to talk to Celia, but Maddie tells him to stay away from her. Once Travis comes back, they’re leaving. Celia is a dangerous woman.

Travis is limping and hears something in a nearby building. He finds a man who doesn’t speak English. Travis removes his socks and his feet are full of bloody blisters. How much further can he go?

Nick comes onto the house grounds with Thomas’s walker brother as an offering for Celia. She asks Nick to stay, but he refuses to abandon his family. Nick says they will learn to accept the walkers. She tells him Strand still has to leave. The walkers are not death. They are life, eternal. Is she crazy or is there something to this belief?

Daniel tries to stop Strand from burying Thomas on Celia’s land. He says it’s infected. Strand notices something is off about him. Is Daniel a threat?

Maddie lectures Nick for risking his life. He says Celia just wanted her son back. Surely she can comprehend that? He says he moves invisibly. He won’t die.

Daniel tries to drag Ofelia to the gate. When the house staff tries to stop him, he attacks them with the razor.

Strand tells Maddie that Nick was bound to attach himself to beliefs bigger than his own. He offers to bring Maddie back to the boat. She can’t leave without Travis.

The man tells Travis which way Chris went. Travis sees a book in English on a chair and asks the man again if he speaks English. The man tries to usher him away, but Travis sees movement beneath the door. The man tells him quietly that Chris threatened to hurt his son if he doesn’t make Travis leave. Now maybe Travis will understand how messed up Chris really is. He bursts through the door and finds Chris with a little boy held hostage.

Celia holds a funeral for Thomas. The other workers gives Strand dirty looks as they throw handfuls of dirt in the grave. Alecia is upset that Strand has to leave.

Ofelia asks to see her father. Celia says he’s a danger to himself and others. She certainly rules the house with an iron fist.

Chris says Travis’s family treats him like monster. Travis knocks the gun from his hand and Chris runs again. Who’s the bigger danger? Daniel or Chris? Travis tackles him. Chris steals his knife and tries to stab him. Travis breaks it from his grip and tells him he should have helped him. Chris says he’s no good. Is there hope for him?

Fear the Walking Dead S02E07 fight
Credit: Richard Foreman, Jr/AMC

Daniel tells Celia that the walkers are an abomination against God. He hears voices. Celia tells him to confess his sins and the dead will forgive him. He refuses to speak. Celia says there’s a place for him here. When she leaves, Daniel has a vision of his wife.

Nick finds Travis who tells him that Chris can’t come back now, so neither can he. He wants Nick to tell Maddie he never found him. Nick gives Travis a knife and leaves. Can Travis really abandon Maddie and the kids so easily?

Maddie accosts Celia about filling her son’s head with false faith. Celia says the only reason the family is allowed to stay is because of Nick. If Maddie can’t see the dead with new eyes, Nick will have to choose between his family and Celia. Who would he choose?

Daniel tells his wife that Celia is a demon. He flashes back to shooting his first victim as a boy. His wife tells him the first victim was him.

Celia brings Maddie to visit the walkers. Maddie backs away and locks Celia in with them. She claims she is saving her children. Celia faces death stoically.

A man comes to untie Daniel so he can eat. Daniel drops his utensil, then head-butts the man. He steals a lighter from his pocket.

Celia’s workers walk Strand to the gate. Alecia waves to him.

Daniel opens the walkers’ compartment in the basement and dumps gasoline. Where is Celia? His wife greets him and he drops the lighter. The fire burns beneath his feet.

Fear the Walking Dead S02E07 Daniel lighter
Credit: Richard Foreman, Jr/AMC

Maddie tries to get Daniel out, but he’s already dead. Strand pulls up and offers the family a ride. Maddie won’t leave without Nick and Travis. Nick comes over the hill and asks who did this. He says Celia was right about them. Maddie tries to get him to the truck, but he runs away. Strand drags a distraught Maddie into the vehicle and they exit the gates.

Fear the Walking Dead will be on hiatus until August 21.

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