Episode 12 of Fear the Walking Dead contained several twists.
While the ending was heart-breaking, there was also a moment during the episode that had many fans scratching their heads.
The moment in question occurred when Grace (Karen David) was talking to her imaginary daughter, Athena (Sahana Srinivasan), about her father.
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For many viewers, the assumption is that Morgan (Lennie James) is Athena’s father. In fact, at the start of this episode, there are certainly mentions of this being the case.
However, this soon changes.
Grace states that Matthew is Athena’s father
During the conversation, Grace refers to Athena’s biological father, making the distinction from Morgan, who raised her in the dream-like state that most of this episode of Fear the Walking Dead resided in.
The Walking Dead franchise really has a thing for aging its protagonists up in happy dream sequences, doesnât it? We saw âOld Man Rickâ (Andrew Lincoln) during
Deadâs Season 7 â and now, we have âOld Man Morganâ (Lennie James).
Unlike on the main show, though, this alternate version of Mo-Mo isnât a vision heâs having: instead, it belongs to his beau Grace (Karen David). Unconscious, injured, and in childbirth, her mind travels to an alternate reality where trees are pink, Morgan has white hair and a beard, and everyoneâs happy (thatâs how you
know itâs not really real). Oh, and she meets her daughter, Athena, there â but not all is as it seems, and the end of the episode provides one of the seasonâs biggest and most heartbreaking twists (and on Motherâs Day, no less!?). Hereâs what happens.
Mon May 10, 2021 at 5:59am ET
Karen David stars as Grace, as seen in Episode 12 of Fear the Walking Dead Season 6. Pic credit: AMC/Ryan Green
I’m warning you now that this episode of Fear the Walking Dead is a real tear-jerker and you’d better get those tissues ready well advance and this is coming from someone who usually doesn’t get overly emotional when it comes to characters in the zombie apocalypse.
I mean, AMC kind of killed my emotional response after what happened to Glenn (Steven Yeun) in The Walking Dead.
Still, this episode manages to punch you repeatedly right in the feels. And, even if you had some preconceived ideas on what was going to go down thanks to AMC releasing the first few minutes prior to Episode 12 aired, you might just want to hold onto your hat anyway.
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Okay, so I went into the
Fear the Walking Dead episode In Dreams with two preconceived notions unabashedly at the forefront of my mind: dream-based TV episodes usually feel like filler, and this series will never possibly wreck my emotional guts more than Jenna Elfman s June discovering Garret Dillahunt s John after he d already gone into full walker mode. And yet somehow, even with the arguably unnecessary amnesia element thrown in there, Karen David s Grace made the dreams meaningful, and in the most gingerly brutal way that possibly crushed me even more than John s death. I d slow-clap if it all wasn t so damned sad. (Well, except for seeing Salazar and Strand being all buddy-buddy.)
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Posted May 09, 2021
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Season 6 episode 12 is called “In Dreams.” AMC says, “Grace wakes up with her memory blurred and sees what her world’s become years later.”
Sahana Sprinivasan as Athena on Fear the Walking Dead on May 9, 2021. (Ryan Green/AMC)
Lennie James as Morgan Jones on Fear the Walking Dead on May 9, 2021. (Ryan Green/AMC)
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