Fear the Walking Dead recap: '100' 

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veteran Alycia Debnam-Carey does not factor in to “100” at all. (That would have been a fun Easter egg.) Instead, it’s all about Daniel Salazar: what happened him after the fire at Celia’s estate, where he went, how he came to be at the dam with Dante, and what happens next.

, have hit speed bumps in the form of frequent filler episodes that drag out the story with seemingly no purpose or direction. However, an entire episode dedicated primarily to Daniel doesn’t detract so much; he’s one of the more interesting characters we’ve encountered in this world, and he plays with the concept of people having to atone, post-apocalypse, for sins committed in the old world. Few are more tormented than Daniel, who’s still haunted by each life he took. (He counts 96 so far.)

As Daniel explains to his savior on the road, Efrain — a roaming priest in everything but title — he doesn’t know precisely how he survived the fire at Celia’s. Daniel only knows that he fought and fought until he passed out, and he came to later, only to find everything and everyone else dead. So he began walking, driven by his need to find Ofelia, not knowing whether or not his act took her life as well.

Efrain finds Daniel hiding from walkers underneath a car with his leg badly burned. Crying out for water, Daniel is taken to a “miracle” fountain; though dry, it spouts water every Tuesday at 5 p.m., and Efrain flocks to it as if to receive communion. With it, he speeds through what remains of the community to deliver them water, dodges militia from the nearby Gonzalez Dam (where Dante resides), and uses what remains of the supply to cleanse walkers of their sins before killing them.

Efrain takes his wounded friend to a woman named Lola, who uses a razor to slice off the burnt, infected skin from Daniel’s leg and bandages him together with a crutch. In the days that follow, Daniel works with Efrain to scavenge for supplies and offers his savior a professional haircut as thanks. Though Efrain doesn’t consider himself a priest, Daniel confesses his sins and asks forgiveness, fearing it’s time to pay his debts.

When Efrain falls asleep, Daniel has a religious experience that puts him in contact with Dante: Daniel goes outside and, in prayer to God, kneels at the feet of a walker too big for him to take down. A bolt of lightning streaks from the storming sky above and scorches the dead. The event leaves Daniel unconscious, and he’s swept down a watery current, where he’s found by two maintenance workers at the dam.

They hide him, fearing Dante will think they’re all in cahoots to steal his water, and take Daniel to Lola, who’s working in water treatment. She provides him a cover as one of the new janitors clearing out the dead so the water supply remains untainted. However, he soon attracts the eye of Dante, who recognizes his reflexes and the tattoo on the inside of his bottom lip as markers of the Sombra Negra, referring to Daniel’s killer instincts in the civil war. Dante offers him a place at the dam worthy of his status, should he help weed out whoever is siphoning water from his supply.

Daniel now becomes one of the men searching for Efrain in a white truck, which forces him to make a scarring choice. They come across the fountain seconds away from 5 o’clock. To protect the people’s water supply, Daniel exposes Efrain. He later faces Lola, the real water thief, who’s furious over this apparent betrayal. Daniel tries to warn her that she too will be caught and killed (Efrain’s perceived fate) if she doesn’t stop, but she can’t stand by and watch people die from something as preventable as dehydration.

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