Yet in this week’s episode of Fear the Walking Dead, titled “USS Pennsylvania,” and spoilers past this point, Morgan tested that plot armor surrounding him, as he had the rest of the cast stormed a beached submarine to try to prevent nuclear armageddon.
And I think that the way the guys are telling the story through this season, and right all the way to the end of it, actually, is a bit like the audience and a bit like you: I’ve never felt my position being more precarious.
And I think Bernardo , who’s our main set designer and production designer, and his team outdid themselves with the submarine, because they had to create a space that was both claustrophobic, but also open to the new protocols that we’re filming under because of COVID.
It was a little bit of both… Because the submarine has length as well as depth, and then it has the different bits, there was quite a chunk of it that was built, but it was built within the studio, but in like seven or eight different pieces.
And it’s a bit like how they describe the devil in Usual Suspects, that the greatest trick the devil ever played was to convince everybody that he didn’t exist.
And one of the things that he realizes almost immediately, even after Strand has left him for dead, is that what’s going on is bigger than him, and it’s bigger than Strand.
Morgan tells Strand, he has this big speech about how he was motivated to keep pulling the sacrifice play, to throw himself into dire danger, because he feels awful about giving the key to Teddy and setting up the whole situation.
It is to do with the needs for not just him to have a future, but the people that he cares about, and particularly the woman that he loves to have a future.
And I just don’t think he can suffer many more losses like that, and doesn’t want to be part of what he believes causing that, which is why he keeps trying to leave the group behind.
I think when you’re really up against it, sometimes you’re forced to, at the very least, acknowledged the truth of your situation.
But I do think it’s the right choice for him, the man that he is, and the moment that he’s in.
But actually, the degree to which he believes this to be to the end of the road means that he doesn’t care whether they’re there or not there.
I don’t know if you’ve ever been in a car crash or an accident, but there’s a moment where everything just slows and everything just stops.
*If you want to quibble about it, Morgan disappeared for a few seasons on The Walking Dead before popping up again, so there are other characters who have appeared in more episodes.