Fear of Walking Dead Ends Alicia Against Victor Strand’s War

Warning: This story contains spoilers for the Sunday Providence episode of Fear the Walking Dead. All is fair in love and war. Alicia Clark (Alycia Debnam-Carey) declares war against former BFF Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) to take his tower and turn it into PADRE, a safe haven for the outcast survivors of the nuclear zombie apocalypse. But Strand—who lit a beacon on the roof of the tower to attract a crowd of pedestrians and drive away Alicia to start Season Seven—made a frightening confession in Providence: “When I first lit that beacon, I did it to drive you away. Now to keep you inside.”

After Alicia reaches Strand’s Tower with her army of survivors, Wes (Colby Holman) warns Strand not to let Alicia in—literally both And figuratively speaking. With Alicia trapped inside, Strand reveals his plan to re-ignite the light, luring radioactive infantry into the tower to kill Alicia’s army.

Alicia’s attempt to take Strand hostage at gunpoint and force him to turn off the light ended with her collapsing from a chronic fever before they could reach the surface. After revealing that she is dying of a mysterious illness after being stung by a pedestrian, Alicia agrees to spend the remaining time with Strand in his tower in exchange for a ceasefire. “Give me what you have left,” Strand pleaded with Alicia. “I want to make it clear to you that you are wrong about me.”

Wearing the St. Christopher’s medal that Strand gave her in Luton in Season 6, which she later retrieved after Strand threw Will (Jos Halper) from the roof of the tower only to hurt her, Alicia accepted her fate – but Wes didn’t. Wes led the Ranger’s rebellion against Strand, determined to protect what Strand had built by taking the tower to keep the Pedestrian Attraction running.

Outnumbered by men, Strand lied to a confused Danielle Salazar (Robin Blades) after Luciana (Danae Garcia) convinced him that his daughter Ophelia was alive on the top floor of the tower. “I know you think I’m a monster, but I’m the same guy I’ve always been,” Strand told Alicia. “I’ve stopped apologizing for that.” When asked if he thought so, Strand replied, “I do. And you are. That’s why I’m willing to turn that light off—because I want you to see that everything I did was worth it.”

This leads Strand to take ailing Alicia to the Burj Infirmary to save his “closest thing” to his daughter. Surrounded by Wes and the Rangers on the upper floors of the tower, Alicia Strand admitted that her friend would make him “realize something I should have told you in a long time: I love you, Alicia. You are the closest thing I have left to the family.”

“That’s what this has been about,” Strand explained. “That’s what it’s always been about.” “I just wanted to prove something to you. I hoped this place would show you the man I am. Everything I did, everything that cost me, was worth it. Because if it didn’t happen… then it was for nothing.”

At gunpoint, Alicia confesses to Wes that she wanted to reach the roof of the tower to broadcast a message to the survivors searching for PADRE. The tower might be where people are trying to find it. When Alicia tries to persuade Wes to avoid her and Strand from execution, and tells Wes that he once believed in them before, Strand stabs and kills Wes in front of a shocked Alicia.

“why are you doing that?” She asked. “The same reason I built the tower the way I did,” Strand replied. “So you won’t have to.”

Alicia and Strand work together to get Morgan’s (Lenny James) group of survivors to a safe location inside the tower, avoiding them from being torn apart by a horde of irradiated dead drawn by the light. But when Strand went to stop the tower’s beacon, he doubted that Alicia could ever forgive him for his sins.

“It will never be enough,” Strand cried. “It will never make you love me.” A physical fight ensued, and the light was forever broken. From the top of the dark roof, Alicia sent a message to the survivors in search of PADRE by broadcasting the coordinates to the tower.

But then the roof of the tower caught fire, and sparks from the broken lighthouse ignited a fire that quickly spread throughout the building. Alicia Clarke’s war against Victor Strand – and their friendship – seems to end in flames as Alicia collapses from a fever atop a burning tower.

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