Fear The Walking Dead Easter Egg Makes 2 Deaths Even More Tragic

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One cunningly-placedFear The Walking Dead Easter egg turns up the tragedy on two major deaths. Garret Dillahunt's John Dorie wasn't in Fear The Walking Dead for a long time, nor was he in Fear The Walking Dead for a good time, dying painfully in season 6 after debuting three years prior. Like most who fall victim to the zombie apocalypse, John Dorie's death was steeped in tragedy. Shot and shoved into a river by evil brat Dakota, John picked a treasured photo of his father off the riverbed, then boldly hauled himself onto a floating door. Driven by both his wife and a longing to one day make peace with his estranged father, John swore, "Not today..." He died several minutes later.

Fast forward to Fear The Walking Dead season 7, and John Dorie Sr. has joined his son's old apocalypse friends, forging a partnership with daughter-in-law June. «Sonny Boy» sees Mr. Dorie charged with helping Victor Strand find his missing baby, and that investigation leads to the office of Strand's right-hand man, Howard. A historian pre-outbreak, Howard's room is filled with curios, trinkets and relics, but Fear The Walking Dead lingers on one in particular — a pair of boots worn by «Deadeye Driscoll» when he died at Blackwater.

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Aside from riffing on Red Dead Redemption, Fear The Walking Dead's Deadeye Driscoll Easter egg is a neat callback to season 6. Keith Carradine had recently debuted as Mr. Dorie, and was telling June the history of their family's pistols, mentioning how John Dorie II used them to gun down Deadeye Driscoll at Blackwater, earning a picture in the local newspaper. The boots in Howard's office, therefore, are a piece of history Mr. Dorie's ancestor was