Fear the Walking Dead showrunners address season 8's shock death: "It felt fitting"
Warning! This article contains major spoilers for Fear the Walking Dead season 8. If you've not caught up, and don't want to know anything that happens, turn back now!
The latest episode of Fear the Walking Dead season 8 brought back a character just to kill them off, though showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg are sure it was the right thing to do...
In the zombie spin-off's most recent installment, titled 'Iron Tiger', Strand (Colman Domingo) and Daniel (Rubén Blades) got quite the shock when they discovered that Charlie (Alexa Nisenson) was the one helping Luciana (Danay García) making fuel for PADRE in exchange for resources to help other survivors across the country. Last time Strand and Daniel saw Charlie seven years earlier, she was just a pre-teen and dying from radiation poisoning.
It turns out, during the time jump, June (Jenna Elfman) caught up with Charlie and cured her at PADRE, and the youngster has been working to absolve herself over killing Nick (Frank Dilllane) back in season 4 ever since. Apologizing to Nick's mother Madison (Kim Dickens) in episode 8, she explains she wanted to "turn all that hurt and all the pain into something more."
Later, Charlie agreed to try and kill Troy (Daniel Sharman), who claims to have murdered Madison's daughter Alicia, for repentance, but Madison changes her mind about the mission when she learns that Luciana and Charlie cremated Nick, and gave him a proper burial, after he died. Things took a turn, however, when Troy took Charlie hostage, telling Madison he'd spare her if she told him PADRE's location.
"I'm not gonna watch another place you built fall because of me. The place she's building, it's what Alicia wanted. And it's how Nick's death can mean
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