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I don't understand.

I just want to say, uh, I'll be safe.

Thank you.

Dear June, I've been thinking about my dad a lot lately.

Maybe it's being away from you that my thoughts now drift to family.

My family wasn't together nearly as long as I would have liked.

I suppose I could say the same thing now.

How's she doing?

Pulled up at the old church.

Won't see anybody, myself included.

I can't stop thinking about how the baby might be alive if we didn't have to

come to you.

Morgan, even if I had been here, it wouldn't have made a difference.

Don't you say it.

Don't, because she's already gone there talking about how the only reason she's

alive is because her baby absorbed all the bad shit from her body.

I just want to make sure she's okay.

You know there is nothing that you or I can say or do that's going to make any

of this okay, right? You're right, it won't.

But it's the closest thing to a doctor that she has. I need to examine her. I'm

not letting you come in.

She used to see me. She does or you do?

What's that supposed to mean?

Grace lost her baby because you couldn't do the one thing that John wanted.

That's why I couldn't let you stay here, and that is why you were not here when

she needed you.

So tell me again how you're here right now for Grace, and that you're not here

right now for yourself.

Oh, hey, easy there.

I tried to radio, but you didn't answer. What are you doing here?

I'm here to ask you the same question. I mean, don't you have a hospital to

build? Sarah can manage.

Just thought I might be able to do my part trying to figure out what we're up

against.

This has something to do with what Morgan said.

You heard that?

I was on guard duty.

Look, the man's hurting.

He didn't mean it.

Fine, Dwight. You don't have to follow me here to babysit me.

You and John were there for me at the Gulch.

Probably the only reason I'm still breathing.

Also, I couldn't stand the idea of you being out here all alone.

Morgan was right.

I did the one thing John didn't want me to do.

He didn't even want me to come in here, but I did.

He was just worried. No, he told me. Ginny was just working things for her

ends. He asked me to leave with him before we even got here.

Hey, whoa, don't do this to yourself.

I can't help but think.

If I just listened to him... Maybe he'd still be

here. And the people you saved... Ginny!

It didn't make much of a difference in the end.

Oh, he's...

About company.

Sherry?

Me too. No.

She was trading supplies behind the wall, and she asked to come when she saw

leaving. Why?

I'm not sure.

She hasn't said much since we've left.

Keep talking.

Don't mean to interrupt.

Horses don't take unleaded.

There's nothing here.

They must have taken all the gas when they painted the message.

Where to next?

Not a place, but a person.

Jimmy's a lieutenant.

He's been on the run ever since, you know.

Figure if anyone knows what she knew, what we're up against, it's him.

Do you have any idea where to find him? I picked up a muffled signal of... Would

you bring more company?

We need him alive!

Cover me so I can see if you killed my lead.

We got you. Be careful.

Why are you here?

My friends? They're fanning off a bunch of dead that hurt our firefights. You're

going to have to answer for yourself.

What are you doing here?

You one of them?

One of who?

The folks painting the slogans.

Answer me.

You're not just one of the answers.

I think we might be on the same team.

Well, if that's true, you and your pals need to kick rocks.

I know what these people are capable of, and trust me.

You don't want any part of it. How?

What do you know?

I've been around these parts since the fire at the garage. The trails run cold,

but if these people catch anyone getting too close, they'll move up the plan.

What plan?

I don't believe your lives are at stake.

Not if I get to the bottom of it.

Well, maybe we should be sharing information. We've been searching for

I've been searching a lot longer than that.

So let me help.

How the hell are you going to help?

I didn't realize they tagged that far south.

And you missed one.

At the orchard.

You want to help?

You say we're on the same side?

Prove it.

Bring me to this orchard. Show me something I haven't already seen.

But if you're lying, if you're wasting my time... It won't be windows and

mirrors I put a bullet into.

You catch my drift?

Not leaving my friends behind.

Drive.

It's really not necessary.

I want this as bad as you do.

Just keep your eyes on the road, sweetheart.

Don't call me that.

What am I supposed to call you?

Anything else?

You know what? I didn't ask you to come and gum up my investigation.

Matter of fact, I'm burning time and resources letting you take me on this

little trip. So with all due respect, sweetheart, shut up and drive.

Where'd you get that gun?

Why should I tell you?

Because it belongs to me.

The JD on the handle?

That's me.

I'm John Dorey.

I want to find June just as bad as you do, but we keep running these horses

this. We're going to kill them.

Hey, even if that thing was full, we'd get what, huh?

Six miles out of the MRAP? I just want to find June and be done with it.

Really? Why are you really here, huh?

Is it to play detective, or did Morgan tell you to keep an eye on June?

Neither.

No, I was out looking for you.

Things got desperate.

Your trail ran cold.

I was tired, hungry.

Now, I was thinking about ending it.

Not just the search.

Everything.

The only reason I'm standing right here is because of John and June.

They changed everything.

Changed how?

I don't know.

Seeing two people together, two people that were separated like us, made it

possible that just maybe, maybe we'd find each other.

So you want to tell me why you're here?

There's no time.

The way John talked about you, the few times that he did, I figured you were

dead. As far as he was concerned, I was.

When did you last see him?

Oh, I don't know.

He could have been more than 12 or so.

Should have known you were a dory with all that sharpshooting back there.

If he was a good shot, it had nothing to do with me.

Don't you have any questions?

About what?

Where he is.

What he's been up to for the past 40 years.

I already know the answer.

Why else would you be here with that look on your face?

That gun on your hip?

Two wedding rings?

I was a cop.

I noticed things.

So was he.

He became a cop.

Thought he would have learned better from his old man.

No, no, no, no, no.

I lost my jacket. We need to go back.

You can have one of mine.

No, we need to go back.

I ain't wasting gas to go get some jacket covered in muck and guts. That's

the jacket that I need. There's a letter in the pocket.

A letter?

What's in this letter that's so important?

I don't know. I haven't read it.

Well, then it must not be that important.

You're welcome to go get it, but this RV's only going one direction. That's

forward.

Fill it, fill it, fill it.

Shit.

We gotta stowaway.

Great.

God damn it!

Probably ran it over during your little maneuver.

We got anything to pull it out? Yeah.

Fire up the engine a little gas people you loosen her up tiny bit listen for my

signal Nice and easy

Anything?

That ain't just blood over there.

Transmission fluid, too.

Probably nicked the line when you hit him. Well, can you fix it?

This thing's toast.

Thanks to you.

You okay?

I told you to slow down.

His heart's giving out.

We're gonna have to... Let's go.

Gary.

Hey.

What is going on here?

Okay, it's... It's not about these cult assholes, just like it wasn't about

Jenny. What are we doing chasing gas, huh?

Look, I'm going back home to Virginia.

Okay?

I need to take out the person that's really to blame for all of this.

Megan?

I'm going to find him.

And I'm going to put a bullet in his head.

And that's why I came with you, D.

So I could find the right way to say goodbye.

I get it.

The Lord knows I've done things I'm not proud of, so...

Help me find you and I'll help you get out of here.

I've said that before.

You mean that this time? Yeah, I do.

But we're going at my speed, not running that horse into the ground.

All right.

Stern jacket.

Really? Yeah.

Hold that.

Come on.

I've got all that up there a certain way, so don't go messing it up.

So this is you?

Yeah, that's me.

And him?

Teddy Maddox.

Psycho -killing, two -bit preaching mortician I put away for life.

At least he was supposed to be.

What does that mean?

The end is the beginning.

He was spewing that same malarkey back in the 70s.

Are you saying the person responsible for all of this is... Teddy.

Should have killed him when I had the chance.

Guess it's not too late.

Are you sure it's him?

A few months ago, I'm out foraging, and I spot it.

The end is the beginning.

Hit me like a punch in the gut, seeing those words after all this time.

I went back to the prison, hoping I'd find a rotting corpse.

Instead, his cell door was open, and he's nowhere to be found.

I guess ruining my life once wasn't enough for that son of a bitch.

What do you mean?

When I put him away...

It wasn't exactly clean.

I had to do the wrong thing for the right reason.

You framed him.

Did anyone ever find out?

No.

People started looking at me like I was some hero.

I couldn't sleep.

I started drinking.

I mean, my whole life was suddenly a lie.

I was so goddamn angry all the time.

It must have been hard for John, too.

Which is why the best thing for my family was for me to get as far away

them as possible.

So you abandoned them?

You don't understand.

Well, then explain it to me.

Because it sounds like after 40 years you went to check if the man that ruined

your family was alive but not your son.

He was better off without me.

Everyone was.

Best thing I did for him was not showing up at that cabin.

That's where Hill's hiding out.

Who?

You may not have wanted to go there before, but you're going there now.

Why is that?

Because that's what's going to lead us to Teddy.

I'm not going to that cabin.

This is our best lead.

I got other leads.

Better leads.

The orchard. Teddy's childhood home. Hill might know something, and he is at

cabin.

What, you don't have time for a short detour? It's not about that. What is it?

That cabin is where I left my boy 40 years ago.

I won't go back there.

I met and lost my husband at that cabin.

The table inside is set up with medical supplies to save his life, but I didn't

get the chance.

And despite that, I'm willing to go back there because finding Hill and hearing

what he knows could save a lot of lives.

Plus, he's got something of mine.

Then I want it back.

What's that?

John's other pistol.

Well, those guns do belong together.

That's what Teddy's doing.

How do you know?

Bombing fluid.

Did the same to his victims back when the dead stayed dead.

What does Teddy want?

What he's always wanted.

Destruction.

He's been hollering the same sperm -to -worm, circle -of -life mumbo -jumbo to

just about anyone of the years to Ben since before you were born.

Why the embalming fluid? That's how he keeps out the unworthy.

Reservation prevents folks from moving on to the next world.

Oh, yes, ma 'am.

He's crazy as a cut snake.

But he could sell ice to an Eskimo. And you can bet that his new followers are

armed and highly motivated.

They're not the only ones.

Well, I don't doubt it.

Not that hand.

I'm a nurse. I could take a look.

Well, there's a little bait shop nearby.

It's still standing. Maybe we can stop on the way.

Mills?

You know it.

You and John get married before or after? After.

He used a candy wrapper.

Ha! Candy wrapper.

It was the best he could do at the time. Oh, I proposed to his mama the same

way. Except it was a Juicy Fruit wrapper.

I was still in the academy.

Not a dime to my name.

Looks like he's been hunting this guy named Teddy for a lifetime.

Long before the world fell apart.

John Dyer Sr.

I can't believe he's John's father.

What are the odds?

I never thought shooting at John and June in Old Westtown would lead me to

But here we are.

She left a note. They think Hill might be at John's cabin.

We should go.

Hill was a ranger.

I bet he's got a truck I could take back east.

And John took some gas when he ran off, you know. There's a good chance that'll

be there, too.

Okay.

Well... Seems pretty clear which direction things are pointing me in.

Guess so.

The place has changed since the last time I was here.

Yeah?

This is where the freezer used to be.

We'd sit on that bench out there eating ice cream.

Always butterscotch for Junior.

He had such a sweet tooth.

Hand, I mean.

I'm going to get you something for that hand.

John did love his movie.

I was warning him that he'd wind up with square eyes if he wasn't careful.

We watched Bullet on TV over and over and over again. Get your crotch done.

It's my shooting hand, too.

John ever tell you about those guns?

Oh, just that they'd been in your family for generations.

Six. The first John Dory brought them west on the trail.

J .D., the second gun down, dead -eyed Driscoll in Blackwater.

Hell of a shot.

Got his picture in the paper.

John was a good shot, too.

He taught me.

You ever hear of Humbug's Gulch? Uh -huh.

He worked there on the weekend as a trick shot.

That'll be... That's where we were married.

Singing and... All our friends were there.

Sounds like a nice affair.

You know...

John wrote his initials on the wall in that room back there when he was a kid.

I wonder if they're still there.

Let's see.

Hey!

What are you doing?

You and Junior shared a life together.

We may not be blood, but you're the closest thing to family I got now.

You're just ditching me?

Like you did John?

That's not what this is. Oh, it is.

You think you're protecting me, but you're not. You're just punishing

The same reason you never made amends with your son.

You don't think you deserve it. You're the one carrying around a letter from

you never even opened.

So you come at me all you want.

We all got ways of protecting ourselves.

I know you think you're doing the wrong thing for the right reason, but we

really need to be working together.

Actually turned over.

Barely.

Wasn't this the same kind of truck your grandpa had?

No, that was a 69.

You see the rounded cab?

He's older.

Oh.

Remember we got it stuck in the mud the summer after senior year?

Yeah, on the way to that bonfire.

We just gave up and drank beers in the back until we passed out.

Is this really what you want to do?

See. What? I mean, let's say you get there and you do it. You know, then

You come back?

That's the plan.

So you may not. I don't know what's going to happen.

Really ready to say goodbye.

What the hell is that? I don't know.

You picked the wrong cabin to rob, old -timer.

Wow.

This is my son's

cabin.

That makes you a trespasser.

John's old man, eh?

And this is his gun.

Tell me everything you know about Theodore Maddox.

Or I'll use it to blow your head off.

Who the hell is Theodore Maddox? Folks at the spray paint.

He's the one behind it.

How does it matter to you?

That's my business.

All I know is whatever they got planned, it's big.

How big?

I don't know.

You could never get anyone to talk.

All we know is they want to kill everybody.

I'm gonna give you five minutes to get your shit and get the hell out of here.

I live here now.

Previous occupant moved out.

Permanently. In case you hadn't heard.

Help me get him inside.

Hurry.

Thank you You

really

shouldn't be out of bed I took a bullet out of you you lost a lot of blood

We were meant to fix this old girl up together, he and I.

It was going to be his first car.

I didn't run from my boy because I didn't care.

I did it because I do.

Just like you at Bill's.

I know.

I was punishing myself.

But I was also punishing my wife.

Punishing my boy.

I did come back that summer.

Stopped the bills to fill up the tank and saw him there.

The boy looked so content eating his butterscotch ice cream.

He looked so happy.

John had this light about him.

Of course, you know.

I was afraid I'd snuff it out, like the Teddy case did to me.

So I decided then and there, he's better off without me.

I drove back here, left those pistols on the porch.

Never looked back.

Never even said goodbye.

Not too late.

Breathe over.

He was right here when I first met him.

I was broken.

John sewed me back up with fishing line and...

Butterscotch brittle.

Light.

Love.

June, this is the hardest decision of my life. One that I hope you can find in

your heart to forgive me for making, leaving you behind to save an innocent

person's life. Knowing it might mean I never see you again.

Even so, I believe you'll forgive me one day.

Same way I forgave... Same

way I forgave Dad for leaving me.

Took me a few years to see it from his shoes.

But I forgave him. He was a good man.

And in his own way, he did what he did.

Because he loved me.

Just like I'm doing what I'm doing because I love you. But no matter what

happens, sure as the sun sets, I will never...

I will never stop trying to get back to you.

Back to those early days at the cabin.

When a pretty lady named Laura washed up on my shore and my life was forever

changed.

You were the most amazing woman I've ever known.

You rekindled the light in me too.

You brought me back to people.

Made me believe in goodness again. That doing good was worth fighting for.

Like how I fought for you.

And if I die, I die knowing I lived a life worth living.

And a nurse named June was the light guiding my way.

I love you, Junebug.

Never worked on this truck. Did a good job.

Probably make it as far as Louisiana.

What is it?

I'm not ready for the... to be goodbye, Gene.

Okay. What do you mean?

That man has been chasing after Teddy for how many years?

He missed out on his entire life.

I can't let that happen to me.

To us.

I have been using Negan as an excuse for why we can't be together.

You know, I... Look, I saw how you were able to change.

And how you were able to get back to who you once were.

And I think that's what I'm afraid of.

That I won't be able to do that.

Look, I've... I've changed.

But I am not the same person I used to be.

And you don't have to be that either.

Not even if I want to.

Probably right.

We were young.

Hey, hey, hey. Why don't we just... start over?

I'm willing to give it a shot.

I don't know if you are.

These

are

yours.

Thank you.

For letting me and John borrow them.

You don't have to do that. I don't want to.

John would too.

They belong with their rightful owners.

Morgan, there's someone I'd like you to meet.

Hey. This is John Dory.

John's father.

Oh, I'm sorry.

It's all right. A little tender.

I'm pleased to meet you, but how?

It's a long story.

You know, your son was...

He saved my life in more ways than one.

Well, his wife just did the same for me.

Thank you for letting me come stay a while.

Well, you're a welcome addition, Mr. Dory. The man we're looking for? The one

who sent those people who attacked you and Grace.

John's father knows everything about him. We can help each other.

Seems like you already are.

I know I can't change what I did before. You don't have to say that.

What you did today is what John would have wanted.

I'd like another chance to do the same here, at this place.

I might have been wrong when I said that there wasn't anything you could do or

say to make things better.

I'll check on her.

Please.

We better put our heads together.

This man you're up against, I know him about a stern.

And if he's doing now what he wanted to do before, he's not going to stop till

we're all dead.

Then let's get to work.

On the next episode of Fear the Walking Dead.

Before we take our first steps together, Alicia, I need some assurances.

Thank you.

Where'd you get that gun?

Why should I tell you?

Because it belongs to me.

The JD on the handle?

That's me.

I'm John Dory.

This episode is called JD, and the title has a bunch of different meanings, all

of them revolving around characters' initials. It could refer to John Dory.

could refer to June Dory.

Or it could also refer to a new character that we introduced in this

and that is John Dory Sr.

It's just the way John talked about you. The few times that he did, I figured

you were dead.

As far as he was concerned, I was.

Morgan and June's relationship really is at the lowest we've ever seen it. The

things that Morgan says to June here... are pretty hard for June to hear, and a

lot of it is really motivated by the pain and the rawness that Morgan is

after just having delivered Grace's baby stillborn.

I can't stop thinking about how the baby might be alive if we didn't have to

come to you.

In his mind, he, I think, is looking for somewhere to place the blame, and June,

unfortunately, is on the receiving end of it. Grace lost the baby because you

couldn't do the one thing that John wanted.

That's why I couldn't let you stay here, and that is why you were not here when

she needed you. And that's something else that, you know, is unspoken between

the two of them. Instead of trying to help each other through it, they're

kind of at each other's throats over it.

We saw June get that letter that Jacob gave her, but she has not looked at it.

And really, I think June's been in this place where she hasn't been ready to

actually grieve.

john dory's death she really has kind of just been moving forward not allowing

herself to feel any of the kind of more difficult emotions even though she loses

it i think she's upset because she's worried she'll never find it again but

doesn't want to go back for it because she's not ready to face it and see what

john's kind of final goodbyes to her were

all of these clippings in the RV, the primary reason for putting them there

to show John Dory's obsession with Teddy and with the case, and this was the

thing that consumed his life.

It cost him really everything, and 40 years later, we find him still living in

this RV where he's obsessed with it.

Maybe we should be sharing information. We've been searching for days.

I've been searching a lot longer than that.

June and John Dory, it takes them a while to, I think, understand that there

a lot of similarities between the two of them. And it ultimately comes when

they're facing off with Hill and John Dory ends up getting shot.

June was too late to save John's life. By the time he washed up, he was already

dead. But she had prepared a table with all the medical supplies so she could

treat that gunshot wound.

And even though she didn't get to do that for John.

Dory, she's now getting to do it for his father.

I didn't run from my boy because I didn't care.

I did it because I do.

I think that's really when they kind of start to bond because I think at the end

of the day, they both realize they're experiencing the same pain and they're

both missing the same person.

Not too late.

For either of us.

For June, reading this letter is about her accepting that John is gone and

starting the process of truly grieving him.

This is the hardest decision of my life, one that I hope you can find in your

heart to forgive me for making.

The reason she chooses to read it out loud is because she knows John Dory Sr.

needs to go through that same grieving process.

I believe you'll forgive me one day.

Same way I forgave Dad.

John Dory Sr.

hears that in spite of abandoning his son, his son still found a way to

him. And it really is kind of all about that light that John Dory just had in

him that people were drawn to, that optimism.

You are the most amazing woman I've ever known.

You rekindle the light in me too.

Once again, it kind of gets reignited in John Dory Sr. It gets reignited in

June. And those are kind of the two characters who are going to carry John

forward in their spirit going into the future of the show.

Morgan, there's someone I'd like you to meet.

John Dory.

John's father.

This episode really was about saying goodbye to John Dory in a way that

hopefully brings catharsis for the characters and for the audience.

And we really wanted the end of this episode just to feel like a proper send

to him. And it was honoring the spirit of who John Dory was, the spirit of what

the character brought to the show.

Thank you for letting me come stay a while. Are you a welcome addition, Mr.

Dory? The man we're looking for? The one who sent those people who attacked you

in grace.

John's father knows everything about him.

There's a little bit of a hint of what's to come in terms of the kind of brewing

conflict. But yeah, we wanted to have an uplifting ending for once this season.

He's doing now what he wanted to do before.

He's not going to stop till we're all dead.

And let's get to work.