How Did Jake Die On 'Fear The Walking Dead'?

This week’s episode of Fear the Walking Dead, “Brother’s Keeper” was a real humdinger. We don’t say it often about episodes of this series, but it was a fantastic installment.

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We’ll have plenty more about the episode in our full roundup tomorrow morning, but we wanted to get immediate reaction from Twitter to the major casualty in the episode. It should have been Troy, but ultimately Jake (Sam Underwood) died in the episode thanks to a bad series of events. Troy sent a horde of walkers toward Broken Jaw Ranch; Jake and Nick went out to investigate; Jake put a gun to his brother Troy’s head; Nick pushed Jake off of him to keep him from killing his brother; and after tumbling down the side of a hill, Jake was bitten by a zombie. Troy and Nick attempted to save him by cutting off his arm, but Jake — in the arms of his brother — eventually bled to death, and Troy had to put his reanimated brother down.

It was all Troy’s fault. Or Nick’s fault for protecting Troy. Either way, Jake is dead.

It all started when Jake got bit and Troy had to hold his arm out while Nick used a machete to cut it off.

Ugh. Not you. #FearTWD pic.twitter.com/IvDTc1plPK

— FearTWD (@FearTWD) September 25, 2017

https://twitter.com/alycified/status/912129635558686720

HOLY FUCK I DID NOT SEE **THAT** COMING. #FearTWD

— sandy ⎊ (@iamthesandradee) September 25, 2017

https://twitter.com/gemini11/status/912129588154781696

Aww, our first limb! #FearTWD is growing up.

— MindOfAMama (@MindOfaMama) September 25, 2017

Field amputations gotta hurt. BAD. #FearTWD

— Brains Gone Bad Kim (@BrainsGoneBad) September 25, 2017

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It looked like Fear would do to Jake what The Walking Dead did with Hershel (and wouldn’t do with Rick, despite his amputated arm in the comics):

Oh my God. Jake! #FearTWD

— StarryMag (@StarryMag) September 25, 2017

They just pulled a Herschel #FearTWD

— Cherié Summers (@cheriesummers18) September 25, 2017

But his fate had not been yet decided.

So Jake now has Rick's amputation (kinda) from the comics! Interesting. But will he survive the last 20 minutes? #FearTWD pic.twitter.com/6E11QUWft3

— The Nerdeek Life (@NerdeekLife) September 25, 2017

Quick nasty surgery and Jake might not survive in any case, even in the best of times which these are not! #FearTWD

— WeirdArchives (@WeirdArchives) September 25, 2017

It didn’t go well for poor Jake, even without his arm.

https://twitter.com/EnnuiPrayer/status/912132110676348928

Yes, yes he is.