The third-season finale of Fear the Walking Dead ended with an explosion at the Gonzalez dam in Mexico, leaving the lives of Strand, Madison, Nick, Alycia, and Daniel hanging in the balance.
When the fourth season picked up, however, most of those characters found themselves in Texas, years after the dam explosion. Aside from a few snippets of the dam explosion from Nick’s memory, the series hasn’t explained what happened, how they survived the explosion or the whereabouts of Daniel, the one series regular on that dam who hasn’t made an appearance this season.
Most viewers assumed that Daniel never made it out of Mexico alive, that he’s under the rubble of that dam or his zombified body is floating in a large body of water. In fact, the actor who plays Daniel Salazar (Rubén Blades) has not appeared in the show’s title credits, either, leaving most to assume the worst.
Those assumptions are wrong. According to Fear co-showrunner Andrew Chambliss, Daniel is not only still alive, but he may resurface at some point.
“He is alive and out there,” Chambliss told TVLine. But “the details surrounding that are something that we’re still keeping under wraps.” Chambliss also added, that “there is a very good chance that he will appear in the Walking Dead universe.”
Note that Chambliss says “The Walking Dead universe,” rather than on Fear the Walking Dead, which suggests the possibility that Daniel may invariably find his way to Virginia (or Ohio) and wind up at some point on The Walking Dead.
“He’s [made it through] a fire in a wine cellar, then getting shot in the face and then a dam explosion… He’s definitely a survivor!” said Chambliss. Perhaps he’s out there kicking it in Mexico with Ray McKinnon’s character, whose fate was also left unexplained, although he was the first to suggest that the Fear characters relocate to Texas. That’s a story, however, that Fear still needs to explain.
Source: TVLine
