One of this season’s biggest storylines — or lack thereof — on Fear the Walking Dead involves Ofelia Salazar, who has yet to show up on this season. It has, in fact, become something of a joke on Twitter:
Alright already @FearTWD we've reached our limit we need @mercedesmason #WhereIsOfelia #FearTWD @AMCTalkingDead pic.twitter.com/wepmmaLGTA
— Vince (@vbandeadfan) June 19, 2017
UPDATE: Still missing, search continues.#FearTWD @mercedesmason pic.twitter.com/L5TQ2gZ63U
— The Walking Dead World (@TWalkingDWorld) June 21, 2017
Even Mercedes Mason, who plays Ofelia on the series, is playing along.
https://twitter.com/mercedesmason/status/874087908713480192
We do know that she will eventually come back, because she is still being listed as a series regular, and there’s at least one shot (from her own Twitter account) of her on the set of Fear the Walking Dead.
https://twitter.com/mercedesmason/status/875057453729296384
There’s also no indication that she’s missing for reasons similar to that of Christian Serratos, who plays Rosita on The Walking Dead, and who is not expected to play a role in the first few episodes of that series when it returns.
So where is Ofelia?
We’re not positive, but we know where she isn’t, thanks to an interview with Dayton Callie, who plays Jeremiah Otto, the last person on the series to see her. As viewers of the series may recall, the second season of Fear the Walking Dead ended with Jeremiah approaching Ofelia in the desert at gunpoint, and we were left to believe that Jeremiah had abducted her.
That may have been the original plan, but clearly the writers changed their plans for the series in between the first and second seasons. So while many assumed that Jeremiah had kidnapped Ofelia and taken her back to Broken Jaw Ranch or, perhaps, put her in a workers camp (Jeremiah does not like brown people), that does not appear to be the case.
“I found her in the desert,” Dayton Callie told Comicbook.com. “Took her and had a brief conversation with her and left her in the desert to die, or not die. It’s up to her, whatever she is. So, I’m not holding her hostage or anything so people can rest assured of that, but whether someone else has her, that’s not my business. I kind of vetted her out in the desert and decided she’s better off in the desert than back at the camp.”
Huh. In other words, Jeremiah’s run-in with Ofelia at the end of season two means absolutely nothing in season three. We are left now even more confused about Ofelia’s whereabouts, but considering that she’s been missing now for five episodes, I sure hope discovering her whereabouts is worth the wait.
(Via Comicbook.com)
