SheвЂ™s the leader of the group thatвЂ™s wearing several layers of clothing (do they have a name?), the one that teamed up with Sherry and Dwight at the end of their episode. (Three guesses who sent them, and the first two donвЂ™t count.) ItвЂ™s Alicia. Morgan then runs into Dwight (Austin Amelio) and Sherry (Christine Evangelista), who were sent to find him. Strand takes the deal, but he reminds Grace what that means for her and Mo: Once they come inside, they can never leave. While the live threat was dealt with, the nuclear walkers werenвЂ™t-Grace can help him with that, but if she does, he has to let Morgan live. ItвЂ™s Grace, and she has a deal for Strand. Having regained his strength, Strand demands that Morgan be taken to the top of the tower and thrown into the walker pit belowвЂ¦and they make it as far as dangling him off the edge before the phone rings. Strand makes a key realization: MorganвЂ™s fingers are blue. Strand thanks Morgan for going to get the doctor, and together they make tentative plans to go and find Alicia ( Alycia Debnam-Carey).

The worst of his poisoning side effects are over, and Sarah (Mo Collins) and team took care of the attackers. When he comes to, thereвЂ™s a syringe in his arm (fluids, as he was severely dehydrated). In a precarious sequence involving an elevator shaft and trapped walkers, Strand hands Mo down to Morgan on the lower levelвЂ¦and then he passes out. He all but admits to envying the child, saying that his father вЂњnever even looked atвЂќ him-certainly not the way Morgan regards Mo. What follows this is some classic Morgan-speak juxtaposed with genuine emotion from Strand as heвЂ™s left with the baby.

Morgan volunteers, and Strand goes with him.

To do that, someone will have to go to the lower level and retrieve the radios. Then he recognizes the need to be able to communicate with Grace ( Karen David) and others who could help as the dead are raining down on them. She maintains that Strand needs to rest, but heвЂ™ll hear nothing of it: He accuses each of his friends in turn of being the poisoner. Is it fatal, he asks? вЂњDepends on how much of it you drank,вЂќ June says. Yep, there was something in the coffee, and his health starts to rapidly deteriorate. ItвЂ™s dispatched in short order, but in its wake, Strand is left with two problems: A group of people he turned away are outside his doors and literally launching walkers-some with pieces of a nuclear warhead inside their bodies-at him. Then, the window shatters and, as if catapulted, a walker comes sailing through. He says that now that Morgan owes him, heвЂ™s obligated to do something for him, but he wonвЂ™t say just what it is. Reluctantly, Strand allows Morgan inside: June sees to the baby, and Strand has a drink (coffee) with Morgan. Morgan ( Lennie James) is standing outside with baby Mo sheвЂ™s sick, and she needs to see June ( Jenna Elfman). One call comes through, though, that Strand doesnвЂ™t turn down. This seems to perplex Howard (Omid Abtahi), but he goes along with StrandвЂ™s commands. The phone rings, he turns survivors away. As an artist paints his portrait in the first few minutes, he reflects that he wants her to paint him, not herself (a voiceover Wilde quote explains that portraits are often expressions of the artist rather than the subject). But Strand, being Strand, is mostly concerned with Strand.

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