Sunday's "Fear the Walking Dead" mid-season finale finally showed fans what happened to Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) after getting locked in Teddy's bunker on the season six finale.
While trying to escape, Alicia wound up bit by one of the undead while trapped in a tunnel.
After, what appeared to be, a brief hesitation, Alicia mustered the courage to amputate her arm above the bite. However, unlike some of the cleaner amputations we've seen in "TWD" universe (Hershel and Aaron), Alicia took her arm off with with a barrel shroud from a machine gun. It's not the first choice I'd pick for a clean cut.
Alicia then woke a week later and was told she had run a fever. Panicked and paranoid, Alicia assumed she amputated her arm too late and that she had an infection that would soon turn her into one of the undead. Will (Gus Halper) told Alicia she wasn't sure of that. The fever could be from any infection, including tetanus or sepsis. After all, she cut her arm off in a dank, dirty tunnel with a weapon that probably wasn't clean.
If you've been following the timeline, at least three months pass and Alicia's sometimes still fighting off a fever.
That's super weird.
If you know the "TWD" universe rules of turning into the dead, it usually happens between three minutes and a few hours. (Except if you're part of that new breed of faster zombies, apparently.)
While speaking with Morgan, Alicia's come to the conclusion that she's slowly dying and that she'll eventually turn into one of the dead. But there's really no evidence of that at all.
In the episode explainer on AMC+, co-showrunner Andrew Chambliss says the following of Alicia's dilemma: "We have seen many characters bit by walkers. We've seen many characters turn because of walker bites. But we haven't actually seen anyone battle a walker bite long-term."
The show's official synopsis for the next eight episodes says Alicia is "plagued by a mysterious illness."
Alicia's predicament sets up the possibility for a few interesting revelations in "TWD" universe, including a possible cure to the zombie apocalypse. But is this really where "Fear TWD" is heading?
Let's walk through all of the possibilities of what could be going on with the "Fear" favorite.