Showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg take us inside that harrowing scene.
Warning: This article contains spoilers forFear the Walking Deadseason 8, episode 2, “Blue Jay.”
And we watched it all play out on screen.
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What can you say about what she’s been through, and her proclivity for chopping off trigger fingers?
Just like we saw with Morgan last week, June became a cog in the machine.
And that was the thing that made her say, “Enough is enough.”
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That’s stopping collectors from bringing in kids.
So in June’s mind, it’s her way of removing that power from them.
She’ll never have a gun held to her head.
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So that injury may get in the way of her being able to use those as well.
What role will these experiments play in the season moving forward?
IAN GOLDBERG:They’re a very big part of it.
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And these experiments seem to be a bit at odds with that philosophy.
But she’s willing to take the risk.
Whether they will be effective or not is a question that you have to keep watching for.
But it certainly deepens the complexity of what PADRE is up to.
Let’s talk more about that bite on Finch.
Tell us about your discussions in terms of staging that scene.
So it has a lot of implications moving forward.
What can you say about their journey over the past seven years?
Dwight is his fighting instructor, but Finch doesn’t even know that Dwight is his father initially.
And I think that would take a toll on anybody.
