But the tables turned after Virginia was bitten by a zombie.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Most important question right off the bat.
What happened to Jasper’s leg?
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ANDREW CHAMBLISS:We’re going to dedicate an entire episode to Jasper’s leg.
No, it’s a good question.
IAN GOLDBERG:It’s buried.
We know it’s buried.
ANDREW CHAMBLISS:I think that’s a mystery for John Dorie on his next case to solve.
IAN GOLDBERG:I would love that.
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All right, let’s get into Tank Town.
Logistically, how did you guys wrap your heads around filming this?
You have the oil wells and stuff blowing up, it’s quite a scene.
It’s a mess there.
How were you guys able to do this?
Here’s what we want to do.
Here is the scope of it."
And a lot of the times, the first reaction is, “You guys are insane.
What are you doing?
This is not going to happen.”
It’s crazy."
But everybody gets so excited to do you know what seemingly is impossible.
And this is one of the biggest ones that we’ve done yet.
And it really is.
And it was tough shooting conditions on top of all the explosions and the flames and the oil.
It was also freezing cold, and everybody was such troopers about the entire thing.
And we’re thrilled how it turned out.
ANDREW CHAMBLISS:That was entirely practical.
So we are glad to have that feather in our cap.
We’re now seeing another method of attack here.
They may have actually infiltrated more settlements than Virginia is aware of.
This is how."
Yet then after hearing the sob story about Dakota, June changes her mind.
IAN GOLDBERG:June goes on a real journey in the episode in terms of how she sees Virginia.
She has the mobile medical unit she’s running with Sarah, but even that is extremely difficult.
Virginia doesn’t let people travel freely, so it’s very hard for June to do that.
She really is trying to help in her own twisted way.
Is she choosing that over her own love interest?
ANDREW CHAMBLISS:I think from June’s perspective, it’s not kind of a binary choice.
And I think it really falls on John.
But he’s kind of in this place where he’s just too far gone.
Will this event change Virginia at all?
She went through this traumatic thing.
She poured out her heart, June cut the hand off, saved her, presumably.
IAN GOLDBERG:She will change and she also won’t, and that’s not me being coy.
I mean, this episode is like a real pivot point for Virginia in a lot of ways.
June asks Ginny about the graffiti group and Ginny says “We should talk.”
Will Ginny come clean about what’s going on here?
IAN GOLDBERG:[Laughs]She certainly intends to in that moment.
Let’s get into the Dorie side of it.
He’s following June’s truck.
He says he’s going to follow.
Then he turns off at the fork in the road.
Where is he going and why is he going there?
ANDREW CHAMBLISS:I think we have a pretty good idea of where he’s going.
He brought it up earlier to June.
So that, in fact, is where he’s headed when he leaves.
He’d rather run away.
Finding each other is the thing that allowed them each to start to heal.
It’s the thing that allowed them to reconnect to the world.
What’s coming up next onFear the Walking Dead?
IAN GOLDBERG:Very excited about next week’s episode.
We teased this week’s asThere Will Be Bloodin the apocalypse.
