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When faced with a zombie apocalypse, it becomes pretty clear that you have to rely on the people closest to you. [...] for the core characters on Fear the Walking Dead, the people closest to them might not be as reliable as one would hope. While the first episode spent most of its time introducing characters and exploring whether or not the walker that heroin addict Nick (Frank Dillane) saw was real, it also established the tense dynamic that exists as high school counselor Madison (Kim Dickens) and English teacher Travis (Cliff Curtis) try to blend their families. On Sunday's episode (9/8c, AMC), those tensions grow even more when Travis sets out to find his ex-wife Eliza (Elizabeth Rodriguez) and their son Christopher (Lorenzo James Henrie) and Madison's daughter Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) has to babysit her brother as he deals with withdrawal symptoms. [...] in Sunday's episode, the police response to the infected people turns Los Angeles upside-down and eventually leads to riots. [...] out of the chaos springs forth a Madison who is willing to take charge -- and get her hands dirty. "The first instinct of our characters isn't to grab a heavy object and bludgeon these people," executive producer Dave Erickson says. Travis and Madison are still getting to know each other in an extreme environment and are like, 'Whoa - who are you?' And that realization will only grow stronger as the season goes along.